Training Activities Programme
Training Plan
Activities of the Doctoral School
Character
Optional
Hours
12
Description
It is planned as a course with compulsory attendance, with a theoretical explanation of each of the modules, which will be accompanied by a series of practical exercises which the participants must perform throughout the sessions.
Results
The doctoral student will acquire the necessary tools to access, evaluate, use and disseminate information in an ethical manner.
Assessment systems
It is an on-site seminar, and therefore attendance is compulsory and will be monitored by means of signatures for each of the modules. At the end of the activity the tutor will be given a report allowing an assessment of the acquisition of the skills associated with this activity.
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
Compulsory
Hours
100
Description
The activity consists of the following phases: - Compilation of the research results which are intended to be sent for publication. - Reflection on the coherence between the hypothesis formulated and the results achieved. - Selection of an impact magazine whose scope fits the work performed. - Preparation of the article in English and adapting to the demands of the magazine. - Sending of the article and monitoring of the state of evaluation. - Analysis of the response of the editor and reviewers. Conclusions and future actions.
Results
The following learning results are established for the activity involving diffusion in prestigious publications: - Acquiring the ability to make a critical analysis of the correlationship between the hypothesis formulated and the results obtained. - Acquiring the ability to classify magazines by their impact and their thematic objective. - Acquiring the ability to write a quality article in English, intended for external peer review. - Acquiring the ability to assimilate the criticisms and suggestions of the reviewers, using this feedback to redirect the research work, if appropriate.
Assessment systems
The thesis directors will be responsible for ensuring control of the following deliverables: - Manuscript sent to the selected magazine. - Revision received and, if appropriate, corrections to the original manuscript.
Character
Optional
Hours
4
Description
This activity envisages the following actions: - Participation in a seminar lasting 4 hours explaining the basic concepts of oral presentations, with the realization of presentation exercises by the student. - Mock defence of the doctoral thesis, with the presence and evaluation of a team of professors.
Results
The following learning results are established for the activity: - Acquiring the ability to prepare back-up material for the oral presentation. - Acquiring the ability to communicate using technical language in the presence of experts in the doctoral subject.
Assessment systems
The students must sign the attendance sheets for the courses. Course attendance will be optional, with the student's director being responsible for his or her work. The mock defence of the doctoral thesis will be performed in the presence of at least two professors from the doctoral program, who will evaluate the competence of the student in the preparation of the back-up material and the oral presentation of his or her work.
Character
Compulsory
Hours
40
Description
The doctoral student must prepare a paper for at least one prestigious congress in his or her area and defend its communication. The activity therefore consists of the following phases: - Selecting the most suitable congress for the presentation. - Preparation of the written paper and the oral presentation or a poster format. - In situ presentation by the doctoral student. - Writing of a brief report on the most interesting work which, in the doctoral student's opinion, is presented at the conference.
Results
The following learning results are established for the presentation activity at a scientific meeting: - Acquiring the ability to select the most appropriate forum for the research work underway. - Acquiring the ability to communicate the development and results of the research in a scientific forum. - Acquire the ability to establish contacts with other researchers from institutions different from that of the doctoral student. - Acquiring the ability to synthesize the relevant information of the different presentations and plenary lectures.
Assessment systems
The thesis directors will be responsible for ensuring control of the following deliverables: - Certificate of attendance at the congress. - Synthesis report with a critical appraisal of other interesting contributions, in the doctoral student's opinion.
Character
Optional
Hours
30
Description
The activity will include a training course with the following contents: Topic 1. - Multivariate data analysis techniques. Introduction to multivariate analysis. Types of multivariate analysis: descriptive and explanatory. Factorial multivariate techniques. Data classification techniques. Explanatory techniques. Segmentation and typology techniques. Concept, applicability, requirements and utility (1/2 hour). Topic 2. - Explanatory multivariate techniques. Concept. Types of techniques: multiple regression, factorial analysis of the variance, linear log regression, discriminant analysis, logistic regression. Concept, applicability, requirements and utility. Differences and similarities. Variables. Linear multiple regression. Reading: "Project Management Deployment: the Role of Cultural Factors". Examples and case studies of computer output (2) (3 1/2 hours). Topic 3. - Multivariate classification and segmentation techniques. Concept. Types of techniques: Cluster analysis, K-means analysis, Aid, Chaid and discriminant analysis. Concept, Applicability, Requirements and Utility. Differences and similarities. Variables. Aid analysis. Reading: "Project Management Deployment: the Role of Cultural Factors". Examples and case studies of computer output (4) (4 hours).
Results
The following learning results are established for the activity: - Acquiring the ability to identify the appropriate statistical tool for the research work. - Acquiring the ability to apply the selected tools to a research project.
Assessment systems
he students must sign the attendance sheets for the courses. Course attendance will be optional, with the student's director being responsible for his or her work. Critical analysis of a scientific article related to the area of knowledge in which multivariate analysis has been used as a methodological tool. Application of multivariate analysis techniques as an exercise proposed by the professor.
Character
Optional
Hours
160
Description
This activity envisages the following actions: - Annual invitation, by each of the lines of research of the doctoral program, to at least one external expert to participate in the thematic seminars and/or conferences for monitoring the doctoral theses. - Publication by the Academic Committee of the Program of the possibilities offered by groups of universities and external centres for conducting research stays for doctoral students. - Updates, on the web pages of the Master's and Doctoral School of the UPV/EHU (Mde), of the information relating to aids for the conducting of stays and doctorates in co-tutorship with reference universities and centres. In any case, the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will be responsible for approving each mobility action proposal. The proposal should include at least, as minimum information, the following points: - Doctoral student who will perform the stay/external expert who will be received on the doctoral program. - Objectives of the action. - Destination university or centre/UPV/EHU group which receives the external expert. - Time planning. - Contact person responsible for the destination centre/UPV/EHU professor responsible for the external expert's stay.
Results
The following learning results are established for the activity: - Acquiring the ability to work in multidisciplinary and multicultural environments. - Acquiring the ability to communicate in other languages within a research group. - Acquiring the social skills to work in collaboration with researchers with cultural backgrounds and researchers very different from the doctoral student. - Acquiring skills for establishing mid/long term useful research contacts.
Assessment systems
The thesis directors will be responsible for ensuring control of the following deliverables: - Certificate of the completion of the doctoral student's stay. - Joint publications or presentations which have arisen from the stay. - For doctoral stays longer than 3 months at foreign universities and centres, a proposal for the realization of an international thesis.
Character
Optional
Hours
4
Description
Introduction to the bibliographical reference managers available in the UPV/EHU Library (Refworks) Introduction to the bibliographical reference managers available in the UPV/EHU Library (Mendelay)
Results
The doctoral student will be able to generate a file of scientific contributions relevant to his or her research field. The student will be able to exchange information on scientific contributions relevant to his or her research field with other members of the research team by using reference managers.
Assessment systems
The students must sign the attendance sheets for the courses. Course attendance will be optional, with the student's director being responsible for his or her work.