How to plan professional career - tips for young scientists

Timetable

Number of planned groups: 2

Module aim (aims)

The course consists in workshops with strong emphasis on the acquisition of practical skills, which will help in the development of scientific career.

The specific aims include:

- specification of interests and creating a career plan

- finding of work/traineeship opportunities

- preperation of document for recruitment

- development of the communication/scientific communicaiton skills

- writing of team scientifc project

The participants will be evaluated on the basis of  five practical assessments.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

Week 1: Educational and career pathway.

Week 2: Personal education/career plan.

Week 3: Introduction to graphical design of documents.

Week 4: Writing CV and motivation letter.

Week 5: Introduction to communication.

Week 6: Scientific communication.

Week 7: Scientific posters.

Week 8: Article Writing.

Week 9: Introduction to team work and project writing.

Week 10: Presentation of projects.

Reading list

1. Fischoff B., 2013. “The sciences of science communication”. PNAS 110: 14033-14039.

2. Mathews J.R. and Mathews R.W., 2008. “Successful Scientific Writing. A step-by-step guide for biological and medical science sciences”. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2008.

3. McGee P., 2009. “How to write a CV that works”. Published by How To Content. Oxford 2009.

4. “ERC Working Program 2017”. European Research Council established by the European Research Commission.