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Design your Research Environment | Summer School – Hackathon

Co-Create the research environment that you want to be in! 

Our research environment is far from perfect and while the reasons can be various, solutions to change have to be tailored to you as a researcher. Together, in this five days Summer School and Summer Hackathon, we will design with you and experts from the field of open science, mental health and science communication the environment for you to thrive in. You will get together in interdisciplinary teams to experience together with the trainers how to rethink how to approach your research and career.  

Have a look at some impressions from our trainers from our public talks:


Who can participate? 

If you are an early career researcher or post-doctoral researcher from any research discipline or envisioning your further career path this Summer School is for you! You will have the chance to design with experts and trainers in an interactive week of training and application a road map to train and enable you, as an individual, to take action in the course of your work and within your home institution.

Where will it be held? 

The Summer School will be held in Affligem (Belgium) a beautiful location, surrounded by nature just outside of Brussels. “De Kluizerij” is a refurbished monastery and modern meeting location with professional rooms and an all around service that lets you concentrate on your training and development. The summer school is an all-inclusive event and includes training, the stay in a single room in the Kluizerij over five days, as well as the meals and social events. 

For more information on the location visit the the Kluizerij directly: De Kluizerij event location

UPDATE: We do have fresh news. Due to continuous requests we decided to move our Summer School Hackathon fully digital and online to provide equal access to all training, independent of location or funding.

With this we are moving back to our original successful online format with which already twice reached researchers around the world.

Following the shift to digital the participation fee will be reduced significantly by a factor of 10 and without travel costs you can join the meeting and working spaces directly online.

To learn more about the experience, read a recap of our 2021 summer school online event and see our participants at work.

– OEduverse Online Summer School 2021 recap – 

Why would this Summer School be important for your research career? 

As an early-stage researcher you might have faced moments when you asked yourself: “Do I have the right skills to succeed in research?”, as a PhD you may wonder “How do I organize my career?”. The answer is not always obvious and oftentimes seemingly situated in your discipline. Although a lot of information is out there, sometimes you are missing the guidance on how to learn and acquire the needed skills or to break free from patterns that are holding you down. In this summer school you will have the chance to connect with highly qualified trainers. Everyone is facing their personal dystopia but together with the trainers and in interactive groups the summer school will guide out of the dystopia to develop the tools needed to change your research career. 

The summer school will include an introductory day for onboarding and decomposing your research environment and three main training days in Open Science, Mental Health and Interactive Storytelling. The week will finish with your personal action plan which will be presented and discussed with your group in an interactive session and completed with a professional goal setting workshop to put your actions into a long term perspective.

Would you like to know more details about the learning goals and the agenda? 

– Check the details and agenda here –

Register now and secure your early bird pricing.

Till 17th of May – Early bird 729 Euro

Starting 18th of May – Normal ticket 769 Euro

Starting now – Fully digital online participation ticket 79 Euro

– Register here –

 

 

 

 


Meet your trainers

Dr. Gábor Kismihók is the head of the Learning and Skills Analytics research Group at the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover, Germany. He is the Chair of the Career Development Working Group at the Marie Curie Alumni Association. He also chairs the recently started COST Action on Researcher Mental Health. His core research focuses on matching processes between individuals, education (learning), and the labour market, using novel technologies and datasets. He has published his research in a number of international peer-reviewed journals and books in the area of Learning Analytics and Technology Enhanced Learning. Gábor also has extensive experience with European research funding (e.g. H2020, H2020 MSCA, Erasmus Plus). Find him on LinkedIn and his personal page.

 

Dr. Ivo Grigorov holds a PhD in Marine Science, currently fundraising for marine & climate research at the Danish Technical University (DTU). Professional focus includes optimising researcher’s and research organisations’ strategies for translating research in societal context, by deploying #OpenScience, #KnowledgeTransfer and #OceanLiteracy to optimise research output transfer along the lab-2-users spectrum. Ivo runs the FOSTER Open Science Clinique to make Open Science an essential skillset for Early Career Researchers, synergies and conflicts between Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), and training HorizonEU National Contact Points (NCP) in grant proposal benefits of Open Science. IG can be contacted on LinkedIn or Twitter.

 

Dr Brian Cahill works in the Learning and Skills Analytics Lab of the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Hannover as Grant Manager of the COST Action CA19117 on Researcher Mental Health. He is a Member of the Governing Board of EuroScience and was Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association from March 2016 to February 2018. In these roles, he engaged with early-career researchers on topics ranging from researcher career development, innovation, research funding, science communication, science policy, research integrity, responsible research and innovation and many more. Find him on LinkedIn and his project page.

