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 |
| The Research Track |
AY 2025-2026
|
All |
PL
|
|
NB-Photonics – Multidisciplinary seminars
* To add this to your curriculum you need at least 16 contact hours
|
2024-2025
|
WE
|
EX, CT
|
| Bioresource Recovery – putting the circular economy to action 2025 |
January 2025 - July 2025
|
BW
|
EX,CT
|
| Open Science in the Social Science |
03 + 04 + 05 + 06 June 2025
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Brain Health and Neurophysiology |
03 + 04 June 2025
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Homological methods in group theory and topology |
10 - 13 June 2025
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Digital PCR based nucleic acid quantification |
11 + 12+ 13 June 2025
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| The Silent Patient: On Medical Silencing and Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare |
16/06+17/06+18/06/2025 |
LW,RE, GE, PP
|
EX,CT
|
| Summer school: Critical approaches to knowledge production with children through narrative, co-creative and/or arts-based research |
24 - 27 June 2025 |
|
|
| EIT Urban Mobility Ghent Summer School 2025 |
26/6 - 4/7/2025 |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| ePIXfab’s 10th Silicon Photonics Summer School |
30 June - 04 July |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Summer School: Methods in Language Sciences |
14 - 18 July 2025 |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Buddhist Material Culture |
26 June - 01 July 2025 (no class on Sunday 29) |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Julia2925 - Edition 2025 |
07 + 08 + 09 July 2025 |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| BePA Proteomics Summer School 2025 |
25 - 29 August 2025 |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Literary and Cultural Studies in Health Humanities: Literature and culture as practices of care |
27 - 29 August 2025 |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics |
1 - 5 September |
ALL |
EX, CT
|
| Materials in Chemistry and Physics |
01 September 2025 - 30 June 2026 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Proof Society Summer School |
01 - 05 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Genetics in Ocular Development (GoOD) |
08 + 09 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Doctoral Colloquium BABEL – Boundary Breaking Developments in the Research on the History of Religions |
10 + 11 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Summer School on Hot Topics on Development in the Global South |
08 - 11 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| AquAntica, an Enlight workshop on Water Management in Antiquity (500 BC-700 AD) |
10 + 11 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Mnemonics Summer School 2025: Memory and Responsibility |
10 - 12 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| More than chat - Wat kan AI betekenen voor ontwerpers |
15-19 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Hiv Reservoir Characterization Workshop |
17 - 19 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Advanced Microscopy: Valorization and Collaboration with Industry |
17 - 19 September 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
|
ENGLISH edition September: 23/09 + 30/09 + 07/10 +14/10 +21/10/2025
DUTCH edition November: 18/11 + 25/11 + 02/12 + 09/12 + 16/12/2025
|
GE, DI, FW
|
EX, CT
|
| Need2MedTec |
October - May 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Ottoman and Islamic Architectural History: (mutual) exchanges with the West from 1500’s to 1923 |
08 + 09 October 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Python for GIS and Geoscience |
13 + 16 + 20 October 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Oscillation phenomena, PDEs, and applications: A Comprehensive School in Mathematical Analysis - 2025 |
13 - 24 October 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Conducting peer-review: Do's and Dont's |
16 October + 20 November 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Belarus as a Crucial Case of Wider Regional and Global Trends: Perspectives on Politics, Society, Law and Culture |
21 October - 24 October 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese |
27 - 31 October 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Doctoral seminar on research in well-being enhancing consumption |
6 + 20 November + 04 + 12 December 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| EU External Action in a Shifting World Order: Legal and Institutional Dynamics |
17 + 18 November 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| European Digital PCR Symposium and Workshop 2025 |
18 - 21 November 2025 |
ALL |
EX,CT
|
| Stata for Entrepreneurship Research |
18 - 20 November 2025 |
ALL |
EX, CT
|
| qPCR course |
20 + 21 November 2025 |
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Metacognition in Education: Theory, Practice and Research Perspectives on Multilingualism and Multiliteracies in Education |
24 + 25 + 26 November 2025
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Foundations for Future-Proof Service Research |
03 - 05 December 2025
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Basic MRI Physics |
04 + 05 February 2025
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Race & Radicalization: Researching oppression & opposition |
10 + 11 + 12 February 2026
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| Critical and Transformative Perspectives on Sustainability: A Doctoral Winter School |
02 - 06 February
|
ALL
|
EX,CT
|
| CRIG Doctoral School on 'Cancer' |
TBA
|
GE, WE
|
EX,CT
|
|
Light and Fluorescence Microscopy
|
TBA
|
GE, PPW, BW
|
EX,CT
|
| Quantitative Methods for Dynamic Economics |
TBA
|
ALL
|
EX, CT
|
| Introduction to Process and Product Engineering (IP2E) |
TBA
|
WE
|
EX, CT
|
| Topics in Corporate Finance |
TBA
|
EB
|
EX,CT
|
| MINOS Sanctions Methods Course |
TBA
|
ALL (LW) |
EX,CT |
| Systematic Review by Cochrane |
TBA
|
ALL
|
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
After successful participation, the Doctoral School Office will add these courses to your curriculum of the Doctoral Training Programme in Oasis.
Selection of other courses
The courses listed below are organised by third parties and are not part of the Doctoral School own course offer, but you can include them in your Doctoral Training Programme by submitting an application for recognition (AfR) .
| Course Title |
Dates |
Organiser |
|
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning for Biomedical Research
|
18, 20, 25, 27 November, 2 & 5 December 2025 |
VAIA |
|
The ABC of 5G (ENG)
|
11, 18 & 25 September 2025 |
UGain |
| Machine Learning into practice. Deep dive into MLOps (ENG) |
22, 23 en 24 September 2025 |
UGain |
|
Smart Factory Design (NED)
|
30 september 2025 – 16 december 2025
|
UGain |
|
Deep learning: van theorie tot praktijk (NL)
|
30 september 2025 – 2 december 2025 |
UGain |
|
TT - Skills: course in technology transfer
|
October 2025 - June 2026 |
Tech Transfer Office |
| Starten met R |
Fall edition: November 3, 10, 17 and 24
December 1, 8 and 15 (DUTCH)
Winter edition: February 3, 10, 17 and 24 ; March: 3, 10 and 17 2026 (ENGLISH)
Spring edition: April 23, 30 May 7, 21 and 28 June 2 and 9 2026 (DUTCH)
|
Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Analyse van geclusterde en longitudinale data in R |
April 21, 28, and May 5, 12 and 19 2026
|
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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