Welcome to the University of Vienna and VDS CoBeNe!

The Vienna Doctoral School in Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience (VDS CoBeNe) from Biology to Psychology and the Humanities warmly welcomes you at the University of Vienna! We are very excited that you are now part of our Doctoral School!

 Events for new PhD candidates

We are offering regularly welcome and information meetings for new candidates starting at our Doctoral School. Our goal is to support you at the beginning and give you the most important guidelines. In this meeting we will go through the whole process of the PhD life cycle and give you information about our school in general. You are also welcome to prepare questions you are interested in and we will kindly answer them. We are also interested to hear more about you and your research! Further, please see the events offered by the Doctorate Center as well.

 Upcoming dates for welcome and infomation meetings (CoBeNe)

Online via Zoom

  • 18.02.2025, 09:00-10:00
  • 25.03.2025, 09:00-10:00

Please contact vds.cobene@univie.ac.at if you would like to joint and we will provide the Zoom link. 

 Info and specific topic sessions (Doctorate Center)

Online via Zoom

Please see the website of the Doctorate Center to find the Zoom links.

 Important topics

International Office of the University Vienna

For information and assistance please contact the International Office!

Points of call (diversity and anti-discrimination)

A range point of calls is available to the employees and students of University of Vienna, dealing with diversity and anti-discrimination. The points of call are divided into sections such as social origin, mental & physical abilities, gender, origin/ethnicity and so on. If you feel the need to, you are encouraged to contact them.

CoBeNe Handbook