PhD Winter School – Innovation as common denominator for sustainability – by KBC

19 February 2025 - 20 February 2025
(2 days)
Brussels (KBC)

KBC offers a Winter School for a select group of PhD candidates  and postdocs of the Belgian universities.

This edition, which is titled Innovation as common denominator for sustainability has the following to offer:

  • 20+ career stories of PhD holders
  • 3 participating companies: KBC, Colruyt Group & Engie
  • real-world cases to be tackled in interdisciplinary teams (across research backgrounds and universities)

This Winter School targets  PhD candidates (≥ 3rd year of their PhD trajectory) and postdocs of the Belgian universities who

  1. want to get an inside view of the corporate world, and reflect on labour market trends and challenges, innovations as driver for sustainability, …;
  2. want to learn from PhDs coming from different academic backgrounds why they decided to transfer to the corporate world, which competences they brought to the work floor, and which competences still needed further developing;
  3. want to expand their professional network.

You have missed the chance to participate in the business cases (deadline December 2024), but you are more than welcome to participate in the regular programme on 19 and 20 February at KBC in Brussels. The programme can be downloaded here at the website of the KBC Winter School

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to learn from the experience of others while listening to the inspiring career stories. Above all, take this chance to network and to get in touch with people from the business world.

What a previous participant said:
"I encourage PhDs and early-career researchers to give it a try. It’s a worthwhile experience and a refreshing short break from the routine PhD work of analyzing data, writing papers, sending emails back and forth, and consistently working on your thesis."

Register via this form until February 7, 2025: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_f234mWpYtxliZ_3Yu2EFrjlFCIyu8vLiqwrXdl9laacBLg/viewform

For more information regarding acknowledgment in your PhD Portfolio, please contact us via dsrequirements@uhasselt.be

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