Vrije Universiteit Brussel


Newsletter for Junior Researchers 2011-2012

 

May 16th, 2012

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in May & June
  • Science Bar PhD Special: Is there a doctor in the audience?
  • Info session on Marie Curie Actions
  • CAMPUSTALKS 13: The value of basic research
  • QS AIM - QS Academic International Mobility
  • DSh workshop 'How applied statistics can work against you - the pitfalls'
  • ECCO Seminar Series
  • DSh workshop 'Bibliographic software. Benefits and Alternatives'
  • EASM Conference 'Sport between business and civil society'
  • International Business Summer School
  • NSE Course: National Instruments LabVIEW Core 1 & 2
  • NSE Lectures: Introduction to Remote sensing data and methods
  • Knowledge for Growth
  • Gustave Magnel Prize 2012
  • UNESCO - L'Oréal International Fellowships for Young Woman in Life Sciences 2013
  • JDRF Calls

 

 

 

April 19th, 2012

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in April & May
  • Mandatory Annual Progress Report
  • We want you!
  • PromoDoc is looking for Ambassadors
  • Workshop Presentation Techniques
  • Study Day 'Learning languages in higher education: tandem'
  • Seminar: China's political transition and what it means for Europe
  • 8th PhD Day Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy
  • ESF Conference 'Molecular Biology & Innovative Therapies in Sarcomas of Childhood & Adolescence'
  • 12th International Conference on Computational Science
  • Training Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences
  • International Academic & Research Conference
  • Knowledge for Growth
  • Symposium 'Label-free Optical Imaging in Biomedical Research'
  • Fund Jeanne & Alice Van de Voorde
  • Catharina Weekers Fund
  • Fund for scientific research on AIDS
  • Pink Ribbon

 

 

 

March 16th, 2012

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in March
  • Voice of the Researchers - Call for expression of interest
  • Guide to career planning
  • PhD Research Day 2013: suggestions wanted!
  • Workshop English for Academic Research Purposes
  • PhD Training on Science Communication
  • Introduction to R: an open-source statistical toolbox
  • Interview Skills for Lectureships and Research Posts
  • Law & Criminology Talks
  • A step by step overview of academic (book) publishing and an introduction to the VABB database
  • PhD Career Focus
  • Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (agenda 2012)
  • Language programme from Arabic and North African studies
  • European Summer School "Europe at the Crossroads" in Prague
  • GERN summer school on ‘Crime, Justice, Social Control and Security’
  • Interdisciplinary Doctoral Seminar on social sciences
  • IES Lecture Series 'The International Criminal Court’s Second Decade: Quo Vadis?'
  • Cell-VIB Symposium: Angiogenesis, Metabolic Regulation & Cancer Biology
  • Biosafety Information Session
  • International Student Scientific Conference (ISSC)
  • Travel grants for Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) in Dublin
  • Innoviris launches new call for DOCTIRIS
  • EuroMarine Mobility Fellowships Programme 2012
  • Call for PhD and postdoc positions at SCK-CEN

 

 

February 20th, 2012

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in February
  • Registration for regular courses 2nd semester
  • Career Coaching Course
  • PhD event by The Boston Consulting Group
  • Interuniversitary & Interdisciplinary Doctoral Seminar on social sciences
  • Upcoming DSh activities
  • Lectures IBBT-SMIT
  • Lecture Open Academy 'Architecture and the iron curtain'
  • Conference 'Sports Medicine'
  • Three day Systematic Review Workshop Quantitative & Qualitative approaches
  • Seminar 'Effective Scientific Communication'
  • Internship for PhD candidates at Procter & Gamble
  • Information session for new PhD Students in the Life Sciences & Medicine
  • 3 LSM-courses in the 2nd semester
  • Last call for temporary scholarship to finalise the PhD thesis
  • Prize I. Vanderschueren for doctoral research - Call 2012 Biomedical Sciences

 

 

 

