The second semester is well underway and the TODOS Board has begun planning the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The time and place will be announced shortly. For TODOS to function, represent PhD candidates and plan events it is critical that people are engaged and active in the organization. At the AGM all board positions will be up for election: Board Chair, Vice Board Chair, Chair of Social Affairs, Chair of Academic Affairs, Accountant and one general Board member. If you have participated in our events or want to get involved with TODOS we would like you to think about running for a position at the AGM. Investing time in the TODOS Board work will give you, besides relevant organizational experience, either an extension of your work contract or equivocation of teaching duty hours. If you do not want to stand up for election, you are welcome to only show up and vote. If you have any questions about any of the positions please do not hesitate to contact us at arcticdoc@uit.no.

When: 31^st of May – 2^nd of June, 2015

Where: Metz

Science & You opens its call for applications for the PhD study days. This call concerns all PhD candidates, whatever their field of research, nationality or experience in science communication are. The aim is to make young researchers reflect on the issues in science communication, the links between science and society and the stakes of public engagement. PhD study days are also an opportunity for meeting and exchanging views between researchers from different cultures and disciplines. You can apply between October 1st and November 17th.

URL: www.science-and-you.com/en/call-applications-phd-study-days-open#overlay-context

When: 9^th of October, 2014 – 0900 – 1000 (Breakfast from 0830)

Where: SV HUM E0101

Sign-up Deadline: 6^th of October, 2014

Plagiarism is a serious issue in academia and something we should all aim to avoid. There are countless examples of researchers being caught plagiarizing someone else’s work, both intentionally and unintentionally and in some instances they act directly fraudulent. TODOS have invited Mariann Cesilie Løkse to guide us through some of the pitfalls that may lie before us and give presentation at our breakfast seminar on plagiarism. Mariann is the subject librarian for the arts and literature and the author of the book “Information Literacy: How to find, evaluate and cite sources”.

Please sign up by October 6 by sending an e-mail to arcticdoc@uit.no so that we know how much breakfast to get.

Tirsdag 7. oktober vil Marie-Curie-NCP’ene Per Magnus Kommandantvold og/eller Thorbjørn Gilberg komme til UiT og avholde et informasjonsmøte om Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN). Utlysninger for 2015 er nylig åpnet på EU’s deltagerportal med frist 13. januar 2015.

URL: http://uit.no/om/enhet/aktuelt/nyhet?p_document_id=388835&p_dimension_id=88199&p_menu=28723

Tid:                 Mandag 17. november 2014, kl. 09.00-15.45

Sted:               Næringslivets hus, Middelthuns gt. 27, Majorstuen

Ordstyrer:      Kyrre Lekve, assisterende direktør i NIFU

Arbeidet med en stortingsmelding om struktur i UH-sektoren er godt i gang. Kunnskapsdepartementet har utfordret UH-institusjonene på hvordan de ser sin institusjon i relasjon til andre institusjoner, også forskningsinstitutter, i et mellomlangt perspektiv. Forskningsrådet løfter fram struktur som utfordring i sin instituttstrategi. Regjeringens strategi for forsknings- og innovasjonsstrategi med EU utfordrer til økt samarbeid mellom sektorene og til nye allianser og fusjoner. Hva skal til for at universitetene, høyskolene og forskningsinstituttene samhandler bedre for å styrke kvaliteten og effekten av norsk forskning? Hvilke prosesser skjer i våre naboland, og hvilken lærdom kan vi trekke av disse? Hvordan bidra til å utvikle verdensledende miljøer, attraktivitet i rekruttering og å løse de store samfunnsutfordringene? Hvilke råd kan vi gi til arbeidet med stortingsmeldingen om struktur?

Deltakeravgift kr 1000

Klikk på lenken for påmelding: https://event.nho.no/skjema/?event=3179

When: 28^th – 31^st of October, 2014

Where: University of Surrey, Guilford, UK

This course will guide you through the research process of agent-based modelling in the social sciences: formulating a research question, specifying a model, creating a simulation and interpreting the output. During the course you will be helped to build a model using NetLogo, acquiring basic and intermediate programming skills.

Course Objectives

The syllabus includes:

• conceptualising agent-based models
• operationalising and calibrating from data
• experimenting and analysing
• interpreting models
• verifying and validating

URL: http://store.surrey.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=75&catid=15&prodid=195&searchresults=1

The second semester is well underway and the TODOS Board has begun planning the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The time and place will be announced shortly. For TODOS to function, represent PhD candidates and plan events it is critical that people are engaged and active in the organization. At the AGM all board positions will be up for election: Board Chair, Vice Board Chair, Chair of Social Affairs, Chair of Academic Affairs, Accountant and one general Board member. If you have participated in our events or want to get involved with TODOS we would like you to think about running for a position at the AGM. Investing time in the TODOS Board work will give you, besides relevant organizational experience, either an extension of your work contract or equivocation of teaching duty hours. If you do not want to stand up for election, you are welcome to only show up and vote. If you have any questions about any of the positions please do not hesitate to contact us at arcticdoc@uit.no.

Application deadline: 10^th of October, 2014

BIOPROSP_15 will give away 10 PhD scholarships to PhD candidates for attending the conference 18^th – 20^th of February 2015. The scholarship covers the conference fee, two nights in a hotel and the conference dinner.

URL: http://bioprosp.com/phd-program

Science and You will be hosted by the University of Lorraine (France) in early June 2015. The event focuses on science communication and the relation between science and society, and includes workshops for PhD candidates (link: http://www.science-and-you.com/en/formation-doctorants/post-graduate-study-days), as well as a conference and forum. The call for participation and details about registration are available at: http://www.science-and-you.com/en.

Thank you all for participating and making this breakfast seminar a success. The presentations can now be found on the TODOS web site and accessed by following this link: https://site.uit.no/arcticdoc/?page_id=379

Organizers: TODOS, Tekna Forskerne, AFU and Career services at UiT.