6. Objectives
● Support excellent researchers (talent development)
● Support candidates in planning careers inside and outside academia
● Provide researchers to society (knowledge translation)
● Develop more dynamic research groups (knowledge brokers)
● Strengthen learning environment for postdocs
7. Organization
Career
Development
(Exploring
career options)
Alumni (master classes)
Peer Mentoring Groups
5 DAYS
Research
Management
(Group & project
leadership)
2 DAYS
Supervision &
Research Ethics
(PhD and master
supervision)
3 DAYS
Communicating
Research
3 DAYS
Research
Funding &
Scientific
Writing
2 DAYS
8. Career Development
● Career patterns: theories, tools and models
● Personal development: analyze strengths and weaknesses
● Organization and context: how to navigate, networking, research policy
● Exploring different career paths (interviews with key informants)
● Career goals (making a career plan!)
9. Research Management
● Understanding leadership in a research context
● Developing research organizations
● From strategic management to strategic leadership
● Different “types” of research groups
● Portfolio leadership
10. Supervision and Research Ethics
● The supervisor-candidate relationship
● Giving feedback
● Supervision in medical academic writing
● Ethical aspects of research and supervision
● Phases in the supervision trajectory
● Institutional contexts / the PhD Programme /
MEDs master programme portfolio
11. Communicating Research
● Understanding impact and outreach in research
● Making communication plans for grants and projects
● Communicating research through social media
● Presenting research in public
● Writing for a community of non-experts
● Visualizing research
12. Research Funding and Scientific writing
● Which are the relevant funding opportunities and what are their demands
● How to approach a call and structure a scientific proposal
● Writing abstract / summary
● Understanding the structure, presentation form and important
elements of a good CV
● How to support your peers in writing
● Peer review
