Training Events
DESTINY will create an environment conducive to multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral training to achieve both the transferability of research results and the employability of the PhD students.
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DESTINY Training Programme
Secondments
Network Meetings
Training Events
Secondments
DESTINY aims to provide a well-balanced training programme based on complementary of its consortium. It will promote knowledge transfer in a range of working environments, multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral exchanges, and workplace mobility. The joint supervision, mentoring and training by two universities, coupled with secondments at associated partners, represents a key instrument in this strategy.
Every student will physically work at both PhD awarding universities. Additionally, they will be hosted by the associated partners at their premises in the form of either short stays and/or secondments (up to 12-month long). The short stays, in the form of industrial/company visits, and secondments will ensure practical relevance of the PhD research, serve as an instrument for knowledge and skills transfer between academia and industry, and increase the student employability.
Network Meetings
The network-wide meetings will serve for the Supervisory Board to evaluate the network’s performance (PhD students’ projects progress, training according to their Personal Training and Career Development Plans), outreach, and new collaborations with other networks and projects. The network meetings will also serve as regular forum to interlink the doctoral research as well as to provide feedback and guidance on the overall research programme.
These network meetings set the inter-disciplinary working environment (whenever possible physically) and will be attended by all PhD students and members from the beneficiaries and associated partners.
Training Events
DESTINY will provide dedicated training events via 3 research schools, forming the basis for the joint training to equip all PhD students with the theoretical and practical knowledge required for the individual research projects and to foster collaborations between the students.
In addition, 4 workshops will be organised in which the DESTINY associated partners from industry and academia will present practical insights, novel and sustainable business models as well as further research needs.
Main Network-Wide Training Events, Workshops, and Conferences
| Type of Event | Theme | Location | Duration | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | Sustainability in practice and bioeconomy concepts | Virtual (AgroParisTech) | 2 days | January 16-17, 2025 |
| Research School | Methods of inter- and transdisciplinary working | UHOH (Germany) | 5 days | March 24-28, 2025 |
| Workshop | Methods of communication and public engagement | Virtual (WUR) | 2 days | May 19 & 21, 2025 |
| Research School | Sustainability assessment in biomass production and supply systems | BOKU (Austria) | 5 days | October 20-24, 2025 |
| Workshop | Dissemination strategy and Open Science | Virtual (AgroParisTech) | 2 days | March 10, April 16 & 20, 2026 |
| Workshop | Transfer of project results into practice | Virtual (UNIBO) | 2 days | TBC |
| Research School | Development of policy recommendations and briefs | UEF (Finland) | 5 days | April 2026 |
| Conference | EBU Scientific Forum | UEF (Finland) | 2 days | June 11-13, 2025 |
| Conference | European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Side event: DESTINY result presentation | Reims (France) | 5 days | 2027 |