Capacity Building. Doctoral education: The shape of things to come Focus Group February 2015 Comenius University, Bratislava Slovakia

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2 Capacity Building Doctoral education: The shape of things to come Focus Group 2 20 February 2015 Comenius University, Bratislava Slovakia

3 EUA Council for Doctoral Education EUA European University Association 850 universities and rectors conferences in 47 countries Developing evidencebased policies Advocating these policies Promoting development of universities as institutions Council for Doctoral Education (CDE) a membership service focused on doctoral education Development of doctoral schools Doctorate-specific policy development 234 members in 35 countries (from Faro to Tomsk) 3

universities as institutions Council for Doctoral Education (CDE) a membership service focused on doctoral

4 CDE activities Stakeholder dialogue - EU and global Recommendations and policy development Membership activities - Workshops, newsletter, networking and projects 4

5 Past policies - Salzburg Salzburg Principles Establishing a framework for doctoral education in the Bologna Process Doctoral Education based on research, but embedded in institutional strategies Salzburg Recommendations Underlined research Focused largely on how to embed Good practices for establishing structures 5 years later, structures have largely been established

strategies Salzburg Recommendations Underlined research Focused largely on how to embed Good

6 Doctoral Schools on many levels differentiated between institution and programme 50% 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Programme level Faculty level One for the whole institution Inter-institutional doc. schools betweens several universities Other (e.g. departmental level, non-university research institutions) Source: ERA Survey EUA European Research Area Survey 2013

Inter-institutional doc. schools betweens several universities Other (e.g.

7 Procedures (internal QA) universally implemented 100% 90% 5% 10% 9% 7% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 95% 90% 90% 93% No Yes 30% 20% 10% 0% Admission Progress monitoring Supervision Thesis assessment Source: ERA Survey EUA European Research Area Survey 2013

10% 0% Admission Progress monitoring Supervision Thesis

8 The Shape of Things to Come While Salzburg and the discussion about structures remain important There are new challenges to be met The embeddedness involves doctoral education in all the main missions of the university Research Teaching Service to society

be met The embeddedness involves doctoral education in all the

9 Research The university mission closest to doctoral education Everything that happens here has an impact What is then happening? Science 2.0 Crisis of science unwanted effects of publish or perish, difficulties with replication Research systems and research capacity concentration of capacity vs smart specialisation Innovation (too much) focus on applied research Etc, etc

0 Crisis of science unwanted effects of publish or perish, difficulties with replication

10 Learning and teaching An area that has been moving fast the last years What agendas are spilling over to doctoral education? How are we training future university teachers? MOOCs Lifelong Learning Student centred learning Research-based learning and teaching Unbundling of location, information and assessment not in one place (campus) or done by one actor (the university)

MOOCs Lifelong Learning Student centred learning Research-based learning and teaching

11 Service to society Increasingly important for universities everywhere At the local, national and global level Collaboration with non-academic partners Impact Role in innovation/technology transfer Careers of graduates/hr development Global capacity building

with non-academic partners Impact Role in innovation/technology

12 Structure of the day Introduction to capacity building European trends Why capacity building? What are the issues? Round table presentations What are the main challenges in terms of building or sustaining research capacity in my institution? What can my institution do by itself to build and sustain research capacity?

Round table presentations What are the main challenges in terms of building or

13 Structure of the day II Gallery Walk What is the right balance between investing in excellence and building capacity for doctoral education? What are the opportunities to achieve the balance between excellence and capacity building? What institutional structures are needed be able to build capacity for doctoral education?

What are the opportunities to achieve the balance between excellence and

14 Invest in excellence or build capacity? Investing in excellence Investing scarce resources where it is used better Promoting good practice through competition (fx excellence schemes) Promoting those that perform best (performance-based funding)* Tends to favour concentration Examples: ERC, Horizon2020 Capacity building More diversity smart specialisation Promotes R&I everywhere Look to the system, rather than a few institutions More equal return of money to all member states in the EU Risks to spread funds too thinly Examples: Smart specialisation, structural funds *See the EUA Define Project (

those that perform best (performance-based funding)* Tends to favour concentration Examples: ERC, Horizon2020 Capacity building More diversity smart

17 What are the issues? Evidence from IEP (Institutional Evaluation Programme) system reports for Montenegro (2014), Romania (2014), Portugal (2009), Turkey (2008) Slovakia (2008) Resources Financial resources Staff resources lack of supervisors Infrastructure Laboratories Libraries Governance structure Small strategic capacity Decentral structure of universities Brain drain Lack of autonomy rigid accreditation systems

(2014), Portugal (2009), Turkey (2008) Slovakia (2008) Resources Financial resources Staff resources

19 What can be done? Capacity building through partnerships Strong institution+weak institution=two strong institutions Fx twinning and teaming in H2020 Sandwich and joint programmes Investment Smart specialisation invest in regional niches Invest in infrastructure (structural funds) Governance reforms Give more autonomy and strategic power to institutions What actually works?

institutions Fx twinning and teaming in H2020 Sandwich and joint programmes Investment Smart

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