oPAC’s training model presented at Europe’s largest higher education conference
More than 5,000 higher education professionals from all corners of the world have participated in the 28th European Association for International Education’s (EAIE) annual conference held in Liverpool, 13th - 16th September.
LA3NET project manager Magda Klimontowska together with James Hunt, PhD student from the University of Liverpool, led the 'Accelerator Researcher Career’ session at Europe’s largest higher education conference. They were joined by Michael Holroyd, a managing director of Inventya Ltd, to explore the conflict between the standard training received by postgraduate students and the demands of the technology industry for highly qualified researchers.
In the session chaired by James Hunt, Michael Holroyd presented the specific industry needs and expectations in terms of highly qualified graduates and Magda Klimontowska responded to this with an overview of the postgraduate training model developed within several international training networks like oPAC that have been initiated and coordinated by oPAC Coordinator Prof Welsch. These presentations were followed by a set of questions from the audience.
Since 2008, Prof Welsch with support from his EU T.E.A.M., has coordinated four EU-funded Innovative Training Networks in the field of particle accelerators. A fifth network which will cover research into antimatter (www.ava-project.eu) is set to start in January 2017.