Doctoral Courses
Transversal competences for Doctoral Students
The SEA-EU Alliance offers doctoral courses, promoting reciprocity among partner universities. These include both existing and newly created courses for PhD candidates, initially focusing on marine sciences with plans to expand. The Alliance ensures easy access to course information and enrolment for doctoral candidates through a regularly updated online platform, inviting applications from members across the Alliance.
Conditions of enrolment:
- The course offers are meant for SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ doctoral candidates: Registration is only considered if made with a valid institutional email address.
- By applying to any of the courses you agree that your data (name, affiliation, email) will be passed on to the course instructor and the corresponding universities’ entity in case your application is confirmed.
- A certificate of participation will be issued, upon attendance to >75% of the course.
- Registration is binding.
Courses run in the academic year 2024-2025:
Global Citizenship SEA-EU Micro-credential
This mostly asynchronous online seminar of about 20 to 25 hours of learning is designed to encourage and inspire you as a student to take a close look at the concept of Global Citizenship and to develop an understanding of Global Citizenship on an individual level. Within this supervised online course with 10% of synchronous online teaching and 90% of asynchronous self-paced learning on an online platform with open weekly coaching (on demand), you will have the opportunity to explore approaches to globalization and citizenship and engage with the Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, you’ll examine the concept of Cultural Intelligence and reflect on how to act in a culturally diverse context!
Registration deadline: 8 April 2025
Host: CAU
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Learning outcomes:
Students are able to…
- analyze global issues by critically examining the interconnected relationships between social, economic, and environmental factors, demonstrating the ability to discern patterns and evaluate the implications of these interconnections on a global scale
- explore cross-cultural communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders, fostering effective collaboration and negotiation in the pursuit of global solutions to social, economic, and environmental challenges.
- analyze and interpret information from diverse cultural perspectives.
- articulate personal values related to global citizenship, expressing empathy and concern for the well-being of people worldwide.
Download the full course description here: SEA-EU Microcredential_Global_Citizenship_2025
Self-management through Self Awareness
The seminar examines self-awareness as a fundamental psychological construct and its implications for human development and professional efficacy. The students will engage with frameworks and practices to develop competencies in emotional intelligence, metacognition, social cognition, cultural awareness, and leadership behavior. The course integrates theoretical foundations with applied methods, including structured reflection, peer interaction, and situational analysis.
Host: CAU
Registration deadline: 08 April 2025
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Learning objectives:
Students are able to:
- identify personality and basic psychological models for self-reflection
- review techniques, methods and models of self-reflection by applying them in relation to their own personality
- develop the ability to self-observe
- weigh different perspectives against each other and relate them to their own perception in self-reflection
- develop an awareness of and self-confidence in their own abilities in the process of self-reflection
Download the full course description here: SEA-EU Microcredential_self awareness
Collect, manage and cite your bibliographic references with Zotero
You would like to keep all your bibliographic references and pdfs in one place for easy retrieval and use? You would like to be able to edit your bibliographic lists in one click, or insert quotations as you write, automatically editing the final bibliography?…. The Zotero training course will introduce you to a free, open-source, easy-to-use software package that enables you to manage a large number of bibliographic references throughout your thesis, and to easily edit your bibliographies in line with the standards of your discipline.
Host: UBO
Language: English
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Introduction to Ocean Sustainability
The module will concentrate on integrated research areas that focus on the grand challenges faced in attaining ocean sustainability. Students will attend a lecture where lecturers of different SEA-EU universities will present current topics on ocean sustainability centring on Ocean Food, Ocean Floor Resources, Ocean Ethics, Ocean Disasters, The Law of the Seas, and “Blue Economy”.
- Application deadline: 23rd Mar 2025
- ECTS: 5 ECTS
- Host partner/Lecturer: CAU / Dr Nina Keul
- Mode: Hybrid
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- Course type: Semester course with 15 live sessions
- Schedule details/times: Wednesdays 16-18 and Fridays 12-14 CEST on the following dates: 16.4., 7.5., 9.5., 14.5., 16.5. (13-16 h instead), 21.5., 23.5., 28.5., 4.6. (14-16h instead), 6.6., 18.6., 20.6., 25.6., 2.7., 4.7.
