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
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)
15:35 – 16:00 Internationalization of doctoral education: EUA CDE perspective Melita Kovačević (Zagreb, Croatia)
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16:00 – 16:25 The PhD in the knowledge society P. van der Hijden (Brussels, Belgium)
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:
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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)
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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)
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
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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
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
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
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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)
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
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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)
Workshop's Consensus Document
Conference Book
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