Blended Intensive Programme “Get the most of your PhD”

A new edition of our Blended Intensive Programme “Get the most of your PhD”, addressed for PhD researchers enrolled in Doctoral Education, will be hold in Tarragona at 20-24 April 2026 (on-site component).

https://www.urv.cat/en/international/mobility/in/cataleg-bip/

The aim of this BIP is to offer PhD students insight to successfully live through their doctoral experience and get the most of their PhD to become an independent researcher. We will provide participants with tools:

To manage their project and their research education
To maintain a good collaboration with their supervisors
To face and resolve possible problems
To write and defence the thesis
To reflect critically on career options and on the development of soft skills to better develop their professional careers.

We will also address some hot topics of the doctoral education like research ethics, the use of artificial intelligence, the emotional wellbeing or the paradigm of the open science.

The methodology will combine short presentations with interactive exercises performed by the candidates working in groups or in round tables, always interacting with the facilitators.

The novelty this years is that it will run in parallel with a BIP addressed to thesis supervisors: "Good practices in PhD supervision", with which some common interest sessions will be shared. It is expected that the interaction between doctoral students and supervisors will be mutually enriching.

If you want to participate and you are a student, your university has to nominate you via Erasmus+ mobility procedures. Further instructions will be sent by email to the selected students after reviewing nominations. URV asks that the students be supported with an Erasmus+ grant or an Erasmus+ zero grant and be registered in the Beneficiary Module. For further details see “Mobility Procedures” in the web.

Best regards,

Maria del Mar Reguero de la Poza