Many different actors at Unisi contribute to the setting of the Training Offer for Researchers: the result is a broad and calibrated proposal of topics ranging from soft skills to technical abilities or mandatory requirements to perform research.

All Unisi courses/ initiatives/workshops – together with a selected list of events organised by other entities – are scheduled in this Calendar

Training Framework:

a. Knowledge, intellectual abilities, and techniques to do research
b. Knowledge of professional standards and requirements to do research
c. Knowledge and skills to work with others to ensure the wider impact of research

Target:

The term Researcher is used by the European Commission in the widest possible sense and includes all researchers, from PhD students to Full Professors. Here are the four identified profiles, as reported also in our HRS4R Action Plan :

R1 First Stage Researcher (up to the point of PhD)
R2 Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)
R3 Established Researcher (researchers who have developed a level of independence)
R4 Leading Researcher (researchers leading their research area or field)

 

Below, you will find Unisi main training initiatives, with the details of the framework, target, and links to organising structure and registration.
USiena Research – Training on European project planning and management

The Research and Grants Management University of Siena, also in collaboration with other institutions/organizations, organizes training courses open to professors, researchers, doctoral students, and staff of the offices on European planning.

Type of training: 
Framework A) ‘Knowledge, intellectual abilities and techniques to do research’
Target: R1 -R2 -R3 – R4

REPORT 2023 – UNISI Training Initiatives

REPORT 2024 – UNISI Training Initiatives

APRE COURSES 2025

New for the year 2025 is the calendar of 10 training courses organised by APRE – Agency for the Promotion of European Research – in cooperation with the Tuscan universities that are members of the network (University of Siena, University of Pisa, University of Florence, Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Superiore S.Anna). The activities are dedicated to researchers and teaching and technical-administrative staff of the member institutions. Among these, two are organised together with the Research and Technology Transfer Division of the University of Siena.

Training on Research&Tecnology Transfer 2025

 

Training on Research&Tecnology Transfer 2024

  • February 20 2024 (2 hours 15 minutes) – UniSi information day on the European Research Council – ERC
  • April 11 2024 – Gestione e Rendicontazione in Horizon Europe
  • October 14 2024 (2 days) La progettazione europea (UniSi Soft Skills)
  • October 25 2024- Introduzione alla nascita di un’impresa: presentazione delle possibili forme giuridiche, il Business Plan, il Business Model Canvas e l’Innovation Canvas
  • October 28 2024 – Uso e Gestione della proprietà intellettuale
  • December 12 2024 (3 hours) – Organized with APRE – How to pitch, perform and convince your audience.

Training on Research&Tecnology Transfer 2023

  • November 15 2023 (2 hours) – Fondi europei e programmazione 2021/2027
  • November 29 2023 (3 hours) – Panoramica delle opportunità di finanziamento
  • December 13 2023 (3 hours) – Tecniche e metodi per la redazione dei progetti – 1° modulo
  • January 9 2024 (3 hours) – Tecniche e metodi per la redazione dei progetti – 2° modulo
  • January 23 2024 (3 hours) – Budgeting e regole di rendicontazione
  • February 06 2024 (3 hours) – Il partenariato e la comunicazione nei progetti europe

 

USIENA Soft&Digital Skills

The planning of the transversal lessons concerning the soft skills (transversal competencies), involves in-depth studies on topics not covered in the individual doctorates, which are mandatory in the context of European higher education, to facilitate the application, development, and transfer of the scientific knowledge of the specific course of study, to be functional both for research activity and for entering the world of work.
– Training courses on digital and soft skills for students for the world of work with Open Badge BESTR.
Type of training: 
Framework A) ‘Knowledge, intellectual abilities and techniques to do research’
Framework C) Knowledge and skills to work with others to ensure the wider impact of research
Target: R1 -R2 -R3 – R4

 

 

APRE for UniSi

As parte of the services offered to its members, each year APRE organizes one or two courses on the European research funding program Horizon Europe for our University.
Type of training: 
Framework A) ‘Knowledge, intellectual abilities and techniques to do research
Target: R1 -R2 -R3 – R4

 

 

SANTA CHIARA LAB  – Teaching e-Learning Center ed il Faculty Community of Learning

The Santa Chiara Lab aggregates and promotes university activities functional to the development and enhancement of transversal skills for students, researchers and teachers, which are decisive both for entering the world of work and for professional development, as well as for acquiring awareness of one’s role as citizens in an ever-changing global world.
“Start Teaching@USiena” project organized within the Polo Didattico di Arezzo of the University of Siena, aimed at new university teachers, to whom the new technologies, platforms and apps available for teaching innovation are illustrated.
Type of training: 
Framework A) ‘Knowledge, intellectual abilities and techniques to do research’
Target: R1 -R2 -R3 – R4

 

 UNISI OPBA – Training course on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes

In the framework of mandatory specialized training for those participating in a research project involving animal experimentation, our University, in   agreement with other Italian entities, cyclically offers its researchers – from R1 doctoral students to R4 professors – a “training course on the   protection of animals used for scientific purposes”.
The course will consist of an online theoretical part (on Teams platform) and of  a laboratory practice.
Type of training:
Framework B “Knowledge of professional standards and requirements to do research
Target: R1 -R2 -R3 – R4

 

BRIGHT NIGHT

Type of training:
Framework C) Knowledge and skills to work with others to ensure the wider impact of research
Target: R3 – R4