WP4: Training

A key part of our project are the training secondments for the early stage researchers. This activity will create a group of students who will spend six weeks in DIMACS (RU) and two weeks in CU in Prague each year in early summer, working and traveling together. In the training secondments we focus on several different goals:

The primary objective is to enable the international exchange of the early stage researchers.

The training secondments will make a significant contribution to educating scientists at the beginning of their professional career by an opportunity to work with the leading international experts, both on the European side and on the American side.

The early stage researchers will acquire a wide range of new research skills. The mobility offered through this project will substantially improve the transferable skills of these early stage researchers.

The early stage researchers will gain extensive international contacts. Participation in the project will enable the European students to create scientific contacts with prestigious American universities.

The training secondments support the existing scientific exchange and the Euro-American cooperation among the top scientific workplaces in basic research in combinatorics, and they will form a base for its future continuation.

The training secondments will result to original scientific results, which is a rare accomplishment at the undergraduate student level.

The training secondments incorporate the broader goal of facilitating cultural exchanges, while transcending geographic and disciplinary boundaries.