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Scientific project planning
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3780-19-00-02 
Enrollment deadline: 15/08/2019
Date and time12.09.2019, at: 09:00 - 13.09.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
Course fee2,280.00 kr.
ECTS credits1.50
Contact personMia Dabelsteen    E-mail address: mia.dabelsteen@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.

The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Familiarise himself/herself with the most important project management methods and instruments: Essentials for surviving the doctorate.

Content
Learn project management methods and skills in order to improve the planning and structuring of your research for your PhD and strengthen your personal development and career advancement.

Proven project management tools pave the way for the professional design and planning of projects, for competent guiding of their implementation and for their successful completion. With the help of these tools even difficult steps in the project journey can be safely navigated.

During the workshop the participants familiarise themselves with the most important project management methods and instruments. The following topics are at the core of the workshop:

Essentials for surviving the doctorate
• Basics of project management: From design to completion of a project
• Taking ownership of your PhD and your projects: Clarification of goals and roles
• How to handle the unforeseen: Strategies for dealing with risks and chances
• Stakeholder analysis: Where do I find support for my project?
• Communication is key even in science: Power of persuasion and assertiveness
• Lone ranger? Interaction with colleagues and scientific community
• Self-management: Tips and tricks which really work
• Personal development and career advancement: What do I have to focus on?
• Scientific project planning and management: My next steps

Participants
The course is aimed at PhD students who have started their PhD within the previous 6 months.

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

All graduate programmes

Language
English

Form
Lectures, group work, discussions, exercises.

Teachers
Dr. Simon Golin, Berlin [Germany], heads the consultancy company golin wissenschaftsmanagement. For more than 25 years now he has been involved with not-for-profit management – with a focus on science, education and the foundation sector. Amongst other things, he has been managing director of the “Deutscher Studienpreis” at the Körber foundation, secretary general of the German National Ethics Council and secretary general of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.

Dates
12 September 2019 9.00-17:00 – 13 September 9.00-16.00.

Course location
Panum, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen N, Building 21, second floor, room 26 (21.2.26) - see the map of Panum (https://healthsciences.ku.dk/contact/find-us/panum/).

Registration
Please register before 15 August 2019.

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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