January 16th, 2012

  • About this newsletter
  • Best wishes for 2012
  • PhD defences in January
  • Introduction days for new PhD students
  • Workshop 'Networking skills' in Jette
  • Communication Trainings 2012
  • Call VAL Research Day (DSh 94)
  • International Scientific Conference "Networks in the Global World: Structural Transformations in Europe, the US and Russia"
  • Call for ESA 'Drop your thesis!'
  • LSM PhD Day 2012
  • FWO PhD fellowships
  • FWO Postdoctoral fellowships

 

December 14th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in December
  • Ombudsperson for PhD students 2011-2012
  • Renewal AAP-mandates
  • Workshop 'Networking skills' in Jette
  • Workshop Project management
  • Communication trainings 2012
  • Workshop 'Advanced techniques in ANOVA'
  • 17th annual UBC interdisciplinary legal studies graduate student conference
  • DSh Symposium 'Creativity & Captivity'
  • Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists
  • PhD Symposium 'Cytokines and Cell Trafficking in Immunological Disorders'
  • FWO travel grants
  • New call ‘Spin-Off in Brussels’ by Innoviris

 

November 14th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in November
  • Workshop LaTeX
  • Workshop BibTex
  • Seminar 'Integrated Public Use Microdata Series International' (DSh90)
  • IES lecture series & research colloquia
  • 17th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS)
  • Workshop 'Writing an abstract' (DSh82)
  • Call for abstracts Knowledge for Growth
  • IWT-call for Baekeland- & Innovation mandates 2012
  • OZR temporary scholarship to finalise the PhD thesis

 

 

October 12th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in October
  • New Doctoral School Directors
  • Workshop Networking Skills
  • Workshop Personal Efficiency
  • Workshop 'How to make good scientific slides and a good scientific poster?'
  • Reminder: Enrolment for Regular Courses 2011-2012 - deadline October 15th
  • PhD Job Fair 2011
  • Message of the new Director DSh
  • Upcoming activities of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences
  • Advances in Business-Related Scientific Research Conference 2012
  • Lecture series on European Population Issues
  • International colloquium on 'The state of the Belgian federation'
  • Message of the new Director NSE
  • International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'12) and International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'12)
  • VIB Workshop 'Statistical thinking and reasoning in experimental design'
  • VIB Workshop 'Scientific writing and oral presentations'
  • Message of the Director LSM
  • Research Seminars
  • Infosession Biosafety
  • Workshop 'Bringing cancer research to business'
  • ING thesis award
  • ACERTA Scientific Award

 

 

2010-2011

 

September 12th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in September
  • Enrolment for Regular Courses 2011-2012
  • New! Course 'Academic English for PhD Students'
  • New! Course 'Statistics for PhD Students'
  • Starter seminars or How to be(come) an entrepreneur
  • Upcoming activities of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences
  • DSh Symposium 'Creativity & Captivity' (DSh80)
  • Conference ‘Corporate Social Responsibility – Government’
  • International conference on 'e-Health & Bioengineering'
  • International Congress Geotunis
  • Belgium & Brazil: partners in research
  • Seminar: The role of imaging technology in translational research
  • BAEF Fellowships
  • Biermans-Lapôtre grants for 2011-2012
  • Call for Projects Internationalisation
  • European Respiratory Society Short-Term Research Training Fellowships

 

 

August 16th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in August and September
  • New! Language Courses Academic English & Academisch Nederlands
  • Workshop 'How to make good scientific slides and a good scientific poster'
  • Upcoming activities by Doctoral School for Human Sciences
  • 4th Screenwriting Research Conference Brussels
  • SCK•CEN 'Day of the PhD's'
  • Tech Transfer and science-based entrepreneurship
  • Three-day course in Psychoneuroimmunology
  • Course in Laboratory Animal Science
  • Prize of the Superior Health Council
  • Prize Charles Ullens for research on migration and integration policy
  • Deadline IWT Baekeland mandates - 5 September
  • Deadline IWT Strategic Basic Research - 15 September

 

 

