Integration

WPI.2 Higher education in wireless communications

NEWCOM++ views the necessity to pursue an action of coordination and integration among the different post-graduate education programs available at local partners’ schools. This could be done following different strategies actually offered by international agreements, in which the Ph.D. students spend some times in a different institution with respect to the one in which they are enrolled, as e.g. the co-tutoring programs, by signing bilateral (multilateral) agreements between Universities, by using the autonomy guaranteed to the Ph.D. Schools by the national laws, etc. Our objective is to use all these actions and integrate them in a coordinated activity among the partner in order to offer to the NEWCOM++ PhD students following curricula in telecommunications the opportunity that is described above. The starting point will be emphasizing as much as possible all actions to make it possible for PhD students to obtain a PhD degree by at least two partner institutions (as is already in place for instance for Italy and France, and the same countries with Germany etc.). In order to reach the target we will: -propose mutual agreements to participating partners, -organize a yearly calendar of common courses offered to the Ph.D. students of the participant institutions, by using teleteaching and multimedia technology, and improving on the way already paved by NEWCOM with its Doctoral School, NEWDOCS. The participation to such initiatives, under conditions to be agreed in advance, will also be offered to non-NEWCOM++ European Universities. In addition to the tele-taught courses, NEWCOM++ will organize summer/winter schools with a typical one-week duration, which were so successful in NEWCOM. During those schools, discussions among Ph.D. students will be organized to help them in choosing/finalizing their major PhD topic.