Newsletter | February 16, 2023

This newsletter provides an overview of all upcoming activities for PhD students organized by the doctoral schools and links to other potentially interesting events or information.

More details on, and registration links for, upcoming activities are available on the website of the doctoral schools. When you enrol for a doctoral school activity, make sure to take our cancellation & no-show policy into account. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at all times on doctoralschools@uhasselt.be.

1. Interuniversity job market for young researchers, including online pre-program

After three successful editions, the 5 Flemish universities again organise an interuniversity job market for young researchers. The 2023 edition will be organised in Ghent (Flanders Expo) and will open its physical doors on March 23, 2023 (12:00-18:00). Registration is now possible! The live job fair will be preceded by an online preparatory pre-program, which includes CV checks and speed career coaching on March 9, as well as a number of Career Lunches hosted between February 7 and March 16. Registration for the online program is also open!

2. Doctoral schools mobility call 2 - 2023

Hasselt University encourages its junior researchers' international and intersectoral mobility and wants to promote (international) contacts between research groups. Thanks to the Flemish Government's financial support, Hasselt University doctoral schools can award travel grants to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers for participation in an international summer school or a short research stay abroad. Also, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers can be awarded intersectoral mobility grants for intersectoral summer schools or research projects conducted at and in collaboration with non-academic institutions (companies, hospitals, …). This second call for 2023 concerns the period May - December 2023. Deadline of submission is 12/03/2023 and the activity (summer school or research stay) needs to take place between 01/05/2023 and 31/12/2023. More information about the requirements, selection criteria, financial support and application procedure can be found online.

3. FLAMES annual meeting - Let citizens strengthen your research

The Flames Annual Meeting is an annual one-day symposium targeting hot topics of relevance to society and the place of statistics and methodology therein, at which prominent speakers will share their insights. This year, the FAM is hosted by Hasselt University and will take place on April 28, 2023. The topic of this hybrid symposium will be citizen science. Involving citizens in your research gives you new data, knowledge and perspectives. Next to that people become more aware of the research you are doing. However, there are also some challenges which we will tackle in our keynote lectures, such as dealing with ethnic differences, sharing and storing your data, and dealing with incorrect or imbalanced data. You will be able to learn from the experiences of fellow researchers and have the possibility to come into contact with SCIVIL to learn how they can support you in your citizen science project!

4. Pitch please events

Discover & Brand Yourself - hoe zet ik mezelf in de markt? - 16/02/23 - 19:30-22:30

Jezelf in de markt zetten, hoe doe je dat? Welke oefening kan je zelf doen om jouw eigen sterke punten volop in de kijker te zetten? Want als je die goed kent en duidelijk uitstraalt, weten professionals meteen waarom ze voor jou moeten kiezen. En dat is hetgeen je in deze workshop uitgelegd wordt.

Prijs bepalen? Ontdek de 'waarde' van je werk. - 27/02/23 - 19:30-21:00

Welke rekenlogica kan je gebruiken om een (uur)prijs te bepalen? Hoe doe je dat voor creatief werk? Wat ga je voor een opdracht vragen? Hoe kom je tot een correcte offerte? Wat verdien je er aan? Typische vragen die elk ondernemend iemand zich stelt. Leer in deze sessie, handige tools die je meteen kan gebruiken

Reeks infosessies: Hoe starten als zelfstandige in jouw sector? - 06/03/23 - 19:30-23:00

Wil je starten als ondernemer als hoofd- of bijberoep? In een specifiek creatief of vrij beroep? Heb je een idee en wil je starten met ondernemen? Samen met jou wordt op deze info-avond stil gestaan bij enkele praktische zaken.

Heb je vragen over deze events, een vaag of al heel concreet business idee, aarzel niet en contacteer Els Huysman (StudentStartUP).

5. Meet the jury seminars

Are you planning your doctoral defence in the near future? Does your jury consist of internationally renowned experts? Grab this opportunity to organize a lecture by one of your external jury members, open for PhD researchers from different research groups at UHasselt and in the wider Flanders region. You can apply for financial support to (partly) recover travel expenses. The selection criteria and procedure can be found here.

