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SUMMARY:REGARD Workshop: Academic mobility and dual career planning
DTSTART:20181012T090000
DTEND:20181012T170000
DTSTAMP:20260510T022750Z
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CATEGORIES:Internal trainings
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Blackford\, academic careers specialist\nThis workshop i
 s opened both to women and men\nDescription\nAcademic mobility comes in tw
 o main flavours: accepting a research position abroad\, and short-term tra
 velling for collaborations\, meetings or fieldwork. Both can provide great
  opportunities as well as challenges\, especially with children involved. 
 Mobility can be an important factor for success in an academic career\, an
 d is nowadays even seen as an essential requirement in many cases. We will
  discuss opportunities\, challenges and impact of academic mobility. Parti
 cipants will receive information and feedback on how to organize a move ab
 road and short-term travelling. They will be encouraged to selfreflect in 
 order to make a grounded decision regarding mobility in their own lives.\n
  \nObjectives\n\n	Find creative solutions to balance private goals and yo
 ur family situation with travel requirements\n	Understand opportunities\, 
 challenges and impact of academic mobility\n	Have practical information on
  how to find a position abroad and how to prepare for an international mov
 e\n	Have stronger basis to decide on how mobile you want to be as scientis
 ts\n\n \nApproach\nTheoretical input will alternate with individual\, pai
 r and group work.\n \n \nTarget audience \nPhd Students & Postdocs _____
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 _______________________________________________\nRegistration & Participat
 ion fee \nParticipation is free for members of partner institutions. Regis
 tration is done online and opens 6 weeks before the course begins:  http:
 //www.unifr.ch/regard  \nThe REGARD programme is addressed to young femal
 e academics of the next generation and for women professors of the univers
 ities of French-speaking Switzerland\, HES-SO and EPFL. The REGARD program
 me is organized by the gender equality offices those institutions.  \nThe
  objective of the REGARD program is to develop skills and offer concrete t
 ools for career management and supervision. These workshops also create sp
 aces for discussion and exchange of experiences among researchers. They al
 so aim to increase awareness of gender equality issues in academic careers
 . 
LOCATION:EPFL\, bi a2 468 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=BIA2468
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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