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AGENDA LTT-WEEK

Objective:

• Training in transferable skills for European PhD candidates within the Science, Engineering and Technology disciplines.

Training sessions will be offered by all four partner universities and will include participants from all partners in each of them.

NTNU will recruit 4 PhD candidates for each of the 8 upcoming sessions.
This registration is only valid for the upcoming session arranged by WUT.

First training session at WUT is to be described below (2 courses):

• Project Management Fundamentals

WHEN: To be announced for Spring 2021

WHERE: Online, link will be provided

During your PhD journey, you will explore a specific field of study. Your findings ought to provide theoretical and/or practical contribution and elements of novelty. Your supervisor – and, at a later stage, independent reviewers – will assess your application of research methods as well as your research achievements. Therefore, one of the critical success factors of your PhD period is project management knowledge. It is the best way to avoid – or at least: minimize – organizational problems during your study. The application of project management tools in PhD research dramatically increases its efficiency.

This course will provide you with organizational knowledge and skills directly linked to your PhD study. You will learn to identify stakeholders for your research, schedule your PhD study, create a budget, rate risks and opportunities that come up during your academic journey, learn how to use open source software to optimize the organizational part of your research and … much more.

Prerequisites:

The entry condition to attend the course is a thorough awareness of critical research issues. You need to have a plan sketched out for your research. Our aim is to support you in applying project management knowledge to your research.

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• Group Dynamics and Conflict Management ​​​​​​​
  Instructors: , Edyta Malicka

WHEN:
​​​​​​​- Round 1: 17.03.2021, 18.03.2021, 9:00-14:00 hrs
​​​​​​​- Round 2: 24.03.2021, 25.03.2021, 9:00-14:00 hrs

WHERE: Online, link will be provided

The course covers topics issues from two subject areas: Group Dynamics and Conflict Management, with particular emphasis on leadership issues in group processes.

The topics of Group Dynamics relate to key theories of group dynamics, characteristics of groups and group phenomena, in-group dynamics: formation, joining, cohesion, structure, group types, group and types of tasks, social influence in the group: roles, norms, status; group impact on individuals, group performance and process losses, group decisions and inter-group dynamics, group and leadership.

The topics of Conflict Management include basis and origins of conflicts, conflict models and types of conflicts (personal/ organisational/ inter-group conflicts), conflict resolution, escalation and mediation.

We will use a variety of teaching methods including case studies, group exercises (role play, etc.), working on participants’ examples, feedback, reflection and discussion, exchange of experience.

Participation in the course will allow students to get the learning outcomes that will be valuable in complicity in research teams during present and future scientific activity – as a team member, leader or creator.

The key learning outcomes are as follows: be able to identify and analyse factors driving group dynamics, increase understanding of the importance of roles, norms and structure in groups, be able to identify sources of conflicts, know how to solve conflicts constructively.

The acquired skills will prepare the course participants to the phenomena and challenges of working in teams, co-creating and using the potential of team to achieve success in scientific and research work.

We offer:    

• Trainings in small groups with participants from mindSET´s four partner universities

Your benefits:

• Improve your transferable skills in an international group of interdisciplinary, but like-minded researchers.
• Certificate of completion that may be credited in the PhD programmes at the respective partner universities

All applicants will be informed about the selection results within the begining of March.

Previous description for this module, fall 2020:

Starting point

Project management is the multifunctional and interdisciplinary area of science and art. Utilizing the knowledge, good practices, selected methods and techniques related to project management the researcher is able to structure and support the activities that create scientific research. It is more efficient to learn from foreign experience that from your own mistakes.

Aim

The course will focus on the following learning outcomes:

• Gain a basic understanding of project management
• Be familiar with general project management approaches and methodologies
• Be able to apply basic management methods and techniques to different types of research projects
• Know how to build and manage project integration, schedule, risk etc.
• Be familiar with the project management toolbox

Content

The course provides insights into:

• Utilization of project knowledge into academic studies
• Overview of project types, project processes and knowledge areas
• Project planning (activities/ work packages, scheduling, resource and cost planning, project organisation)
• Project management methodologies (PMBoK, PRINCE2, Scrum)
• Toolbox for project management

Methods

Short inputs, group work and presentations, discussion, exchange of experience, work with spreadsheet and scheduling IT tools. Participants can bring their own computers and should be ready to describe and next embedded their own research projects (proposals) in project form.

Requirements

To make yourself familiar with the open sources software supporting project scheduling (Project Libre).

Deliverables

During the training the student will elaborate your own research project. After the course it will be 6 week time for project documentation improvement.

Instructors:

Prof. Eryk Glodzinski (WUT) and Dr. Armando Beffani (PoliMi) (to be confirmed)