Winter School for Phd Students

"Personal Effectiveness and Leadership skills for PhD candidates"

29, 31 January 2, 6 February (10h00- 13h00)

FEUP-Faculdade de Engenharia, Porto (Portugal)

Online + face-to-face activities

 

PROGRAMME

1. January (4 – 28), ONLINE MOOC

• Explore materials at moodle (videos, papers, etc), at your own pace.
• All activities must be completed before the face-to-face component.

 2. 29th January to 6^th February – FACE-TO-FACE, FEUP

• PhD candidates will meet face-to-face.
• Participants will be encouraged to actively engage in self-reflection, teamwork, and experiential exercises to apply concepts and principles learned, in their doctoral real-life situations.
• Themes to be addressed:

1. Self-leadership.
2. Lead others.
3. Motivation.
4. Handling stress.
5. Working with uncertainty.
6. Coping with frustration and failure.
7. Approach challenges positively.
8. Delegate responsibilities.

 

TUITION: free 

ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be PhD candidates from UPorto with fluent English (b2, c1, c2), from any disciplinary area. 

APPLICATIONS: 04-12 December, via email to lea@fe.up.pt
(send your CV/resumé AND a certificate of English proficiency* AND a statement of purpose of max 500words with an outline of your motivation for joining the Winter School and how it aligns with your academic and personal goals)

CERTIFICATION: a continuous training certificate from UPorto; digital credential. 

 
This event is organized in the scope of DocTalent4EU project

* if you don’t have a certificate, please go to https://academy.europa.eu/local/euacademy/pages/course/assessment-overview.php?title=english-placement-test and take the free, online test that provides a certificate.