CoDoc - Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Model

CoDoc – Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Model is the University of Vaasa's collaborative model that integrates a company's or third party's research topic into the doctoral researcher's research topic. The research topics of dissertations within the CoDoc model rise especially from the challenges related to regional companies’ international competitiveness, speeding up the innovation activities and research and development interests. CoDoc is based on a joint funding model, where the partner funds the 4-year doctoral research together with the University of Vaasa. The CoDoc model seeks to deliver added value to all parties involved, covering everything from a joint funding model to scheduling, mentoring and supervision.

You can also get additional information from both the CoDoc leaflet and project card below.

CoDoc leaflet Project Card

Foundation of collaboration

Foundation of CoDoc - Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Model

Connecting for competitiveness
Joint commitment to four-year doctoral research
Opportunities to influence research themes and questions
Research based on provided partner data
Early access to results and outcomes

New knowledge and competitiveness

The CoDoc Vaasa partnership model allows doctoral researchers to tackle real-world issues related to sustainable business, energy and society by utilising support, resources and data of external partner organisations with common interests. Research projects are tailored to the partners specific needs, providing new knowledge to improve competitiveness and create future solutions.

Bringing together the right parties

The CoDoc Vaasa partnership model brings together ambitious and innovative doctoral researchers with relevant partner organisations. It offers opportunities to influence research topics, gain early access to results and link their own R&D with validated independent scientific research. It also builds connections with doctoral-level expertise, considering future employment prospects.

Partners

Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Model offers partners an excellent opportunity to access the latest cutting-edge research in their field. This model integrates strongly with the needs of companies in the province for the development of research-based operations, processes and services.

Potential CoDoc partners from the private sector include companies (both private and listed), associations and individuals. Eligible public sectors partners include for example cities, municipalities and societies.

The collaboration model brings together ambitious and innovative doctoral students with partner organisations that share aligned interests, offering an opportunity to influence research parameters, gain early access to results and link their own R&D with validated independent scientific research. The doctoral researcher's commitment to a 4-year graduation goal ensures partner's early access to their own field's cutting-edge research findings.

During the collaboration, partners benefit from new research knowledge through unique laboratories and research environments, high-quality academic supervision and close ties with the university.

What to expect as a partner

The main objective of the collaboration model is to deliver an academic dissertation
High-quality scientific and academic research
Research results might not meet expectations
Results will be made publicly available
The project has a non-commercial primary objective
A fixed term of 4 years for completion
The partner will fund the research work together with the University of Vaasa

Doctoral researcher

The CoDoc model enables doctoral researchers to address concrete issues related to sustainable business, energy and society by utilising the support, resources and data from external partner organisations with shared interests. Collaboration between the doctoral researcher and the company opens up valuable opportunities for long-term co-operation and career paths in challenging research and specialist positions.

When participating the CoDoc model, the doctoral researcher commits to completing doctoral studies within 4 years. Since the doctoral research will be conducted in collaboration with a company, it is important to consider the company's inputs and request throughout the process.

What can company collaboration bring to your research?

Four-year funding for your PhD project
Real-world implications
Strong support network and a third supervisor from the partner
Access to the partner's data and resources
Career opportunities and networks outside the University
University's support in the contract formulation

If interested, please discuss the possibility of company collaboration with your supervisor.

Supervisor

Regular supervision is an important part of the CoDoc model. Each doctoral student will be assigned two supervisors employed by the University of Vaasa. One of the supervisors must be a professor. The responsible supervisorcan be a professor, qualified professor, docent or associate professor. In exceptional cases, a senior researcher, university lecturer, senior university lecturer or research director with at least docent-level research merits, may be appointed as the responsible supervisor. The second supervisor can be a researcher with a doctorate degree who is well acquainted with the field.

A third supervisor may also be appointed to the doctoral student, who in the case of CoDoc model comes from the collaboration company.

More information on supervision