As a member of the Doctoral School in Life Sciences, you are required to acquire 12 credits with a minimum of 6 credits within the Doctoral School program (and a minimum of 2 in each activity category: Transferable skills, Research tools, Scientific activities).

You can acquire these credits by:

1. Registering to courses, activities, and workshops organized by:

• Our Doctoral School program (https://www.unine.ch/dp-biol/home/program/courses-and-workshop-2023.html)

• External programs such as the CUSO Biology programs (https://biologie.cuso.ch/home)

• CUSO transferable skills program 

• And more (REGARD, bureau Egalité des chances, LS2, etc.)

​2. Presenting at international conferences, publishing papers as 1st author, or participating in outreach activities.

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• Transferable skills (T):  competences that are transferable to other career paths than academia. 

            e.g., Scientific writing, Public speaking, Project management,  Conflict management, Stress management,

            Carreer planning, Outreach events, ect.

• Research tools (R) : practical skills or specific scientific technics

           e.g., Biostatistics, Statistical  softwares, Microscopy, Sequencing, etc.

• Scientific activities (S): 

            e.g., Presentations at conferences or seminars, scientific workshops (e.g., Open Science,   Agriculture,

            Animal Behaviour, etc.)

• Participate in courses/ workshop
• Get a certificate of attendance
• Fill in and sign the External Credit Validation Form (for External courses only and presentations)
• For poster and oral presentations, also send abstract + conference program showing the scheduled presentation
• Send certificate + form to the Academic coordinator

The credit value of a given activity is at the discretion of the Doctoral School academic coordinator. However, as a rule of thumb, one day of workshop (7h), participation to an outreach event, event organization, oral presentations, and publications as first author, are all worth one credit.

Example of credits