The R&TPlan
The research and training plan is presented at the beginning of the PhD and every year: at the Milestone Zero Meeting and at the End of the Year (EoY) Meeting.
It consists of a simple table and the explanatory comments that are needed.
In that table, Candidates are expected to list all the activities (with a reasonable detail) they are going to perform in the following years (the most of details are expected for the closest year) and - if any - what they have performed in the past:
- If you are at your start (Milestone zero) you are expected to figure out your future work in a reasonable detail.
- If you are closing your first year, you will account, with a reasonable detail, for every activity you have performed in the last year (with a good view of your future).
- If you are older, the table has three colours: the future (if you are not at the end of your path) your more and your less recent past.
In the following table we use a background color for the past years.
The level of detail is up to you: but list every activity you (and your supervisor) think had a value as training for the scope of your PhD Thesis as well as for your future professional capacities:
- the Courses (C), also those reported above, the seminars (C), the workshops (C)
- the Dissemination activities, i.e. the meetings and the conferences (D) you attended and you had an active role;
- the Publications activities: writing papers (P), books/chapters or what else;
- the Research activity: Thesis, Milestones document preparation, other research activities (R) you took part of, also if not strictly related to your thesis work; your visiting period (R) abroad or in Italy – if any – your stages in a public or private institution (R) and the time devoted to the milestone document preparation (R)
- Formal Teaching activities where you were/will be part of the teaching staff (T), specifying the name of the Course and of the Program.