Eduworks summer school 2014, detailed programme

Summer School 2014

Programme

Sopron, Hungary

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Preface In the Summer of 2013 the great news was received that our EDUWORKS proposal for the

European Marie Curie grants was funded. One year later, I am proud to announce the first EDUWORKS

Summer School, to be held in Sopron, Hungary, between 13th and 20th of July. The Summer School will

challenge the aims of the EDUWORKS project, “Crossing borders in the comprehensive investigation of

labour market matching processes: An EU-wide, trans-disciplinary, multilevel and science-practice-

bridging training network”.

The objective of EDUWORKS is to train talented early-stage researchers in the socio-economic

and psychological dynamics of labour supply and demand matching processes at aggregated and

disaggregated levels. Recent technological innovations have challenged the research of matching processes

and have opened totally new perspectives regarding data collection and analysis. Semantic matching

technologies combined with widely available information about vacancies, cv’s, task descriptions, job

requirements, and alike indicate that the project is on the edge of new developments. The first Summer

School will play a major role in coping with these challenges and so will the Summer Schools in the coming

years.

The six partners in EDUWORKS are the Central European University, Corvinno Technology

Transfer Center, Trinity College of Dublin, University of Amsterdam, University of Salamanca, and

University of Siegen. The job advertisements for young researchers in these universities and centers

attracted a lot of attention from the community and high quality submissions from inside and outside Europe

were received. At the time of writing, the selection processes had resulted in a marvelous team of 14 young

researchers. These researchers and their supervisors will attend the Summer School, and I hope that all will

find the School interesting and fun. I also hope that the School will create such a fruitful academic

atmosphere that in the years to come, EDUWORKS will become a platform for dialogue and interaction on

new concepts and applications for labour market matching.

The organisation of the Summer School was a team effort of all EDUWORKS partners. Yet, I

would like to thank particularly my colleagues in the Board of Management, Dr. Stefan Mol, Dr. Gábor

Kismihók, Gergely Wischy and Ad Gielen, who worked extremely hard to get things done on time.

Dr. Kea Tijdens

Coordinator of EDUWORKS

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Programme Overview

Time Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

9:00:00

Arrival

Keynote Lecture Industry Ericsson

Workshop on research philosophy and ethics /

Supervisory board meeting

Academic writing workshop, Directing

your Research 9:30:00

10:00:00 Break

10:30:00 5 Plenary Individual Project

presentations 15 min + 10 min

feedback

Break Break

11:00:00 Workshop on research philosophy and ethics /

Supervisory board meeting

Academic writing workshop, Introductions

to Research Articles 11:30:00

12:00:00

12:30:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch

13:00:00



feedback

What is being a PhD student? Managing

emotions and expectations.

Academic writing workshop, Literature

Reviews 14:00:00

14:30:00

15:00:00 Break

15:30:00 Break Break Academic writing

workshop, Macro-Micro Level Argumentation



feedback

What is being a PhD student? Managing

emotions and expectations.

16:30:00

17:00:00 Introduction to EDUWORKS and to the summer school (meet and greet)

Wrap-up the day, Individual/group

preparation for the next day

17:30:00

18:00:00 Wrap-up the day Wrap-up the day

18:30:00

Welcome Dinner in the Hotel / Watching

the Soccer World Cup Final together

Guided Tour in Sopron, Dinner

Wine tasting, Dinner Dinner in the Hotel

19:00:00

19:30:00

20:00:00

20:30:00

21:00:00

21:30:00

22:00:00

22:30:00

23:00:00

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Programme Overview

Time Thursday Friday Saturday

9:00:00 Academic writing

workshop, Conclusions Author Seminar by

Elsevier Communication skills

training 9:30:00

10:00:00

10:30:00 Break Break Break

11:00:00 Academic writing

workshop, Peer review

What are the key factors of quality

publications? (panel discussion)

Communication skills training

11:30:00

12:00:00

12:30:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch

13:00:00

13:30:00

Social Event - Tour around Sopron (Fertőd, Pan-European pic-nic),

Dinner in Castle Röjtökmuzsaj

Researcher Dashboard Workshop


14:00:00

14:30:00

15:00:00

15:30:00 Break Break

16:00:00

Researcher Dashboard Workshop


16:30:00

17:00:00

17:30:00

18:00:00 Wrap-up the day Wrap-up the day

18:30:00

Farewell dinner, closing remarks

Dinner in the Hotel

19:00:00

19:30:00

20:00:00

20:30:00

21:00:00

21:30:00

22:00:00

22:30:00

23:00:00

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Location Information Summer School Venue: Hotel Fagus, Sopron, Hungary

Address: 9400 Sopron, Ojtózi fasor 3.

Phone: +36 99 515 000

E-mail: [email protected]

GPS: 47.666890; 16.580297

www.fagushotelsopron.hu

About Sopron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopron

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13th July, Sunday

17:00 - 18:30 Introduction to EDUWORKS and to the summer school

(meet & greet)

During this session Summer School participants will introduce themselves, their research groups

and also the logistics of the week will be discussed. This introduction will be followed by an

interactive presentation by Gábor, who will point out the targets and the challenges the Eduworks

consortium has to face during the lifetime of the project.

Dr. Gábor Kismihók obtained a summa cum laude PhD in

management sciences from the Corvinus University of Budapest

in 2012. As co-founder of the Center of Job Knowledge Research

in the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam,

he supervises 4 PhD students in the fields of HRM – data science

and learning analytics. He has been managing large scale

innovation networks (e.g. www.eduworks-network.eu) with a

budget of 3,7M EUR (working staff of 25-30 people) and smaller

scale innovation projects (e.g. www.ontohr.eu) with a budget of

500K EUR (working staff of 10-15 people). He has also been

busy with writing successful research project proposals (FP7,

FP7 MC ITN, EU LLP, TAMOP). He published his research in

various peer-reviewed international journals and book chapters in the fields of knowledge

management and education (e.g.: British Educational Research Journal, European Journal of

Education, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, International Journal of Mobile and

Blended Learning).

18:30 - Welcome Dinner / Soccer World Cup 2014 Final

In the evening of the arrival we will dine together in the hotel, after that we will watch the 2014

FIFA World Cup final.

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14th July, Monday

9:00 – 10:00 Facing the labour challenges in Europe; the need for a

communal language to compare skills

Abstract: Europe undoubtedly faces a number of labour challenges the coming decades. The

demographics of an aging population and a lower birth-rate in most European countries, means

that fewer have to provide for more. Due to a longer life-expectancy, the retirement age is

increasing and employees will have to perform well in a job for a longer period of time. Fewer

able and skilled employees and disparities in unemployment figures throughout Europe, combined

with open labour markets, will most certainly initiate labour migrations whereby skilled workers

who cannot be found within some countries will migrate from countries with a surplus. The war

on talent in one country will cause a brain-drain in another. In order to determine the skills of the

migrating worker the mere comparison of educational level is not enough. Is the doctor educated

in Italy as good as his colleague in Denmark? Perhaps so, but what about the civil engineer, or the

IT-specialist? In the corporate world competency management has long been seen a solution to

this problem, but in practice it has drawbacks. What then can be used as a communal language to

compare skills? Work-roles? Job knowledge? If so, where do we stand and how can they help us

in achieving this quest.

Alec W. Serlie is assistant professor at the department of Work &

Organizational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also

Research Director at GITP, one of the largest HRM-consultancy firms

of the Netherlands. Educated as a cognitive and medical psychologist,

he has extensive experience both in psychological and organizational

consultancy. His work is mainly focused on developing new practical

tools, for recruitment, selection and training purposes. This is achieved

not only by applying traditional psychometric measures, such as

questionnaires, but also by using modern methods, such as SJT’s and

serious games. His recent research focusses on the notion of Corporate

Personality and the fit between individuals and the organization which

they work in. Furthermore, his line of research is focused on the use of

Social Media in selection-setting. Previous research, together with fellow-researchers, has been on

a general personality factor, validity of new selection methods, video resumes and the Dark Side

of Psychology.

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10:30 – 12:30 Individual Project Presentations

Raquel Sebastian Lago (University of Salamanca): Skills-wage mismatch at the

occupational level in Spain and the UK: the impact of the crisis

Abstract: To evaluate, from an occupational perspective, the impact of the economic crisis in

the match between education and wages in Spain and the UK. Secondary objectives:

To compare the occupational approach to skills-wage mismatch to other approaches

To evaluate the impact of the crisis in the gender mismatch gap

To evaluate the differential impact of the crisis for different age profiles

Despite having suffered a similar economic blow with the 2008 crisis (similar impact on GDP,

similar inflated construction sector, etc.), the employment effects of the crisis in Spain and the

UK have been radically different, with massive employment destruction in Spain and hardly any

employment effect in the UK. This makes them very interesting cases for a comparative analysis

of the impact of the crisis on skills mismatch. A secondary objective of the paper will be to

explore the impact of the different policy trajectories (looser monetary policy in UK, drastic

initial devaluation, monetary sovereignty, etc.) on skills mismatch and human capital

underutilization.

Raquel Sebastián Lago, a Spanish citizen, holds a double

bachelor degree in Economics and Journalism from Carlos III

University and a Master Research in Business and Quantitative

Methods from Carlos III University, where she specialised in

personnel economics. During her studies, she spent a semester

at TEC de Monterrey (Mexico). She is currently pursuing a PhD

in Labour Economics at Salamanca University, as Marie Curie

ITN fellow. Before joining EDUWORKS, Raquel worked as

Research Assistant in the Policy and Programme Support Unit

(PPSU) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

in Brussels. She also has worked for the Human Resource Unit

of DG ECFIN (European Commission), Junior Internal Controller at Banco Santander in Turin

(Italy), and Magdala Foundation, a microcredit company in Dar el Salaam (Tanzania), where

she was Research Assistant. During her studies, she also worked as a Teaching Assistant at

Carlos III University in Madrid.

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Sudipa Sarkar (University of Salamanca): The Determinants of Skills-Occupation

Mismatch in Europe: A Job Level Approach

Abstract: The objective of this study is to evaluate the skills-occupation mismatch primarily in

European labour market. Over a considerable time, various issues related to measuring skills-

occupation mismatch have been given importance in the literature. This study discusses the

methodological difficulties involved in measuring mismatch and looking at the factors causing

the mismatch. Then the analysis is carried out at the job level, i.e., instead of taking individual

as a unit of analysis, job will be considered as a unit. The datasets I propose to use in this study

come from European Labour Force Survey and Structure of Earnings Survey. In the first step of

analysis I calculate mismatch for each job (combination of sector and occupation) using two

approaches – job analysis (JA) approach and realized matching (RM) approach. In JA approach,

each ISCO one digit occupation category is assigned a particular education level as the required

level of education to perform the job. However, according to RM approach the required level of

education is determined statistically by the mode level of education within a job. The difference

between required and actual level of education defines mismatch in both the cases.

Sudipa Sarkar is a PhD student in Labour Economics at the

Department of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca. She

has joined the PhD programme as a Marie Curie ITN Fellow under

the Eduworks project. She has an MA in Economics from Rabindra

Bharati University, India. Previously, Sudipa has worked at several

research organisations like Young Lives (an international research

study led by a department in University of Oxford), Indian

Statistical Institute, and Institute of Rural Management Anand. Her

research areas have been related to economics of education,

occupational changes, returns to education and informal

employment, and multidimensional childhood deprivation.

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Mariano Mamertino (Central European University): Micro phenomena and macro

trends: Evidence from a firm-level analysis of skill shortages across U.K.’s local labor

markets

Abstract: Although many European countries are facing severe unemployment today, many

companies complain vigorously that they cannot get hold of people with the right skills. We

want to further explore this divergence by studying local labor markets in the UK using data

from the UKCES Employer Skills Surveys. First, we observe that local labor markets appear to

be heterogeneous in terms of ‘tightness’ (i.e. the vacancy-unemployment ratio) and that the

degree of heterogeneity (i.e. dispersion of the v-u ratio) has increased in the last decade.

