Eckhard Steffen & David Joyner

Some final thoughts……

Dublin

Wide range of partnerships – health, technology, arts;

Health Services Executive - “Interested in widening areas of collaboration” REGION= NATIONAL CAPITAL AND EIRE

EPFL

“Technical excellence and well designed model” REGION = LAUSANNE AND CH

Kaunas

“Science, engineering, management and health based collaborationsREGION - BALTIC

Trondheim

“No doctoral graduate employability issue. Strong drivers for global collaborations and strong processes”: REGION = NORWAY

Camerino

“A strong regional university with European and developing-world ambitions” : REGION = CENTRAL ITALY

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Conditions for

Collaborative

Doctoral

Projects

Share:

• Value on research

• Trust

• Long-term approach

Pre-conditions

Collaborative Doctoral Project

• Funding: Public/Private

• Partners Commitment –

Joint Supervision

• Efficient Management

• Good performance –

Thesis examination

Conditions

Doctoral Candidate

CompanyUniversity

Doctorate Holder

with Collaborative

Experience

Common Research

Ground

Source: EUADOC-CAREERS Project

Idealised Euro-collaborative doctoral candidate

• High intrinsic motivation• Excellent researcher• Good time management• Entrepreneur• Multi-lingual • Mobile• Comfortable in academic and business worlds• Excellent communication and soft skills• Flexible and able to work effectively under

pressure

ISSUES

• Do candidates have all these characteristics?• How to develop the optimal set of outputs?

• How to generate the required culture change in all parties

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Looking forward

Collaborative doctorate journey –development lab?

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Merci Beaucoup!