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project info
Start date: 1 September 2017
End date: 31 August 2021
funding
Fund: European Social Fund (ESF)
Total budget: 4 675 861,47 €
EU contribution: 2 980 861,68 € (63,75%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Emberi Erőforrások Minisztériuma, EU fejlesztési és stratégiai helyettes államtitkár

Integrated researcher training programme in the Disciplinary Fields of Information Technology and Computing Science

The aim of our planned project is to support the scientific workshops and programmes of higher education students in the disciplines of IT and computer science in a consortium of relevant institutions of ELTE, DE, PPKE and SZTE. The implementation sites of the project are Budapest, Debrecen and Szeged. In the project, we develop a system of tools that, on the one hand, enable and ensure that the teaching and research activities of BSc, MSc, PhD students, doctoral candidates and predoctors are made more effective, to nurture talent, and to make the mentoring work of talent educators and researchers more successful. The planned tasks serve both the development of the scientific workshops existing (or to be implemented) in each partner institution and the joint development of the consortium as a whole. Accordingly, we have defined a set of specific integration activities for the partners and the consortium as a whole. The tasks to be carried out and the inter-institutional cooperation serve the Hungarian researcher’s youth training in a meaningful way. The central elements of the planned project are workshops and thematic groups. Workshops may be professional groups for the implementation of thematic research and related activities, as well as promotion and support communities. Thematic research workshops relate to research activities in the same or related disciplines. Senior mentors and mentors in the workshops supervise and support the provision of research and student support at all levels of training, including doctoral candidates. The workshop informs and addresses the relevant target groups about its activities — at partner and consortium level — in the form of thematic research and research training applications (surplus supplement, target task), as well as through informational professional events, workshops, conferences and trainings. The workshop will ensure that appropriate training is provided to interested and dedicated students and young researchers with the right performance. Senior mentors and mentors (instructors, supervisors) receive an allowance corresponding to the permitted opportunities for their activities. The workshop will provide for study visits, active conferences and other events for the members of the workshop, in particular those involved in the training of researchers. Partner institutions may set up workshops which may be at consortium level or partner-specific. Workshops or thematic groups may change, transform or create new workshops during the duration of the project. Perspective and important topics that do not reach the size of a workshop in their representation can identify themselves as a thematic group. The planned thematic workshops represent a wide range of areas of IT and computational science. These include data science, image processing, software technology and software development, networks, IT security, embedded systems, computer modelling and discrete optimisation, parallel and high-performance architectures, high efficiency calculations, and non-conventional computation models and approaches. The workshops form their international relations themselves, but the consortium, as a unit, also places emphasis on its international activities and the construction of the network. The partners’ promotional workshops help reach out to the target groups (open days, events promoting work at each level and stimulating cooperation, winter-summer schools, workshops, conferences). The promotion workshop will be involved in the implementation of the annual public outreach event and the provision of training sessions: e.g. training of trainers, i.e. workshops where members of related or collaborative workshops and their international partners discuss current research trends and research methods. Although workshops are at the heart of the project’s organisational framework, we directly or indirectly support and build on existing talent-promotional forms (TDK, colleges). In the definition of the subtasks, special emphasis is placed on improving the quality and quality of doctoral training in accordance with the specifications set out in the tender notice (methodological and curricula developments, involvement of excellent trainers-researchers, extension of doctoral programmes, etc.). We involve talented students in the training and research process, provide research skills development in the case of research supply. We support the participation of students, doctoral candidates and young researchers in various types of trainings and trainings. Special attention will be paid to equal opportunities.

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