Traditional search and matching models predict that the job filling rate (JFR) depends upon

tightness and that tight markets (high v/u) show lower JFRs. Our very preliminary analysis

linking overall local labor market conditions with firm’s self-reported difficulty of filling

vacancies shows two interesting phenomena: (i) tight labor markets coexisting with low hard-

to-fill vacancies (HTFVs) incidence and (ii) slack labor markets (low v/u) coexisting with high

HTFVs incidence. At first glance, this might seem at odds with the predictions of traditional

macro models, as long as we assume that self-reported HTFVs incidence is an unbiased proxy

of the JFR in a local labor market. It may also represent a first piece of evidence pointing to

other factors mediating the relationship between tightness and the JFR. In the last years little

attention has been given to the processes through which firms come to experience long-term

unfilled or hard-to-fill vacancies, in different local labor markets. This has opened a gap in our

understanding of how local labor demand and supply factors relate to firm-level indicators of

mismatch, once firm heterogeneity and exogenous aggregate economic conditions are controlled

for.

Mariano Mamertino, an Italian citizen, holds a B.Sc. of

Economics and a M.Sc. in Economic and Social Sciences from

Bocconi University. During his studies he also spent two

semesters abroad at Boston University (USA) and University of

Victoria (Canada). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Public

Policy at Central European University, in Budapest, as a Marie

Curie ITN Fellow. Before joining CEU and EDUWORKS, he

worked as a junior research officer in the Research Department

of the International Labour Organization in Geneva. His

previous professional experiences also include working as a

market analyst at GfK in Milan and as a research intern in the Trade Policy Section of the United

Nations ESCAP in Bangkok. During his studies, he also worked as a research assistant at

Bocconi University in Milan.

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Magdalena M. Ulceluse (Central European University): Workers' responsiveness to

labor market shortages: gender, age and ethnicity

Abstract: High and persistent skills mismatch is costly for employers, workers and society at

large. It is estimated that the average incidence of overqualification in a sample of European

economies in 2010 was 10.1 per cent, while underqualification averaged 28.1 per cent. Because

the allocation of workers across jobs is rarely optimal due to labour market failures and imperfect

information, workers will adjust to the new conditions by altering their job-seeking behaviour.

Understanding how they react to the various labor shortages becomes thus an essential stage in

the process of producing sound policies that will reduce labour market inefficiencies.

Magdalena M. Ulceluse is a Phd candidate in Labour

Economics and Policy at the Doctoral School of Political

Science, Public Policy, and International Relations, Central

European University. She finished her B.Sc. in Economics from

the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in

Timisoara, Romania and went on to gain a M. Sc. in Public

Policy and Human Development from the Maastricht Graduate

School of Governance in the Netherlands. She has previously

worked on projects for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

the European Commission, CEDEFOP and ISFOL, among

others.

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Stefano Visintin (University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Institute for Advanced

Labour Studies): A brief overview of Stefano Visintin's research

Abstract: This talk presents (i) my research background and (ii) my current and future

research being developed within the Eduworks project framework. I am an applied economist

with a degree in International Economics and a PhD in Applied Economics. My past research

was focused around the internationalisation processes of services activities. I than moved my

attention toward labour market issues, since I studied the characteristics of some specific

health-related occupations workers. The aspect that brings together these different research

fields is my passion for data analysis which is also at the base of my present and future

research agenda. It revolves around the empirical analysis of different aspects of the labour

demand and supply matching. As examples I present some insights on a recent study on the

skill mismatch the affects the migrant population and a research project focusing on the work

tasks implemented in different occupations. The data source of my present and future research

is the web-survey linked to the WageIndicator web page.

Stefano Visintin is a post-doc Marie Curie Fellow at AIAS,

Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, University of

Amsterdam. Before joining AIAS he had been working as

researcher at IESE Business School and as associate professor at

Nebrija University, both in Madrid. He holds a PhD in Applied

Economics awarded by the Universidad de Alcalá, Spian and a BA

in Economics from the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy. He

is an applied economist who enjoys large dataset analysis and has

a great interested for all tools that make these sort of analysis

possible. In particular, he presently researches the dynamics of the

labour supply and demand matching processes starting from survey

data. In the past he conducted research in international trade and on

the internationalisation processes of services activities.

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13:30 – 15:30 Individual Project Presentations Individual Project presentations

Sofija Pajic (University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam Business School): Leveraging the

potential of job knowledge to fit individuals to jobs: Studies in training

Abstract: The overall objective of this project is to generate support for the widely held but

seldom investigated belief that job knowledge based training contributes to job knowledge

development and therewith to job performance, forging a link between educational institutions

and the labour market. Job knowledge refers to the set of facts, concepts, principles and other

types of information (Dye, Reck & McDaniel, 1993) that have been recognized as crucial in

order to perform successfully in a particular job (Schmidt, Hunter & Outerbridge, 1986; Hunter,

1986). Our prime concern would be to look into the conditions under which job knowledge

based training leads to increase in job knowledge and in consequence, to better job performance.

In line with that, we would investigate if job knowledge training leads not only to job knowledge

acquisition but to its application in organizational context (training transfer). The special focus

would be on contextual factors, namely job and organization related, which either stimulate or

inhibit training transfer. Due to the changing nature of work, growing diversity, complexity and

complicatedness of the tasks that are embedded in one’s job, investigating processes involved

in workplace learning and knowledge development, as well as providing applicative insights for

training customizations becomes important. In order to empirically investigate the process of

assessment and development of job knowledge requested to fit into certain job position, specific

e-learning, ontology based platforms will be applied and evaluated. The research would

encompass several empirical studies, combining both quantitative and qualitative

methodological approaches with special attention being put to the application of big data and

experimental investigation.

