FIT FOR INDUSTRY?
Are you fit for Industry, after completing your PhD program? Do you feel confident on your developed competencies? Want to test if you’re fit?
Participate in a cross cultural, one week, sponsored/fully paid* workshop for doctoral candidates, to be held in Lyon, in February. Through a multi-exercise approach, together with other doctoral candidates from several European countries, you will experience an enlightening assessment to test whether you’re fit, focus on competences you need to succeed in the European Industry and learn more about the different possible industrial career paths.
Organized by: INSA Lyon, Politécnico di Torino, Loughborough University, Trinity College Dublin, TU Delft, IRWTH AACHEN, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, University of Aalborg + Infineon, Hilti Corporation
What’s in it for you?
Personal Development • Better Assessment of employability • Improved Awareness • Valuable Networking
- Gain an insight into industrial career paths and required competencies
- Discover industry-relevant competencies and align them with your academic and personal achievements
- Learn how to perform in industry with key skills such as strategic thinking, leadership and audience-engaging communication
- Assess your employability for industry
- Broaden your horizon with a variety of challenging exercises, case studies, lectures and valuable feedback
- Connect, network and share your experiences with PhD peers from several other European countries
Who is eligible for the Workshop?
- Second year Doctoral candidates registered at FEUP
- Complete fluency in English
- Either proven industrial experience and/or interest in industry as a career (highly desirable)
- International exposure (highly desirable)
- Additional non-academic extra-curricular activities would also be a plus
How to aplly?
Send an email until September 30 (Wednesday), applying for this opportunity, to lea@fe.up.pt with the following information:
- Complete name
- Student number at FEUP
- Doctoral Program at FEUP
- Letter of motivation, explaining why you are applying for this opportunity and why you should be the one to get it
- CV
- Recommendation letter by your supervisor
- Documents attesting international exposure (optional)
- Documents attesting industrial experience (optional)
* sponsored by project PEP-UP, reference: 014-1-FR01-KA203-008520, ERASMUS+
Group pictures of the PhD candidates that represented FEUP in the 2 editions of the international course ‘Fit for Industry?’.
On the left: 1st edition of the course held in Lyon, France. 1-5th of February 2016
On the right: 2nd edition of the course held in Torino, Italy.5-10th of February 2017