INTENSE project is globally important for PCs and EU as it addresses major environmental challenges in PCs, which are caused by poorly formulated policies, inadequate selection of management actions and the lack of suitable technology. They need to be addressed by high quality multidisciplinary and end user-oriented research.
Higher education and research in MN, UA, VN have developed for long after USSR organizational and conceptual model, and under the transition to market-based economy and globalization of societies and economies of PCs, doctoral provision had similar problems identified by many national and international observers. For instance, although PhD/aspirantura studies in PCs are recognized as a part of HE system, they are insufficient for developing academic competencies by PhD students, both in relation to subject-specific and transferable skills. The shared problems of PCIs manifest in the poor quality of many dissertations, and in low acceptance rates of papers submitted to international journals, mostly because the research is based on inadequate knowledge of and hence reference to international literature and poor methodology. It is important to address these issues by improving the governance of doctoral training and introducing a robust QA culture.
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