ORPHEUS 2013: Towards International PhD Standards, Prague

8th ORPHEUS 2013 Conference was held in Prague, Czech Republic, April 25 – 27, 2013.

Preconference Workshop Report
Programme

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Location: Purkyně Institute (Albertov 4, Prague 2)

11:00 – 18:00 REGISTRATION

12:30 – 15:00 PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

LECTURE HALL A Chair: Roland Jonsson (Bergen, Norway), Michael J. Mulvany (Aarhus, Denmark) The ORPHEUS/AMSE/WFME PhD standard document: Are amendments needed?

LECTURE HALL B Chair: Nurgun Platin (Ankara, Turkey), Stephen J. O´Connor (Canterbury, UK) PhD in nursing

 B.A. Soylemez: Students evaluation of the quality of nursing PhD education, in Izmir

 F. Şengun İnan: Quality indicator in PhD education: student’s perspectives

LECTURE HALL C Chair: Tove Ragna Reksten (Floro, Norway), Kirstine Kjar Kirkegaard (Aarhus, Denmark), Martin Pešl (Brno, Czech Republic) PhD studies across Europe: Students’ view

 

LECTURE HALL A

15:00 – 15:10 WELCOME

Petr Hach – President of Organizing Committee (Prague, Czech Republic)

Zdravko Lacković – President of ORPHEUS (Zagreb, Croatia)

 

15:10 – 16:55 PLENARY LECTURES

 

Auditorium

 

Chair : Andre Nieoullon (Marseille, France), Tomaš Zima (Prague, Czech Republic)

15:10 – 15:35 Brain drain, brain gain or brain circulation Rune Nilsen (Bergen, Norway)

 

Rune Nilsen

 

15:35 – 16:00 Internationalization of doctoral education: EUA CDE perspective Melita Kovačević (Zagreb, Croatia)

Melita Kovacevic Chair EUA-CDE Melita Kovacevic

 

16:00 – 16:25 The PhD in the knowledge society P. van der Hijden (Brussels, Belgium)

 

Peter van der Hijden European Commission

 

16:25 – 16:40 EURODOC helping to define young researcher career development and doctoral education Martin Pešl (Brno, Czech Republic)

16:40 – 16:55 Presentation of new Orpheus website Zdravko Lacković (Zagreb, Croatia)

 

18:30 – 21:30 OPENING CEREMONY

Location: Aula Magna of the Karolinum (Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1)

18:30 – 19:00 Welcome addresses:

 

Aula Magna speach by Zdravko LackovicAula Magna

 

Chair of the organizing committee Petr Hach

Rector of the Charles University Vaclav Hampl

Vice Dean of 1st Faculty of Medicine Tomaš Zima

President of ORPHEUS Zdravko Lacković

19:00 – 19:30 Concert

19:30 – 21:30 Welcome reception

 

20:00 – 21:30 STUDENTS RECEPTION

Location: Hotel Modrá Růže (Rytířská 16, Prague 1)

Organized by EMTRAIN. On invitation only.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Location: Purkyně Institute (Albertov 4, Prague 2)

In front of InstituteIn front of Institute Oksana Sulayeva nd Zdravko LackovicIn front of Institute 2In front of Institute Jadranaka Bozikov and Lackovic

 

08:00 – 18:00 REGISTRATION

LECTURE HALL A

8:30 – 10:00 DEVELOPMENTS IN PhD EDUCATION IN EUROPE

Chair : Melita Kovačević (Zagreb, Croatia), Petr Hach (Prague, Czech Republic)

8:30 – 9:00 Medical research education in Europe Vanessa Campo-Ruiz (Strasbourg, France), Giovanni Pacini (Padova, Italy)

9:00 – 9:25 Outcomes of the PhD education in Norway Roland Jonsson (Bergen, Norway)

 

 

9:25 – 9:40 How to make ORPHEUS evaluation and labelling simple and reliable Michael J. Mulvany (Aarhus, Denmark)

 

Michael J Mulvany

 

9:40 – 10:00 Discussion

10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 12:00 ROUND TABLE: US, CANADA AND EUROPE

Chair: Seppo Meri (Helsinki, Finland), Robert Harris (Stockholm, Sweden)

PhD programmes across the Atlantic: contents and standards

 

Melita Kovacevic Chair EUA-CDEMelita Kovacevic

 

Participants:

  • Joey Barnett (Nashville, USA)
  • Edwin A. Kroeger (Winnipeg, Canada)
  • Jiři Městecky (Birmingham, USA & Prague, Czech Republic)
  • Zora Mělkova (Prague, Czech Republic)

12:00 – 14:00 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

Poster Session Oksana Sulayeva from Donetsk

14:00 – 16:00 WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1. LECTURE HALL A Chair: Lise Wogensen Bach (Aarhus, Denmark), Andrea Olschewski (Graz, Austria), Chris van Schravendijk (Brussels, Belgium) Feasibility of international PhD standards

 

Lise Wogensen Bach  and Chris van Der Schravendijk preparing workshop report

 

