Center for Political Courage (CPC) organized the seminar on research skills, critical thinking and academic writing on December 23rd and 24th, 2019. Participants were students from various faculties of the University of Prishtina, selected through the open call for applications within the project “Advocacy for the Promotion of Academic Integrity and Quality in Higher Education”. This seminar was lectured by Mr. Vigan Jashari and Ms. Lirije Palushi.
The key themes of this seminar were among others: scientific research, research steps, publications and authorship, critical and creative thinking, essay and papers writing. In addition to the highly dynamic lectures and discussions, participants also engaged in group workshops, practicing some of the good practices of the topics addressed during the workshop.
This seminar was organized as part of the project “Advocacy for the Promotion of Academic Integrity and Quality in Higher Education”. The project aims to improve the key policies that regulate the issues mentioned above as well as the development of critical thinking, academic writing and soft skills among the first and second-year students of the University of Prishtina.
The project “Advocacy for the Promotion of Academic Integrity and Quality in Higher Education” is supported by the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS), within the Coalition for Integrity and Transparency at the University (KITU).