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impacts of fossil fuel CO
2
emissions. The ESSReS students were trained in
advanced computer skills and gained experience with high-level data visualisation
packages.
2.5 Transferable Skill Courses
Beyond an excellent scienti
c education, social skills are of great importance in
today
c work a set of
mandatory transferable skills courses were developed and offered in cooperation
with the Imperial College London. The courses were designed to prepare PhD
students for their future career and re
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s professional business. Therefore, additionally to the scienti
ect on personal characteristics like presen-
tation and communication skills, personal development,
fl
leadership and time
management.
The
first course for PhD students in their
first academic year entitled
“
Research
skills development
”
focused on personal and research effectiveness including team
working, networking and communication skills. The second course
“
Presentation
and communication skills
”
concentrated on the presentation of own results in front
of a group including feedback. It included learning to prepare a presentation, to
eliminate excitement, to prepare a structured scientific text or talk and to understand
the review process. In the third academic year, the last course
“
Career and lead-
ership
”
aimed at career planning (in and outside of science) and the development of
an understanding of leadership. Further topics were team working in a heteroge-
neous group, planning the own career and
training exercises.
The feedback on these courses from ESSReS participants was very positive and
the course contents were regarded as helpful for their daily work. The mixed group,
including PhD students from different Helmholtz research schools in each of the
courses was considered an asset. Additionally, it was appreciated that the venue was
far away from daily life, enabling a focused and effective course environment.
“
real life
”
2.6 Academic Writing Courses
A cooperation with the Centre for Foreign Languages at the University of Bremen
was established for individual English language training sessions. Besides work-
shops and individual coaching sessions, a seminar on
“
How to manage writing
processes efficiently”
”
feedback was very positive. During
individual coaching sessions, students were asked to bring own manuscripts or
research papers soon to be published. Individual challenges were discussed and
strategies for a better-written language developed. This approach to work with
current texts was perceived as very effective and useful.
was held and the students
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