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on June 13 we have celebrated an important milestone: the Close-Out of the project Entrepreneurial Thinking for Female reserchers.
⭕️ Through this project, we aimed at narrowing the gap between female researchers in their early career phase and the labour market through facilitating a co-working environment for developing entrepreneurial thinking skills;
⭕️We have developed a programme based on 3 workshops on transferable research skills, on storytelling and pitching and on marketing tools which were tailored to participants needs;
⭕️ We received registrations from 105 early-career researchers from 5 different faculties Maastricht University and from United Nations University-MERIT and catered workshops for 90 participants;
✅ During the event our project alumni Etienne, Mignon and Anna reflected on the workshops and how the project mattered to them for capitalizing on their skills but also for boosting their confidence;
✅ Our panelists prof. Sophie Vanhoonacker, Dean of Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Natasja Reslow, project manager of UMCares shared with us their key takeaways on how to boost one's employability capabilities.
🔜 Stay tuned as we will continue to talk about these issues and will provide with further services and products!
Your project co-drivers,
Dorina Baltag & Adina Petre

🎈Today we are sharing with you a glimpse of group pictures from the workshops that we hosted on Entrepreneurial Thinking for early-career Female Researchers and we are reflecting on the lessons-learned, the results and the process that this project entailed for the team: Dr. Dorina Baltag - project leader, Adina Petre - project partner; Elena Andronache - project photographer; Talisha Schilder - project assistant; Stella Ryuk - freelance content-writer on project activities.
💐Tomorrow we will be sharing with you the story of our project! We will engage with you in an interactive workshop where you get to bring on your expertise and pitch your ideas on the topic of entrepreneurship and women in academia.
Location: Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Here are five things as advice from the launch of our project on Entrepreneurial Thinking for Female Researchers:
1️⃣ start thinking of your career path early in advance;
2️⃣ think of your career trajectory as a project: set goals and make action plans;
3️⃣ keep a list of your research skills and consider their transferable nature;
4️⃣ you are your own brand, so consider how to develop your personal branding;
5️⃣ research is not only about making discoveries but it is also about the story of your research.

More details in the article below: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/navigating-towards-employability-female-researchers-baltag-phd/

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👉At the CloseOut event, our participants will be sharing with you their main reflections and share their experience!

👉 Register here: https://forms.gle/1bsZVR78DXeYpgb6A

Navigating towards employability for female researchers in times of uncertainty The closer you come to finishing you PhD the more aware you become of the uncertainty of your career path in academia. Most of us wished to continue doing research and teaching; however one needs to start thinking ahead about what should early-career female researchers equip themselves with in setti

The most daunting exercise is the job hunt as the list of unanswered questions keeps growing:
👉what should I include in my CV?
👉how to write a cover letter that does not repeat my CV?
👉how to talk about my grants and awards?
👉how do I list my publications?
👉do I include a picture?
these and many more answers can be found here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2019/05/24/22-tips-for-writing-academic-cvs-and-covering-letters/

No good research can happen without a healthy brain. Here is a list of 6 healthy snacks to fuel our body & brain:

✅blackcurrant
✅smoked salmon (or any other fish you fancy)
✅sweet potato
✅dark chocolate (cacao 70% and higher)
✅broccoli
✅nuts
Source: https://authorunlimited.com/blog/brain-food-for-writers

Have a healthy weekend everyone!

📢Dear colleagues and friends, after working closely together with the community of women in academia that Maastricht fosters, Dorina Baltag & Adina Petre want to share the results of the project "Entrepreneurial Thinking for Female researchers".
👉Join them to celebrate the results of the project by registering here: https://forms.gle/wnK4U3CE5GvgnNAbA
❗️ This event is free of charge and open for everyone who is interested.

👉You have asked about social media tools and how these can be useful for early career researchers and PhD students.

✅And here is the answer: a quick research on Twitter will feature the hashtag that shows tweets linking to articles on how to efficiently tackle your research

Thank you Styliani for your insights on our workshop on Storytelling and Pitching; we love your take-away message:
✅ it is important for the researcher to know what message they want the people to leave with;
✅ pitching ideas and presenting the information are part of a researchers job, knowing the audience is key;
✅ people will not remember the methodology, rather they will remember the story about the research.

Entrepreneurial Thinking for Female Researchers – Pitching and Storytelling A few weeks ago, I wrote about a series of seminars specifically for female researchers made by Dr Dorina Baltag and her collaborator Ms. Adina Petre.

⁉️Does it surprise you if we tell you that the same little chemical reactions can occur in your brain when someone tells you an intriguing story as when you fall in love?

👉Why is storytelling so powerful?

📍David JP Philips is an international speaker, author and coach in Modern Presentation Skills. In his TedTalk, he talks about the hormones that are activated while storytelling with humorous hands-on examples. In addition, he provides useful tips on how to build a strong narrative and how to apply functional storytelling.

The magical science of storytelling | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholm Why is Storytelling so powerful? And how do we use it to our advantage? Presentations expert David JP Phillips shares key neurological findings on storytelli...