The UPC's specialised services and units offer their researchers and doctoral students a range of training activities that enhance research staff's non-scientific skills and competencies. These short courses aim to improve doctoral students' employability and provide research staff with resources that can help improve their research activity.
Training offer
Research management
The knowledge bank of the UPC's Professional Development Service brings together a set of support resources and documentation, both internal and external, focused on the financial and administrative management of research projects and grants. The content also covers the use of management tools such as SAP, gRDI, eTramita, Timesheets and UXXI, as well as practical guides in a questions-and-answers format.
Courses on bibliographic management tools, writing doctoral theses, research publication and assessment, information searches, databases... You will also find support for drawing up the research data management plan and for patent searches.
It also offers the possibility of arranging tailored courses with a minimum of 5 participants.
A comprehensive catalogue of training modules not only in languages but also in communication skills such as public presentations, tools and resources for automatic proofreading and translation, oral and written scientific communication, inclusive language, etc.
In accordance with the regulations for official doctoral studies, these must include the acquisition of skills and competencies related to high-quality scientific research. For this reason, the Doctoral School manages the Cross-Disciplinary Training Plan, in which various units of the university collaborate.
Training aimed at teaching and research staff, in the form of short training pills on different aspects of the protection and commercialisation of results, organised jointly with the Library Service and the ICE.
It also offers the possibility of arranging courses with external trainers aimed at doctoral training networks (MSCA-ITN).
The Careers Service provides the advice and tools needed to support the job-search process and throughout one's working career, through group or individual guidance activities.
The partner universities of the European alliance offer in-person or online courses to boost the careers of university staff, both research and administrative.
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