Training and Transfer of Knowledge

The network has developed a dedicated training program that combines local specialist training with network-wide, interdisciplinary and intersectoral training and transfer of knowledge activities and education in relevant complementary skills. Training and ToK activities are adapted to the targeted researchers, i.e. Ph.D. students and post-docs, to ensure optimal, stage-specific training by individual career development plans and by assignment of specific tasks to researchers corresponding to their current training level. The training program addresses important and timely training/ToK needs by overcoming fragmentation, integrating different disciplines and intersectoral training.

Training objectives are:

to impart an interdisciplinary and intersectoral scientific and methodological education
to acquire relevant complementary skills
to guide the personal and professional career development (mentoring)
to provide a training program that is adapted to the targeted researchers (postgraduates/experienced researchers)
to foster mobility (across disciplines/sector/nations) to increase quantity and quality of training
to advise on multiple career options in R&D across disciplines, sectors & nations

Transfer of Knowledge (ToK) objectives are:

to transfer knowledge/technological advances between teams to foster long-term collaborations, industry-academia cooperation, innovation & exploitation of results
to increase scientific and methodological skills of researchers
to promote mobility (interdisciplinary, intersectoral, transnational)
to enhance distribution of knowledge between nations and regions to structure the European Research Area
to pass on expertise by participation of experienced researchers in training of Ph.D. students
to involve researchers in the interdisciplinary nature of the joint project