Doctoral schools

Our doctoral schools offer custom-made training programmes for Ph.D. candidates to help them:

• acquire in-depth knowledge in their field of expertise,
• receive training of scientific methods,
• improve their scientific writing,
• debate ethical issues in science,
• develop interdisciplinary competences
• learn transferable skills like project management or presentation techniques.

Training takes place in small groups of Ph.D. candidates, focussing on their specific research topic. A positive side effect of the doctoral schools will be the regular exchange and support among candidates. In addition, the candidates will continue to be individually supervised as before.

The concept of our Doctoral Education is in line with the  „Salzburg II principles”  (www.eua.be/.../Salzburg_II_Recommendations.sflb.ashx ), a set of European recommendations for Doctoral Programmes, and recommendations by the  European University Association (EUA)  ( http://www.eua.be/Home.aspx  ). The overall objective is to improve the research performance of doctoral candidates and thus make doctoral education more efficient, effective and satisfactory.

This objective is supported by first EUA-Studies indicating that structured doctoral education increases motivation of Ph.D. candidates, leads to higher productivity, increases possibilities for funding and increases the depths of the individual research.

Starting in September 2011, the University of Luxembourg now offers doctoral schools in

•   Systems and Molecular Biomedicine (+ Info)
•   Economics and Finance (+ Info)
•   Educational Sciences (+ Info)