Seminar III - NFPL152

• Title: Seminar III
• Guaranteed by: Department of Condensed Matter Physics (32-KFKL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 1
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Jana Kalbáčová Vejpravová, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (02.02.2022)

The Seminar III provides introduction into the important aspects of the future carrier in the research and academic institutions. Also, the course provides an overview of the research funding possibilities and highlights current non- scientific topics, such as work and gender balance. First, the approach on how to build a successful scientific carrier from the very beginning will be discussed. Next, the funding strategies, grant schemes and important aspects of the grant applications will be presented.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (12.05.2022)

The condition for completing the course is successfully passing the credit examination according to the requirements

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (02.02.2022)

Students will be given short readings/listening/watching from open resources on the weekly basis.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (03.02.2022)

The credit for Seminar III is based on students’ active participation during the semester. Students have to complete the exercises defined by the lecturer at the beginning of the course.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (02.02.2022)

Successful scientific carrier - meaning, approach, ingredients.

Basics of research funding - national/EU strategies, funding bodies, grant schemes; composition of research grants, peer review.

Specific criteria in biology, chemistry and physics; facing interdisciplinary demands; role models (discussion with invited guests at different levels of carrier).

Exercise (team work); example: an outline of a multidisciplinary research proposal; presentation and defense.