 

Ms. Jo Harney is a Counselling Psychologist in the position of Training and Groups Manager at the Student Counselling Service in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has achieved a Masters in Counselling Psychology and a Masters in Clinical Supervision. She specialises in working with students supporting them to achieve mental wellbeing to reach their potential during their academic careers. She has significant experience producing and delivering training and therapeutic groups in the field of psychology and mental health. Her main areas of interest and expertise are compassion-focused therapy, clinical supervision, group therapy, and training. Find her on LinkedIn and her personal page.

 

Ms. Petra Ardai is a theater maker, concept developer, teacher and scenario writer. She is the artistic director of the Amsterdam and Budapest based art collective SPACE. Petra has wide experience in immersive collaborative storytelling in various media and interactive audience engagement. Her work mobilizes the imagination to create inclusive and sustainable futures. Petra teaches at art academies and cooperates with various universities and partners from the social sector to generate synergy, find a common language and share knowledge. Find her on LinkedIn and her personal page.

 

Ms. Esther Verhamme, Creative hands-on communication strategist and UX designer, passionate about on-offline storytelling projects involving human centred design, gamification and technology. “I believe in the power of stories. As stories shape who we are, and the stories we tell shape who we become.” Esther has more than 20 years experience in communications, design and concept development. At SPACE, Esther researches immersive online storytelling and new ways of dialogue through digital media. Find her on LinkedIn and her personal page.

 

Dr. Christian Weber is a researcher with the Institute of Knowledge-Based Systems and Knowledge Management (KBS & KM), University of Siegen, Germany. Within his PhD he was working on developing semantic and structure-aware concept importance measures for domain knowledge to guide digital learning. He is continuously researching on the exploitation of evolving knowledge maps for an ongoing industrial, educational and medical digitalization using AI and is active for that in national and international funded research projects (DFG, BMBF, H2020, Erasmus plus and many more) but also direct industrial collaborations, as well as supporting the next push of tech-startups. He believes that any digital solution has to have a human factor and so does academia. Find him on LinkedIn and his personal page.

 

Ms Alice Kelly is a Systemic Psychotherapist in the position of Training Manager and Student Counsellor at the Student Counselling Service in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has achieved a Masters in Work and Organisational Psychology and a Masters in Systemic Psychotherapy.  She specialises in working with students and supporting their mental wellbeing to reach their potential during their academic careers.  She has significant experience working with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and supporting people through the challenges they might face as they work through their lives and academic career.  Her main areas of interest and expertise include narrative therapy, attachment based approaches, systems theory, group therapy and training. Find her on LinkedIn and her personal page.

 

Mr. Mathias Schroijen is a member of the Postgraduate Office at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). As a project leader he is responsible for the development of transferable skills training programmes and career development services for researchers. Mathias has a research background in health psychology (respiratory psychophysiology) and throughout his PhD, he was actively involved in doctoral training with a specific interest in mental health, intersectoral mobility and social entrepreneurship. Driven by these interests, he focused on PhD community building at the local level (PhD Society at KU Leuven), the construction of training and career development services at the institutional level (project manager MSCA-Cofund IF@ULB) and the representation of early career researchers at the European level (Eurodoc). Find him on LinkedIn.

 

Dr. Scott Harrison is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF). He currently works on understanding the effects of digitalizing assessments with a focus on the PISA studies. Scott has a PhD from the University of New England, Australia, which was in the area of economics, using statistical approaches to understand the effect digital student support technologies had on student retention. Find him on LinkedIn and his personal page.

 

Dr. Renaud Jolivet is Full Professor at the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.  He trained as a physicist and neuroscientist, and he is interested in energetic constraints and heterocellular diversity in the brain.  Dr. Jolivet has accumulated broad expertise, having worked in multiple countries, at diverse research-performing organisations, and having served in a variety of leadership roles in panels and committees.  He has extensive experience in project evaluation and management, and as an academic mentor.  He has been an active advocate for science and for reform in academia since 2014.  He currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at the Organization for Computational Neurosciences, as an External Policy Advisor and Board Member at the Initiative for Science in Europe.  He is the Chair of Policy at the Marie Curie Alumni Association. Find him on LinkedIn and his personal page.

Date

Jun 13 2022 - Jun 17 2022

Time

CET (Amsterdam, Berlin)
All Day

Location

De Kluizerij
Aalstersedreef 1 1790 Affligem België