Workshop: Research Leadership Training – how to improve your career opportunities

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This training is for young researchers (PhD student or Postdocs). It is personal skill development. You will understand which smart activities you can do so that your career grows. Yes, you can influence the opportunities to come.

Position for next career step

At the workshop there are training topics introduced by Mikael Syväjärvi. He will also share experiences so you can understand what mistakes he made and learned from.

1. Reach out. Communication and how to present yourself in the research community.

Communicate to make yourself visble

2. Interact. Be proactive to build network by inviting and organizing. Mikael will share how.

Your network will make you grow

3. Take lead. Invite others, do not be passive and wait for being invited.

Leaders grow by taking lead

Other essential aspects include:

– Impact: the importance in research projects and career. You know it. But are you doing it?

– The long-term values by: building your partnership with shared goals and values among partners, have complementary skills and expertise, focus on open communication and trust-building. How to build to come to consortium and realistic proposals.

– Aspects how to build your research community and profile yourself. Yes, you can do it. We will share the ways to do this.

– Present the impact with realistic motivation. Face it. SDG motivations are general. Describe how YOU will do with YOUR results. Impact in projects proposals will be decisive.

– Why you must consider the IP or risk to lose the impact. Why do research is you lose the control of knowledge? Position for the new Data Act.

– Shared data for research to business. How to make business without being an entrepreneur. New business models for research to market.

Workshop fee: 150 EUR.

Want to have this as skill development at you organization or project?

This can also be given to a group (training in project or as one day workshop). We can tailor content to suit you organizations interest. Contact us to discuss best option for you.