Sofija Pajic is a PhD Candidate within the group of Human

Resources Management and Organizational Behaviour in

the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of

Amsterdam. She started her appointment at UvA as a Marie Curie

ITN fellow within EDUWORKS project. She graduated in Work,

Organizational and Personnel psychology at University of

Bologna and University of Coimbra. Before that, she received

degree in psychology from University of Belgrade. Her research

interests are mainly in investigating the potential of job

knowledge for stimulating person-job fit, especially in the area

of training and development.

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Eloisa Federici (University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam Business School): The

Importance of Individual Differences in Job Knowledge and Job Performance: A

Longitudinal Perspective on Training Related Cognitive and Motivational Mechanisms

Abstract: Over the past two decades researchers and practitioners have been stressing the

importance of investigating individual differences as significant predictors of learning and

training outcomes in order to increase organizational competitiveness through the growth of the

knowledge, skills and performance of its workforce (Salas & Cannon-Bowers, 2001). Several

individual’s dispositional characteristics have shown to be closely related to- and predictive for

training effectiveness via the acquisition of job related knowledge and the subsequent transfer

on job performance, for instance: general cognitive ability, self-efficacy, personality traits, and

locus of control, job/career attitudes and goal orientation. The motivation to transfer (i.e.

“trainees’ desire to use the knowledge and skills mastered in the training program on the job”,

Noe, 1986) has been studied extensively across many disciplinary fields by stressing the

importance of factors that might support or hinder it. Recently, however, new trends in the

changing nature of work and work-force composition, have considerably broadened the field,

by stimulating new interest in how motivation and learning in training affect work behaviors,

work attitudes, job performance and career success. The aim of this project is to better

understand when, how and why the job related training and the acquisition of job knowledge are

likely to be effective on the workers’ job performance, thereby providing added value to the

organizations. The adopted research approach fulfills the need to investigate the learning

processes on a micro-level: many years of scientific contributions support the belief that it is

clearly critical to examine individual differences in developing, designing and implementing

any training process or educational system. As Gully and Chen (2009, p.49) mention:

“Individual differences matter and they interact with training features and the broader

environment to affect outcomes. (…) People are complex, and training is made more complex

by virtue of their involvement. Our theories and practices should reflect this reality”.

Eloisa Federici is a PhD Candidate at the Human Resource

Management and Organizational Behavior group of the Faculty

of Economics and Business of the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Her PhD project is part of the broader EU Eduworks Project and

aims to investigate the role of job knowledge in fitting

individuals to jobs, both in training and personnel selection

context. She obtained her Bachelor degree in Communication

and Marketing Psychology and her Master degree in Work and

Organizational Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome,

where she also worked as a trainee in the laboratory of

Psychometry.

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Hannah Berkers (University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam Business School): Big data based

job analysis to meet the demands of the changing workplace

Abstract: Job analysis is placed at the foundation of Eduworks’ aim to improve the match between

individuals, education, and job requirements, because before matching can that place an

understanding of jobs is crucial. This is what job analysis is all about: gaining understanding of

the activities and requirements that comprise a work assignment. With its origins in the Industrial

Revolution, changes in the nature of work have made the underlying assumptions of job analysis

obsolete. Jobs cannot be considered static entities anymore with the observations that individuals

find themselves in constantly evolving jobs and are actively crafting their own jobs. Contemporary

jobs are organized around teamwork and are far from standardized with computerization

emphasizing on performing social and creative tasks in idiosyncratic ways. However, job analysis

has not become redundant. It is critical for many human resource practices and with the rise of

evidence-based management the need for accurate job information is bigger than ever. So far there

have been some answers to the call for change with the developments of strategic job analysis,

work analysis, and competency modelling. These innovations, however, have been criticized for

their less rigorous methods; measuring accuracy instead of inferential quality, using holistic

instead of decomposed ratings, and focusing on less specific and observable job descriptors. A

possibility to address these shortcomings has occurred with the rise of big data. While technology

has made collecting, storing, and maintaining large amounts of data easier and big data offers a

vast amount of untapped rich sources of job data, the job analysis methods have remained

untouched by modern technology. In order to change this, I aim to provide the theoretical

underpinnings and methods for advancements in the field of job analysis with the use of big data.

The design includes four studies: 1) Literature study to create a taxonomy and evaluate the

different job information types in order to provide an appropriate language for job analysis 2)

Empirical study in which big data is applied to job analysis combined with validation studies 3)

Empirical study to assess the language people use to talk about jobs and how this is impacted by

the changing nature of work 4) Empirical study to show how job analysis information can be

applied to bridge the work-education gap.

Hannah Berkers has a degree in Business Studies with a

specialization in Human Resource Management and Organizational

Behavior from the University of Amsterdam. Here, she also

received her degree in Economics and Business. She is currently

working at the Amsterdam Business School as a PhD candidate and

is part of the OntoTech project of the Center of Job Knowledge

Research. She has done research in knowledge sharing and

leadership in project-based organizations and is now focusing on

job analysis and the role of job knowledge in this process. She is

interested in linking these results to the educational system in order

to ensure a better fit with the job market. Before working as a PhD

candidate, she was a lecturer at the Nyenrode New Business School and the University of

Amsterdam.

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Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez (Trinity College Dublin): Identification and Mapping of the

Lifelong Learning Transitions of Mobile Learners: from Trajectories to Pathways

Abstract: Lifelong learning can be defined as an individual's voluntary, self-directed and

unrestricted pursuit of knowledge throughout different contexts. Nowadays, people carry mobile

devices with them most of the time and learning can happen at hours and in places that were not

conceived for this aim. Learners are now able to set up their own learning environments and

embed them into their day-to-day activities. This paradigm of almost ubiquitous learning

presents both opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, learners outside the classroom can

take full advantage of a far wider range of digital resources and ways of learning. On the other

hand, without the structure provided in traditional learning settings, it becomes increasingly

difficult to understand the learners trajectories and to ensure that their educational journeys are

properly supported. In this talk, I will present our initial plan for identifying the learning

transitions that occur when mobile learners travel along and across different dimensions of

mobility and for understanding how these transitions are supported by technology.

