Events organized by TGS

On behalf of Cynthia Souren (from the TGS office), here is an invitation for upcoming events organized for PhD’s by the Twente Graduate School. Please see the invitation below:

Invitation on behalf of the Twente Graduate School:

Dear PhD candidate,

Twente Graduate School offers an increasing variety of integrated master's and PhD programmes for outstanding postgraduate students who aim at a career in scientific research. The programmes are set up in cooperation between faculties and research institutes.(http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/, http://www.utwente.nl/mesaplus/ ,http://www.utwente.nl/mira/ , http://www.utwente.nl/igs/).TGS itself offers a limited number of broadening and academic skills courses which are partly compulsory (for students participating in TGS programmes) and open for all University of Twente PhD students (whether they are AiO, externally funded or here with a scholarship). Herewith we invite you to attend our upcoming TGS Workshops which are planned for 11 and 12 October and targeted at recently started PhDs (started in academic year 2012-2013, both days) or in academic year 2011-2012 (12 October, if you already attended the Introductory Workshop)

TGS Introductory workshop- Welcoming all PhD graduate students at UT: 11 October 2012.

In these sessions, we pay attention to the overall structure of doing a PhD at the University of Twente, with a Tips and Tricks session for thesis research planning and progress, and we introduce TGS, and what it has to offer for you. These workshops are held twice per year. On 11 October, we offer the workshop in two sessions. By the end of the morning session, PhD’s:

·	have a view on the overall PhD-process (the phases, milestones, pitfalls, prevent and/or cope with those pitfalls)

·	and are aware of their expectations concerning supervision.

·	know the general structure of TGS and what it has to offer in terms of broadening and academic skills courses

The afternoon session is offered in close cooperation with P-NUT (the PhD network of the University of Twente) http://www.utwente.nl/p-nut/ and as part of their 2012 P-NUT PhD day‘Dare to share your research’, on the public understanding of science. There will be inspiring speakers to talk about why scientists should share their findings with a general audience, and how they should do this. The speakers are:

§	Ed Brinksma (Rector of UT)

§	Jos Benschop (professor at UT, ASML)

§	Vinod Subramaniam (The scientific director of MIRA)

§	Ariana Need (professor at UT)

Between the talks, there will be some ‘elevator pitches’ from PhDs who dare to share their research with you, in just three minutes!

Date: Thursday 11^th of October (all day)

The exact time and location will be announced after your registration.

Registration: Please send an email to: e.r.cheret@utwente.nl stating that you want to participate in the introductory session on Thursday 11^th of October. Please register before the 6^th of October.

TGS Research Management Workshop-12 October 2012

On Friday 12 October we offer a full day of workshops. After an introduction from the TGS dean, Prof. dr. Gerard van der Steenhoven, a plenary workshop in 'Introduction in Research Management will be offered in the morning session. After lunch there will be parallel sessions with workshops for each of the TGS broadening courses: ‘Ethics of Technology’, ‘Entrepreneurship & Valorization’, ‘Advanced Science Communication’, and ‘Methodologies in the Engineering Sciences’. Each workshop will offer an inspiring content part which may directly be useful for your PhD work, as well as the opportunity for you to receive and give input for optimally aligned broadening courses. Afterwards there will be a plenary session with an interesting speaker.

Date: Friday 12^th of October (all day)

The exact time and location will be announced after your registration.

Registration: Please send an email to: e.r.cheret@utwente.nl stating that you want to participate in the TGS broadening perspective workshops on Friday the 12^th of October. Please register before the 6^th of October.If you at any time in the past already followed our ‘two day workshop Research Management’ (last edition November 2011), you should not register for this workshop.

These workshops are free of charge and participation is open to all UT doctoral students, a TGS registration is not required. Please note that participation for TGS students in the beginning of their PhD-phase in principle is mandatory.

Important: Participants will receive a TGS Certificate for attendance (equivalent to a study load of 1 ECTS) for the combined TGS Introductory Workshop and the TGS Research Management Workshop. Certificates will be handed out on Friday afternoon, 12th of October.

Also note: If you already followed our ‘introductory session’ (the planning and supervision workshop) earlier this year in May 2012 or even in 2011, you will get the certificate if you participate in the workshops on Friday the 12^th of October. Please let us know at the time of your registration.