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.

Target group

Doctoral school

Competency cluster(s)

Overview of past activities
WhenWhatWhere
01 January 2023 - 31 December 2024 (continuous offer)Mind the GAP (Good Academic Practices) tooldigitally More info
01 January 2023 - 31 December 2024 (continuous offer)Research data management (RDM): trainings on data management planning (DMP), data organization, data storage/preservation, Open Science, etcdigitally & reallife More info
09 October 2024 (8h)How to succeed in academic publishing, with visuals (edition 2)campus Hasselt More info
11 October 2024 (3h)Critical junior scholar networkcampus VUB More info
11 October 2024 (7,5h)Reworlding kick offcampus Hasselt More info
14 October 2024 (3h)Biosafetycampus Diepenbeek More info
16 October 2024 - 18 October 2024 (3x9h)4th interdisciplinary PhD expert course for young researcherscampus Hasselt More info
17 October 2024 - 10 September 2025 (extended programme)Valorisation Academycampus Diepenbeek More info
22 October 2024 - 24 October 2024 (2 x 4h)Grant-writing skills at the early-career level: Focus on the FWO junior/senior Postdoctoral fellowshipdigitally More info
25 October 2024 (11h)EnergyVille PhD Day 2024: Developing and connecting young researchers in energyEnergyVille More info

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