Details & registration

1. Dutch language course (all DS)

Takes place between 27/02 & 31/05/23
Registration is required

2. Creating effective presentation slides (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 13/03/23 -14:00-16:00
Registration is required

3. Fast forward: Project management and personal productivity training for researchers (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 26/04 (kick-off: 10:00-11:30) & 03, 10, 17, 24 & 31/05 & 07/06/23 (obligatory Q&A sessions: 17:00-18:00)
Optional info session on 31/03/23
Registration possible until 10/04/23

4. Personal time management (all DS)

Takes place on 28/04 (09:00-17:00) & 10/05/23 (13:00-17:00)
Registration is possible until 26/03/23

5. Female brain power: (Self-)leadership module for female professionals (all DS)

Takes place on 02-03/05 & 05-06/06/23 (09:30-17:00)
Registration possible until 02/04/23

6. Networking for researchers (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 03/05/23 -14:00-16:00
Registration is required

7. Effective habits building (all DS)

Takes place on 24/05/23 -13:00-17:00
Registration is possible until 23/04/23

8. Managing my PhD (all DS)

Takes place on 30/05 (09:00-16:00) & 21/06/23 (13:00-17:00)
Registration possible until 01/05/23

9. Stress and resilience for researchers (all DS)

Takes place on 31/05 & 27/06/23 - 13:00-17:00
Registration possible until 24/04/23

Details & registration

1. PhD seminar series: ARK research seminar IP & copyright (DS BSH - fac ARK)

Takes place on 07/03/23 - 14:00-17:00
Registration is required

2. Pre-meeting conference Orpheus: Science communication and open science (all DS but focus on HLS)

Takes place on 13/04/23 - 09:00-16:00
Registration is required

3. How to get published (all DS)

Takes place on 17 & 24/04/23 - 09:30-17:00
Registration possible until 13/03/23

4. Cochrane Systematic Review (DS HLS)

Takes place on 24, 25 & 27/04/23 - 09:00-16:45
Registration possible until 06/04/23

5. qPCR training (DS HLS & ST)

Takes place on 04 & 05/05/23 - 09:00-17:00
Registration possible until 06/04/23

6. What does it mean to be a researcher in 21st century academia? (all DS)

Takes place on 05, 11 & 12/05/23 - 10:00-16:30
Registration is possible until 17/04/23

7. How to succeed in academic publishing, with visuals (all DS)

Takes place on 26/05/23 - 09:00-17:00
Registration possible until 23/04/23

8. Knowledge for growth (DS HLS)

Takes place on 01/06/23 - 09:00-17:00
Registration required (abstract deadline: 16/04/23)

9. Mind the GAP (Good Academic Practices) (all DS)

Takes place online (permanently accessible)

Details & registration

1. Career lunches: tap into a wealth of information (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 7, 14, 16, 23 & 28/02/23 & 02, 07, 14 & 16/03/23 - 12:00-13:00
Registration is required for each separate career lunch

2. Online CV analysis & speed career coaching, within the framework of the interuniversity job market (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 09/03/23
Registration is required

3. Interuniversity job market for young researchers (all DS)

Takes place on 28/03/23 - 12:00-18:00
Registration is required

4. Welcome to the real world - What is your role as PhD in R&D? (all DS)

Takes place on 02/05/23 - 09:00-16:30
Registration possible until 26/03/23

5. Individual career coaching (all DS)

Continuous offer
Application is required

The doctoral schools partner with several other departments and organisations. Below is an overview of their upcoming activities. For more information regarding their course offer and acknowledgement in your doctoral school portfolio, please consult this webpage.