- Download the full course description here.
The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing
If you are doing research with biological material (other than human DNA) that comes from outside the country where you are doing the research, you need to understand the basics of the Nagoya Protocol and Access and Benefit-Sharing, and what your obligations are as a researcher in the EU. During this workshop, we will go step by step through what researchers need to know and do in order to comply with their obligations under the Nagoya Protocol and the EU ABS Regulation. You will learn about the user checks that have already started in Germany, some of the direct consequences of non-compliance (e.g. fines, embargo of material and publications, etc.), what requirements journals and funding agencies might start asking for, and what tools and tips are already available for you to use and inform yourself.
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Host: CAU/ Kiel University
Language: English
French for Professional Purposes
This course is designed for students aiming to learn how to communicate properly in the workplace, providing them with transversal written and oral communication skills in professional French. Specifically, the course is structured around all four language skills referring to the B2 level of the CEFR. After a general introduction to French for Professional Purposes (FPP), students will be provided with a comprehensive overview of the main written and oral genres of professional communication in French, including the CV, the business report, and the job interview. Students will also be presented some efficient learning strategies to improve their vocabulary acquisition as well as their reading comprehension skills. On completion of the course, students will be assessed through a 30-question written exam. A minimum of 18 correct answers is necessary to successfully pass the final exam.
Host: UPN
Registration deadline: 31 January 2025
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Learning Outcomes:
| Students are expected to:
– recognise the structure of conversations, presentations and written messages – recognise paralinguistic features of communication – use appropriate words to convey information, thoughts and ideas clearly and precisely – select language and body language appropriate to the target group and situation – base their communication behaviour on the principles of honesty and authenticity |
– practise clarity in verbal and non-verbal communication, share information openly and thus avoid misunderstandings
Student activities:
Students will attend eight French for Professional Purposes seminars, focused on reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in a professional environment. They will engage in a variety of individual and group tasks, including analyzing authentic samples of written and oral professional interactions, writing CVs, and simulating job interviews. To supplement their learning, students will be required to complete additional activities and exercises provided on the course Teams, as part of their weekly self-instructed asynchronous leaning.
Spaces are limited and are given on a first-come-first-served basis.
Download the complete course description here: French for Professional Purposes_UPN_course_sheet
English for Professional Purposes
This course is designed for students aiming to learn how to communicate properly in the workplace, providing them with transversal written and oral communication skills in professional English. Specifically, the course is structured around all four language skills referring to the B2 level of the CEFR. After a general introduction to English for Professional Purposes (EPP), students will be provided with a comprehensive overview of the main written and oral genres of professional communication in English, including the CV, the business report, and the job interview. Students will also be presented some efficient learning strategies to improve their vocabulary acquisition as well as their reading comprehension skills. On completion of the course, students will be assessed through a 30-question written exam. A minimum of 18 correct answers is necessary to successfully pass the final exam.
Host: UPN
Registration deadline: 31 January 2025
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Course outcomes:
Students are expected to:
– recognise the structure of conversations, presentations and written messages
– recognise paralinguistic features of communication
– use appropriate words to convey information, thoughts and ideas clearly and precisely
– select language and body language appropriate to the target group and situation
– base their communication behaviour on the principles of honesty and authenticity
– practise clarity in verbal and non-verbal communication, share information openly and thus avoid misunderstandings
Student Activities:
Students will attend eight English for Professional Purposes seminars, focused on reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in a professional environment. They will engage in a variety of individual and group tasks, including analyzing authentic samples of written and oral professional interactions, writing CVs, and simulating job interviews. To supplement their learning, students will be required to complete additional activities and exercises provided on the course Team, as part of their weekly self-instructed asynchronous leaning.
Spaces are limited and are given on a first-come-first-served basis.
