Career in Research for PhD Candidates 

(PhD-CaRe)

The implementation of the ‘Severo Ochoa’ Programme for centres of excellence included the commitment to improve the career development of PhD researchers. For this purpose we created the Training Committee in 2014. In the last ten years, we assisted the CNB Directive board in the design, implementation and follow up of career development programmes. Also, its members serve as first-line contact persons for PhD students who need assistance in solving administrative or academic problems related with their PhD training at the CNB.

Our PhD training programme is fully established. The PhD researchers and Training Committees organise an annual programme of events to promote career development.

In our effort to improve the excellence of the PhD Training Program, we have recently implemented the Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) at the CNB, based on the Salzburg Principles. This tool is established in internationally recognised research institutes, and has two main goals:

(i) provide a complete individual quality assessment of PhD researchers for their professional growth and thesis achievements and

(ii) help to detect earlier conflicts and problems that otherwise might truncate the thesis success and satisfaction of PhD researchers and supervisors.

Programme for 2024-25

Welcome events

31st October 2024, 6th March 2025

Workshops

How to plan, design and present your results: 20th and 25/26/27 February 2025

Wellbeing at work: 3rd and 17th March 2025

How to Write a Scientific Article 10 and 24th April 2025

Scientific Workshop for PhD Students: 2nd June 2025