Training Program Molecular Biosciences (A 794 620 490)

Duration: 3 years
Number of ECTS required: 30

To receive ECTS credits, please remember to sign up for your courses each semester via u:find. 

1. Basic curriculum

- Priming your PhD (please sign up during the first semester after your university registration is complete)
- VBC/RISE Lectures
- Interdisciplinary (= Monday) Seminar (mandatory attendance in every semester)
- Journal Club & Work in Progress (mandatory attendance in every semester)
- Career development plan & mentoring talks) (mandatory attendance in every semester)
- How do you do it?
- Expert groups

2. PhD track-specific courses

- Modern Concepts in Structural Biology 

3. Elective courses

Credits can also be given for attendance at international workshops/congresses (1 ECTS), presentations (talks or posters) at international conferences (2 ECTS), and attendence of core facilitiy training on campus. Send a scan of attendance letters and detailed conference schedule incl. abstract (if applicable) to theresa.huegel@univie.ac.at and it will be taken care of.

 

 

 

Mentoring Meetings

The mentoring meetings are designed to establish a trust-based and productive student-mentor relationship, to clarify mutual expectations and working relationships, to guide the PhD students through their professional development, and to assess the overall status and direction of the project.

Yearly mentoring meetings are a mandatory requirement and the PhD program recommends that they occur more frequently at the start of the PhD. For students employed by the University of Vienna, the annual staff appraisal (Jahresgespräch) can serve as a substitute.

This guide contains discussion points and questions that aim at helping students to independently review their project progress and overall professional development in preparation for the mentoring meeting