Doctoral Summer School
General info
The LERU Doctoral Summer School is an annual event organised by different LERU members. While focus and format may differ depending on the institutions involved, the general ambition is to provide a learning experience of considerable and lasting added value, beyond what PhD candidates learn as a matter of course in the regular programme of their PhD training.
The aim of the LERU Doctoral Summer School is to provide doctoral candidates with unique professional and personal development opportunities beyond what they are generally exposed to in the course of their PhD training. By creating an exceptional and truly international, intercultural and interdisciplinary meeting of bright young minds, the Summer School creates a highly stimulating learning experience which is of long lasting value to the participants’ future careers.
The doctoral summer school is open to registered PhD candidates of LERU universities. The selection progress is organised per university. If you are interested in participating, please contact LERU or your LERU university.
Summer School 2012
Beyond Open Access: Open Education, Open Data and Open Knowledge
The third LERU Doctoral Summer school will be hosted by the University of Barcelona from Sunday 8 July 2012 until Friday 13 July 2012.
42 PhD students will be selected from LERU member institutions. Students from all disciplines (Arts, Humanities, Engineering and all branches of Science) are encouraged to apply. Moreover, up to five PhD students from non-LERU top research universities will be selected.
The main objective of the third LERU doctoral summer school is to bring together doctoral students from all LERU members to identify and analyze the challenges and opportunities that the open scholarship agenda (open access/education/data/knowledge) offers to universities from different perspectives of scholarly activity, including both teaching and research. Students will be introduced to their rights and their obligations as researchers and as members of a higher education institution, in accordance with the applicable laws and policies developed by the institutions where they carry out their work, and by the institutions that provide public or private funding. In addition, students will learn about the tools available to them to spread and share their knowledge to colleagues and to the society in general. During the summer school, students will work together in small groups to develop projects aimed at “opening” their research. They will do so through practical and interactive workshops and based on knowledge gained through specialized keynotes. Keynotes and workshops will be focused on the different aspects of openness. At the end of the week students will be able to identify the different policies that apply to their research, to understand the legal aspects regarding their research outputs, to evaluate the different ways to disseminate those outputs, to appropriately use the tools available to openly share their knowledge and to mark their research contents as open. This training will be directly applicable to their research, in their home universities and to their future career inside or outside educational institutions, since the open movement is being applied in many fields of activity. One example of application outside educational or research institutions is the reutilization of public sector information.
More information soon on the UB website of the Summer School.
See the video report of Summer School 2011 at UCL
Summer School 2011
Essential Enterprise Skills for Early Career Researchers
The second annual LERU Doctoral Summer School will be hosted by University College London, focusing on the theme of Entrepreneurship. The Summer School will take place from 17 till 22 of July. During the week participants will develop the knowledge and attributes required to successfully take a business idea forward, whether that is within an academic or a business environment and from scientific or humanities domains. Participants will be given some initial training, followed by project work in cross-disciplinary teams on a business idea focused around one of the global challenges such as climate change, energy, ageing, population growth, urbanisation or food security. Experts in areas such as intellectual property and resource management will be on hand to support the teams in their work and provide some formal learning input throughout the duration of the summer school. At the end of the week, each team will present their business idea to a panel of professionals. During the business plan development, participants will be encouraged to produce a video diary of their activities which will not only harness creative energy but also enhance the learning experience by demonstrating the process each team went through to get to their end result.
All information on the LERU Doctoral Summer School 2011.
Summer School 2010
In July 2010 the League of European Research Universities offered its first Summer School for PhD students. The topic of the first Summer School was Communicating about Academic Research, and the activities were embedded in a theme of great interest to society: Towards a sustainable future. The Summer School was jointly organized by the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht, two Dutch LERU members. The school took place at Utrecht. The programme was intensive and highly interactive. Exciting excursions relevant to the topic were part of it, and there were ample opportunity to sample the local ambiance. More information on the 2010 Summer School.
Participants Summer School 2010 at University of Utrecht