DocEnhance Project at UCT Prague

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The next round of Data Stewardship will be in the autumn of 2024.

Main goals of this project

1. a recommended transferable skills curriculum for PhD programmes
2. facilitating business-education partnerships (a new course concept and material)
3. an open access career-tracking survey

• These outputs will be provided as Open Educational Resources through an online platform, the DocEnhance Platform. This platform will function as: a comprehensive, user-friendly and equal access point for transferable skills intelligence and training in research education and secondly a community and networking site with non-academic partners. It is designed to live beyond the project lifetime.
• The course on Data stewardship has been developed by the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø renowned for its expertise in research data management. The course was first piloted at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague in May and June, 2021 and in the spring of 2022.

Partner Institutions

Project Work Packages

Three pilot courses on Transferable skills

• Data Stewardship (information at UCT Prague webpage | information at docenhance.eu)
• Career Management & Entrepreneurship
• Supervision

UCT Prague and DocEnhance 

UCT Prague was in charge of WP2 Course concept and design and the implementation of Data Stewardship. The aim of WP2 was to optimize the course content and design. Rector of the UCT Prague, prof. Pavel Matějka, was responsible for two deliverables in WP2: Task 2.1 Develop a recommended curriculum for integration of transferable skills in PhD programmes and Task 2.2 Collect and index existing online courses in transferable skills. Both of those deliverables were submitted in June 2022.

Data Stewardship at UCT Prague

UCT Prague had a chance to pilot two rounds of Data Stewardship course in the spring of 2021 and 2022. The first round took place online due to the pandemic of covid 19. The number of 14 participants joint the Data Stewardship course. The next year more participants signed up into the course: 25.  After piloting the first loop of courses, feedbacks from all the participants, teachers and organisers were collected. All the electronic materials and supporting information were transferred to one united DocEnhance platform. Also, guidelines for teachers were made in detail.

Next steps

• The implementation of Data Stewardship into regular curriculum at UCT Prague
• Offering this course also to other universities
• Cooperation with the private sector
• Using both deliverables and feedbacks for improving the course structures and doctoral study at UCT Prague

The DocEnhance Data Stewardship course is being introduced in frame of H2020 project SwafS-2018-2020 „Enhancing skills intelligence and integration into existing PhD programmes by providing transferable skills training through an open online platform“ (docenhance.eu)