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Lecturing and workshop training

Short Description
Mixed method for teaching  and giving new information and knowledge with elements of participation.  It has two phases: lecturing and training to do presentation imitating different audiences. Presentations are prepared with the help and directions of the lecturer. The group members debate the presentation and evaluate the achieving the aim of it.

The steps of the method are:
1. Preparatory stage:  a set of lecturer are prepared to work in a multidisciplinary group of PhD students to give them knowledge to create a common language nevertheless the differences of each scientific area, to  be open for methods diffusion in their studies, to understand  ethical topics in studies  science and to create an ethical moral of the scientists. All lecturers together discussed the way for giving knowledge about transferable skills before to carry out their courses.

2 Implementation stage – Lecturing and presenting the main principles about diffusion of knowledge and methods of the scientific areas, skills for presentations.

3. Presentation: Group members work in a simulating environment under the management of specially qualified Tutors and researchers. Each member of the group prepare and  present  his/her scientific topic in three different ways imitating three audiences   – peers and close scientific community (national and international), business community and potential donors of the study and  mass media  and children from secondary level schools with the aim to motivate them to study science. 4. Evaluation stage- each member of the group analyses and evaluates the presentations of the others and make recommendations for bettering the presentation. All presentations are filming and nonverbal behavior of the presenter is discussed. Evaluation is based of: a questionnaire for self-satisfaction of their own presentation and a questionnaire for evaluation the work of the lecturer.

Pedagogical Information

The mixed  way of training using lectures and active participation of the students make possible to learn  and to create skills in parallel.

European Dimension

To create common standards and ethical norms in the work of scientists.

Applied in projects

Increasing skills and qualification of young scientists for professional realization in the border areas between science and business, under Operational Program for Development of HR

The project aims are to create a mechanism to facilitate career development of young scientists and post-doctoral students by increasing their transferable skills and skills for communication with their colleagues from other scientific areas in Bulgaria and UK and to create their common language, to teach them to communicate with potential users of the research results. The project idea is to find out effective mechanisms for collaboration between scientists and potential users of their scientific results; to train students to work in a complex team for creating different types of innovations.

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