Academic research competences - course offer
Below is an overview of the available training aimed at obtaining knowledge and skills which are specifically relevant in an academic context, open to PhD students and/or postdocs at Hasselt University.
You can filter the course offer on the target group and on the targeted doctoral school(s). In the future, you will also be able to filter on the competency cluster(s) addressed (based on the UHasselt competency overview for PhD holders).
Activities are added to the overview below as soon as a date has been set. For activities entailing multiple sessions, the date mentioned in the first column indicates the start date. The duration is mentioned between brackets. All courses are in English, except when explicitly stated otherwise.
In addition to the courses below, please also check our course offer aimed at developing generic competences, our activities aimed at career development, and the course offer of our partners.
| When | What | Where | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05 May 2026 (1h) | Reworlding Spring school keynote lectures: Co-design as a mediator in governance: The potential of reconfiguring relations between publics, institutions and knowledge | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 06 May 2026 (1h) | Reworlding Spring school keynote lectures: Impact at times of change | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 07 May 2026 (1h) | Reworlding Spring school keynote lectures: Design & the civic economy | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 11 May 2026 - 12 May 2026 (2 x 8h) | Basics of academic writing - 2026 | campus Diepenbeek | More info |
| 26 May 2026 - 28 May 2026 (22,5h) | Systematic review | campus KU Leuven | More info |
| 26 May 2026 (1h) | Meet the jury seminar: Gut microbiome modernization process in the One Health framework | Campus Diepenbeek, room B103 | More info |
| 27 May 2026 (4h) | Academic writing with generative AI | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 01 June 2026 (7h) | Stand out with your scientific poster (edition 1) | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 04 June 2026 - 05 June 2026 (2 x 8h) | qPCR training | campus Diepenbeek | More info |
| 22 June 2026 - 25 June 2026 (4 x 8h) | Summer school 'A first introduction to quantum computing' | TBA | More info |
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