During next week, the 15 GEO-C PhD students will meet in Lisbon to “streamline” their approaches and to encourage cross-site cooperation. This “retreat” event has two different objectives:
- Link to the PhD projects: On May 10, two external experts moderate a 90-minutes session with the PhD students. The two external experts agree on and formulate overall research questions in the context of smart cities and moderate its discussion with the PhD students. (Two sessions). Afterwards, PhD students will form working groups and in another 90-minutes session they come up with a project idea/proposal in this context, to be presented as elevator pitches. The next days the PhD students will do a hackathon on the “open city toolkit”.
- Paper writing: The idea is a discussion of the 4 external experts with the faculties of our Consortium about the role of software development in research and in PhD education. However, we do not only want to discuss, but to come up (ideally finish at the spot) a paper (or papers), so three full days (May 11, 12, 13) are dedicated to this approach.
During the week, while the PhD students will do a hackathon on the “open city toolkit”, the external experts and the faculties of our Consortium will have “after-lunch visits” to the PhD students, providing feedback to what they are doing. At the same time, this will be some “empirical feedback” to our paper writing.