CIAO! meeting, Antwerp
Motivation
In every university or research institute that belongs to the CIAO! Network, there will in principle be doctoral students that are supervised by a professor who belongs to the CIAO! Research Staff. In order to meet the quality standards of the CIAO! Network, these students should be guided to improve their work as much as possible. To this end the CIAO! Doctoral Consortium is constituted.
Objectives
The first objective of the CIAO! Doctoral Consortium is to encourage doctoral students to write, submit and present papers and to help them to improve the quality of the papers. The second objective is to be a platform for meeting each other as well as the members of the CIAO! Research Staff.
Organization
The CIAO! Doctoral Consortium consists of all CIAO! Doctoral Students and all members of the CIAO! Research Staff. Because of the geographical distribution of the CIAO! Network, it is practically impossible to let them meet all together. Therefore a local CIAO! Doctoral Consortium will be set up at every university or research institute that belongs to the CIAO! Network. Out of the local CIAO! Research Staff a Referee Board is selected. This board may invite persons from a CIAO! Company to be member of the Referee Board, provided (s)he has a doctoral degree. One of the members of the Referee Board is appointed to be the chair.
Mode of Operation
A local CIAO! Doctoral Consortium meets as often as is necessary to have every student present a paper once per year. At such a meeting of one full day, at most four students will present a paper. This guarantees that there is always sufficient time for discussions and for fulfilling the platform function. A presenting student has to distribute the paper (of 10-12 pages) in advance such that all members of the consortium have sufficient time to prepare for the meeting.
