How to get and validate credits?
How to get credits?
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:
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Our Doctoral School program (https://www.unine.ch/dp-biol/home/program/courses-and-workshop-2023.html)
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External programs such as the CUSO Biology programs (https://biologie.cuso.ch/home)
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CUSO transferable skills program
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And more (REGARD, bureau Egalité des chances, LS2, etc.)
2. Presenting at international conferences, publishing papers as 1st author, or participating in outreach activities.
What are the 3 credit categories?
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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.
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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.)
How to validate credits?
- 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
How many credits per activity?
Type of activity |
Credits |
Category |
Poster presentation |
0.5 |
S |
Short oral presentation (less than 15min) |
0.5 |
S |
Oral presentation (min 15 min) |
1.0 |
S |
Poster + Oral presentation |
1.5 |
S |
Event organization |
1.0 |
T |
Participation to 3MT UniNE final |
1.0 |
T |
Participation to 3MT Swiss final |
1.0 |
T |
Participation to outreach event (teaching or presenting) |
1.0 |
T |
Organization of an outreach event |
1.0 |
T |
Participation to Service Learning activity UniNE |
3.0 |
T |
Organization of DSLS seminars for 1 year (10 seminars) |
1.0 (1 day) |
T |
Publication as 1st author in Int. Peer-reviewed journal |
1.0 |
S |
Oral presentation at DSLS seminar |
0.5 |
S |
Video clip of your research |
0.5 |
S |
Participation to a summer school |
7h=0.5 (max 5) |
S |
Participation to a workshop (DSLS, CUSO or other) |
7h=0.5 |
T or R |