Get the most of your PhD
About this 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.
Dates and location
The on-site component of this BIP will take place in Campus Catalunya (Tarragona) from the 20th to the 24th of April, 2026.
We recommend this workshop for PhD researchers in their 1st or 2nd year of their doctorate, although more advanced candidates are also admitted and will benefit from participating in the course.
This BIP 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.
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General requirements:
If you want to participate and you are a student, your university has to nominate you via Erasmus+ mobility procedures. Sending institutions can select their students based on the stated pre-requisites and following their own internal selection procedures before nominating them by the nomination deadline. 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” below.
If you want to participate and you are a staff member at your home university, please write us an email to bip(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat and our academic coordinators will review your proposal.
Information about the online component
The online component will take place on April, 2026, times to be announced.
It will consist in a session about intercultural competence and Catalan culture introduction. A second session will tackle logistics, content review in detail, and other remarks for the on-site component.
Information about the on-site component
This BIP will combine short presentations with interactive exercises performed by the candidates working in groups or in round tables, always interacting with the trainers at the same time.
