Special workshops

Alongside the PhD Study Days, 2 special workshops will take place in the Centre Prouvé, during the Conference. 

Attending at least one of these workshops is mandatory to get your certificate of participation to the PhD Study Days. 

How to improve the quality and visibility of your research? - In partnership with Elsevier

Thursday 4th June, 4.30 to 6.00, room 101

Knowing the best way to structure a paper when writing it, the most appropriate journal to send it to, as well as understanding how editors and publishers think and what they expect really helps in getting your paper accepted and published. The objective of this workshop is to introduce young researchers (and anyone else interested) to a series of guidelines which will allow them to direct their academic works, obtain a basic methodology and learn some stylistic resources which are necessary to develop a good research article, according to the criteria required by the majority of national and international academic journals. Experiences will be shared at the workshop about the processes of editing and publishing articles, which will hopefully contribute to improve the quality and visibility of the scientific production. Raising awareness on guidelines and tips and tricks on how to get noticed is one part of this workshop. Another part will be on the visibility of scientific production and science communication. It is now more important than ever to connect with your peers, share your research, collaborate in an efficient way, and explore and discover new opportunities. This workshop will give you some practical tips on how to do that in the best way.

4:30 – 5:15 An Elsevier editor will give a presentation on how to get noticed/how to get published
5:15 – 5:45 An Elsevier Customer Consultant will give tips and tricks on how to connect and how to get noticed (Mendeley www.mendeley.com)
5:45 – 6:00 Q&A
 


Innovation Marketing – Application to Science In partnership with CEA Tech

Friday 5th June, 8.30 to 10.00 am, room 102


The objective of this training session is to give the participants a comprehensive knowledge of “Marketing dedicated to sciences”, also called “Innovation marketing” or “Technology Marketing”.
We will first refresh the meaning of “marketing”, as differing from “communication” or sales, and explain the 3 specificities of “Technology Marketing” as opposed to “traditional marketing”. We will then present how marketing studies as conducted in the CEA – a large French Research Centre – contribute to develop technologies useful for our industries and our citizens.
Claire-Noel Bigay – the CEA’s Deputy Director of Technology Transfer – will be leading this talk.
After graduating in 1985 from Reims Business and Management School, she worked as “Product Manager” for Desmarquest, a small/medium-sized enterprise for 5 years, and then joined 3M, a large American multinational, dedicated to Innovation, where she held various positions: Product Manager and then European Marketing Manager in Brussels. She joined the CEA Technology Transfer Office in 2001, initially as Marketing Consultant. From 2004 to 2014, she managed the CEA Strategic Marketing and Economic intelligence unit. In February 2014 she was appointed Deputy Director of Technology transfer having overall responsibilities for technology transfer including Marketing but also patents, R&D contracts and the creation of spin-offs.
CEA Tech, the CEA’s technology research and innovation arm, develops a broad portfolio of technologies for ICT, energy, and healthcare, thanks to its strong expertise in Nanotechnology, Micro- and Nano-electronics, Photonics, Advanced Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Systems. With more than 50 years of experience taking new technologies from the lab to industry, in 2013 CEA Tech opened regional branch offices in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, and Metz in 2014. With 4,500 researchers and 600 priority patents applications per year, CEA Tech works with major French CAC 40 companies, over 500 SMEs, 145 international clients and generates an annual research income of €600 million.