From PhD to SME

14 October 2024 - 27 May 2025
Info session, Kick-off, 12 sessions, closing event
Campus Diepenbeek & VOKA
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Around 80% of our (post)doctoral researchers continue their careers beyond academia. Business careers differ from academic ones: in business, people typically work in rapidly changing contexts, take considerable risks, focus on attitude rather than on knowledge, and work together with different kinds of profiles.
Hasselt University and VOKA - KvK Limburg join forces in this exclusive 'From PhD to SME' programme, the aim of which is to build bridges between the world of research and small and medium-sized enterprises. 12 (post)doctoral researchers are given the unique opportunity to learn more about how SMEs are run and to put this knowledge into immediate practice.

Participants are given a chance to gain first-hand experience in a Flemish SME in order to increase their hiring potential and smoothen their transition into the non-academic labour market. In addition, they'll be able to build formal as well as informal networks, and to learn to identify and name their own strengths - maybe their skills and interests match better with business life than they had ever considered?

Practicalities

For whom?

  • PhD candidates & postdoctoral researchers
  • 12 places available

Please note that this programme is not designed for researchers in the earliest phase of their PhD: applicants should already have 1 to 2 years of research experience.


Information session 2024

  • The content and practicalities of the trajectory will be presented during an information session on September 16, 2024 (17:00-19:00), Campus Diepenbeek (room tbc). During the info session the teachers will give a presentation on the 6 theoretical modules linked to this program. The participating companies will also be introduced.


Programme

The programme will run from October 2024 through to May 2025.

It consists of the following components:

  • a full-day kick-off on October 14, 2024
  • 6 modules consisting each of a half-day theoretical session, a practical assignment in an SME, combined with a half-day intervision session
  • A closing event in June (date to be confirmed)

The dates of the 12 sessions are the following:

-theoretical sessions: 18/11/2024, 18/12/2024, 24/01/2025, 27/02/2025, 27/03/2025, 08/05/2025 (all from 09:00-12:00)

-intervision: 02/12/2024, 07/01/2025, 06/02/2025, 11/03/2025, 22/04/2025, 27/05/2025 (all from 09:00-12:00)

More information about the content of the sessions can be found here.

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