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GRASCOMPGraduate School in Computing Science |
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Objectives of the graduate school
Scientific objectives
To provide computer science PhD students with high level scientific support, in the Belgium's French Community.
To organize a large range of advanced training courses in various domains of computing science including emergent domains.
To organize a transversal training to scientific communication: technical writing and oral presentation.
To facilitate PhD student's mobility and their integration in the international scientific community, through participation ot seminars, summer schools, workshops and international meetings..
To foster exchange between PhD students in the Belgium's French Community and between research team working on related topics.
GRASCOMP organizes therefore different kind of activities:
training courses and seminars most often concentrated on a few half days;
thematic days which aim to bring together researchers working on similar topics but in different universities;
the research contact day which aim to bring together all the researchers involved in GRASCOMP; presentation of their works by PhD students should improve the mutual awareness of the participants and to foster future initiatives;
an industrial contact day probably organized in collaboration with the university of Lille.
This web site gives also a list of summer schools related to computing science. These are not organized by GRASCOMP but could round off the PhD student's training.
Scientific Commitee
The scientific commitee gathers one academic member of each university, and since September 2009, representatives of the PhD students for each institution.
in 2010 :
- Stefan Langerman (ULB)
- Guy Leduc (ULg)
- Pierre Manneback (UMons) - Chairman
- Hadrien Mélot (UMons)
- Kim Mens (UCL)
- Laurent Schumacher (FUNDP)
- Chantal Poncin (Secretary)
- Nadia Kabbali et Jérôme Vervier (PhD student ULB)
- Stefan Beauport (PhD Student UMons)
- Séweryn Dynerowisz et Abdelkader Heni (PhD Student FUNDP)
- Jean-François Degbomont (PhD Student ULg)
- representatives of UCL PhD Students.
Origin of the graduate school
Belgium's French Community impose PhD students to follow a training of 60 ECTS.
They are different ways to get these ECTS:
- to attend to courses proposed by a graduate school,
- to publish articles in well-known revues,
- etc.
The PhD commission of the domain determines these ways of getting ECTS.
The GRASCOMP graduate school gathers research teams in computing science from six universities and three academies of the Belgium's French Community. According to the university, the computing science research team depends on the faculty of sciences or on the faculty of applied sciences. They are therefore at least 5 different PhD commissions related to computing sciences:
| Academy | University | PhD Comission |
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| Académie Louvain | UCL | Applied Sciences |
| Académie Louvain | FUNDP | Sciences |
| Académie Wallonie-Bruxelles | ULB | Applied Sciences |
| Académie Wallonie-Bruxelles | UMons | Sciences and Applied Sciences |
| Académie Wallonie-Europe | Ulg | Applied Sciences |
This list is not exhaustive, PhD students should get information from their supervisors. Academy and faculty determine the PhD commission and therefore the rules relevant for the student.
In this context, the role of graduate schools and specially GRASCOMP
- is not to deliver diploma (responsibility of the university),
- is to provide PhD students with a large choice of advanced training courses in various domains of computing science,
- is to deliver certificates of course attendance with the associated number of ECTS.