Objective

To develop a European core curriculum in transferable skills for doctoral candidates in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) disciplines, together with training material for the different modules.

Priorities

The development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences as a horizontal priority and the development of a curriculum relevant to the labour market and societal needs, as a concrete application of this horizontal priority to the field of Higher Education, are clearly at the centre of the project “Training the mindSET”.

The main objective of this project is to develop a European core curriculum in transferable skills for doctoral candidates in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) disciplines, together with training material for the different modules. A self-assessment tool for doctoral candidates, webinars to train trainers and the development of a coaching manual to assist doctoral candidates in actually putting the acquired skills into practice flank the developed training curriculum and make sure it can be successfully implemented.

Modules

Training modules in Transferable skills to be developed 2020-2021 (pilots to be announced):

• Time and project management
• Entrepreneurial thinking¹
• Leadership and management
• Cooperation, communication and presentation
• Research ethics and good scientific practice²
• Acquiring third-party funds and projects²
• Publication, promotion and transfer of research results¹
• Teaching methods

Learning-Teaching-Training activities

• Technische Universität Berlin | 1st and 2nd run completed

  • Teaching methods

  • Acquiring 3rd party funds and projects

• Warsaw University of Technology | 1st and 2nd run completed​​​​​​​

  • Project management Fundamentals (tbd)

  • Cooperation, communication and presentation: Group Dynamics and Conflict management (24th and 25th March 2021)

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  ​​​​​​​| Online, 2nd run spring 2021: 22nd and 23rd April / 16th and 23rd March
  | Open for registration until 5th March 2021

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurial thinking

  • Publication and promotion (16th and 23rd March 2021)

• Politecnico Milano | 1st and 2nd run completed

  • Leadership and management

  • Research ethics and good scientific practice

 Intellectual outcomes

• IO 1 - Core curriculum
• IO 2 - Training manual
• IO 3 - Online platform and webinars
• IO 4 - Competence assessment
• IO 5 - Coaching system ¹

¹ – NTNU is responsible for the module.
² – NTNU is a partner for the module.

Organisation at NTNU

Member of the Training the mindSET Steering Committee: Astrid Vigtil (IV).
The Consultative Body is listed in the right menu.