Untitled AIMS OF THE FIDIS DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

Aims of the FIDIS Doctoral Consortium

Training for PhD students within FIDIS is conducted through structured and timely events held at or in association with an academic institution within the FIDIS network. The specific aim of the FIDIS Doctoral Consortium is to establish an interdisciplinary network of PhD-students through topical events. 

Currently FIDIS has some 41 registered PhD students associated with the network, representing 10 of the 24 partner institutions. The database of all active PhD students is periodically updated, and emphasis is put on encouraging those members of less active institutions to take part in the events. There is some clear bias towards technical institutions in the way that these students are distributed across the network, and as such a key part of the organisational aspects of these events is to ensure that a fair and reasonable representation of disciplines is achieved at each event.  

The core FIDIS Doctoral Consortium event objectives are as follows: 

1. Encourage sustainable FIDIS integration 

2. Hold discussion and training around a core FIDIS topic 

3. Link event with FIDIS work, communicated via finished, active or proposed deliverables 

4. Maintain academic quality