PhD meeting 2008

• First outline for a UNICA meeting of coordinators of doctoral education, by Mark Runacres (word document)
• Program (pdf document)
• Abstracts and speakers' CVs (pdf document)
• List of participants (excel sheet)

• General introduction : The labour market for PhDs - insights from France and the UK, by Amandine Bugnicourt & Matthieu Lafon, Adoc Talent Management (pdf presentation) Further information concerning ADOC is available at : http://www.adoc-tm.com.
• General introduction : The university point of view, by Mary RITTER, Imperial College London (pdf presentation)

Thursday 12th June

Parallel sessions 1 - Session A
• Introduction, by Paule Biaudet (pdf presentation)
• Case study 1 : Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KEES), by Bryn Jones, Bangor University (pdf presentation)
• Case study 2 : Vrije Universiteit Brussels, by Gunter LAUWERS & Mark RUNACRES, Vrije Universiteit Brussel/HES (powerpoint presentation)

  
  Parallel sessions 1 - Session B

• Case study 1 : Experience and Future of Industrial Placement of Doctoral Students, by John MURPHY, School of Computer Science and Informatics (powerpoint presentation)
• Case study 2 : Elements for successful partnership between enterprise and university – Ericsson in Croatia case, by Darko HULJENIC, Head of e-health Unit Ericsson Nikola Tesla (ETK) (powerpoint presentation)

  Parallel sessions 2 - Session A

• Case study 1 : Developping knowledge of entreprise, by Joël Moneger (pdf presentation)
• Case study 2 : Swansea University - Industrial PhD, by Ceri JONES, Swansea University (pdf presentation)

  
  Parallel sessions 2 - Session B

• Case study 1 : Doctoral Consulting: a new possibility for collaborations between universities and enterprises toward a better recognition of doctors skills, by Sylvain COLLONGE, UPMC (powerpoint presentation)

Friday 13th June

Developing employability of doctors
• Case study 1 : Future jobs are created where knowledge is created, by Göte NYMAN, University of Helsinki (powerpoint presentation)

  Role of local authorities in strengthening doctoral traning in universities3

• Case study 1 : PhD's, Universities and funding strategies, by Klaus Zinoecker, Deputy Director, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (pdf presentation)