Digital Economy Doctoral Training Network

2009年，七个博士培训中心（CDTs）在英国研究理事会支持的数字经济（DE）计划下启动。自这些中心获奖以来，各中心之间开展了一系列合作活动，并为中心主任和经理举行了一系列会议，从而分享了最佳做法，整合了资源，并促进了数字经济领域CDTs内所做工作的卓越性和影响力。拟议的网络将使现有CDT和2013年CDT呼吁中在DE优先领域下资助的CDT开展的合作活动正规化。此外，该网络的建立提供了一个机会，向那些参与博士研究和监督的人开放一些合作计划，包括在DE中心和个人DE相关项目中完成的工作。该网络将提供资源，以支持对这种不断变化的环境的快速反应，并使DE研究生研究（PGR）的学生能够相互合作并参与外部活动。该网络将巩固和扩大DE PGR学生的网络，确保一个大学和博士后团队在未来领导工业界和学术界的DE活动。CDTs在英国研究生教育中仍然是一个相对较新的概念，在数字经济的多学科领域进行研究提出了特殊的新挑战，特别是同事和学生之间的合作。网络内的活动将根据五个主题进行协调：分享最佳实践；2. 大型共享事件；3. 可持续的影响;4. 新的合作计划；5. 社区外展及宣传。该网络将使单独的博士培训中心或中心无法开展的活动成为可能，并特别利用不同机构的数字经济相关活动之间的联系。活动将包括已经被确定为对DE博士生有价值的活动，例如暑期学校，黑客测试或数字经济青年企业家计划，以及由DE研究社区成员提议并由网络支持的活动。资金将支持网络管理员帮助运行和计划事件，并管理网络投标。

In 2009 seven Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) were launched under the Digital Economy (DE) programme supported by Research Councils UK. Since the award of these centres there have been a number of collaborative activities between Centres, as well as a series of meetings for Centre Directors and Managers, that have enabled sharing of best practice, consolidation of resources and contributed to the excellence and impact of the work done within the CDTs in Digital Economy.The proposed network will formalise collaborative activities to be conducted by current CDTs and those that will be funded under the DE priority area within the 2013 CDT call. In addition, the establishment of this network offers the opportunity to open some of the collaborative initiatives to those involved in PhD study and supervision from across the DE programme, encompassing work done in DE hubs and individual DE-related projects. The Network will provide resource to support rapid response to this changing landscape, and enable DE Postgraduate Research (PGR) students to work with each other and engage with external activities. The Network will consolidate and expand the network of DE PGR students, ensuring that a collegiate and engaged group of post docs lead DE activities in industry and academia in the future. CDTs remain a relatively new concept within UK postgraduate education, and conducting research in the multidisciplinary space of digital economy presents particular novel challenges that particularly benefit from collaboration between colleagues and students. Activities within the network will be coordinated under five themes: 1. Sharing Best Practice; 2. Large Scale Shared Events; 3. Sustainable Impact; 4. New Collaborative Initiatives; 5. Community Outreach and Dissemination. The Network will enable activities that would not have been possible to run by individual Centres for Doctoral Training or Hubs alone, and which take particular advantage of the links between Digital Economy related activities at different institutions. Events will comprise both activities that have already been identified as of value to DE doctoral students, such as the summer school, hackfests or Digital Economy Young Entrepreneurs Scheme, and those which are proposed by members of the DE research community and supported by the network. Funding will support a Network Administrator to help run and plan events and manage bids to the network.