Baltic Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­gramme

V PhD Stu­dents Train­ing

Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary-Mul­ti­cul­tur­al-Inter­na­tion­al

Rogow, Poland, 27 Novem­ber — 1 Decem­ber 2017

 

Dear Friends, 

We are hap­py to announce the 5th Baltic Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­gramme PhD Stu­dents Train­ing to take place in Rogow, Poland, 27 Novem­ber – 1 Decem­ber 2017.

Please help us to spread this infor­ma­tion to the PhD stu­dents at your uni­ver­si­ties.

With best wish­es – Maria Hej­na on behalf of the con­fer­ence team 🙂

 

First announce­ment

Objec­tive

The objec­tive is to give PhD stu­dents from the BUP net­work’s coun­tries the pos­si­bil­i­ty to meet and dis­cuss sci­en­tif­ic prob­lems with focus on sus­tain­able devel­op­ment in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary, inter­na­tion­al, mul­ti­cul­tur­al, and region­al con­text. In this way, stu­dents will also get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to become acquaint­ed with oth­er uni­ver­si­ties and their sci­en­tif­ic tra­di­tions. The train­ing pro­gram will be based on an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach.

This inter­na­tion­al train­ing pro­gram will enrich the stu­dents’ own per­spec­tives on sus­tain­able devel­op­ment with expe­ri­ences and per­spec­tives from oth­er coun­tries. At the same time it will serve as a plat­form for the devel­op­ment of a com­mon under­stand­ing of the region­al prob­lema­tique and open avenues for future coop­er­a­tion on these issues. Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary train­ing at the PhD-lev­el is essen­tial for cre­at­ing an under­stand­ing between sci­en­tists and researchers with dif­fer­ent back­grounds (West­ern and East­ern Euro­pean cul­tures), and for their future col­lab­o­ra­tion for a sus­tain­able future.

Method­ol­o­gy of the train­ing

The train­ing will take place 27 Novem­ber — 1 Decem­ber 2017, with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of 30 PhD–students and an expert team. The par­tic­i­pants will have dif­fer­ent nation­al­i­ties and aca­d­e­m­ic back­grounds; 10 from the area of Engi­neer­ing, 10 from the area of Social Sciences/Humanities, and 10 from the area of Life Sciences/Environmental Sci­ences.

The train­ing will have dura­tion of 3 full days (with two days for trav­el, arrival on 27th Novem­ber and depar­ture on 1st Decem­ber).

PhD-stu­dents will be offered train­ing in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research coop­er­a­tion with the guid­ance of an inter­na­tion­al group of experts com­posed of (oth­er) senior sci­en­tists work­ing on inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research, ben­e­fit­ing from the inter­ac­tion with them.

Pro­gram of the con­fer­ence con­tains: lec­tures, work­shops, stu­dents’ pre­sen­ta­tions of PhD work, indi­vid­ual con­sul­tan­cies of PhD work with inter­na­tion­al experts.

The train­ing will be arranged in coop­er­a­tion with the BUP Cen­tre for Poland and BUP’s asso­ci­at­ed sec­re­tari­at at the Lodz Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, with Prof. Ireneusz Zbicin­s­ki as the main orga­niz­er.

Appli­ca­tions and con­di­tions of accep­tance

Only stu­dents who com­plet­ed at least the first year of PhD stud­ies will be accept­ed.

Doc­u­ments nec­es­sary:

·      BUP PhD stu­dents train­ing appli­ca­tion form (in attach­ments)

·      Pre­lim­i­nary PhD the­sis pre­sen­ta­tion in ppt (15 slides)

·      One page sum­ma­ry of the PhD the­sis (title, affil­i­a­tion, name of super­vi­sor, descrip­tion of the work includ­ed)

·      List of sci­en­tif­ic achieve­ments (papers, patents, par­tic­i­pa­tion in sci­en­tif­ic con­fer­ences, cours­es, train­ings, etc.) CV

·      Writ­ten super­vi­sor’s rec­om­men­da­tion

 

Appli­ca­tions should be sent to the BUP Pol­ish Cen­tre  (baltlodz@info.p.lodz.pl) no lat­er than 18^th of Sep­tem­ber 2017.

Costs

The con­fer­ence is free of charge for PhD stu­dents from the BUP’s Mem­bers’ Uni­ver­si­ties and for them all costs of accom­mo­da­tion, food, and local trans­porta­tion con­nect­ing Warsza­wa with the con­fer­ence place and back will be cov­ered by the Baltic Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­gramme coor­di­nat­ing sec­re­tari­at. A course fee of 650 Euro per per­son applies for all oth­er PhD stu­dents. All stu­dents must how­ev­er cov­er all trav­el costs to and from Warsza­wa them­selves. Please see the updat­ed list of BUP’s Mem­bers’ Uni­ver­si­ties on the BUP web site (http://www.balticuniv.uu.se/index.php/partcipating-universities).

The pre­lim­i­nary pro­gram of the train­ing will be sent lat­er.

 

BUP’s PhD Stu­dents Train­ing appli­ca­tion form

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Maria Hej­na, Net­work Man­ag­er
The Baltic Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­gramme
Villavä­gen 16, 752 36 Upp­sala, Swe­den
e‑mail: Maria.Hejna@csduppsala.uu.se
Tel: +46–18-471 17 86
Mobile: +46–70-425 00 87
Web page URL: http://www.balticuniv.uu.se​