Designing a PhD Programme on TA: An Evaluation of Five Years of Experience

António Moniz [1,2]

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany [1]

Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal [2]

Session on Teaching, Learning and Engaging in, through and about Technology Assessment, PACITA 2nd European Conference on TA - Berlin, 27 February 2015

• Why a Phd programme on TA?
• PhD programme on TA starts at UNL in 2009
• Student numbers
• Interdisciplinarity
• Common TA themes to be learned (60 ECTS)
• Applied research (180 ECTS)- thesis research
• Some joint papers made under international cooperation
• Conclusions