9 th International Fulbright Conference

1. 9th International Fulbright Conference Education for the New Age: Tradition, Reform, Innovation 6-8 August, 2010 Bansko, Bulgaria

2. Doctoral Training in Core Research and Transferable Skills – a Program for One Profession – Many Choices Fulbright Conference: "Education for the New Age: Tradition, Reform, Innovation” 6-8 August, 2010 , Bansko, Bulgaria Centre for Science Studies and History of Science Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

3. Europe 2020 – a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth • Main purpose: More jobs and better lives • The EU strategy for : • Development KBE and Innovation • United labour market (for KBE) • European Research Area

4. Five areas development that EU determinates as key measurable for the success • The employment • Research and innovation • Climate change and energy • Education • Combating poverty Need of resources: Human resources Financial resources…

5. Main Objective for Education • To improve the quality of education: • Reforms of the educational system – secondary, university and PhD ; • Doctoral degree - PhD – educational and scientific degree;

6. What is changing? • Main approach changing – transfer from focus on quality of doctoral thesis toward focus a researcher as a driver of the progress: • To educate a creative, qualified and entrepreneurial researcher, • To be flexible to reveal and examine new multidisciplinary research issues; • To be capable to speak and understand the language of academic and business community.

7. Reform in doctoral education system Two main area for doctorial education growth: Specialized training in core research Training transferable skills (parallel training)

8. What it gives to the researcher?Why it is important? • Expanding career prospects for scientists to work in large scale of professions – KB Services area, directly related to innovation; • One professional career – multiple choices: Achieving greater mobility and adaptability to the national and ERA labour market requirements.

9. Existing Barriers • Lack of adequate training transferable skills development for researchers; • Lack flexible social insurance system; • Family issues limiting mobility…

10. Training programme for transferable skills (Results of the Pilot project) • Training by doing and learning by doing: • great number of practical hours in the training program; • project events focused on PhD students performance; • Lecturers and facilitators – academic and non academic experts (each one has experience as a researcher) • Multidisciplinary target group - experiencing the added value of multidisciplinary environment and different levels (1-3 year)

11. On-going research activities: • Parallel research on interdisciplinary and inter-level PhD student’s group of development • Reveling the needs of qualification of the lectures and facilitators

12. Training program (1) Training program – 7 modules – 13 training courses (94 academic hours – lectures, 72 h – practical seminars) 1. Skills for carrying out a research project 2. Making a bibliography, working with sources, citation standards 3. Design and developing a research proposal 4. Communication skills (Effective presentation, Writing, Team building, Networking, Communication in action)

13. Training program(2) 5. Professional development and career management (Developing a successful career; Job search, applications and interviewing skills ; Effective personal marketing) 6. Entrepreneurial culture and skills 7. Science environment and research ethics

14. Results of the pilot training that we achieved • Research results: • Revealed impact on motivation and self-reliance of the target group members; • Revealed impact on the collaboration in the multidisciplinary target group: better mutual understanding of different disciplinary views; • Verification of the developed set of the evaluation tools • Evaluation questionnaire for the target group • Evaluation indicators for the lecturers and facilitators

15. Results of the pilot training that we achieved Applied results • Improved research and transferable skills of the doctoral students • Revealed advantages and disadvantages of being a member of a multidisciplinary group • Testing, refining and dissemination of the training program

16. Evaluation of the PhD students Evaluation of the courses: Topics and carrying out Assessment qualification of the lectures; Evaluation of the usefulness, organization and training environment Integrative indicator – 94,5% will recommend the program to the colleagues

17. Assessment of the lectures • The needs of the training- important to select the right time to carry out the training • Participation of the students- Positive attitudes and increasing activity for the tasksMultidisciplinary group - an advantage in learning basic skills, overcoming the disciplinary semantic limits, diversification of communicative experience • Students’ Motivation  Awareness of the relevance of acquired skills - greater self-belief, understanding own strengths and weaknesses, wish to learn how to improve personal skills by using different techniques.

18. Thank your Raya Staykova For contacts: e-mail: raya5011@yahoo.com