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TUM Graduate School CESAER Meeting: Exchange on Innovative Graduate Education Technische Universität München, November 2, 2015 Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Graduate Dean

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Mission Statement (2009/2014)

Further enhance the quality of doctoral education at TUM through

• a common framework for various doctoral schemes

• identity & networking of doctoral candidates

• scientific & professional skills training

• enhanced international orientation (outgoing/ incoming)

> Individual doctoral research remains in the center of doctoral education

> Key responsibility stays with doctoral candidate, adviser, and department

> TUM Graduate School creates a corporate environment with optimum conditions for outstanding research

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TUM Graduate School Structure

10 Thematic Graduate Centers, incl. external cooperations with • HelmholtzZentrum • Max Planck • University of the

German Armed Forces

• Munich University of Applied Sciences

• NTU Singapore • Munich Aerospace

15 Departmental Graduate Centers


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November 2, 2015 Exchange on Innovative Graduate Education

Innovative Doctoral Training

European Commission:

7 Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training

• Research excellence

• Attractive institutional environment

• Quality assurance

• Interdisciplinary research options

• Transferable skills training

• Exposure to industry and other relevant employment sectors

• International networking

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TUM-GS Doctoral Training Concept

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TUM-GS Basic and Optional Program – TUM-wide

Basic

• Supervision agreement

• Double mentoring

• Kick-off Seminar

• Scientific training (6 SWS)

• Publications: book/journal/conference article, peer-reviewed

• Integration into academic environment

• Feedback talk

• 2-year membership

+ interpretation & additional requirements of the respective Graduate Center

Optional

• Transferable skills training

• Coaching and career services

• International research phase

• Graduate Council

• Social and networking activities


TUM-GS Skills Training Program

Progress of the doctorate

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Business & Industry

• Von der Promotion in die Wirtschaft • Job Application • Business ethics • Business Administration

Entrepreneurship • Unternehmensgründung & Geschäftsführung • E-Camp • Business Plan Seminars

Science & Research • Wege in die Forschung • Proposal Writing • Strategische Karriereplanung in der Wissenschaft

Career-oriented program

Personality & Self Management • Time Management • Project Management • Serious Creativity

Leadership & Responsibility • Strength-based Leadership • Entscheidungskompetenz • Erfolgreich verhandeln • Diversity Management

Methodological Competence • Good Scientific Practice • Scientific Paper Writing • Presenting Posters and Papers

• Using R for Statistical Data Analysis • Rhetoric

PhD-oriented program

Subject-related Qualification Program

Goals: • support doctoral

candidates in their transferable skills development during their doctorate

• prepare doctoral

candidates optimally for a career within and outside academia

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Kick-off Seminars Interdisciplinary exchange, networking, transferable skills, TUM as resource

November 2, 2015 Exchange on Innovative Graduate Education

Kick-off Seminars

Goals • Interdisciplinary exchange • Strengthening of personal network • Get to know TUM and its resources • Transferable skills training Fixed program parts • Introduction to Good Scientific Practice • Poster session • Science Slam • Introduction to entrepreneurship

Characteristics • 3 days at Chiemsee or Ammersee • 90 -105 doctoral candidates • 15 seminars per year • continuous evaluation, trainers and

participants‘ feedback

“… It was a stunningly great

event and I want to thank

everybody involved in planning

and realization for their effort

and work to allow us PhD

candidates to attend this

perfectly structured high

quality seminar!…”

“… I found it

extremely good and

if possible I would

participate every

year …”



Subject-related Training

• Research retreats • Summer and winter schools • Regular doctoral colloquia • Journal clubs • Symposia and conferences • Quantitative and qualitative research

methods and instruments (maxQDA, MATLAB, LabVIEW etc.)

• Certified project and quality management courses

• Doctoral days • Prizes • …

A minimum of 6 semester credit hours is to be completed during the entire research phase!

Transferable Skills Training


Current program • 50 courses per semester • approx. 45% in English • 4 courses free of charge • continuous evaluation Future program • Enhanced career-oriented

qualification, in particular business & industry, also science management

Under discussion • PreDoc program • Online courses/blended

learning • industry participation

Top 10 • Scientific Paper Writing • Project Management • Time Management • Leadership Competence • Reading Strategies • Presenting Posters and

Papers • Using R in Statistics • Business Administration • Job Application • Die GmbH – Business

Creation

Highlights • TUM-GS Speaker Series • Excursion to Brussels/EU • 2 EMBA scholarships per year

Entrepreneurial Thinking


E-Camp - Get Ideas Started!

Develop market opportunities from research and get new perspectives for daily research work!

Business Plan Seminars

Examine marketability and get expert feedback!

Spot your Opportuntiy

Form market perspectives for own technologies and work out business models

TUMentrepreneurship Degree²

Management training, individual startup and innovation advisory

Individual Career Coaching

• Offer for doctoral candidates, postdocs and science management staff

• 80 places for doctoral candidates per year

• 4 hours of individual coaching with a certified coach from science or industry

• Allows for a reflection on the professional and personal situation and stimuli from another perspective


International visitor programs in Graduate Centers

Individual counseling

Financial support for an international research phase

EuroTech Universities exchange program

EPFL, TU/e & DTU Copenhagen – Qualification Program

Joint PhDs (joint supervision)

• NTU, Singapore

• KAUST, Saudi Arabia

• individual cotutelles

Further development „TUM Graduate School@5 Continents“

International Exchange


http://www.eurotech-universities.org/

Keeping the Balance – some Guidelines

1. Interplay of research and structure: focus on individual research – no 3rd

study cycle

2. Lean, but rich program: driven by opportunities, not by obligations

3. Subsidiarity: disciplinary and trans-disciplinary variety under one common program and process umbrella

4. Quality management: an important tool, but not the target!

5. IT-based program management: DocGS increases efficiency and acceptance

6. Go international: for talents, for partnerships, for perspectives

7. Interdisciplinarity: not a marketing issue, but a core flavor of modern research

8. Diversity of doctoral pathways: assistant / project / scholarship / external / private

9. Collaborations – including the UAS’: much more a chance than a threat

10.Purpose of a doctorate: discover the undiscovered, get prepared for a variety of career paths


Where do we go from here?

Motto of this year’s EUA-CDE meeting

What’s coming next

• … to look forward to?

• … to get afraid of?

Consolidation vs. next qualitative step of Grad School evolution

Germany: new role of qualification at all stages due to WissZVG


Technische Universität München

Thank you for your attention!

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