Training
- Enhance the career perspectives of ESRs;
- Train and broaden their research skills bridging multidisciplinarity, intersectorial approach and crossdisciplinarity;
- Develop their communication and management skills across disciplines and sectors,
- Develop a new workforce for European research on a crucial target for risk-assessment.
To achieve these goals SALTGIANT ESRs will be trained at three levels : local, network-wide and external.
A Local, Individual Training
Each one of the 15 ESRs will take advantage of :
- – highest quality training in fundamental theoretical knowledge and technical skills provided by leading researchers in their respective fields;
- – state-of-the art research facilities and information resources.
The local training will be ensured by (i) the hosting institution and (ii) the private sector and/or academic partner that will host the ESR during at least one secondment period. During secondments, the ESR will address applied problems and gather knowledge and technical know-how for implementation in their research.
A Network-Wide Training
Network-wide training forms the backbone of SALTGIANT. Network-wide training events will foster intellectual exchanges between ESRs and will establish links between ESR projects and work packages. Altogether, each ESR will benefit from 2.5 months of network-wide training during the life of the network.
Network-wide training provides innovative, hands-on training in the form of :
Field courses
Three field courses are planned during the four years of the SALTGIANT project. These will help the ESRs to acquire a solid practice of key methods that form the basis of fundamental and applied earth and environmental sciences:
SALTGIANT Field Course 1 (April 29th - May, 4th) - Introduction to MSG geology
SALTGIANT Field Course 2 - Drilling training school (to be confirmed)
SALTGIANT Field Course 3 - Dead Sea hypersaline environments
Short courses
Five short courses are planned during the four years of the SALTGIANT project. During these classes the ESRs will receive in-depth theoretical training in leading-edge scientific topics and techniques relevant to SALTGIANT research.
SALTGIANT Short Course 1 - Modern and ancient oceans
SALTGIANT Short Course 2 - Seismic data acquisition, processing, interpretation
SALTGIANT Short Course 3 - Numerical and analogue modelling in the Earth Sciences
SALTGIANT Short course 4 - Social Sciences
SALTGIANT Short course 5 – Pre-history and history of salt use
Transferable skills training events
Four Transferable skills training events, organized by SALTGIANT partner SISSA Medialab, are planned during the four years of the SALTGIANT project:
Transferable skills training 1 (November 28th - 29th) - Communicating research and Scientific writing
This course was held during the 1st SaltGiant workshop in Palermo (Sicily). The focus was on communication skills as part of the research activity and provided tools and techniques to transform research into a story that awakens the interest of the audience for which it was conceived.
Transferable skills training 2 - Communicating current research to various audiences
This course will offer participants a panorama of science communication challenges and best practices in formats such as public talks, radio interviews, policy briefs and news writing.
Transferable skills training 3 - Managing research
This course will provide ESRs with the following training: Marketing (Marketing in Research/Projects, Social Media & Personal Branding, Marketing Strategy, Learning to Interview, Basics of Design Thinking), Leadership development (What is leadership and what is not, Leadership styles, Leadership in scientific environment) and Finance and budget (Accounting basics, Financial statements, Cash flow, Financial plans, Metrics definition, Tips and tricks for practical use).
Transferable skills training 4 – Developing successful exhibitions
This interactive course will present and discuss the state-of-the-art of science exhibition development with particular focus on the possible different design approaches, helping participants to reflect on the relationship between the different media, contents and visitors’ experience.