PhasAGE Career Development Course
17-18 June 2021 | Online Event
Why should you plan your career? What are the necessary tools that will help you with your project management and research planning? How to leverage your expertise into a productive career and get more funding for your research? How can you develop and use your transferable and work-related skills to manage your career in science and beyond?
The PhasAGE Career Development Course includes workshops tailored to meet the needs of early-stage researchers and junior postdocs in the career development process including project career planning, project management, CV and cover letter writing, networking strategies and job interview preparation.
These workshops were designed to target early-stage researchers (MSc and PhD students) and junior postdocs and are open to i3S members.
More information at https://phasage.eu/career-development/.
Program
WORKSHOP 1
17 June – 2 PM (WEST, Lisbon Time)
Project Management
This workshop led by Chaperone (www.chaperone.online) will focus on strategies and tools to guide scientists in their daily management of scientific projects.
WORKSHOP 2
18 June | 2 PM (WEST, Lisbon Time)
Jobs within and beyond academia: How to prepare yourself for successful applications
This workshop led by Paula Pérez (i3s Career Development Unit) will introduce insights on how to navigate the job application process in academia and beyond.
Speakers
Chaperone
Chaperone (www.chaperone.online) is an online platform created to empower scientists in their careers by connecting them with career consultants around the world. On this platform, scientists can browse and book online 1-to-1 sessions with over 35 experienced career consultants (career specialists, advisors, counselors and coaches) on over 50 different support topics. In addition to online 1-to-1 sessions, Chaperone also provides online group training in the format of workshops or webinars. Chaperone is a social impact company acting on the SDGs #4 Quality education and #8 Decent Work and Economic Growth awarded by Gulbenkian Foundation, Área Metropolitana do Porto, Maze Decoding impact, Blue Tulip Awards and Euclid Network.
Paula López Pérez
Paula López Pérez is the Career Development Unit Coordinator at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde – i3S (Universidade do Porto). The i3S Career Development Unit (CDU) was created in October 2019 to promote researchers’ personal and professional growth and to empower staff to manage their career development by making effective career choices and transitions.
Paula has an original background in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Minho (Portugal) and 7 years of postdoctoral experience with her core fields of research spanning from biomaterials development and tissue engineering to fundamental molecular biology and anti-microbial peptides. Since she started the PhD, she worked in five academic labs and one company across five different countries, experiencing very different working practices and mingled with people of extremely diverse cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds.
This experience together with her natural drive of building and nurturing human relationships at the workplace and beyond woke up her interest in personal and professional development and she used a career break as a full-time mum to prepare her career transition. Now she enjoys helping researchers to make conscious decisions about their future and to reach their full potential!
Registration
Registration is free but mandatory, with a limited number of participants for each workshop. You can register for only one workshop or both. Please note that you have to register for each workshop separately.
Participants will be selected based on their motivation statement and will receive a certificate of attendance.
Workshop 1 registration form >>
Workshop 2 registration form >>
More information:
This event is organized by the PhasAGE project.
E-mail: phasageproject@i3s.up.pt