July 13th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in July
  • PhD Conference 'From PhD to Job Market 2011'
  • Registration Regular Courses 2011-2012
  • Coming Soon: 'Statistics' and 'Academic English' for PhD Students
  • Information session on 'Strategische onderzoeksbeurs IWT' (in Dutch) and BAEF Fellowships (in English)
  • Call for Seminar 'Creativity & Captivity'
  • Summer Academy by NATO & EU CFSP
  • 8th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2011)
  • Conference on ‘The role of governments in the Business and Society debate'
  • PhD Conference 'Horizons in Molecular Biology'
  • Cell Signaling Networks Conference
  • Research funding by the Brussels-Capital Region
  • Call 'South Initiatives' VLIR-UOS
  • Scientific Award FWO

 

 

June 9th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in June & July
  • Crosstalks workshop #2 Les Eaux en Colère/Woedend Water
  • PhD Day - Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy
  • Research Fellowships for Taiwan
  • European University Institute, Florence (Italy) launches Call for Papers
  • Dual Summer Schools offer in Spain
  • Gender Summit - new perspective on research and innovation
  • Summer School Chinese Language and Culture (Taiwan)
  • Conference Environmental (Bio) Technologies and Brokerage Event
  • OMICS at VIB - VIB International Postdoc Programme
  • Short Course on Drug Development
  • Clinical and fundamental aspects of monocyte, macrophage and dendritic cell plasticity
  • 1st call for IWT Innovation Mandates

 

 

May 6th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defences in May & June
  • Working conditions of researchers - Join the focus group
  • Workshop “How to write a competitive FP7 proposal”
  • Workshop LaTeX
  • Association for Cultural Studies - Summer Institute
  • How applied statistics can work against you - the pitfalls (DSh72)
  • Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2011)
  • Congress on Software Engineering (WCSE 2011)
  • Symposium 'The future of the 21st Century ocean'
  • International Conference On Renewable Resources And Biorefineries
  • Summer School on Medicines (SSM3)
  • Symposium on Cancer in Pregnancy
  • New investment in science and innovation by the Flemish government
  • IWT Baekeland-mandates

 

 

April 8th 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defenses in April
  • Mandatory Annual Progress Report
  • Workshop BibTeX - New date!
  • Workshop 'Yes, I've got talent!' - How to apply for a job
  • Specialised PhD courses at Ghent University
  • How applied statistics can work against you - the pitfalls (DSh72)
  • PhD Seminar on 'Impact Evaluation'
  • PREBEM 2011 Conference
  • International Hamburg Congress of Business Communication
  • Seminar on Neology and Specialised Translation
  • Zurich Institute on Computational Economics
  • Symposium 'Elites take over the city'
  • Three day workshop on 'Systematic Review'
  • Workshop Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences
  • Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics
  • PhD Conference 'Horizons in Molecular Biology'
  • Knowledge for Growth Convention
  • Lecture Chair 'Understanding Disease'
  • Report PhD Day LSM
  • Deadline Conference grants OZR
  • Thesis Prize 'Flemish Regulator for the Media'
  • Call for Marie Curie Fellowships
  • Prize Callataÿ & Wouters

 

 

March 4th, 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defenses in March
  • Petition Researchers in Flanders
  • Health Insurance for International Staff Members and Students
  • Communication trainings 2011
  • CAMPUSTALKS Women's Day
  • IES Spring Lecture Series: The EU as a Diplomatic Actor
  • PhD Course 'The economics of organizing global production networks"
  • Symposium on Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology
  • Upcoming DSh activities
  • Call for papers for QoMEX’11
  • International Congress 'Computer Applications and Computational Science'
  • Upcoming VIB Research Training Courses
  • PhD Day of the Doctoral School LSM
  • Masterclass: Clinical research methods and clinical research governance
  • Research Funding on R&D website

 

 

February 2nd, 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defenses in February
  • Workshop 'Yes, you've got talent!' How to apply for a job?
  • Information sessions on Laboratory Notebooks
  • Language Course French for beginners
  • Doctoral Seminar 'No Data like More Data'
  • Seminar on 'Economie de la connaissance et média(tisa)tion des sciences'
  • IES Seminar 'Evaluating the effectiveness of international environmental institutions'
  • What would YOU like to do? Survey for DS NSE activities
  • Call for logo design Doctoral School NSE
  • VIB Training days on Ethical Behaviour in Scientific Research
  • VIB workshop Statistical Thinking and Reasoning in Experimental Research
  • 4 Master classes LSM
  • International Student Congress of (bio)Medical Sciences
  • Call for projects on internationalisation
  • Scientific Prizes FWO - McKinsey&Company

 

 

January 13th, 2011

  • About this newsletter
  • Best wishes for 2011!
  • PhD defenses in January
  • Registration regular courses 2nd semester (March 1st)
  • Introduction week for new PhD students
  • Career Coaching Course
  • Workshop Project Management in Jette Human Sciences
  • DSh activities in January-February
  • SMIT Master classes
  • Call for proposals for DSh activity proposals (deadline February 1st)
  • Cal for papers - The Use of Open Educational Resources
  • BICCS 2011 Spring Lecture Series: China Faces the World
  • Call for papers International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
  • Call for Projects Cancer Biomarkers and Functional Imaging
  • Call for (post) doctoral researchers Belgian Nuclear Research Center
  • Scientific Prize AIC (Academy of Immunology for Clinicians)
  • Scientific Prize Alcatel-Lucent Bell * Scientific Prize IBM Belgium voor Informatica

 

December 3rd 2010

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defenses in December
  • Central PhD Office is closed for Christmas
  • Postponed: Info session on the proper use of R&D-Net²
  • Career Coaching Course
  • Workshop 'LaTeX'
  • DSh activities in December-January
  • IES Research Colloquium 'The EU and the Middle East'
  • Course “The economics of institutional reform in China”
  • Conference on 'Europe, Youth, Olympism, focus on Sport Training'
  • Call for logo design Doctoral School NSE
  • Call for activities Doctoral School NSE
  • Intensive Training on 'Entrepreneurship in Photonics'
  • Intensive postacademic course on 'Business and Biotechnology'
  • FWO PhD Fellowships (deadline February 1st)
  • FWO Postdoctoral Fellowships (deadline February 1st)

 

November 5th 2010

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defenses in November
  • New location for the Central PhD Office
  • Ombudsperson for PhD students
  • R&D Newsletter
  • Infosession 'Introduction to Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer'
  • Overview of DSh activities for November - December 2010
  • Harvesting moment for DSh activity proposals - December 1st, 2010
  • DSh on Pointcarré platform
  • Seminar series 'Evolution, Complexity and Cognition'
  • SMIT Lecture Series
  • International Conference 'Market-oriented Education in Engineering and Technology'
  • International Conference 'Science, Technology Higher Education and Society in the Conceptual Age'
  • Medical Research Seminars
  • Starters Symposium for PhD students in the Life Sciences
  • UNESCO-MAB Young Scientists Awards
  • Call for VLIR-UOS South Initiatives
  • Airbus 'Fly Your Ideas Challenge' 2011
  • Call for candidates: EC - funded Research Visits (January 2011)
  • Danone International Prize for Nutrition
  • Prizes Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts

 

October 8th 2010

  • About this newsletter
  • PhD defenses in October
  • Registration for regular courses for the Doctoral Training Programme
  • Overview of Regular Course Units - VUB
  • Studentportfolio on Pointcarré also for PhD students
  • R&D Newsletter
  • Infosession on Research Funding
  • Infosession 'Introduction to Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
  • DSh regular course 'Virtual Media'
  • Overview of DSh activities for October-November 2010
  • Harvesting moment for DSh activity proposals - December 1st, 2010
  • DSh on Pointcarré platform
  • Topical Day on Bioinformatics
  • Regular course unit 'Data Analysis'
  • Regular course unit 'Gene Therapy'
  • FWO-Flanders - new peer review procedure
  • FWO-Flanders - new online application system
  • IWT-SBO Call 2010: important modifications
  • Calls open FP7
  • New call ERC starting grant
  • Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

 

 

 

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