Dynamol - Training
The ITN network’s purpose is to train the recruited fellows to become world-class researchers. Training elements delivered within this ITN target to improve theoretical skills, practical skills, and complementary skills of the ESRs and ERs.
Each partner will act as supervisors for the fellows during the research projects and they will be responsible for local training at the respective host institution.
Local training will be complemented with secondments of the researchers to the laboratories of other partners and regular network-wide training events.
Secondment Plan
The secondment plan is designed so that the researchers benefit from resources and expertise of different partners. Concrete secondments currently foreseen to be crucial for succesfully realising objectives of this ITN are schematically shown in the graph below with the arrows indicating the direction into which the respective researcher will move.

Network training events
This network-wide training events (6 workshops and a summer school) will ensure that the appointed researchers receive a deep education in the areas most relevant for the overall topic of the network and develop communication and management skills.
Meeting/event | Location | Date | Contributing Partners |
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1st Dynamol Workshop*: Dynamic Covalent Chemistry and Complex Chemical Networks |
France | 8-9 November 2011 | RUG /EPFL / UCAM |
2nd Dynamol Workshop: Molecular Encapsulation | Switzerland | 1-4 March 2012 | TU Kaiserslautern / KTH / UB1 |
3rd Dynamol Workshop: Nanoparticles and Dynamic Materials | Israel | 15-17 July 2012 | ER / Weizmann / U Twente |
Summer School: Dynamic Molecular Nanostrucutres | Groningen | 9-13 September 2013 | All Members + Invited Speakers |
4th Dynamol Workshop: Applications of Nano-sized Compounds and Materials | United Kingdom | 23-27 October 2012 | CAU Kiel / EPFL / Weizmann |
5th Dynamol Workshop: Fundamentals of Nanotechnology | Barcelona | 17-20 April 2013 | U Twente / FoN |
6th Dynamol Workshop**: Research and Development in an Industrial Setting Entrepreneurship / Commercialisation / Intellectual Property Rights |
Lyon | June 2014 | Micronit / Global Phasing / Rhodia Invited Speakers |
*This WS will serve as the kick-off meeting of the network and all group members and invited speakers will participate.
**This WS will serve as the closing workshop of the network and all group members and invited speakers will participate.
Training courses on key techniques
Several key techniques have been identified so important to the field that they should be mastered by every ESR independent of whether these techniques are actually needed for her/his research or not. These techniques will be treated during the workshops and are specified in the following table with the contributing partners indicated.
Workshop No. | Technique | Contributing Partner |
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WS2 | Isothermal Titration Calorimetry | TU Kaiserlauten /RUG / CAU Kiel |
WS4 | X-ray Crystallography | Global Phasing |
WS5 | Microfluidics | Micronit |
WS6 | Microscopy, NMR | WU/FoN |
News
- Joint ReAd-DYNAMOL Summer School - 9-13 Sept. 2013 - Groningen
- 6th DYNAMOL Workshop - June 2014 - Lyon (France)
- 5th DYNAMOL Workshop - 17-20.4.13 - Barcelona
- DYNAMOL Mid-term Review meeting - 23.10.12 - Cambridge
- 4th DYNAMOL Workshop - 24-25.10.12 - Cambridge
- Crystallographic course - 26-27.10.12 - Cambridge