Early Career Researchers Workshop
As part of the 2021 European Computer Science Summit (ECCS) held in Madrid/online, on Monday 25 October 2021 was the
"Professional Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers"
The goal of the workshop, organised by Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano) and Standa Živný (University of Oxford), is to support early career researchers (PhD students and Postdocs) in the development of their soft skills related to presentation abilities, networking, developing a research plan, and connections to industry.
Invited speakers include Geraldine Fitzpatrick (TU Wien), Lynda Hardman (CWI), Justyna Petke (UCL), and Wolfgang Emmerich (UCL, Zuhlke Group) as well as further speakers from industry. They presented their experience in creating a strong collaboration network, improving their leadership abilities, developing high-quality research, and moving the research into industry.
Attendees of the workshop attended invited talks and had the opportunity to actively participate in discussions. Moreover, they could submit their CV (up to 2 pages) and a research statement (up to 5 pages), on which they received feedback and suggestions for improvement. They also presented them in front of the broader ECCS audience in the form of a poster during Monday's welcome cocktail, at the ECSS venue. The final version of the accepted research statements are now published as the workshop proceedings as open access which is available here.
20 grants of 150 EUR each were made available to subsidize the travel costs of PhDs and PostDocs with budget restrictions.
The detailed workshop schedule can be found here.
How to submit*
CVs (up to 2 pages) and research statements (up to 5 pages) formatted in the LIPICS style should be merged in a single file and submitted via EasyChair. In the EasyChair form please include also the title of your research, a short abstract summarizing in a couple of lines your research statement as a set of relevant keywords.
*Registration of the workshop remains open but no submission of CVs and research statements are required/accepted after 30 June 2021. All registered participants of this workshop are eligible to apply for the travel grant.
Important dates
- Submission of contributions: 30 June 2021
- Notification of CV & research statements acceptance: 15 July 2021
- Camera-ready contributions: 15 September 2021
- Workshop date: 25 October 2021
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