Download the full course description here: English for Professional Purposes_UPN_course_sheet
French - pre-intermediate
Target group: SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ staff and students
Total workload: 20+ hrs
Register: before 19th January 2025
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Course content:
1. Introducing yourself, spelling names and contact details, nationalities, studies
2. Numbers 0-1000, including phone numbers
3. Understanding a timetable: days of the week, times, classes
4. Finding your way around town/campus; understanding and giving directions; buying a transport ticket
5. Describing where you live, the landscape, the environment
6. Talking about food, likes and dislikes, shopping for food
7. Sports and leisure activities
Language of instruction: French (and English if needed)
Pre-requisites: French at level A1.2 or A2.1 (pre-elementary level)
When will the course be delivered?
Two 2-hour classes per week (Mondays and Thursdays) from Mon. 27th Jan. to Thur. 6 th March 2025 from 6 to 8pm
No class on Mon.17 th Feb. and Thur. 20 th Febr. 2025.
Total Workload: 20h + self study
Cost for the participant: 0,00 €
Size of class: limit per SEA-EU partner 20 students (evenly shared between partner universities)
Specific target group (Students, Staff, All, etc) * Students and staff
Technical requirements, on your side OR expected from participants – which tool will be used for teaching?
Video conferencing (Zoom and Discord), word processor, microphone (headphones if possible) and camera
Name of instructor/teacher Elena BERTHEMET
Affiliation of instructor/teacher Pôle Langues, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Contact for pre-course queries /Where can further information be obtained? pole.langues.FLE@univ-brest.fr
Registration link https://forms.gle/mNb7cBRdjRvu83Za8
Timeline:
Application deadline: Sun.19 th Jan. 2025 at midnight
When will participants be notified of acceptance? 6 days before beginning – Tue. 21 st Jan. 2025
When will participants receive connection details? 1-2 working days before beginning – Fri. 24 th /Mon. 27 th Jan. 2025
French - beginner
Target group: SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ staff and students
Total workload: 20+ hrs
Register: before 20th January 2025
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Course content and/or learning outcomes (What can participants expect?)
1. Introducing yourself, spelling names and nationalities
2. Numbers 0-100, including phone numbers
3. Understanding a timetable: days of the week, time
4. Finding your way around town / campus
5. Buying essential things (transport tickets or food)
Language of instruction: French (and English if needed)
Pre-requisites (Any prior knowledge?): None
When will the course be delivered?
One 2-hour class per week (Tuesdays) from Tue. 28 th Jan. to Tue. 8 th April 2025 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
No class on Tue.18 th Feb. 2025.
Total Workload (hours): 20h + self-study
Cost for the participant: 0,00 €
Size of class: limit per SEA-EU partner 20 students (evenly shared between partner universities)
Specific target group: Students and staff
Technical requirements: Video conferencing (Zoom and Discord), word processor, microphone (headphones if possible) and camera
Name of instructor/teacher: Honorio FLORES GARCIA
Affiliation of instructor/teacher: Pôle Langues, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Contact for pre-course queries: pole.langues.FLE@univ-brest.fr
Registration link: https://forms.gle/AbTm3rDMytJD9ovD8
Timeline:
Application deadline: Mon. 20 th Jan. 2025 at midnight
When will participants be notified of acceptance? 6 days before beginning – Wed. 22 nd Jan. 2025
When will participants receive connection details? 2- working days before beginning – Fri. 24 th /Mon. 27 th Jan.
Biodiversity and Biogeography
-COURSE FULL!!-
Biogeography is the science of how the Earth’s history and present environment determines speciation, habitat diversity and biodiversity patterns. It provides both a theoretical basis for understanding how biodiversity evolved and has applications in deciding where to have nature reserves, the spread of invasive species, and predicting the effects of climate change.
Participants will learn how to use leading resources of biodiversity informatics for individually selected species of interest (e.g. threatened, charismatic, important ones for food, pest or keystone species).
