Speaker
Description
The NOVA-SKIES (Skilled, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Scientists) programme started in July 2023 and will run till the end of 2028, supported by NOVA funding. The programme provides training on innovation, entrepreneurship, and development of soft and hard skills of PhDs and PDs, and creates career opportunities for PhD candidates and early-career researchers in the field of astronomy in the Netherlands. The NOVA-SKIES programme aims to support the recognition of the competences of young astronomers, and help them to be aware of their skills and of the constructive way in which these skills can be transferred to any career-path they decide to pursue. Once outside academia, thanks to the strong awareness of their values, our PhDs and post-docs become active STEM ambassadors in the society, and this represents an important goal of the astronomical field as a whole. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the programme and share with the audience the importance of supporting the skill transferring between astro-particle physicists and the private sector.
