Expand your transferable skills and network!
Join us 26-30 August 2019!
Expand your transferable skills and network!
Join us 26-30 August 2019!
PhD Summer School focuses on development of key competences required for achieving best results in successful defense of the doctoral dissertation and identifying further research directions. Therefore topics of our PhD Summer Schools include: management of scientific research data, writing of scientific articles, analysis of the subtleties of project management, research integrity and ethics, intellectual property and patent system, communication skills development, etc.
PhD Summer School provides the opportunity for intellectually curious doctoral students to explore new knowledge, to expand cultural awareness and to exchange experience.
PhD Summer School 2019 will:
Target group: 50 doctoral students (regardless of major).
Prerequisites. The PhD Summer School is held in English. In order to participate, doctoral students should have sufficient language skills.
Registration for PhD Summer School 2019 is not opened yet.
The electronic application form will be available online from 1 February 2019.
Deadlines:
31 March 2019 Early bird registration closes
15 May 2019 Registration closes
The participation fee is paid only when the registration is approved.
Vita Daudaravičienė
Doctoral Projects Manager
tel. +370 626 22701
e. p. phd@ktu.lt
skype: ktu.phd
the venue of the 4th PhD Summer School, 26-30 August 2019
show moreThe venue of 4th PhD Summer School 2019 is Trakai.
Trakai is a historical city well known for its natural beauty of landscapes, wildlife reserves, forests and the island castle on lake Galvė which is the only one of its kind in Europe.
Event Centre: will be announced later
Participants are responsible for arranging their own accommodation.
You can find a hotel or private accommodation in Trakai. Prices vary from ~20-30 euros per night in private sector to ~150 euros per night and more! Check for prices and conditions:
26 August 2019
Registration
Cultural clash. Presentations. Cultural experience.
Welcome dinner
27 August 2019
Scientific writing. Meeting the editor. Do’s and Dont’s of getting your paper published by Frank Witlox, Ghent University, Belgium
28 August 2019
Big Data – from data to knowledge by Ari Visa, Tampere University, Finland
29 August 2019
From Idea To (European) Patent by Enrico Luzzatto, European Patent Academy, Germany
30 August 2019
Responsibility, Interaction, and Ethics in Research by Hallvard Fossheim, University of Bergen, Norway
Certificates. Closing lunch.
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Monday, 26 August 2019
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Venue |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Registration of participants. Welcome coffee |
Hotel Reception hall |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Welcome. Presentations. |
Hotel Conference hall |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Cultural Clash (get-to-know-you activity) | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Lunch | Hotel Restaurant |
| 15:30 – ~17:30 | Cultural Experience. Guided Walking Tour in Trakai |
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| 20:00 – 22:00 | Welcome Dinner | Hotel Restaurant |
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Tuesday, 27 August 2019
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| Time | Activity | Venue |
| 8:30 – 16:30 | Scientific writing. Meeting the editor. Do’s and Don’ts of getting your paper published by Frank Witlox, Ghent University |
Hotel Conference hall |
| morning/afternoon coffee breaks lunch break |
Hotel Restaurant |
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| 17:00 | Cultural experience. | Trakai Castle Museum |
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Wednesday, 28 August 2019
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| Time | Activity | Venue |
| 8:30 – 16:30 | Big Data: From Data to Knowledge by Ari Visa, Tampere University |
Hotel Conference hall |
| morning/afternoon coffee breaks lunch break |
Hotel Restaurant | |
| 17:00 | Social activity (optional) | |
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Thursday, 29 August 2019
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| Time | Activity | Venue |
| 8:30 – 16:30 | From Idea to (European) Patent by Enrico Luzzatto, European Patent Academy |
Hotel Conference hall |
| morning/afternoon coffee breaks lunch break |
Hotel Restaurant | |
| 17:00 | Social activity (optional) | |
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Friday, 30 August 2019
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| Time | Activity | Venue |
| 8:30 – 13:30 | Responsibility, Interaction, and Ethics in Research by Hallvard Fossheim, University of Bergen |
Hotel Conference hall |
| morning coffee break | ||
| 13:30-16:00 | Group photo. Certificates. Event Closing Lunch. |
Hotel Restaurant |
| 16:00 | End of the 4th PhD Summer School | |
Deadlines
In order to meet our quality requirements, the number of participants is limited to 50 PhD students.
Criteria for participants
You must be currently enrolled in a PhD programme.
You must be able to communicate fluently in English, be able to listen to lectures as well as assert your own thoughts and ideas in group discussions in English with general ease.
Registration
After you submit your registration form, you will receive an automatic reply. If you do not receive any reply within 2 days, or you are not sure about your application status, please contact phd@ktu.lt
Payment instructions
The registration is considered complete only after the registration fee is paid. After you submit your registration form, we will send you bank details for registration fee payment. After we have received your payment, we will send you an acceptance letter. You cannot attend the PhD Summer School if you have not paid the registration fee.
