ProtAIomics · MSCA Doctoral Network

Personal Career Development Plan

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Doctoral candidate and doctoral programme

Choose the type of PCDP review and confirm your doctoral project and university information.

What would you like to do?

Doctoral Candidate and project information

Enter the information exactly as used in ProtAIomics records.

University doctoral programme information

Provide your current doctoral programme information.

University documentation in SharePoint

Please make sure your university documents are uploaded to the designated ProtAIomics SharePoint folder. This declaration must be confirmed at each review.

PCDP review details

The next review date is calculated automatically six months after the date of this PCDP review.

Based on six months and the official public holiday calendar for Barcelona (2026–2027). You may adjust the date if your host institution follows a different calendar.

Email reminders

You can receive a reminder before your next PCDP review. Enter your email address below if you wish to activate this service. You can also leave this blank and continue your PCDP.

A verification email is required. You can stop reminders using the link in any email.

Research plan

Describe your research starting point, your objectives and the main priorities for the next six months.

Briefly describe the scientific question, research context and overall approach of your doctoral project. Focus on the project itself, not a list of expected accomplishments.

Describe your main research objectives for the next six months and the specific experiments, analyses or actions you plan to undertake. Include the expected milestones or outputs.

For your first PCDP, identify possible difficulties or risks that you anticipate, for example with methods, data, samples, resources or timing, and how you might address them.

For your first PCDP, mention only changes already identified compared with the original doctoral project plan. If none, you can write “No changes identified at this stage”.

Research skills development

Choose up to three research skills that are most relevant to your current stage.

Research-skill priorities for the next six months

Start a new plan here. You can select completely different skills, or choose to continue developing a skill from your previous PCDP. Select between 1 and 3 learning priorities and describe the actions you will take.

Research quality and good research practice

These are expected research practices rather than optional development priorities. Select the measures you already use and briefly identify anything that still needs attention.

Publications and other research outputs

Tell us about research outputs you have contributed to since the previous PCDP (or since recruitment, for your first PCDP). The information will help the project management team enter eligible outputs in the European Commission portal.

Scientific publications

Have you authored or co-authored a scientific publication during this reporting period? Include first-author and co-author publications. The fields marked * reflect mandatory fields shown in the EU portal screenshot.

Datasets, repositories and other research results

Have you made a dataset available in a repository, or produced another shareable output (e.g. software, workflow, protocol or prototype)? A repository landing-page URL is mandatory for datasets.

Transferable skills development

Assess your transferable competences across ResearchComp areas, then select 1 to 3 learning priorities and define concrete actions for the next six months.

How to rate your current experience
N/A Not applicable0 No experience1 Foundational2 Intermediate3 Advanced4 Expert

Rate yourself honestly. These self-ratings support personal development and training planning; they are not a performance evaluation. Select 0 if the skill is relevant but you have no experience, and N/A only if it is not applicable to your development.

Competency names follow the European Commission ResearchComp framework. The short descriptions explain what each competence covers. Research-specific technical competences are addressed elsewhere in this PCDP.

0 of 3 learning priorities selected. Select at least one.

Long-term career objectives

Training and professional development

Add completed or planned activities that support your development.

Suggested free training

Optional recommendations based on your selected priorities. Availability may change; links were last verified in October 2026.

Planned secondments

Do you already have a planned secondment?

Dissemination and communication

Record conferences, scientific presentations, dissemination and communication activities from this reporting period. You may add several activities. The project management team will determine which entries are eligible for reporting in the European Commission portal.

Dissemination activities and scientific conferences

Did you attend a conference, give a poster or oral presentation, or carry out another activity to share research results? Conference attendance without presentation can be recorded here for internal monitoring; it is not automatically an EU-reportable dissemination activity.

Communication activities

Did you contribute to any activity aimed at wider audiences, such as a website article, social media post, outreach event, media interview or public engagement activity? Capture the information required by the EU portal.

Discussion with supervisor(s)

The Word PCDP includes a blank section titled Main points and adjustments agreed with supervisor(s). Please complete it together with your supervisor(s) after discussing the plan. You do not need to enter this information in the online form.

Final confirmation

Your download contains the Word PCDP and a structured JSON backup including publications, other outputs, dissemination and communication records. Keep the JSON for your next review; this is not a submission to the European Commission portal.