SECONDMENTS

Since the group of ITN Fellows wasn’t originally a community, one of the goals of the Project is building it into one. By developing different workshops and training courses, the ESR’s have been able to better know each other and their topics.

But those work meetings are not enough when considering community; some kind of daily coexistence was needed. Accordingly, the PIMIC project proposed “secondments”: a period of time reserved for the students to stay in the same city, study at the same libraries, attend the same conferences and discuss the same books.

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TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Since the group of ITN Fellows wasn’t originally a community, one of the goals of the Project is building it into one. By developing different workshops and training courses, the ESR’s have been able to better know each other and their topics.

But those work meetings are not enough when considering community; some kind of daily coexistence was needed. Accordingly, the PIMIC project proposed “secondments”: a period of time reserved for the students to stay in the same city, study at the same libraries, attend the same conferences and discuss the same books.

PIMIC Project aims to create a new generation of PhD fellows, qualified to develop their scholarly work from groundbreaking perspectives and by means of a comparative approach, but also equipped to respond to new social, political and cultural challenges. PIMIC PhD’s will be able to communicate their results to a wide array of audiences.

How to do that:

By insisting on a comparative element within the individual research topics.
By developing ideas within a collaborative as well as comparative scheme.
By emphasizing communication, integrating work with Private Sector partners.

Therefore, training is essential, and the quality of the programme is consequently the main concern of the project. On the one hand, the coordination of a wide-range of scholarly works at pre and post-doctoral level articulates a common research programme. On the other hand, PIMIC assures the best possible academic supervision and scholarly training in both their host institution and through the network of scholars provided. In addition, PIMIC project has developed the most innovative network training for both Early Stage Researchers (ESR) and Experienced Researchers (ER) by using multidisciplinary and intersectional techniques. Network training program is articulated trough a programme of training workshops and secondments.