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• Is it possible to spend an extended period (say, a year) at another university?
• (Peter)   I would say that in general it is possible to stay abroad for longer   than just a couple of months. As with all types of grants/fellowships,  I  suggest that you first check your university's exchange programs.  After  that you could check out funding on the national level (public  and  private). Finally, also the European Union has a program for  individual  researchers; it is called Marie Curie: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about-mca/actions/index_en.htm I am not sure if they offer individual grants for PhDs but you should check it out.
• Is    this common or encouraged in a PhD program? As far as I know,    internships or research visits are quite common, but these generally    last only one to three months. Has anybody spent a year abroad during    their PhD?
• Do you think it would be adviseable to do this?
• (Rene)   I guess one of the issues you have to think about is how to maintain   the focus of your work. When you join a remote team, typically you'll   contribute to their project and focus. If this doesn't exactly fit the core of your thesis but is just a side aspect, a year sounds very long.
• (Patrick)   Basically, I was given the same advice: Going abroad is always a good   idea, but you shouldn't count on making any progress regarding your PhD   during that time ;) However, you should probably also check the terms  of  your PhD program and talk to your supervisor.
• (Peter)   I would say that depends strongly on the type of funding that you   receive during this period. If you are funded by a joint project, or   even by the institution that you are visiting, then you might find   yourself caught up in their research. If you, however, have your "own"   funding (e.g. through a fellowship), then you do not need to report to   the institution but rather to the fellowship. This gives you much more   flexibility on what you choose to work on. Generally, I also prefer   shorter stays but I would absolutely recommend to go abroad for some   time during your PhD - it is very rewarding and you might even find   yourself having more time for your PhD as you are not involved in the   day-to-day operations of your home institution any more.

• Anyone who is currently working on a PhD thesis dealing with knowledge management, knowledge technologies or semantic technologies, knowledge context, sensors, and mobile devices, knowledge evolution and discovery, Linked Data or the Semantic Web. 
• PhD students with questions about how to proceed with a particular PhD project or who want to receive feedback on ideas or methodologies. 
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• Linked Data for Non-Expert Users (Patrick Höfler)
• Adaptive Information Extraction for Structuring of Textual Documents
• Understand and support meaning making in socio technical systems (Sebastian Dennerlein)
• Virtual Director Technology (Rene Kaiser)
• Collaboration Support Mediated by Ubiquitous Personal Computing Technology
• Professional Development approach to motivate teachers to overcome the second-order barriers ofICT integration in Higher Education.(Willy Castro G.).
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• Are there any good open access computer science journals?
• Which research community is the right one for me?
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• What tools do you use for paper writing and reference management?
• How do you make sure your thesis is focused enough?
• How to evaluate if your contribution is a new concept rather than something measurable?
• When is it finished?
• If you have to change your topic - what to do?
• Self organization (in particular during writing)
• Time Management
• Motivation
• Publications - also the role of publishers is changing
• "Should I really do it?"
• Aligning your PhD with the goals of a project
• Communicate, sell, market your topic (if they don't get it, it is YOUR problem)
• Find your community
• Research visits pay off
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• (Please add anything you think is currently missing!)

• Rene Kaiser (Joanneum Research, rene.kaiser@joanneum.at, @rene_kaiser on Twitter)
• Sebastian  Dennerlein (Knowledge Technologies Institute, Graz University of  Technology, sdennerlein@know-center.at, @SDennerlein on Twitter)
• Carla Barreiros (Know-Center, cbarreiros@know-center.at)