To build the DocEnhance network and online platform, develop and integrate transferable skills training into PhD education in Europe, and increase interaction with and exposure to the non-academic sector, DocEnhance will be following specific objectives (SOs):
- – Build a sustainable network of academic and non-academic actors
- Our co-creation approach will actively involve actors in all parts of the project, increase knowledge transfer and cooperation
- – Address future skills needs of researchers through
- a career-oriented curriculum in co-creation with stakeholders
- a good practice recommendation for integrating the curriculum into existing PhD programmes
- – Improve the assessment of PhD graduate career paths and alumni networking with
- a PhD graduate career-tracking survey
- a good practice recommendation for implementing the survey
- – Ensure the transferable skills courses’ visibility and development by
- Developing a good practice recommendation for the courses’ accreditation, documentation and evaluation
- – Increase mobility, interdisciplinarity and exposure to the non-academic sector in PhD candidate training by
- Developing novel courses
- Implementing pilot courses among partner universities and their non-academic networks
- Developing a good practice recommendation for involving the non-academic sector in PhD education
- – Establish a dynamic, adaptable and sustainable online platform, the DocEnhance Platform,
- for building and maintaining the network and community,
- for sharing of the developed DocEnhance OERs
- – Ensure active use of the developed resources beyond the project lifetime
- By providing capacity building, dissemination and exploitation of outcomes for stakeholders outside the consortium