Claudia Orellana-Rodriguez is a Ph.D. student at Trinity College

Dublin. She holds a M.Sc. in Internet Technologies and Information

Systems from the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. She has

worked as a research assistant at the L3S Research Center in

Hannover, where she was involved in the European projects

LivingKnowledge, Cubrik, and EUMSSI. Her research interests

include technology-enhanced learning (TEL), social media

analytics, sentiment analysis, opinion mining and information and

multimedia retrieval.

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Sean Dowling (Trinity College Dublin): An analysis of lifelong learning transitions of

mobile learners: implications and principles for the design of technologies to support and

facilitate lifelong learning transitions

Abstract: Mobility and transition are key features in our everyday lives. At a macro level, we

transition between education and work, single to married status and from work to retirement. At

the micro level, transitions are less well-defined: we are transitioning between home, work and

other places, social groups, electronic device usage and activities. But at each point of transition,

there are new opportunities for learning (Evans, Schoon & Weale, 2013). In the case of macro-

level transitions, this learning is easier to track; however, at the micro level, tracking these

lifelong learning opportunities is more difficult. This research project aims to collect and analyse

data from technology usage of lifelong learners at the micro level, to identify patterns of lifelong

learning and to develop a set of lifelong learning transition metrics based on these patterns. It is

hoped that these metrics can then be used to inform the development of technologies and

applications that support transitions in lifelong learning.

Sean Dowling has worked as both an educational technologist

and EFL teacher over the last 15 years in Asia and the Middle

East. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from University

College Dublin and an M.A. in TESOL from the Institute of

Education, London. Sean has published widely in both EFL and

educational technology publications over the last few years and

is currently the series editor for the HCT Educational Technology

Series and a member of the editorial board of the UAE Journal of

Educational Technology. His main research interests are mobile

learning and lifelong learning.

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16:00 – 18:00 Individual Project presentations

Soledad Castellano-Vizcaino (Trinity College Dublin): Identifying patterns of mobile

learners

Abstract: The incorporation of mobile technologies has fostered the flexibility and the nomadic

characteristic of human beings, enabling people to access information anytime and anywhere.

Learning has been influenced by this phenomenon. Mobile learning places the learner as the

target and recognizes students’ mobility along different dimensions. Moreover, mobile learning

enhances the value of informal and self-directed learning as it is recognized mainly outside the

classroom and when students have no intention for learning. However these experiences are still

connected to formal or non-formal settings, consolidating learning experiences across different

settings and connecting different dimensions of mobility. This situation incorporates new

learning patterns among students considered lifelong learners. This research project attempts to

analyze those patterns in order to provide appropriate learning contexts for lifelong learners in

the mobile age.

Soledad Castellano-Vizcaino is a PhD Student at Trinity

College Dublin. She holds a M.Ed. in eLearning and a M.A. in

Leadership and Management in Education from the University

of Seville, Spain. During her studies, she has participated in a

number of research projects as a research assistant. She also

worked as a lecturer at the University of Seville. Her research

interests include technology-enhanced learning, lifelong

learning, mobile learning, innovation in learning.

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Sisay Chala (University of Siegen): Developing a Web-based Multi-country Occupational

Information System

Abstract: Emergence of Information Technology resulted in generation and storage of huge

amount of data every second. This overwhelmingly large data contains hidden knowledge that

can be useful for improving organizational strategies. Thus, the need for big data analytics will

be of paramount importance. Applications of knowledge discovery techniques allow us to

systematically analyze the data and find out hidden relationships among the data.

This research which is within the framework of the EDUWORKS project (http://www.uni-

siegen.de/ws/projekte/eduworks/index.html?lang=en) has the following broad objectives:

investigating the user interface related improvements, investigating data storage related

improvements, investigating data and execution related improvements

In the envisaged system, data shall be imported from the database of the industry partners of

EDUWORKS project in such a way that it suits the implementation of the data warehouse. The

data warehouse is the basis for the algorithms to implement extraction of knowledge. The

outcomes will be shown on the dashboard and used by researchers and partners.

Sisay Adugna Chala is a PhD candidate in the Institute of KBS

& KM, University of Siegen. He holds M.Sc. in Information

Science and B.Sc. in Information Systems from Addis Ababa

University, Ethiopia. Before joining the EDUWORKS, he

worked as a lecturer, ICT Director and System Administrator in

Haramaya University, Ethiopia. He also worked on research on

Statistical Machine Translation at German Research Center for

Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His research interests include

machine translation, knowledge management, data mining,

information retrieval, and application of ICT in various areas.

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Vladimer Kobayashi (University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam Business School):

Improving education outcomes through integration of labour market information.

Abstract: The primary objective of this study is to explore dimensions and relationships in

educational-labour market linkage through a data-driven approach. The study will start by

determining educational dimensions that predict education outcomes. It will also examine labour

market aspects such as analyses of jobs, job demands, and employment information. Finally we

hope to link the two analyses (education and labour market) to influence education outcomes

that would increase job-person fit and influence the preference of individuals to work

continuously. A way by which we can influence education outcomes is to improve curricular of

higher education and to create tools that will further enhance the person employability and desire

to be employed.

Vladimer Kobayashi has a degree in Applied Mathematics (major

in operations research) and Data Mining. He has done research in the

application of multivariate statistics, signal processing, and

development and design of kernel functions. He received training in

database management and took courses in advanced database and

data warehousing. His main strength is in statistical modeling and

data mining and complex system modeling

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Truong Huong May (Corvinno Technology Transfer Center): Learning analytics

Abstract: This presentation will provide an overview of my research project which focuses on

learning styles of students in Higher Education. The project aims to develop a real time system

to track students’ learning styles through their online learning behaviour. This will be followed

by a study on the complex relationship between learning styles, learning supports and learning

outcomes. Based on the results, meaningful recommendations can be made to a wide range

stakeholders of the education system. The presentation includes an introduction to learning

styles research area, the motivation behind the project, the problem statement as well as an

update on my current research progress.

