PDF file: EURASNET Annual Report 2008

18. Career DevelopmentWorkpackage description (month 37-54)Workpackage number 18 Start date or starting event: 3 monthParticipant idallPerson months 27Objectives• To prepare young scientists for careers in science, teaching and industry• To facilitate the transition from a post-doctoral fellow to an independent group leader• To give young scientists the opportunity to raise the profile of their research and their research groups, and toestablish lasting contacts/collaborations among the young generation of European scientistsDescription of workWe will continue to provide opportunities for personal development that equip young scientists and postdocsfor later stages of their scientific careers. The instruments will be to arrange 2 web-based seminars in 2007about “Effective scientific communication - the art of writing scientific papers” and “Innovation, patents andentrepreneurship”. In addition, these seminars will be distributed as a DVD to all partners. This initiative willbe followed by a satellite session on Career Development in conjunction with the biennial EuropeanConference on Alternative Splicing in 2008. At this meeting many young scientists will attend which will givethe initiative more impact. At this meeting we plan, with the consent of the younger participants, to videorecord their presentations and subject them to professional critics. We will also arrange round table discussionswith representatives of both academia and industry where the individual career opportunities of the youngscientists are discussed.We will constantly try to improve the contacts between PhD students and senior scientists in EURASNET,through the travel bursaries program and joint thesis committees. Finally, the EURASNET website willcontinuously be updated with information regarding job opportunities for network members looking foremployment at the end of their PhD thesis or post-doctoral work.Deliverables238 Establishing joint PhD committees for PhD students in the EURASNET. (month 42) (continuation ofdeliverable 16)242 Pursue the possibility of selecting one program for a 1-2 day career development workshop in whichparticipants get hands-on training in the chosen topic (eg writing the cv, giving a talk or an interview, makingand presenting a poster) (month 41)352 Arrangement of a 1-day career development training course (month 54)353 Intensify the usage of joint PhD committees (month 54)354 Build up a more complete career development resource on the EURANET web page (month 54)275