U:rise

The new University's platform u:rise has been launched. Please search the websites to find relevant courses, workshops and coaching programs, as well as courses recommended below.

Research Impact: Creating Meaning & Value
  • Target groups: Early- and Mid-Career Researchers
  • Self-learning course
  • Program is organized into 5 chapters: Defining research impact, Planning your impact, Engagement and communication strategies, Evaluating and monitoring impact and lastly Evidencing impact.

National and International Funding Opportunities
  • Overview of funding opportunities for postdoctoral fellowships (international & national)
  • Focus on Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships (European Commission)
  • Insight into key national funding programmes by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • Target group: Late PhD candidates
  • Date: 12.11.2025, 14:00-16:00, online

VDS CoBeNe courses with other doctoral schools

 VDS CoBeNe & VDSEE

  • Together with VDSEE we offer two-day academic writing workshop
  • Workshop focus: process of writing/drafting, starting with a first draft of a publication, steps of the revision process (involving several types of editing) 
  • Trainer: Mag. Birgit Peterson
  • Dates for WS25/26: 20. & 21.10.2025
  • Registration deadline: 1st of October 2025
  • Please contact vds.cobene@univie.ac.at if you want to register

Group Coaching: Well-Being for Early Career Researchers

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Feeling tired, isolated and stressed? Problems with your supervisor? Working 24/7 but not getting many things done? Feeling stuck? Feeling guilty for taking a day off?

These are all common experiences in early research careers. While life of a PhD candidate is not easy it can be easier with group coaching on hand. Academic work is a creative process which takes a great deal of self‐motivation and often it is quite a solitary activity which requires a lot of discipline and persistence. This can make you feel insecure and lose motivation. Group-coaching is an opportunity to reach the goal of a successful career with a focus on your personal well-being.

Target Group: VDS CoBeNe PhD students in any phase of their project who would like to monitor their own progress within a group of PhD students supervised by a trained psychotherapist and coach, Dr. Markus Boeckle. www.praxis-boeckle.at
Location: Magdalenenstraße 21/7, 1060 Vienna
Reservation: pls. register direct via calendly.com/markus-boeckle/group_coaching_dk_cobene_phanuspo_vdsee

WS25/26
21.10.2025, 16:00-17:40
18.11.2025, 16:00-17:40
16.12.2025, 16:00-17:40
13.01.2026, 16:00-17:40
10.02.2026, 16:00-17:40

 Seminars and workshop at the Center for Doctoral Studies

 University of Vienna Cooperations

 Previous courses organized by PhD candidates