Truong Huong May received her BSc in Business and

Management from Aston University, United Kingdom, in 2012.

After her graduation from The University of Edinburgh with a

Distinction in MSc Operational Research in 2013, she joined the

PhD training programme at Corvinno Technology Transfer Center,

Eduworks ITN. From 2008 to 2013, she has also participated in

several research projects as Analyst at Socio-Economic

Development Centre, Vietnam. Currently, she is working on the

thesis: "Employment Data Management by Matching Job roles to

Educational Competencies", which looks into the multidimensional

analysis of the labour markets' demand compared to the supply

provided by different levels of educational/training services.

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Christian Weber (Corvinno Technology Transfer Center): New visions on adaptive

testing for a human centred education

Abstract: Education is build upon testing. Only if a person knows his level and gaps of

knowledge in education domains, learning could become efficient. Modern computerized tests

become increasingly adaptive and efficient, yet they are centering solely on to performance of

the learner. The next step of an adaptive testing is to connect further to the personal background

of the learner and the learning domain. Here the learner's knowledge and skills are captured in

a process of exploration, using the test feedback to navigate on the educational domains and

gradually completing a picture of the learner's profile, thus putting the human into the center of

his education.

Christian Weber is a PhD student at the Corvinno Technology

Transfer Center. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science in Electrical

Engineering Application and graduated from the University of

Siegen, Germany, where he worked for the Institute of Knowledge

Based Systems and Knowledge Management. He contributed to

industry and research cooperations on national and European level

and worked for the IT branch of the Elmos Semiconductor AG. He

is a member of the organizing committee of the International

Conference on Integrated Systems, Design and Technology.

19:00 – Guided Tour in Sopron

After the long day we will take a guided tour in Sopron. After the

tour we are going to have dinner in one of the most famous

restaurant in the city center of Sopron, Jégverem.

Sopron has a long history with some walls and foundations dating

back to Roman times. A wealth of Medieval, Renaissance and

Baroque buildings lend Sopron its charming, small-town look. The

main square with the Fire Watch Tower dating back to the 12th

century is definitely worth a visit. The city received its nickname as

‘The most loyal town’ when after WWI the locals voted for Sopron

to remain a part of Hungary instead of becoming a part of Austria.

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15th July, Tuesday

9:00 – 12:30 Workshop on research philosophy and ethics

Research ethics has become its own domain within the broader field of Ethics; some ethicists

focusing on research ethics specifically. UNESCO and other international organisations have

identified a set of ethical principles to follow in all research involving human participants.

International law has established ‘charters’ – specifically the Declaration of Helsinki – that most

countries have signed up to. Most research ethics guidance has developed from medical ethics.

This session will be workshop style, participants will consider what being ethical really means

and explore what pragmatically happens in implementation of ethics from what has been

observed across European states and organisations. Both the latter activities will contribute to

an understanding of contexts/environments in which research ethics actually operate. Touching

on international relations between organisations when trying to adhere to the same charter.

While most researchers see applying for ethical approval for their research as an extra burden

this course will highlight the value of doing so. Key issues under each of the guiding principles

will be presented and discussed.

Dr. Peter Cudd is a Senior Researcher in the School of Health and

Related Research, University of Sheffield. He is multi-

disciplinarian. After completing his doctorate in high frequency

Electrical Engineering he has more than 20 years research

experience in health and related research – particularly relating to

the user specification and evaluation of electronic technologies in

health and social care contexts. His research in this field has for

most of that time taken into account the service context – i.e.

expertise, roles and behaviours of the people (staff) who typically

would have to deliver the new services using the innovations. He

has experience of working within the NHS and University settings.

He supervises Doctoral and Masters degree students.

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13:30 – 18:30 What is being a PhD student? Managing emotions and

expectations.

This workshop will focus on the expectations and challenges PG study presents for students.

Through experiential and didactic teaching, participants will be helped to reflect on their current

wellbeing and identify any personal/academic/ mental health challenges they may have.

The roles of supervisor and supervisee will be explored and ways to maximise this relationship

will be developed.

The workshop will also offer some skills eg Stress management and resources-to support the

students personally through their academic experience.

Yvonne Tone‘s professional background is Nursing. She is an

accredited cognitive behavioural psychotherapist/counsellor with

extensive experience in mental health and wellbeing. She is employed

as a Student Counsellor with the Student Counselling Service Trinity

College Dublin since 2007. She completed her MSc in Cognitive

Behavioural Psychotherapy from Trinity College Dublin in 1999. She

enjoys great satisfaction from working with both undergraduate and

post graduate students of TCD, seeking support through the service.

She is also involved in lecturing and supervision of trainees on the

CBT Diploma course TCD and is an accredited practitioner with the

Irish Council for Psychotherapy and BABCP.She is co-author of

‘Overcoming Obstacles in CBT’ (2012) Chigwedere, Tone,

Fitzmaurice, Mc Donough -Sage publication

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19:00 - Wine tasting

In the evening we will take part in a wine tasting and a dinner in

Gangl winery, one of the most beautiful cellar of the region. 8 of

the regions’ best wines will be served.

Sopron is one of the most ancient wine regions of Hungary, lies

on the foothills of the Alps in the north-western corner of the

country. For centuries, the city of Sopron itself enjoyed thriving

trade and, surprisingly, until the 18th century Sopron was

reputedly the largest wine trading center in central Europe.

Sopron is a fine wine region, where the Kékfrankos grape is most

famous. Although essentially a red wine region, Sopron does also

produce some interesting whites.

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16th July, Wednesday

9:00 – 18:30 Short Academic Writing course on “Writing for Publication”

Aim: This short, 6-session course, intends to visit the research article, considering

issues before writing and how these elements are then reflected in actual

published research articles in your discipline. You will be asked to apply these

considerations to your own proposed thesis and research articles.

Materials: You need to select a journal article of your choice that you consider to be well

written and which is relevant to your research. You will also need to bring the

proposal you were asked to write for this course to the sessions as we will reflect

on the issues discussed in the journal articles and then in your own proposal.

