Structuring cooperation in doctoral research, transferrable skills training, and academic writing instruction in Ukraine’s regions Erasmus Project

Project Title

Structuring cooperation in doctoral research, transferrable skills training, and academic writing instruction in Ukraine’s regions

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

This project aims to build enabling structures to aggregate critical mass (integrating the resources of Academy of Sciences research institutes and the teaching and research capacities of universities) for PhD education in 5 regions of Ukraine. Specifically, the project will establish:1) Administrative mechanisms (MinEdu and gov’t regulations, laws, Codes of Practice) that enable inter-HEI cooperation in PhD training, including inter-HEI payments of state funds for co-supervision and course work, guidelines for joint PhD program licensing and accreditation of programs with transfer credits.2) Five regional doctoral training hubs (inter-HEI doctoral schools) that offer transferrable skills courses (10-12 ECTS each), and training in subject-specific academic writing (8-10 ECTS) to prepare young researchers for international publication.3) Inter-HEI thematic clusters whose researchers focus on one of 5 subject areas: political science, education policy, finance, informatics, biochemistry. Cluster participants will develop and deliver subject-specific PhD-level courses, and jointly supervise PhD students, aiming to design and pilot joint PhD programs in their subject areas.Aggregation of critical mass will be enabled through creation of appropriate MinEdu and HEI-level regulatory frameworks that will be disseminated nationally to support implementation of the Bologna 3rd cycle in Ukraine.The five thematic clusters will facilitate the creation of joint programs between Ukrainian and EU-based HEIs, and will foster domestic aggegation of currently fragmented critical mass in research and supervision.The university-based doctoral schools will act as teaching hubs, and as administrative centers managing student trajectories (including recruitment, credit transfer, mobility) that will foster an attractive research environment that opens opportunities for international networking and publication.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 992450 Eur

Project Coordinator

VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS & Country: LT

Project Partners

• SIMON KUZNETS KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS
• OLES HONCHAR DNIPRO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE
• INSTITUT HIMII VISOKOMOLEKULYARNIH SPOLUK NACIONALNOI AKADEMII NAUK UKRAINI
• UNIVERSITE LUMIERE LYON 2
• LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• STATE ORGANIZATION INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS AND FORECASTING UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES