
PhD excursions
VLAG stimulates PhD candidates to organise group excursions to research facilities abroad. These excursions contribute to broadening PhD’s horizons, both from scientific and organizational points of view. The PhD excursions are organised by a PhD committee. The motivation submitted by the PhD committee should include well-argued additional value of the excursion. Also, scientific staff members (thesis supervisors) are committed and are expected to accompany the PhD candidates.
PhD candidates receiving the grant have an approved VLAG Training and Supervision Plan (TSP). For PhD excursions lasting up to eight days we provide each PhD candidate with a grant of € 250. For longer excursions the grant is € 400. Each PhD candidate receives the VLAG support at most twice.
National PhD excursions (i.e. within the Netherlands) can be subsidised if they are organised by a group of PhD candidates and last at least five days. For PhD excursions lasting five to eight days we provide each PhD candidate with a grant of € 125. For longer excursions the grant is € 200.
Tip; For additional sponsoring please also consider the LEB Foundation
when | who | action |
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~ 1 year before the excursion | Organisers | request for VLAG funding using the application form: motivation, program, expected number of participants and budget (estimated costs and income incl. sponsoring) |
asap | VLAG | Approval |
~ 3 months before the excursion | Organisers | Provide final list of participants, program, and project number using the application form (final version) |
asap | VLAG | Money transferred to chair group |
Within 4 weeks after excursion | Organisers | Back to office report sent to VLAG for the VLAG Newsletter, we would like to receive a nice (group) picture and a few sentences describing the excursion |
Contactperson: Anouk Geelen
Overview PhD excursions
Overview PhD excursions
2021
2021
October 2021, the Netherlands - Laboratory of Food Chemistry
2019
2019
February 2019, Israel - Organic Chemistry
May 2019, China - Food Microbiology
June 2019, USA - Microbiology & Systems and Synthetic Biology
October 2019, Canada - Human Nutrition and Health
2018
2018
February 2018, USA - Bioprocess Engineering
April 2018, Sweden & Denmark - Biobased Chemistry & Technology, BioNanoTechnology
May 2018, Indonesia - Physics and Physical Chemistry of Foods
June 2018, Canada - Food Process Engineering
July 2018, Japan - Toxicology
October 2018, Australia - Food Quality and Design
October 2018, Austria & Italy - Food Chemistry
2017
2017
March 2017, Italy - Food Microbiology
May 2017, Germany, Denmark & Sweden - Microbiology & Systems and Synthetic Biology
October 2017, United Kingdom -Division of Human Nutrition
2016
2016
May 2016, South Germany and Switzerland - Food Process Engineering
October 2016, Japan - Laboratory of Food Chemistry
October 2016, Italy - Food Quality and Design
2015
2015
April 2015, East Canada - Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
April 2015, United Kingdom - Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science
April 2015, China - Beijing and Shanghai area - Biobased Chemistry and Technology
October 2015, Eastern USA - Division of Human Nutrition