Outcome: You will be more aware of the expectations that research publication demands

and will be able to identify more precisely how writers approach and deal with

those expectations.

1 Directing Your Research:

We look at issues concerned with ‘Contrastive Rhetoric’, how other languages and English

approaches to academic writing differ, the characteristics of 'Good' research and what

readers are looking for in journal articles. We will discuss why papers are rejected by

journals, considerations in targeting a journal etc. and looking for what journals want as

expressed in journal guidelines to writers etc.

2. Introductions to Research Articles:

We analyse the structure/s of the introduction to journal articles, discuss readers'

expectations, and look at how contribution and originality is identified, and justified and

what that involves, and how disciplines differ within their approaches to ‘Introductions’.

3. Literature Reviews:

We discuss the effective use of sources, and why we use them, how to make one’s own

opinion heard, reviewing the literature and its purposes, differences between disciplines

and issues involved with citing and referencing.

4. Macro and Micro-level Argumentation:

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We discuss argumentation, structuring a paper or thesis, presenting and highlighting ones

argument within a paper, metadiscourse – and the importance of making the text reader

friendly

Robin Bellers has been teaching academic writing for graduate

students at CEU since 1999, and also taught undergraduate

academic writing at Corvinus University, Budapest, until 2013.

Prior to coming to Budapest, he lived and worked in Spain,

Portugal, Hong Kong, and Colombia. At CEU Robin works with

the Public Policy, Legal Studies, IRES and History departments.

He has also been working with Legal Studies PhD students.

Robin has delivered outreach courses on academic writing for

masters, PhD students or professional researchers at various

institutions such as the Hungarian Central Bank, and Hungarian

Academy of Sciences and in other countries such as Lithuania, Estonia, Holland, and training for

junior faculty and PhD students in Russia and FR of Yugoslavia. His interests, apart from academic

writing, is teacher training. His hobbies include sports and games of all types but he now has two

young children and that keeps him busy!

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17th July, Thursday

9:00 – 12:30 Short Academic Writing course on “Writing for Publication”

5. Concluding:

We consider the characteristics of the conclusion, structuring it, writing abstracts (journal

article and conference abstracts), and dealing with other issues that arose during the 5

sessions thus far.

6. Peer Review:

This session will give you the chance to become clearer about your peers’ proposed

research and how this is presented in their proposal. This session gives you the chance to

discuss the strengths and weaknesses in others’ work, and to talk about how you plan to

overcome any concerns identified by your readers with regard to your proposed research.

14:00 – Trip around Sopron

After the lunch a bus will take us to see some famous location of the region. We will visit Pan-

European Picnic monument, take a tour in Eszterházy Palace and have a dinner at Castle Szidónia.

The Pan-European Picnic was a peace demonstration held on the

Austrian-Hungarian border near the town of Sopron, Hungary on

19 August 1989, an important event during the Revolutions of

1989 that led to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the reunification

of Germany. It was organised by the Pan-European Union and the

Hungarian opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum under the

protection of Otto von Habsburg and Imre Pozsgay.

Eszterházy palace in the centre of Fertőd. The magnificent

Baroque castle, also known as 'the Hungarian Versailles', was

built by Miklós Eszterházy the 'Glorious' between 1763 and 1766.

He and his high-spirited wife, Countess Margit Cziráky, rebuilt

the 20-room hunting lodge of József Eszterházy, transforming it

into the family's favourite residence. This was the golden age of

the building, between 1768 and 1790. After the owner’s death, it

lost its prominent role and it perished during World War II.

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The visitors of Castle Hotel Szidónia may encounter a mysterious

world from a period, which is slowly fading into oblivion. In the

"corners" of romantic Castle Hotel in Röjtökmuzsaj you can feel

the atmosphere of old times, but you can also take full advantage

of the comfort of today. At the present, we offer our honored

visitors, cleansing of body, spirit and soul, refreshing, divine food

and a special aura of peace and pampering.

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18th July, Friday

9:00 – 10:30 Author Seminar by Elsevier

Good research deserves to be published, to be widely read, and to be

recognized by fellow researchers and the community. The current research

(and funding) climate makes it absolutely necessary that you are successful

in being published: "Publish or Perish". This raises the question, how can

you achieve that goal? Success essentially depends on three components:

1) The ability to determine the best possible publication strategy for your

research findings.

2) The best possible way to write your article.

3) The most effective interaction with editors. Key to success in this context is your ability to put

yourself in the position of readers, reviewers and editors.

Important considerations in journal selection are a realistic assessment of the quality of the

research and of the audience you intend to reach.

The art of manuscript writing is not just applying one "golden tip". It is essentially "telling your

story" to your readers in an engaging way, and avoiding common mistakes and deficiencies

including poor language. Avoidable mistakes can lead to unnecessary rejection of your

manuscript.

Finally, it is your open, non-defensive attitude towards the editors and the reviewer comments,

that will not only increase the likelihood of getting your manuscript accepted for publication, it is

also likely that your published paper has improved thanks to their comments.

By consistently applying these principles, and by understanding the publishing process and the

editors' and reviewers' expectations, you are likely to become a more successful author.

Elsevier invites you to an Author Seminar at the summer school in Sopron, Hungary. At the end

of this Author Seminar you should master the essentials of good manuscript writing.

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11:00 – 12:30 What are the key factors of quality publications? (panel

discussion)

Discussion with Eduworks Supervisors and the speaker from Elsevier about publishing

Lei Zhang is academic publisher in Elsevier and responsible for sixteen

journals in the field of Economics and Finance. Lei holds a PhD degree

in Development Economics from Wageningen University, The

Netherlands.

