Training Activities Programme
Training Plan
Activities of the Doctoral School
Character
Optional
Hours
40
Description
These are intensive residential seminars lasting a week. They are conducted in English in an inter-disciplinary and multicultural environment. Forty researchers from each university, in their second year of doctoral training, receive extensive training designed for their future vocational integration in a socio-labour environment not exclusively linked to research at universities and/or public and semi-public centres. All the activities are dynamised by personnel specializing in the organization of doctorials and the facilitation of teamwork. The scheduled activities include visits to companies, research centres and cultural entities selected from both sides of the border, the testimonies of executive doctors and entrepreneurs and teamwork for the joint preparation of an innovative project which will be submitted at the end of the encounter. Participation in the doctorials is optional and does not entail any enrolment fee. All the maintenance, accommodation and transport costs will be financed by the organizing universities, with the help of the funding obtained from the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Aquitaine-Euskadi cooperation fund of the Basque government.
Results
The doctoral students acquire practical training in communication, innovation, teamwork, leadership and entrepreneurship. Based on the testimonies and experiences of different professionals working in companies and associations in the field of culture and language, as well as visits to companies and associations, the students come into direct contact with professional experience. These seminars have an inter-disciplinary approach, grouping the students together in units which combine different universities of origin and areas of knowledge. The experience should provide a wealth of knowledge about how to articulate a future professional project both in and outside the University.
Assessment systems
The whole procedure for the doctorials is overseen by a pedagogical cabinet, with professional advisers who will provide continuous feedback on the group activity and monitor the work done every day by the doctoral students. Once the latter have enrolled for the doctorials, attendance and active participation in the sessions is compulsory.
Program activities
Character
Optional
Hours
24
Description
Participation as an assistant and/or speaker at national and international congresses
Results
Updating of knowledge in the subjects under research in the doctoral program, establishment of relationships with other researchers
Assessment systems
The training and mobility activities will be controlled and supervised by the Director-Tutor of the Doctoral Thesis and the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program Monitoring of participation in the congress will be conducted by means of the appropriate participation certificate issued to the doctoral student by the congress organizers
Character
Optional
Hours
2
Description
Attendance at seminars
Results
Acquisition of transversal skills and specific knowledge related to the subject under research
Assessment systems
The training and mobility activities will be controlled and supervised by the Director-Tutor of the Doctoral Thesis and the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program Monitoring of participation in seminars will be conducted by means of the appropriate participation certificate issued to the doctoral student by the seminar organizers
Character
Optional
Hours
8
Description
Attendance at training courses conducted at the UPV/EHU or at other national or foreign centres.
Results
Acquisition of specific knowledge related to the subject under research
Assessment systems
The training and mobility activities will be controlled and supervised by the Director-Tutor of the Doctoral Thesis and the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program. Monitoring of participation in specialization courses will be conducted by means of the appropriate participation certificate issued to the doctoral student by the course organizers.
Character
Optional
Hours
40
Description
Stays at research centres
Results
Acquisition and updating of knowledge in the subjects under research, as well as acquisition of transversal and specific skills. Ability to integrate into research teams.
Assessment systems
The training and mobility activities will be controlled and supervised by the Director-Tutor of the Doctoral Thesis and the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program As much as possible, at least part of the costs arising from this participation will be financed by means of the funds from research projects and/or research groups in which the doctoral students can take part or by means of the resources of the Doctoral Program and the Department of Applied Economics V In the case of full-time doctoral students, it is regarded as necessary for them to perform stays at other research centres for a minimum period of three weeks during the realization of their doctoral theses In the case of part-time doctoral students, projected stays at centres similar to those of full-time students are considered, although the time in which they can be performed is extended to the period of five years for completing the doctoral thesis established by the legislation currently in force Monitoring of stays at other research centres will be conducted by means of the appropriate certificate for the stay issued by the person in charge of the centre.