- Partner/Lecturer: NORD/Prof. Mark Costello
- Mode: Hybrid
Course type: Intensive module with 6 sessions spread over 2 weeks end of April/May 2025 including lectures, practical exercises and self-study assignments.
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Full description can be downloaded here:
Biodiversity_Biogeography_MSc_Marine_Module_description_SEA-EU
Polish course for Beginners
Target group: SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ staff and students
Total workload: 10
Register: before 1 Jan 2025
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Course name: POLSKA PO POLSKU
Prerequisites: elementary – A-0
Class size: 10
Course offered by: University of Gdańsk
Course teacher: Urszula Abucewicz, MA
Contact person/ Information: anna.dulska@ug.edu.pl
Start-End Date/ Time:
8 January, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
15 January, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
22 January, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
29 January, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
5 February, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
12 February, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
19 February, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
26 February, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m
Course Content:
The course ‘Polska po polsku’ is an invitation to Gdańsk – the city of freedom. Students will learn what Gdańsk is famous for, where Lech Wałęsa – the legendary leader of the Solidarity movement, President of the Republic of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize winner – lived, and will follow in his footsteps. During the classes, we will count how many goals Robert Lewandowski has scored and how many matches Iga Świątek has won. The tutor will also talk about the specialities of Polish cuisine.
During the classes, students will learn how to introduce themselves, talk about what they do and what their interests and hobbies are. They will also learn how to plan a trip, how to get to Gdańsk from, for example Cadiz or Split. They will be able to place an order in a Polish café or restaurant and express their preferences in terms of flavours and dishes. Each class will include elements of Polish culture.
Additional details:
- Technical Requirements: Laptop/PC with a stable Internet connection, a camera and a microphone.
- Lessons will be held via Microsoft Teams.
- A certificate of participation will be issued upon attendance to >75% of the course.
To apply:
Register before 1 Jan 2025 at https://forms.office.com/e/TphHQDrSKq
Participants will be notified 3 days before the course and receive connection details 2-3 days before the start of the course.
BIP Marine Data Literacy
This intensive course educates students on marine data sourcing, exploration, and valorisation, transforming data into valuable knowledge. The course highlights the importance of data in marine services, sustainable ocean development, and informed decision-making.
Application Deadline: 30th Nov 2024
- responsable Partner/Lecturers: UG/ Aleksandra Dudkowska, Gabriela Gic-Grusza
- Mode: Online + in presence
- Course type: Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) with an online course from 24th Feb to 25th April 2025 and an on-site practical course (physical mobility) from 10-18th May 2025 in Gdańsk, Poland
- ECTS: 3
Mediating Specialised Discourse in English (Domain: Marine Sciences)
Target group: students, professors, technical and administrative staff
Total workload: 30 hours
Register before 22 November 2024
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The University of Algarve is pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming Virtual language course titled “Mediating Specialised Discourse in English (Domain: Marine Sciences)”, offered during the 2024/2025 academic year.
Course Aims:
The course will focus mainly on communication in academic context. By the end of this course, participants should be able to activate discourse and language use strategies to mediate specialised vocabulary/terminology and phraseology, within the domain of marine sciences, according to audience and purpose. The focus (of this 30-hour course) is on Amplifying strategies to clarify meaning and facilitate understanding.
Course Details:
- Target group: students, professors, technical and administrative staff
- Language taught: English
- Workload: 30 hours
- Methodology: Participant/content-centred learning approach. Communicative language activities: reception, mediation interaction, production.
- Prerequisites: B1 level CEFR
Key Information:
- Start and End Date: 6 January 2025 – 31 January 2025
- Class Schedule: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays from 9:30 to 12:00 (CET)
- Registration Deadline: 22nd November 2024
- Course Director: Professor Manuel Célio Conceição; Contact: mconcei@ualg.pt
- Registration Link: Sea Eu – Mediating Specialised Discourse in English – Marine sciences | Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais
Specific Learning Outcomes:
- Reformulating through paraphrasing and use of synonyms
- Explaining (breaking down) terminology by providing examples and definitions accessible to audience and purpose
- Illustrating by making comparisons, metaphors and/or analogies
- Adapting delivery (use of language, style and/or register in order to incorporate the content of a text into a new text of a different genre and register
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the Course Director.