13:30 – 18:30 Researcher Dashboard Workshop

The EDUWORKS project aims to provide insight into person-education-job matching in the

labour market at different levels of aggregation. The project is aimed at studying three levels, i.e.

micro, meso and macro, and applying a complex data repository with an intelligent interface

entitled as EDUWORKS Researcher Dashboard (EDUBOARD). The dashboard allows us to

interconnect the levels and herewith facilitate collaboration among the various researchers, using

a multidisciplinary and cross-linikng approach of HRM, Lifelong Learning, Sociology of Work

and Occupations, Labour Economics and Knowledge Management. The EDUWORKS project

provides relevant information on empirically grounded matching processes in the labour market,

i.e. person, organization and nation related perspectives. EDUBOARD, therefore, is an integral

part of the research dealing with data warehousing, integration, reporting, and analysis. The

primary objectives of the EDUBOARD are:

Providing access or interfaces (linking) to large-scale data provided by the partners,

associated partners and other organizations interested in EDUWORKS.

Integration of the data sources corresponding to the three levels of study to provide insight

in the job-person-education matching.

Offering data in a (unified) format that data analytical software can understand and deploy

it with a potential for applying knowledge discovery methods.

Deploying emerging technologies for data-warehousing and analysis to sustain the

usability of the end-product in a long run.

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EDUBOARD is a central project in the frame of the EDUWORKS, which on the one hand supports

all fellows and on the other demands the contribution of all partners in technical and end-user

perspectives.

In the summer school, we commence the first step for „Brainstorming” and „Requirements

elicitation”.

The schematic overview of the system in Figure 1 shows that the system is divided into three layers

– Data Layer, Logic Layer and User Interface Layer – each of which interacts with eachother. The

system will be developed through the continuous interaction between the the end-users and the

project team, using the best infrastructure available and within the framework of the protocols.

Taking into account the multidisciplinary approach of the project, we need to discuss three major

issues for initiating the EDUBOARD, as follows:

End-user perspectives on data (existing and potential data sources)

o What is „data” in each discipline of EDUWORKS? i.e., what is the unit of

analysis and where are the variables.

o Types of data (structured or unstructured)

o Specification of the existing data-sources

Process to gather data

o How to initiate the process?

o What are the legal issues and ethical concerns? What procedures need to be

implemented to ensure strict legal and ethical compliance (in terms of access

right, privacy, need for replication and so forth)

o What are the technological and non-technological risks?

Data suppliers

Language issue.

Underlying technology

End-user perspective on researcher dashboard

o How do you picture a kind of interface for data-analysis?

o How to deal with the accumulated data? (i.e. Data-analysis in micro, meso and

macro levels.)

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Agenda of the workshop Time Subject Responsible/ Contributors

13:30-14:00 Introduction to EDUBOARD

Concept

Objectives

USIEGEN

14:00-14:30 Current state of Code Book UvA + USIEGEN

14:30-15:00 Break

15:00-17:00 End-user perspectives on EDUBOARD (From code

book to data capture) What are the important features?

What are the examples of data?

USIEGEN (Roundtable - each partner has 10-15 minutes )

UvA – AIAS

UvA – ABS

CEU

US

TCD

Corvinno

17:00-18:00 Review and validation of the work-plan

Project management

Work-break down

USIEGEN

Fazel Ansari is a researcher and member of the Institute of Knowledge Based

Systems and Knowledge Management (KBS & KM) at the University of

Siegen, Germany. Fazel received the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering

from the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, and the

M.Sc. degree in mechatronics from the Department of Electrical Engineering

and Computer Science, University of Siegen. His research interest is on

applied knowledge management with a focus on meta-analysis of knowledge

assets and evidence-based reasoning, particularly in maintenance and quality

engineering. Fazel received the graduate scholar award from the 12th

International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change Management

(Chicago, USA, 2012), for his article on developing a mathematical meta-

analysis of maintenance's knowledge assets. He holds experience in set-up and management of

European projects such as Med-Assess (www.med-assess.eu) and ComProFITS

(www.comprofits.eu). Fazel is the member of local project management team of Eduworks at the

University of Siegen.

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Sisay Adugna Chala is a PhD candidate in the Institute of KBS &

KM, University of Siegen. He holds M.Sc. in Information Science

and B.Sc. in Information Systems from Addis Ababa University,

Ethiopia. Before joining the EDUWORKS, he worked as a

lecturer, ICT Director and System Administrator in Haramaya

University, Ethiopia. He also worked on research on Statistical

Machine Translation at German Research Center for Artificial

Intelligence (DFKI). His research interests include machine

translation, knowledge management, data mining, information

retrieval, and application of ICT in various areas.

19:00 – Farewell dinner - Pig roasting

Since a lot of us is leaving next day, we will hold the farewell

dinner in Friday evening. On this occasion we go restaurant Tercia

Hubertus, where they are going to roast a pig for us.

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19th July, Saturday

9:00 – 18:30 Communication skills training

This one day course is specifically designed for those with high levels of information who want to

successfully present their methodology and concepts to non-academic and /or commercial

audiences. Often great ideas can not be communicated because of poor content structure, lack of

confidence and weak vocal delivery. Packed with techniques and practical exercises based on the

very latest developments from Psychology of Communication, Vocal Performance, Linguistic &

Emotional Intelligence and Successful Influence Strategies, this training ensures that the presenter

has all the tools required to deliver their message with credibility, persuasiveness and impact.

Instructions for Participants 1. Please ensure that you wear comfortable clothes. This is an interactive session which will

involve being taught some breathing, relaxation, voice and physical exercises. Please wear flat

shoes.

2. Please think about, and expect to talk about, something that interests you that is not connected

to your work. In other words something that you enjoy doing - e.g. cinema, sport, hobbies, cooking,

travelling, painting, charity volunteer, hiking, …etc This is not going to be a ‘presentation', it is

just something to think about and talk about.

3. Relating to your research / development of product, in your opinion what is the one most

impressive benefit that your research / product will provide. Please be able to express this in less

than 8 words.

Poll Moussoulides is one of Europe’s most sought after communication

coaches. He has trained thousands around the world including Senior

Executives in Global Organisation, several Oscar winning Actors, Legal

Teams, Government Ministers, National Team Sports Coaches, TV

Presenters, Entrepreneurs, Thought Leaders and Innovators to get results

whenever they speak.