Specialist Courses

Specialist courses (co-)organised by the Doctoral School

After successful participation, the Doctoral School Office will add these courses to your curriculum of the Doctoral Training Programme in Oasis.

Course Title Dates Target audience (by faculty) *1 Competencies as defined in the competency matrix for PhD students*2
Research to Market

AY 2023-2024

All

EX, PL, IS, PR

Expedition DO! 

* counts as 1 specialist course + 1 transferable skills seminar Career management

2023-2024 All

EX, PL, IS, PR

NB-Photonics – Multidisciplinary seminars

* To add this to your curriculum you need at least 16 contact hours

2024-2025

WE

EX, CT

From PhD to SME

March- November 2024

All

EX, PL, IS, PR

SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities 2024

12-16 August 2024

All

EX, CT

Direct and Inverse Problems with Applications, and Related Topics: A Comprehensive Summer School in Mathematical Analysis

19-24 August 2024

WE, EA

EX, CT

Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics

25-31 August 2024

WE

EX, CT

BePa@VIB Proteomics Summer School

26-30 August 2024

WE, BW

EX, CT

Workshop on Proof Theory, Modal Logic and Reflection Principles

2-5 September 2024

WE

EX, CT

Belgian-Dutch-German graduate school in particle physics

2-12 September 2024

WE

EX, CT

Python for GIS and Geoscience

12, 16 and 19 December 2024

WE, EA

EX, CT

Basic MRI Physics

11-12 September 2024

WE

EX, CT

Ex-Soviet Russian Emergency Narratives: Cheers and Tears of the Painful Transformation

11-13 September 2024

RE

EX, CT

Digital PCR based nucleic acid quantification

10-12 September 2024

DI, WE, GE

EX, CT

Basic training in processing and analysing accelerometer data in GGIR

16-17 September 2024

GE

EX, CT

Seasonal School: Cross-cultural explorations into the role of fate, destiny, and predestination as agents for health and wellbeing

16-18 September 2024

LW, GE

EX, CT

Introduction to X-ray computed tomography

16-18 September 2024

WE, BW, LSM, AHL

EX, CT

Summer School - Experiments in Development Economics 2024

16-20 September 2024

All

EX, CT

Hiv Reservoir Characterization Workshop

25-27 September 2024

GE

EX, CT

qPCR course 

26-27 September 2024

WE, BW, GE, DI, FW

EX, CT

Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

ENGLISH edition: 26 September, 3, 10, 17 and 24 October 2024

DUTCH edition: 19 and 26 November, 3, 10 and 17 december 2024 

GE, DI, FW

EX, CT

Causal Inference in Micro-econometrics with Applications to Program Evaluation

4 October - 20 December 2024

PS, PP, EB

EX, CT

Astronomy Seminar Series 2024-2025

4 October 2024 - 11 May 2025

WE

EX, CT

GCND Hackathon: Automatic linguistic annotation and speech recognition of dialects

7 October 2024

LW, RE, PP, EA

EX, CT

Bayesian Statistics

17, 18, 24 and 25 October 2024

PP

EX, CT

A Comprehensive Analysis of Corruption: Typologies, Measurement and Causality

29-31 October 2024

PP, PS, LW, RE, EB

EX, CT

Comparing Argument Marking in Romance: a focus on Romanian

11-13 December 2024

LW

EX, CT

Interdisciplinary pathways for ecological and social resilience: a doctoral winter school

13-17 January 2025

All

EX, CT

Introduction to Process and Product Engineering (IP2E)

February 2025

WE

EX, CT

*1Doctoral candidates can subscribe to any specialist course, independently of the faculty to which they are affiliated.
Faculty abbreviations: 
LW (Arts and Philosophy), RE (Law and Criminology), WE (Sciences), GE (Medicine and Health Sciences), EA (Engineering and Architecture), EB (Economics and Business Administration), DI (Veterinary Medicine), PP (Psychology and Educational Sciences), BW (Bioscience Engineering), FW (Pharmaceutical Sciences), PS (Political Sciences).

*2 Every competency belongs to one of the skill clusters defined in the competence matrix for PhD students: EX: Expertise; CT: Critical Thinking; PL: Professional Leadership; IS: Interpersonal Skills; PR: Professionalism.

Science Academy (IPVW) and Flames

After successful participation, the Doctoral School Office will add these courses to your curriculum of the Doctoral Training Programme in Oasis.

Course title Dates  Organiser
Module 4 - Drawing Conclusions from Data: an Introduction November and December 2024  IPVW
Module 5 - Getting Started with Python for Data Scientists December 2024 IPVW
Module 7 - Exploiting Sources of Variation in your Data: the ANOVA Approach January and Februay 2025 IPVW
Module 9 - High Dimensional Data Analysis January 2025 IPVW
Module 10 - Explaining and Predicting Outcomes with Linear Regression February and March 2025 IPVW
Module 11- Machine Learning with Python April, May and June 2025 IPVW
Module 12 - Meta-Analysis May 2025 IPVW

Selection of other courses

PhD students who want to include one of the courses listed below or any other course (not (co-)organised by the Doctoral School) in their Doctoral Training Programme are required to submit an application for recognition.

Course Title Dates Organiser

The ABC of 5G: Technical, Business, and Regulation perspectives (ENG)

12 – 26 September 2024 UGain
Linked Data & Solid 26 September 2024 – 16 January 2025 UGain

Explainable & Trustworthy AI

30 September 2024 – 16 December 2024 UGain
Futureproof databeheer – Waarheidsgetrouwheid in Databases & AI  (NL) 10 October 2024 – 19 December 2024 UGain

Deep learning: van theorie tot praktijk (NL)

15 October 2024 – 10 December 2024 UGain

Circulair bouwen: van materialen tot bouwproject (NL)

17 October 2024 – 27 Maart 2025 UGain
Starten met R (Dutch)

Fall edition: October 8, 15,22 & November 5,12,19 2024

Winter edition: February 11,18,25 and March 11,18,25 2025

Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Trainings on bioinformatics in microbial genomics On request  BCCM
Trainings on plasmids and plasmid host strains On request BCCM
Trainings on fungi in human and animal health On request BCCM
Trainings on bacteriology On request BCCM
Trainings on agro-food and environmental fungi On request BCCM
Trainings on cyanobacteria On request BCCM

Intellectual Property and Valorization

OASIS course code I001967

See website Ghent University
VIB Training Initiatives See website VIB

Course list PhD in (Business) Economics

See website Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

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