Graduate Campus Courses

Graduate Campus offers a number of workshops designed for doctoral candidates and postdocs of all faculties.

These workshops are free of charge for doctoral candidates enrolled at UNIL and postdocs with a valid contract.

• The Thesis from A-Z: Where to find the tools to get your PhD off to a good start, get support along the way, and to prepare your thesis defense.
• Strengthen your skills: Develop your transferable skills, increase your confidence, and enhance your practice.
• Develop your career: What comes next? Come to a Career Café to talk about it. The Graduate Campus organises a range of workshops to help doctoral candidates and postdocs take their next career steps.
• Supervision: Workshops for professors and senior researchers to acquire tools and share best practices in the supervision of early career researchers.

Version courte en ligne: atelier interactif d'une demi-journée pour préparer au mieux votre soutenance de thèse (différence entre colloque et soutenance; questions du jury).

A 2-day workshop gives an overview of project management and some software tools.

Define and prepare your project, by understanding what a project is, and what it is not, by learning what a project management in academia vs. industry is, and by getting an introduction into the project life-cycle.

Develop your own project plan and learn about different project management approaches, identifying risk, and project execution.

Priority for postdoc.

Atelier interactif d'une journée pour préparer au mieux votre soutenance de thèse, exercer vos compétences de communication et vous préparer à répondre aux questions.

A half-day workshop, to cover different topics through short presentations and discussion.

Starting an ambitious project like a PhD requires planning, time management, work discipline and a clear mind around goals, expectations, and respective roles between the PhD candidate and the supervisor.

Atelier d'une demi-journée sous forme de mini-présentations et de discussions en groupe.

Démarrer un doctorat est un projet ambitieux qui demande une bonne organisation, une gestion optimale de son temps ainsi qu'une réflexion sur ses attentes et son rôle en tant que doctorant·e.