Each participant should submit a document, which includes the following information:

·         a brief background of the applicant including information about prior studies, research topic, publications if any, and possible teaching experience;

·         a summary of his/her research, including motivation, any relevant background, and main literature (3-5 items) to contextualize the research, research questions, methodologies used or planned, and possible results obtained;

·         questions related to the research that the applicant would like to discuss and get feedback on in the doctoral consortium.

The summary will be made available for other participants of the doctoral consortium to allow providing feedback and preparing questions on the research. The research summaries are in free format and should be 2-4 pages long. The following elements must be addressed in the papers and we suggest that you use these as headings for the sections of your submission:

1. A clear formulation of the research question(s),

2. An identification of the significant problems in the field of research,

3. An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions,

4. A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and achieved results,

5. A sketch of the applied research methodology (data collection and analyzing methods)

6. A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution,

7. A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.