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. Online lecture Jean-Luc Doumont: Networking for researchers (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 17/06/24 - 14:00-16:00
Registration is required

2. Overcoming procrastination - getting things done (all DS)

Takes place on 18/06/24 - 13:30-16:30
Registration possible until 22/05/24

3. Bullet journaling as a tool for planning my research (all DS)

Takes place on 24/06/24 - 10:00-12:00
Registration possible until 26/05/24

4. Let's Talk Science, a taste of science communication (all DS)

Takes place between 02 & 04/07/24
Registration is required

5. Presentation clinic (all DS)

Takes place on 23/09/24 - 09:30-12:30
Registration possible until 25/08/24

6. Postgraduaat Bedrijfskunde (all DS) (Dutch)

Takes place in academic year 2024-2025
Registration possible until 20/06/24

Details & registration

1. Meet the Jury seminar 'One protein, multiple phenotypes: the hurdles of MPZ and CMT neuropathies' (all DS)

Takes place on 17/05/24 - 10:00-11:00
Registration is required

2. Writing Intensive (DS BSH)

Takes place on 21/05/24 - 09:30-17:30
Registration is required

3. Meet the Jury seminar 'From status to contract? A macrohistory of early-modern English caselaw and print culture' (all DS)

Takes place on 24/05/24 - 12:00-13:00
Registration is required

4. Info session on intellectual property rights (DS HLS)

Takes place on 06/06/24 - 10:00-12:00
Registration possible until 16/05/24

5. Meet the Jury seminar 'Beyond models and data: a sociotechnical approach to explain machine learning decision making' (all DS)

Takes place on 17/06/24 - 13:00-14:00
Registration is required

6. Publication ethics: Where are the gaps and how can we address them (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 20 & 27/06/24 - (group 1: 09:00-10:30, group 2: 11:00-12:30, group 3: 13:30-15:00) and 21 & 28/06/24 - (group 4 : 09:00-10:30, group 5: 11:00-12:30)
Registration possible until 22/05/23

7. Summer school on "Adaptive methods and a posteriori error estimation" (DS ST)

Takes place between 24 & 27/06/24 - 09:00-17:00
Registration possible until 25/05/24

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

Takes place on 26/06/24 - 09:00-17:00
Registration possible until 27/05/24

9. How to get published (all DS)

Takes place between 08 & 19/07/24 (self-paced course)
Registration possible until 10/06/24

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

Takes place online (permanently accessible)

Details & registration

1. Company visit: Haletra (all DS)

Takes place on 04/06/24 - 10:00-13:00
Registration possible until 20/05/24

2. Yes, I can! Assessing strengths and competences (all DS)

Takes place on 10/06/24 - 14:00-18:00
Registration possible until 31/05/24

3. Try out the big interview training tool (all DS)

Takes place on 11/06/24 - 10:00-11:00
Registration possible until 31/05/24

4. myCareerCompass: Discover your professional DNA (all DS)

Takes place on 11 & 19/06/24
Registration possible until 31/05/24

5. Entrepreneurship: Can I do it? Why would I want to? (all DS)

Takes place on 11/06/24 - 14:00-17:00
Registration possible until 30/05/24

6. Personal branding to ace your job interview (all DS)

Takes place on 13 & 26/06/24 - 09:00-17:00
Registration possible until 20/05/24

7. From academia to industry - personal brand building in your resume (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 18/09 (workshop: 12:00-14:00) & 25/09/24 (CV coaching: 30 min between 09:00-18:00)
Registration possible until 18/08/24

8. 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

Ans Insights: ontdek de kracht van digitaal beoordelen (NL) - 14/05/24 - 10:00-12:00
Een civic opleidingsonderdeel vormgeven: hoe doe je dat? (NL) - 15/05/24 - 14:00-16:00
GDPR bij bachelor- en masterproeven (NL) - 16/05/24 - 14:00-15:30
Competenties evalueren en opvolgen met de digitale tool "COCKpit" (NL) - 28/05/24 - 13:00-15:00

2. Research data management (RDM)

Data management plan - DMP writing session - 14/05/24 - 13:00-15:00
Wrapping up your research project - 21/05/24 - 10:00-12:00
Data management plan - DMP writing session - 25/06/24 - 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. This offer is also open to all PhD researchers and postdoctoral researchers. Hungry for additional brainfood? Discover GoodHabitz, an online learning platform where you can choose from over 100 courses at your own pace and on your own schedule, available in 7 languages.

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 R (digitally) - 04, 06, 11, 13 & 18/06/24 - 09:00-12:00
FLAMES Summer School 2024 (hybrid) - 09-20/09/24

6. Interuniversity course offer for young researchers

The doctoral schools of Hasselt University partner with the other four Flemish universities which results in an interuniversity course offer open for young researchers of the five partner universities.

7. EURECA-PRO

The EURECA-PRO Alliance consists of 9 partners who joined forces to enable students, researchers and staff to study, teach and research in the field of responsible consumption and production with the long-term goal of a joined virtual and integrated European campus until 2040. They also organize regular activities for (young) researchers.

8. Pitch Please

Pitch Please wil jongeren inspireren, informeren, uitdagen en ondersteunen om hun ondernemende kwaliteiten aan te scherpen. Een overzicht van de Pitch Please activiteiten kan je online terugvinden.

Pitch Please slotevenement - 07/05/24

9. 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/postdocs are listed; the others can be found on the VAIA website.

10. Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC)