This year, the EUA-CDE Thematic Workshop was organised in the form of online sessions on 21-22 January 2021. The EUA-CDE community of more than 260 universities gathered to discuss emerging issues related to digitalisation from the perspective of doctoral education.
Nowadays, digitalisation plays an important role in our society as it daily affects our lives. This is also true for the whole research process, including the collection and analysis of data, the interaction between researchers across geographical boundaries or the communication of results. In this context, artificial intelligence and other forms of data-driven research have increasingly been the focus of discussions as they provide new and unexpected opportunities, but also raise questions related to the risks attached to the development of such new technologies.
The 2021 EUA-CDE Thematic Workshop focused on the role of doctoral education in the context of these rapid technological and conceptual changes, how doctoral schools are influenced and how they can make efficient use of emerging digital technologies. It discussed the training and skills needs of doctoral candidates and provide a forum for an exchange of reflections and good practices.
This event provided an occasion to discuss these issues and identify innovative solutions together with other EUA-CDE members and stakeholders active in this field.
The workshop’s programme was divided into two main parts. It combined two webinars open to anyone with an interest in doctoral education and several online sessions reserved to EUA-CDE members only.
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The speakers of the Workshop had the possibility to pre-record a detailed presentation in advance. Have a look at the playlist to learn more about the topic of the two upcoming webinars.
Thursday, 21 January 2021
14.10 – 15.15 CET Session I: webinar - How artificial intelligence impacts and shapes doctoral education
Chair: Alexander Hasgall, Head of EUA-CDE
Friday, 22 January 2021
11.00 – 12.15 CET Session III: webinar - FAIR data management and research data in doctoral education
Chair: Barbara Dooley, EUA-CDE Steering Committee member
2021 EUA-CDE Thematic Workshop
Thursday 21 January 2021
14.00 – 14.10 CET Welcome to the EUA-CDE Thematic Workshop online sessions
Luke Georghiou, EUA-CDE Steering Committee Chair; Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester, UK
14.10 – 15.15 CET Session I : webinar
How artificial intelligence impacts and shapes doctoral education
Barry O'Sullivan, Director, SFI Centre for research training in artificial intelligence, Ireland; former Vice-Chair, EU High level expert group on artificial intelligence
Naguib Attia, Vice-President, Global University Programs, IBM
Anna Jobin, Affiliated researcher, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Inaugural member, Swiss Young Academy
Gerd Vandersteen, Director of the Doctoral School of Natural Sciences and (Bioscience) Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Co-creator, Flemish AI Academy
Chair: Alexander Hasgall, Head of EUA-CDE
16.00 – 17.15 CET Session II: Digital skills needs and training for early-career researchers
Ricardo Morais, Head of the Management Department, Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal
Eric Alms, Responsible for the transferable skills course program, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Lence Miloseva, Head of the Doctoral Programme in Neuroscience, Goce Delčev University of Štip, North Macedonia
Chair: Murat Özgören, EUA-CDE Steering Committee member
Friday 22 January 2021
11.00 – 12.15 CET Session III: webinar
FAIR data management and research data in doctoral education
Lennart Stoy, Project Manager, European University Association
Elin Stangeland, Senior Adviser for open science, University of Oslo, Norway
Mostafa Moonir Shawrav, Chair, Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA)
David Carr, Programme Manager, Wellcome Trust Chair: Barbara Dooley, EUA-CDE Steering Committee member
Chair: Barbara Dooley, EUA-CDE Steering Committee member
13.30 – 14.30 CET Session IV: New challenges for research ethics and research integrity training in the digital era
Giulia Inguaggiato,VIRT2UE
Julia Priess-Buchheit, Path2Integrity
Joeri Tijdink, SOPs4RI
Chair: Edwin Constable, EUA-CDE Steering Committee member
The recordings of some of the sessions are available on the EUA YouTube Channel.
For further information, please contact events@eua.eu.
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