Training 2019
Professionalizing Transferable Skills Programmes: Learning from Experience
From 25 to 27 March 2019 the University of Luxembourg hosted the second PRIDE training. 22 professionals in doctoral education from all over Europe met to learn and exchange about professionalizing Transferable Skills Programmes.
This two and a half day PRIDE training on “Professionalizing Transferable Skills
Programmes”, facilitated by Paule Biaudet (Sorbonne University) and Verity Elston (University of Laussane), provided participants the opportunity to learn from the experience of professionals who have been leading and running transferable skills programmes for many years. The setting of the workshop allowed you to exchange and network with peers from all over Europe.
The training programme included a mixture of presentations, case studies, as well as
interactive activities and discussions with experts. With this diversity of topics and training
methods, the format also served as an opportunity for participants to learn and share ideas for
new training content and methods for their programmes.
The following topics were addressed:
Establishing a transferable skills programme:
- What do we mean by transferable skills
- How to set up and run a good, solid transferable skills program for doctoral
candidates? - Choosing the topics, the trainers, the formats
Managing a transferable skills programme:
- Administrative, financial and logistical aspects
- Evaluating a transferable skills programme
- Should transferable skills training be made mandatory, or not?
- Measuring and communicating the impact
Current issues in transferable skills training:
- Ethics and research integrity
- Wellness, stress management
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Open Access and Open Science





