PhD training offer

The Flanders Training Network Life Sciences (ƒ-TALES) is a joint training initiative of the 5 Flemish universities (Free University of Brussels, Ghent University, Hasselt University, KU Leuven and University of Antwerp) that offers top class workshops open to doctoral (and...

Bi-weekly friday afternoon seminar sessions (15.30) at the VUB Jette Campus

VUB TechTransfer wishes to create more awareness of entrepreneurship with researchers and young professionals and organizes two courses: the Starter Seminars and the Advanced Starter Seminars. Since 1995 the Starter Seminars provide a short but intensive introduction on the...

During his lecture, Dr. Wieling will provide a hands-on introduction to generalized additive modeling (GAMs).

The training programme “Managing my PhD” is specifically designed for PhD students who have been working on their PhD project during 6 to 12 months. These sessions are for students of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences. 

Introduction to Prodrugs and Related Technology Short-type PhD level course (3 x 2h) – Michel Guillaume, PhD. – October 2018 This course consists of 3 modules of 2 hours each: •          Module 1: Thursday 4 October, 16-18h •          Module 2: Thursday 11 October, 16-18h •      ...

Don’t miss the biggest European Career fair for PhD Talent on October 5th, 2018 (9 – 18h). The event is hosted in the city of love: Paris, so this location may as well inspire you to fall in love with your next job. 120 potential employers will be presenting themselves and their...

Find out how to make your voice heard in public debates about science.

As the name suggests, the Introduction Day is meant to welcome starting PhD candidates and gives them essential information about the VUB’s research culture.

The PhD Day is an event organized by the Researcher Training & Development Office and the Doctoral Schools for PhD candidates and Researchers to broaden their research and career perspectives. 

Do you...

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

•Do you have an idea to make our world a better place, yet no clue where to start?...

Workshop 1 in the series ‘Research presentations and posters with impact’...

In this workshop we want to do three things: (1) Explain the benefits of bibliographic software to insert citations and generate reference-lists in word-processing software, but also to manage (annotated) pdfs. (2) Give an overview of the features of some of the more popular...

Who you are and who you know in your professional environment is becoming increasingly important. Just by knowing the right people, you can create the perfect opportunity to make it happen.

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

Information retrieval spans over its influence on a multitude aspects in research. It is not simply a set of mechanical searches, but an ongoing process linked to different stages throughout your research. Effective and successful information retrieval requires information literacy...

Excellent science is not enough for writing a successful grant proposal. To get funded, you also need excellent grant writing skills. 

In this course, you gain insight in how cultures differ. You assess your own cultural background and ‘natural or intuitive’ ways of communicating, and how that impacts your academic and professional activities. You develop cultural competence to improve your communication skills in...

Mindfulness (voluit Mindfulness-Based Stress Reductie) is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde vorm van aandachttraining waarin je vaardigheden leert om beter om te gaan met de gevolgen van stress. Het programma combineert aandachttechnieken (die hun oorsprong hebben in...

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

When do you learn the most? When someone tells you the solution or when someone helps you find your own solution? How can you help your students or researchers to help themselves?

The Researcher Training & Development Office and the Doctoral Schools in collaboration with the VUB Career Center present the Career Coaching Course for PhDs!

The modern knowledge worker has to read more and more in our information society. Without proper training, our average/habitual reading speed of 250 words per minute would require more than 6 hours per day to remain up to date.

Campusliteratuur: Literaire en intermediale constructies van de universitaire wereld...

Research projects involving live, non-human, vertebrate animals, performed on- or off-campus by students or staff of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), must receive ethical clearance. Therefore, a project application needs to be submitted to the Ethical Committee for Laboratory...

The largest career fair for Bio, Chemistry, Food & Pharma in Belgium.

This workshop presents a short demo on how to use the Web of Science for research information retrieval using several search strategies.

How to captivate your audience, get your message across and avoid that no-one gets distracted while you are presenting? 

As the name suggests, the Introduction Day is meant to welcome starting PhD candidates and gives them essential information about the VUB’s research culture.

Information retrieval spans over its influence on a multitude aspects in research. It is not simply a set of mechanical searches, but an ongoing process linked to different stages throughout your research. Effective and successful information retrieval requires information literacy...

The modern knowledge worker has to read more and more in our information society. Without proper training, our average/habitual reading speed of 250 words per minute would require more than 6 hours per day to remain up to date.

This workshop presents a short demo on how to use the Web of Science for research information retrieval using several search strategies.

Setting up the research question should be the result of trial and error accompanied by the literature study. Too often, the research question is either seen as the climax of a literature study, or vice versa, as a means to expand the initial research question into other fields....

The Central PhD Office organises a workshop on the use of MS Excel in an academic context.  

An intake test will be organized to measure your level of English*. You need to complete the test after preregistration, and then you will receive an email which course you are enrolled in....

