The European PhD hub is an online electronic platform that will provide PhD students, Researchers and Universities with funding opportunities from both the public and private sector, both in direct research funding and commissioned research from enterprises. The project consists of three specific outputs aiming at:1) Establishing a quality framework for university-business cooperation: Each University-Business tandem will establish their local PhD Hub strategy, aimed at representing the interest of both academic and corporate fields and finding a joint approach for triggering research and ensuring its transferability to the society at large. The Consortium will also develop two guides for respectively international and business cooperation for doctoral studies to lay the foundations of the both local and European research activities. The business cooperation guide will also entail guidelines for PhD Business mentors.2) Building an online infrastructure to increase research opportunities and their transferability: The local PhD Hubs will share information both at local and European level thanks to an innovative online platform connecting the local IT platforms among themselves: this will allow to find partners interested in applying research results, search for public/private research partners or open calls for applications to vacant PhD positions. The local and European dimension of this community will substantially increase the number of research and knowledge transfer opportunities 3) Applying and mainstreaming the European PhD Hub: The University-Business tandems will be responsible for implementing their local PhD Hub strategy and informing/training both academic and corporate staff members and potential PhD students on the opportunities offered by the European PhD Hub. The project will support stakeholders to register on the European PhD Hub, present themselves and open calls for cooperation.
The PhD Hub offers higher education institutions the opportunity to structure innovation and research cooperation in their doctoral training and research activities with non-academic partners via the creation of local hubs. It contributes to reinforce the knowledge square and pro-actively supports the creation of new international University-Business cooperation models. Both elements are key to ensuring the contribution of higher education institutions to the EU’s innovation capacity.
The European PhD Hub (PhD Hub) contributes to the innovation potential of doctoral training by opening research to new avenues of collaboration among European academic and non-academic partners. The PhD Hub platform operates as a single online resource for business-driven research. It connects early-stage researchers, researchers and practitioners at the local and European level and acts as a means to match the research interests of both academia and industry.
<< Background >> The European PhD Hub (PhD Hub) contributes to the innovation potential of doctoral training by opening research to new avenues of collaboration among European academic and non-academic partners. The PhD Hub platform operates as a single online resource for business-driven research. It connects early-stage researchers, researchers and practitioners at the local and European level and acts as a means to match the research interests of both academia and industry. << Objectives >> The PhD Hub offers higher education institutions the opportunity to structure innovation and research cooperation in their doctoral training and research activities with non-academic partners via the creation of local hubs. It contributes to reinforce the knowledge square and pro-actively supports the creation of new international University-Business cooperation models. Both elements are key to ensuring the contribution of higher education institutions to the EU’s innovation capacity. << Implementation >> The PhD Hub is composed of local hubs – groups of higher education institutions and business partners. These local hubs are connected on the PhD Hub platform (phdhub.eu) at the European level to match research interests, network with peers and recruit best talents for their research activities. A range of guidelines and strategies, events and its platform, the PhD Hub support interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international research involving Early-Stage Researchers and industry partners << Results >> The PhD Hub project's main results are: - An online platform aggregating doctoral open positions, cooperation calls and a professional network- Quality cooperation frameworks including university-business and international cooperation guidelines, local hub strategies and flagship events (Hack, EIF)- Further guides (Users' manual, Codebook, etc.), products (Knowledge graph, Social Media kit, etc) and value-added content such as in-depth articles on the PhD Hub blog, PhD useful tips and FAQs.