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  • PE&RC Postdoc Retreat
    This retreat focusses on the postdoc career ambitions and how the postdoc position can contribute to fulfilling these ambitions.
  • Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS) activities
    WGS offers a broad range of general skills and competence courses and career training for PhDs and postdocs. These courses are open to all postdocs, but if you are registered as a PE&RC Postdoc, the reduced course fee generally applies to you.
  • Career Development for Postdocs: Science and the Alternatives
    WGS training specifically for postdocs in which via a reflective process postdocs determine their career ambitions (in or outside academia) and accordingly formalise a plan of action. This course is open to all postdocs, but if you are registered as a PE&RC Postdoc, the reduced course fee applies to you.
  • Developing my Research Vision
    What is your research vision? Young scientists don't always find this question easy to answer. But, it is crucial for those who aspire to a career in academia. This course supports in developing a solid research vision and also how to communicate it in a convincing and effective manner.
  • Getting on Track with your Veni Application
    This programme aims to provide the skills and competences needed to develop a high quality Veni proposal.
  • Preparing Your Veni pre-proposal
    This programme aims to provide talented postdocs and other promising researchers the skills and competences needed to develop a high quality research pre-proposal to submit within all NWO Veni domains.
  • Entrepreneurship in and outside Science
    This workshop focusses on whether participants have entrepreneurial skills, if they can be developed and whether the participant has the entrepreneurial drive. Accordingly the workshop looks at the different manifestations of intra/entrepreneurship in academia, private companies or in an start-up context. Finally we will progress to opportunity recognition and the art of business modelling, where we also use your own research as building material for creating opportunities