How do you structure and write your research paper to give it the best chance with a journal? Learn about the conventions of research paper styles and find out ways to make your writing clearer and more concise.

This one-day workshop for researchers seeking to publish in international peer-reviewed journals focuses on the key criteria involved in journal editors’ selection processes and peer-review.  Based on the inside knowledge of an experienced academic publisher, it is designed to...

A one-day intensive training session on writing research abstracts - a key form of scholarly communication - in the humanities and social sciences.

"Publishing is an essential part of science, as it enables others to learn from your work, build on it, and give you credit for it. But many research papers fail to present the results and conclusions and their importance clearly and engagingly, and so they get fewer readers and...

Workshop 1 in the series ‘Research presentations and posters with impact’...

Presenting your research at an academic conference can be a daunting experience.  Even before you get there, there is the question of identifying the right conference to make your debut, submitting an abstract and getting accepted - and of course writing the paper.  What makes an...

This 1 day workshop gives you background and practical tips to deal with the media as a researcher. How and when do you contact the press? What if they do not contact you? What if they do? We look at how you can prepare yourself for an interview by a journalist from written press,...

Convinced  that robots, machine learning, AI are the primary ICT technologies? Or will it be something else? 

How do you structure and write your research paper to give it the best chance with a journal? Learn about the conventions of research paper styles and find out ways to make your writing clearer and more concise.

The Flanders Training Network Life Sciences (ƒ-TALES) is a joint training initiative of the 5 Flemish universities (Free University of Brussels, Ghent University, Hasselt University, KU Leuven and University of Antwerp) that offers top class workshops open to doctoral (and...

Bi-weekly friday afternoon seminar sessions (15.30) at the VUB Jette Campus

Introduction to Prodrugs and Related Technology Short-type PhD level course (3 x 2h) – Michel Guillaume, PhD. – October 2018 This course consists of 3 modules of 2 hours each: •          Module 1: Thursday 4 October, 16-18h •          Module 2: Thursday 11 October, 16-18h •      ...

Excellent science is not enough for writing a successful grant proposal. To get funded, you also need excellent grant writing skills. 

During his lecture, Dr. Wieling will provide a hands-on introduction to generalized additive modeling (GAMs).

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

In this workshop we want to do three things: (1) Explain the benefits of bibliographic software to insert citations and generate reference-lists in word-processing software, but also to manage (annotated) pdfs. (2) Give an overview of the features of some of the more popular...

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

The training programme “Managing my PhD” is specifically designed for PhD students who have been working on their PhD project during 6 to 12 months. These sessions are for students of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences. 

Do you...

When do you learn the most? When someone tells you the solution or when someone helps you find your own solution? How can you help your students or researchers to help themselves?

As a Post-Doctoral researcher, your ultimate goal is to be an expert in your field. However, in order to be recognized as such and to have impact with your knowledge, communication and influencing skills are essential. Both for a career within academia as well as outside of the...

Find out how to make your voice heard in public debates about science.

Who you are and who you know in your professional environment is becoming increasingly important. Just by knowing the right people, you can create the perfect opportunity to make it happen.

In this course, you gain insight in how cultures differ. You assess your own cultural background and ‘natural or intuitive’ ways of communicating, and how that impacts your academic and professional activities. You develop cultural competence to improve your communication skills in...

In this training we build up knowledge and experience on creativity and the creative process. The purpose is not to achieve a technical or artistic innovative output during the training. The focus is on how to stimulate creative thinking in a group. Therefore we practice a number ...

In this course, you learn to map your position within the international team and within your network of international relations, interests and stakeholders. This will help you to understand who you are and what you want to achieve, what others expect from you and how you can manage...

Mindfulness (voluit Mindfulness-Based Stress Reductie) is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde vorm van aandachttraining waarin je vaardigheden leert om beter om te gaan met de gevolgen van stress. Het programma combineert aandachttechnieken (die hun oorsprong hebben in...

We all find it easy to deliver positive messages to people that we like, but can find it extremely difficult to do the same with negative messages (saying no to something, for example). This gets even more difficult when we have a strained relationship with someone; a boss,...

Don’t miss the biggest European Career fair for PhD Talent on October 5th, 2018 (9 – 18h). The event is hosted in the city of love: Paris, so this location may as well inspire you to fall in love with your next job. 120 potential employers will be presenting themselves and their...

The largest career fair for Bio, Chemistry, Food & Pharma in Belgium.

Basic Toolkit for PhD-Students: Preparing for the transition into the job market

The Researcher Training & Development Office and the Doctoral Schools in collaboration with the VUB Career Center present the Career Coaching Course for PhDs!

VUB TechTransfer wishes to create more awareness of entrepreneurship with researchers and young professionals and organizes two courses: the Starter Seminars and the Advanced Starter Seminars. Since 1995 the Starter Seminars provide a short but intensive introduction on the...

•Do you have an idea to make our world a better place, yet no clue where to start?...