OLLSCOIL ISLES IDIRNÁISIÚNTA | ISLES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYUniversity for Doctoral Studies, Postdoctoral Research & Publication
Established Since 2000 in the European Union
OLLSCOIL ISLES IDIRNÁISIÚNTA | ISLES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
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The School of Doctoral Studies (European Union) is the first European academic community of self governed scholars set up to support investigator-driven frontier research.
Working in tandem with the EU bodies’ efforts, its main aim is to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engineers to be adventurous and take risks in their research. The scientists are encouraged to go beyond established frontiers of knowledge and the boundaries of disciplines.
As 'investigator-driven', or 'bottom-up' oriented, the SDS approach allows researchers to identify new opportunities and directions in any field of research, rather than being led by priorities set by politicians. This approach ensures that funds are channelled into new and promising areas of research with a greater degree of flexibility.
SDS sponsorships and grants are awarded through open competition to projects headed by starting and established researchers, irrespective of their origins; the sole criterion for selection is scientific excellence. The aim is to recognise the best ideas, and retain and confer status and visibility to the best brains in Europe, while attracting talent from abroad.
In the long term, the SDS looks to strengthen and shape research methodology worldwide. This is done through high quality peer review, the establishment of international benchmarks of success, and the provision of up-to-date information on who is succeeding and why.
The hope is that these processes will help universities and other research institutions worldwide gauge their performance and encourage them to develop better strategies to establish themselves as more effective global players.
By challenging the brightest minds, the SDS expects that its grants will help to bring about new and unpredictable scientific and technological discoveries - the kind that can form the basis of new industries, markets, and broader social innovations of the future.
Ultimately, the SDS aims to make research base more prepared to respond to the needs of a knowledge-based society and provide with the capabilities in frontier research necessary to meet global challenges.
Dean of the School
Prof. Roel van den Kate
Head of Department
Dr. Jünger Albinger
Head of Department
Prof. Luidolf Bosch
Head of Department
Prof. Mark T. Abel
Head of Department
Prof. Ingmar Bremer
Bottom line activities and efforts at the SDS refer to research work; it is mainly through research that our students develop their doctoral level’s skills; it is through research work our scholars’ community aims to reach its ultimate mission and our individual essence development. Practically everything else within the SDS is meant to support, favour, register and share research work findings and evidence based knowledge fostering.
No limits are established on research ideas and goals, no matter how beyond current edges they may seem; the only basic requirements are quality and best effort.
Research projects at the SDS have been many times designed from ideas rejected at other schools after being considered crazy or outrageous and cutting-edge findings and results have been fostered from this.
At the SDS research projects are structured in collaboration with other universities and research centres, from teamwork between departments or as special projects launched from one of the SDS departments which, with surprising frequency, are joint and enriched on participation of other departments and of other universities.
In order to develop and manage research projects the SDS works closely with the IIU Press and Research Centre’s staff; SDS departments design, approve and manage projects’ designing and development by areas of research, whilst the IIU Press and Research Centre provides support, facilities, logistics and manages projects development by project. This is achieved through the work of Research Committees at SDS departments and of Research Units at the IIU Press and Research Centre.
Areas of research can be accessed at each correspondent SDS Department.
During 2008 the SDS had 123 research projects under development and management, 86 of which were in-house research projects and 37 were research projects developed at other universities or research centres, either leaded by the SDS or incorporating substantial amount of research work done within the SDS developed under terms of collaboration agreements executed with other universities and research centres worldwide.
Additionally, the SDS departments’ structures provide consulting, academic and scientific work support to the EUASC Committee’s work oriented to fostering research work among students from other tuition institutions who submit applications on studies validation, first and double degrees awarding. This job is also done to support the EUASC Committee’s work on evaluation to research activities as part of due diligence performed on tuition institutions EUASC certification processes.
As a result of all the above mentioned, SDS research work has produced over 178,000 highest quality monographs, including research papers, theses and books; additionally, eleven journals are currently published by the IIU Press and Research Centre, three of them only including research works produced at the SDS and eight others including substantial proportions of research work generated within the SDS departments.
IIU Press and Research Centre – Books and Monographs Unit
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