Description du projet
Des doctorats collaboratifs pour répondre aux besoins futurs
Le marché du travail s’est considérablement transformé au cours des dernières années, principalement en raison de la mondialisation et du développement technologique. En plus des spécialisations qui apparaissent dans les secteurs techniques nouvellement créés, de nombreux autres changements se profilent à l’horizon. Malheureusement, l’enseignement supérieur n’évolue pas assez vite. Il en résulte un manque de compétences nécessaires pour faire face aux problèmes actuels de la société. Le projet CHAMELEONS, financé par l’UE, permettra de créer des unités internationales, intersectorielles et interdisciplinaires afin d’accroître les possibilités d’employabilité des doctorants. Le projet les aidera à élargir leurs compétences et à répondre aux exigences du marché, en améliorant leurs perspectives d’emploi ultérieur dans des disciplines où ils peuvent servir la société de la manière la plus productive.
Objectif
Ten years from now, jobs will be more knowledge and skills-intensive than ever before. Globalisation and technological advances indicate that there will be changes in sectoral structure and demand for new types of skills we are not even currently anticipating. Currently only 30% of all doctoral graduates currently stay in academia with the remaining 70% seeking employment outside the academic setting, for example in industry and government . It is therefore clear that these graduates possess many of the required skills for purposeful employment outside academia. A gap has been identified in that current doctoral curricula do not foster big thinkers and creative problem-solvers, graduate attributes that society needs. There is a growing need to re-imagine a PhD education that incentivises doctoral students to engage with research consumers, not only within their discipline, but also, across other disciplines and sectors to have real social impact for an improved society. At a professional and research level, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral networks are on the increase. Such collaborative doctoral programs can assist the knowledge society in finding innovative ways of approaching the world’s problems by asking creative questions and finding creative solutions within multiple employment contexts. To date, there is a lack of research in the area of the interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral doctoral education and the question remains: how do we best design these programmes to ensure that the PhD students’ develop into big thinkers? The overall aim of CHAMELONS is to develop a range of interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral and international modules which are designed to broaden the skills of PhD graduates and improve their employability in academic and non-academic environments.
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinateur
4 Dublin
Irlande