Please note: your registration and professional education will be examined, and in case of doubt your registration can be rejected.
The registration for 4th PhD Summer School is considered complete, when the participant payment is paid and we send you a confirmation email to confirm your place in the 4th PhD Summer School. After that time, you may only cancel your participation in accordance with our cancelation policy:
1. If a participant is unable to attend an event for any reason, they may substitute someone else elligible from the same institute/organisation.
2. Where the participant is unable to attend, and is not in a position to transfer his/her place to another person, then the following refund arrangements apply:
2.1. If the participant cancels before 15 May 2019 the cancellation is free of charge.
2.2. If the participant cancels within 15 May – 15 July 2019 he/she will have to pay 50 % of the full registration fee.
2.3. If the participant cancels on 16 July 2019 or later he/she will have to pay the full registration fee.
2.5. The refund will be made by bank transfer and all bank charges will be for the registrants account.
2.6. Notification must be received by us in writing (email) for refunds to be eligible. Cancellations received after this cut-off time will not be eligible for refund.
3.The same policy applies if you are forced to cancel because you did not receive a visa.
The registration for and the participation in the 4th PhD Summer School program constitutes your acknowledgement and agreement to these terms & conditions.
Lucie Boudova, Consultant, Marketing Manager for Eastern Europe, Elsevier, Czech Rep.
Heidi Dyson, Director of Next Level Innovation Ltd., United Kingdom
Dietmar Grichnik, Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship, Director Institute of Technology Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Elīna Gaile-Sarkane, Professor and Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Flavien Massi, a senior consultant at Intelligentsia Consultants Sàrl, Luxembourg
Lynn P. Nygaard, a special advisor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway
Jacek Fiutowski, Associate Professor, Head of Nanophotonics group at Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Sarah Jones, Associate Director at the Digital Curation Centre, United Kingdom
Iryna Kuchma, the Open Access Programme Manager for Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), Lithuania
Martijn Wackers, a lecturer at the Centre for Languages and Academic Skills, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Telma Esteves, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Roger Strand, a Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities and the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers, University of Bergen, Norway
Arminas Ragauskas, a director of the Health Telematics Science Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
How to write a good scientific article
Lucie Boudova, Elsevier
How to overcome hindrance in scientific writing?
Elina Gaile-Sarkane, Riga Technical University
Writing doctoral thesis and articles
Dietmar Grichnik, University of St.Gallen
Developing H2020 proposal writing skills
Heidi Dyson, Next Level Innovations Ltd.
Writing for Scholars
Lynn P. Nygaard, PRIO
Writing Scientific Papers
Jacek Fiutowski, University of Southern Denmark
Project Management for PhD Students
Flavien Massi, Intelligentsia Consultants Sàrl
Open Science and Research Data Management: tips and tools to help you plan to get the most from your data
Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre,
Iryna Kuchma, EIFL
60-second Introduction.
Oral Presentation and Communication Skills Development
Martijn Wackers, Delft University of Technology
Research grant proposal development
Telma Esteves, University of Twente
Research Ethics, Integrity and Responsibility
Roger Strand, University of Bergen
Entrepreneurship and Innovations
Arminas Ragauskas, Kaunas University of Technology
| Austria |
| TU Graz |
| Azerbaijan |
| Institute of control systems, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences |
| Belgium |
| Ghent University |
| Czech Republic |
| Czech Technical University in Prague |
| Tomas Bata University in Zlin |
| Denmark |
| Aalborg University |
| Technical University of Denmark |
| University of Copenhagen |
| University of Southern Denmark |
| France |
| The Université Grenoble Alpes |
| Germany |
| Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts |
| Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) |
| Konstanz University of Applied Science |
| RWTH Aachen |
| TU Darmstadt |
| University of Cologne |
| Iceland |
| University of Iceland |
| Italy |
| University of Parma |
| Latvia |
| Riga Technical University |
| University of Latvia |
| Ventspils University College |
| Lithuania |
| Aleksandras Stulginskis University |
| Centre for Innovative Medicine |
| Kaunas University of Technology |
| Lithuanian Energy Institute |
| Lithuanian Social Research Centre |
| Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry |
| Mykolas Romeris University |
| Šiauliai University |
| The General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania |
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| Vytautas Magnus University |
| Vilnius University |
| Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences |
| Netherlands |
| Eindhoven University of Technology |
| VU Amsterdam |
| Norway |
| University of Bergen |
| University of Stavanger |
| Poland |
| Jagiellonian University |
| University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow |
| University of Bialystok |
| Portugal |
| University of Aveiro |
| Romania |
| The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration |
| Russian Federation |
| Higher School of Economics, National Research University, St. Petersburg |
| Slovakia |
| University of Zilina |
| Spain |
| University of Barcelona |
| Valencia Polytechnic University |
| Turkey |
| Balikesir University |
| Ozyegin University |
| Ukraine |
| Kiev National University for Construction and Architecture |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Chester university |
| University of East London |