Workshop 2. LECTURE HALL B Chair: Thomas Jorgensen (Brussels, Belgium), Gul Akdogan Guner (Izmir, Turkey), Dušan Meško (Bratislava, Slovakia) Cooperation between small and large scientific communities

LECTURE HALL C Chair: Mike Hardman (Macclesfield, UK), Michael J. Mulvany (Aarhus, Denmark), Jadwiga Mirecka (Krakow, Poland) Outcomes of PhD education

LECTURE HALL D Chair: Rune Nilsen (Bergen, Norway), Simona Dragan (Timisoara, Romania), Ana Borovečki (Zagreb, Croatia) Research education and global health

 

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

LECTURE HALL A

16:30 – 18:30 ENSURING EXCELLENCE IN PhD TRAINING

Chair: Vladimir Bumbaširević (Belgrade, Serbia), Joey Barnett (Nashville, USA)

16:30 – 16:55 Marie Curie Actions Experience Alessandra Luchetti (Brussels, Belgium)

16:55 – 17:20 Developing and evaluating competencies in doctoral education Janet Metcalfe (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

17:20 – 17:45 PhD Excellence: The League of European Research Universities (LERU) vision for

training talented researchers for society David Bogle (London, United Kingdom)

17:45 – 18:10 Toward excellence in smaller scientific communities Miroslav Červinka (Hradec Králové, Czech Republic)

18:10 – 18:30 Discussion

19:30 – 22:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Restaurant Novoměstsky pivovar

 

Melita Kovacevic Chair EUA-CDEMelita KovacevicMelita Kovacevic Chair EUA-CDE
Melita Kovacevic Chair EUA-CDEMelita Kovacevic

 

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Location: Purkyně Institute (Albertov 4, Prague 2)

08:00 – 13:00 REGISTRATION

LECTURE HALL A

8:30 – 9:10 PLENARY LECTURES

Chair : Miroslav Červinka (Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic), Luis Martinez Millan (Lejona, Spain)

8:30 – 8:50 20 years of experience with the integrated PhD programme for theoretical and clinical disciplines Bohuslav Ošťadal (Charles University and Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic)

B. Ostadal

 

8:50 – 9:10 A student’s view

Tove Ragna Reksten (Florř, Norway)

9:10 – 10:00 REPORTS OF THE WORKSHOPS

Chair: Konstantin Gurevich (Moscow, Russia), Jadwiga Mirecka (Krakow, Poland)

9:10 – 9:25 Reports from ORPHEUS workshops between two conferences

Istanbul: Feyza Aricioglu (Istanbul, Turkey)

Udine: Francesco Saverio Ambesi Impiombato (Udine, Italy)

Cologne: Debora Grosskopf-Kroiher (Cologne, Germany)

Martin: Peter Galajda (Martin, Slovakia)

9:25 – 10:00 Reports of workshops of the conference – chairs of workshops

10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

 

10:30 – 11:30 FREE COMMUNICATIONS: PhD AROUND THE WORLD

Chair : Kifah Jamani (Amman, Jordan), Anar Turmukhambetova (Karaganda, Kazakhstan), Ingeborg van der Ploeg (Stockholm, Sweden)

10:30 -10:40 An overview of PhD program in Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India Nagesh Kikkeri Sitaramaiha (Bangalore, India)

10:40 – 10:50 Organisation of doctoral education in public health field in Kazakhstan Altyn Aringazina (Almaty, Kazakhstan)

10:50 – 11:00 Implementation of the Orpheus standards in Karaganda State Medical University Anar Turmukhambetova (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)

11:00 – 11:10 PhD holders & quantity of research output Kifah Jamani (Amman, Jordan)

11:10 – 11:20 PhD program implementation in Kyrgyz Republic: problems and prospects

Asylbek Aidaraliev (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic)

11:20 – 11:30 Dokuz Eylül University PhD model G. Akdogan Guner (Izmir, Turkey)

 

11:30 – 12:30 PRAGUE 2013 CONSENSUS STATEMENT

Chair: Zdravko Lacković (Zagreb, Croatia), Petr Hach (Prague, Czech Republic), Michael J. Mulvany (Aarhus, Denmark)

 

12:30 – 12:45 CLOSING OF THE CONFRENCE

Jadwiga Mirecka and Petr Hach at the end of their mandate in Executive Committee receiving recognitions from ORPHEUS president

Jadwiga Mirecka reciving  diploma from ORPHEUS president Zdravko LackovicPeter Hach Tove Ragna Reksen Zdravko Lackovic

ORPHEUS flag goes from Prague to Lausanne

Chair: Petr Hach (Prague, Czech Republic), Seppo Meri (Helsinki, Finland), Stephanie Clarke (Lausanne, Switzerland)

 

12:45 – 13:45 ORPHEUS General Assembly

Chair: Zdravko Lacković (Zagreb, Croatia), Andre Nieoullon (Marseille, France), Roland Jonsson (Bergen, Norway)

Orpheus Med Group 1 Main St, Brussels, Belgium

Monday-Friday: 8am - 5pm (CET)