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.
*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.
| Course title | Dates | Organiser |
Exploiting Sources of Variation in your Data: the ANOVA Approach |
January 2026 | Science Academy |
Explaining and Predicting Outcomes with Linear Regression using Python or R |
February - March 2026 | Science Academy |
Communicating Effectively: Strategies for Successful Presentations and Debates |
February - March 2026 | Science Academy |
Unsupervised Learning |
March - April 2026 | Science Academy |
| April - June 2026 | Science Academy |
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 |
| October 2025 - June 2026 | Tech Transfer Office | |
| Starten met R |
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 |
| See website | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration |
