If your university wishes to organise a summer school, please contact the ECADOC scientific coordinators with the following information:
The scientific coordinators will then present the proposal to the Scientific Committee who will decide and select the hosts for future summer schools. The Scientific Committee also has the responsibility for the overall quality management of all ECADOC learning events. Please note that the main organiser of a summer school needs to be a University (although other entities can act as co-organisers).
The hosting organisation undertakes all the expenses for organising the summer school. It may invite other relevant entities (e.g. Euroguidance, national guidance organisations etc.) to be co-organisers. Co-organisers may, also, undertake some of the expenses.
Selection of participants
ECADOC summer schools are open to participants who are currently working on a PhD related to career guidance and counselling. To assess the relevance of the research projects, the selection committee reviews a 1-page description of the PhD research project from each participant. It is up to the host university to decide how many participants can be accepted to each summer school. However, normally there have been between 20 and 30 participants annually. A selection committee set up by the organising team evaluates the applications of all applicants, to enable fair, criteria-based selection.
Community building
Developing a European research community is both a goal of our summer schools, and a means of quality assurance. We want our participants to enjoy a community spirit at the summer schools, including (but not limited to) a culture of mutual respect, openness to diversity, authenticity, and inclusiveness.
Practical arrangements
The annual organising team may decide to ask the participants to prepare themselves in various ways for the summer school activities. This may include, for instance, preparation of poster presentations of one’s research project, and a presentation for collective academic supervision (CAS) sessions. Collective academic supervision is the point of the summer school, where the participants work together in small groups of doctoral researchers, moderated by senior academics. In the groups, each participant shares a question/topic/challenge of their PhD project, and receives feedback from peers.
All participants who have successfully taken part at a summer school receive a certificate for international mobility. The higher education institutions that host the summer schools generally award 6 ECTS points for the attendance of an ECADOC Summer School at the level of doctoral studies (EQF Level 8). Ultimately, the higher education institutions where doctoral researchers are conducting their doctoral research are to decide whether to count these ECTS points towards the mandatory learning activities of their doctoral candidates in line with their institutional policies.
