Multidisciplinary; soft skills; early career researcher
Résumé :
[en] Soft skills are the elementary management, personal, and interpersonal abilities that are vital for an individual to be efficient at workplace or in their personal life. Each work place requires different set of soft skills. Thus, in addition to scientific/technical skills that are easier to access within a short time frame, several key soft skills are essential for the success of a researcher in today’s international work environment. In this paper, the trainees and trainers of the EU-CardioRNA COST Action CA17129 training school on soft skills present basic and advanced soft skills for early career researchers. Here, we particularly emphasize on the importance of transferable and presentation skills, ethics, literature reading and reviewing, research protocol and grant writing, networking, and career opportunities for researchers. All these skills are vital but are often overlooked by some scholars. We also provide tips to ace in aforementioned skills that are crucial in a day-to-day life of early and late career researchers in academia and industry.</ns4:p>
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Organisme subsidiant :
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche CardioRNA COST action Italian Ministry of Health Telethon Foundation Greek National Funds EU Horizon projects MEDIRAD Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic European Union Italian Ministry of Health Personal Chair Awards Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation The Slovak Research and Development Agency Research England The Heart Foundation—Daniel Wagner of Luxembourg British Heart Foundation Programme Grant AFM-Telethon Greek General Secreteriat for Research and Development European Social Fund
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