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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 December 2025 (7,5h) | Writing Intensive (edition 4) | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 16 January 2026 (2,5h) | Effective coaching for internship supervisors (edition 1) (2026) | campus Diepenbeek | More info |
| 19 January 2026 - 30 January 2026 (Self-paced) | How to get published (online edition) | digitally | More info |
| 20 January 2026 (1h) | Information session on the social and societal Ethics Committee | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 26 January 2026 (3h) | Biosafety | campus Diepenbeek | More info |
| 02 February 2026 (2h) | Start session teaching professionalization (HLS) (edition 1 - 2026) | campus Diepenbeek | More info |
| 21 April 2026 (2h) | Information session on intellectual property in academic research (edition 1) | campus Hasselt | More info |
| 27 May 2026 (4h) | Academic writing with generative AI | campus Hasselt | More info |
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