1. Education department

- Welkom in blackboard ultra (NL) - diverse data - 13:00-15:00
- Middag(h)appje: Camtasia (NL) - 17/03/23 - 12:00-13:00
- Using Google tools in your teaching (ENG - hybrid) - 30/03/23 - 13:00-15:00
- Apps & tools in het onderwijs (NL) - 25/04/23 - 13:00-15:00
- Civic opleidingsonderdeel vormgeven: hoe doe je dat? (NL) - 26/04/23 - 10:00-12:00
- Middag(h)appje: Google jamboard (NL - digitally) - 03/05/23 - 12:15-12:45
- Redelijke faciliteiten/bijzondere omstandigheden (NL) - 11/05/23- 10:00-12:00
- Middag(h)appje: Camtasia voor gevorderden (NL) - 12/05/23 - 13:00-15:00
- Middag(h)appje: Quiztool (NL - digitally) - 16/05/23 - 12:15-12:45

2. Research data management (RDM)

- Love data week - 13-17/02/23
- Writing a Data Management Plan (FWO/BOF/IOF/VLAIO) - 02/03/23 - 10:00-12:00
- Open Source Software License - 16/03/23 - 09:00-11:00
- Exploring Research Data Management - 18/04/23 - 13:00-15:00
- Writing a Data Management Plan (FWO/BOF/IOF/VLAIO) - 25/04/23 - 13:00-15:00
- Wrapping up your research project: what about the data? - 09/05/23 - 13:00-15:00
- FRDN network day: 'Imaging the future of Open Science Flanders together' - 11/05/23
- Eureka!: on finding and re-using secondary data - 23/05/23 - 13:00-15:00

3. HR Department

Hasselt University encourages personal growth and development among its staff by offering all kinds of trainings and courses throughout the academic year.

4. School of Expert Education (SEE)

Training for professionals, built on academic expertise with the aim of creating a unique learning environment to refine and broaden your expertise.

5. Flanders’ training network for methodology and statistics (FLAMES)

Courses on statistics and methodology, which take place throughout the academic year at all Flemish universities. The FLAMES summer school and courses organized at Hasselt University are listed in this newsletter; the others can be found on the FLAMES website.
- Introduction to statistical data analysis with Python (digitally) - 27/02-16/03/23 - 13:00-16:00
- Introduction to JMP - 31/03/23 - 09:30-15:30
- FLAMES annual meeting - Let citizens strengthen your research - 28/04/23 - 09:00-16:30
- Ethnographic research and observational methods (digitally) - 31/05/23 (09:00-12:00) & 02/06/23 (09:00-13:00)

6. Flanders AI Academy (VAIA)

Courses and trainings on artificial intelligence for professionals and researchers in Flanders which take place throughout the academic year. In this newsletter only activities and trainings specifically organised or interesting for PhD students/posdocs are listed; the others can be found on the VAIA website.

- 2-day masterclass 'AI & digital design tools in architecture' - 11/05-13/05/23

7. Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC)

Trainings on many HPC-related topics which take place throughout the academic year.

1. EURAXESS - Researchers in Motion

2. SciMingo - Science Communication (SciComm) Academy

3. European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM)

4. CAJAL Advanced neuroscience training

5. European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON)

6. NEURO courses UK

7. Academy for Rehabilitation Sciences (ACREHAB)

8. Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)

9. LifeLong Learning @ Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences KU Leuven (FABER)

10. Pro-Q-Kine

11. TUTECH academy

12. DocEnhance

1. FWO – Demoucelle Parkinson Charity PhD fellowship - application deadline: 01/03/23

2. Vacature: Jonge Academie zoekt beleidsmedewerker - deadline 09/03/23

3. CEBAM JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program (CSRTP) - 27/02, 20 & 21/03/23

4. Oswald Vander Veken Prize - application deadline: 01/03/23

5. Scientific Prize Studiecentrum Prinses Joséphine-Charlotte - application deadline: 01/03/23

6. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Award 2023 - application deadline: 01/03/23

7. Europese stages Bernheim - application deadline: 05/03/23

8. Oscar Cube return event - 08/03/23

9. Generet award in rare diseases - pre-proposals deadline: 03/04/23

10. Scientific Prize McKinsey & Company - application deadline: 03/04/23

11. Nokia Bell Scientific Award - application deadline: 12/04/23

12. SCK CEN Chair “Roger Van Geen” 2023 - application deadline: 17/04/23

13. FIRRI Symposium 'Recent advances in rehabilitation of cardiorespiratory and internal diseases' - 28/04/23

14. ReMaT - Research Management Training for early-stage scientists - online - 12-13/06/23

15. BioBusiness Summer School - 19-23/06/23

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