Arqus PhD Week for Careers outside Academia #2

Are you interested in working with creativity techniques to become more aware of the skills you bring to the table? Do you want to learn how to pitch your ideas to different audiences? The Arqus European University Alliance offers a 3-day-training on the premises of the Université Lyon 3 - Campus de la Manufacture des Tabacs.

Postdoctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, entrepreneurship and career development experts from the universities of the Arqus alliance will meet to work together. The deadline to apply is March 9, 2022 and the application form is here: Application for the Arqus PhD Week for Careers Outside Academia in Lyon (April 27-29, 2022) (univ-lyon1.fr)

Detailed info can be found here: The application period to participate in the 2nd Arqus PhD Week for Careers outside Academia is already open! | Arqus (arqus-alliance.eu), as well as here: Calls for Applications - ARQUS (uni-graz.at)

In addition to cooperating in an international and multicultural environment, the main aims of the PhD Career Week are to train early career researchers to develop skills for careers outside academia. A good intro into the contents of the training week is this discussion with participants from the first PhD Career Week in Graz: Arqus Academic Debate January 25, 2022: Where is my (business) mind? How young researchers succeed outside academia

Funding

Arqus supports the participation of 4 advanced PhD candidates and early-stage postdocs from any academic discipline from each of the 7 partner universities in this 3-day programme.

Arqus covers the expenses (real costs) for 3 (stay) plus 2 (travel time) days with a total funding of max. € 1.000 per person.

For more information, see your local Arqus officer.

Contact and further information

Smita Mohanty, smita.mohanty(at)univ-lyon3.fr

Arqus AL5 Coordinator, UJM Lyon 3

Romain Thinon, romain.thinon(at)univ-lyon1.fr

Arqus AL6 Coordinator, UCBL Lyon 1