OMA Complementary Skills School
3rd - 7th April 2017, University of Liverpool, UK
Why do you need complementary skills? A good set of complementary skills will help you gain the greatest impact from any technical or scientific knowledge you may have. Complementary skills will help you manage your research project and present your results to different audiences, and in longer term also make you more attractive to employers in the competitive jobs arena. These skills are transferable and so make you more robust and flexible. They could help you take advantage of cross-sector opportunities between industry and academia or to work better at an interdisciplinary level. This is the reason why EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions incorporate mandatory complementary skills training in their projects. This training is implemented in OMA through an established quality programme of complementary skills training developed and tested during the delivery of three other European networks coordinated from the University of Liverpool. This programme has been recognised as best practice by several institutions including European Commission.
The training will be organized around the following topics:
- Project management
- Presentation skills
- Scientific writing
- Peer review
- Team work
- Time management.
Accommodation has been booked for the OMA Fellows from Sunday 2nd April, to Friday 7th April (check out date) in the Best Western Hallmark Hotel Liverpool Feathers, 117-125 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5TF. The school programme will start on Monday morning of 3rd April, so please arrange your arrival to Liverpool for Sunday 2nd April.
Note that the UK is not within the Schengen area and so non-EU nationals working outside of the UK will need to apply for a UK visa in addition to their work permits. Please submit your visa application well in advance. If an invitation letter is required for visa application please e-mail OMA Project Manager Magda Klimontowska and she will provide you with it.