requirements VLAG educational programme

Below you will find specific information on the requirements of the VLAG educational programme.
For general information on the educational programme, click here.

The following breakdown is used to describe the requirements of the VLAG educational programme:

Discipline specific activities	> 11 ECTS credit points
General courses	> 6 ECTS credit points
Optional courses and activities	> 8 ECTS credit points
Total	> 30 ECTS credit points

Discipline specific activities
Discipline specific activities can be divided into:

• Courses: this can be VLAG courses but can also be courses organised by other graduate schools in The Netherlands and/or abroad.
• Meetings: meetings of 'learned societies' (such as NWO-Nutrition, NWO-Chemistry and NWO Technology Foundation) also count as discipline specific activities.
• Training periods at other laboratories: in case the training periods should have the specific aim to learn new techniques.
  In general 50% of the period spent at other laboratories will be honoured, up to a maximum of 6 ECTS..
• Conferences: In case of a presentation at a congress or course (oral or poster) 1.0 extra ECTS credit points are awarded. For posters this only applies for new original posters.

General courses
General courses deal with various issues relevant for the professional and personal development of PhD students. This category involves competence strengthening courses. Wageningen based graduate schools (WGS) have joined their efforts in coordinating and streamlining the course diversity and quality.
Examples of general courses organised by VLAG or WGS are: Career perspectives, Scientific writing, Supervision of undergraduates, Presentation techniques, Ethics, Didactics and the VLAG PhD week (introduction course for PhD students).
Further on a wide variety of courses is offered by other universities involved in VLAG, as well as by other (inter)national graduate schools.

Optional courses and activities
Examples of optional courses and activities are:

• Preparation of research proposal (4 ECTS credits)
• Literature study programmes: Credit points can be awarded to literature study programmes which are organised and supervised at departmental level. It is realized that not all departments do have such literature study programmes.
• MSc courses: Undergraduate courses can be included up to a maximum of 6 credit points and should be of relevance to the PhD study.
• International excursions
• Organisation of international excursions (1.0 ECTS credits)

• Scientific VLAG courses: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/eduvlco.html
• General VLAG courses: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/gencourse.htm
• Wageningen Graduate Schools courses: http://www.wageningenuniversity.nl/UK/informationfor/PhD+programmes/general+courses
• VLAG PhD week: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/phd-week/
• General external courses: http://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/extcourse.htm
• Wageningen University MSc courses: http://www.studyhandbook.wu.nl/
• Library courses: http://library.wur.nl/desktop/events/
• Didactical courses: http://www.esd.wur.nl/: Log in with WUR account.