The doctoral network ”Mem-Fast” arranges training activities on Transferrable and subject specific skills. The following training activities will be arranged during doctoral studies:
Big picture of biorefining and future needs for membrane applications (5 days, 2.5 ECTS)
Key topics: Overview on biorefining, raw materials and products, market needs & possibilities, development trends in bioeconomy, design of experiments in biorefining experiments, good laboratory practices in biorefinery experiments
Transferable skills for advanced education (5 days, 2.5 ECTS)
- Dissemination of results including social media for scientists, open science and hints and tips for scientific writing,
- Data and Intellectual property management, project management,
- Research integrity and ethics in research, Code of conduct in science, Gender dimension in research
Membrane technology as a tool in biorefinery applications (5 days, 2.5 ECTS)
- Fundamentals, transport kinetics, configurations
- Industrial applications
- Limitations and development trends
Membrane bioreactors and catalytic membrane processes in biorefining ((5 days, 2.5 ECTS)
- Fundamentals, transport kinetics, configurations
- Case-studies
- Possibilities & challenges
Starting your own membrane company (5 days, 2.5 ECTS)
- Entrepreneurships, company
- Patents
- Finance
- Start-up subsidies
Participation in organisation of a membrane conference “Engineering with membranes” (2.5 ECTS)
- Participation in the organisation team of the conference (marketing, finding the sponsors, planning the social activities)
- Dissemination of the top results of the DC projects in an own “membrane for biorefining session”
- Participating in the other sessions and reviewing the scientific highlights of the other presentations
- After the conference: Presentation of the highlights of the conference for the other DCs and their supervisors and planning of future research needs based on the findings and the results