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Online synchronous workshop
Organiser UBO
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Sessions:
- 18th March 2023, 10am – 1pm
- 30th May 2023, 9am – noon
Introduction to student mentoring
Online Workshop organised by UM
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Write a Data Management Plan
Organiser: UBO
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Self-training format
Beginner Level
Maritime and Environmental Law: theory and practice
The main objective of this one day module is to teach about the ship pollution and the socio-legal approach to marine plastic pollution (lecture part in the morning) as well as to practise the participatory principle in Environmental Law at European level in an in-depth exercise part (in the afternoon). Application closed
- Partner/Lecturer: UBO/Dr HDR Adélie Pomade in collaboration with UNIST
- Mode : Hybrid
- Course type : Lectures (8:30 – 12:30 CEST) and exercise (13:30 – 16:30). The two parts can be followed independent of each other.
- Target audience: Master students
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The full course description can be downloaded here:
VirtualMarineOpenElectives_Module_Description_Maritime_and_Environmental_Law_UBO
Academic Writing and Presentation in the Digital Space
Course topics:
- Online academic text production and presentation skills: text and presentation structures, rhetorical strategies, ethical concerns (e.g. dis- and misinformation)
- Communication effectiveness in the digital space
- Digital tools and software for writing and audiovisual content creation
- Argumentation: fundamentals of argumentation, logic and argumentation, providing constructive feedback, self reflection
Learning objectives:
- Establish a foundational understanding of effective online communication and how academic texts, presentations and communication documents are structured in the digital space
- Apply interdisciplinary communication and design strategies to create content for various audiences and environments (in-person or online)
- Use various digital tools and software (e.g. artificial intelligence, writing/editing software) when communicating online
- Assess and reflect on one’s online communication abilities
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For more information:
Go to the course website
Download the complete course description: Course_Sheet_Academic_Writing_WS2425
Global Citizenship SEA-EU Micro-credential
This mostly asynchronous online seminar of about 20 to 25 hours of learning is designed to encourage and inspire you as a student to take a close look at the concept of Global Citizenship and to develop an understanding of Global Citizenship on an individual level. Within this supervised online course with 10% of synchronous online teaching and 90% of asynchronous self-paced learning on an online platform with open weekly coaching (on demand), you will have the opportunity to explore approaches to globalization and citizenship and engage with the Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, you’ll examine the concept of Cultural Intelligence and reflect on how to act in a culturally diverse context.
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For more information:
Go to the Course webpage
Download the full course description – Course_sheet_Global_Citizenship_WS2425
Global Ocean Governance Framework and Managing our Relations with the Ocean
The main objective of the module is to be able to identify current ocean governance scenarios and their global and regional challenges, as well as to critically describe overarching ocean governance issues, including the maritime areas of jurisdiction and control. Additionally, the main EU Directives concerning marine environmental protection will be taught.
- Partner/Lecturer: UM/Prof. Alan Deidun in collaboration with the International Ocean Institute (IOI)
- Mode : Hybrid
- Course type : Lectures, seminars and an independent study project as well as one fieldtrip on 14th Nov 11-13:00 CET (ONLY for those onsite in Malta! NOT possible for virtual participants!
Application closed.
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Full module description available to download here:
Module_description_GSC5101_GlobalOceanGovernanceFramework_UM_forSEA-EU
Metal Contaminants – Metals in the Ocean
The module provides a comprehensive insight into the topic of marine metal contaminants. Students will study the transport, fate, and speciation of metals, alongside bioavailability, bioaccumulation, and detoxification mechanisms. A key focus is on the impact of activities such as deep-sea mining and ocean alkalinity enhancement.
Application closed
ECTS: 5
Partner / Lecturer: CAU / Prof. Sylvia Sander
Mode: Hybrid
Course dates: 15 Oct – 17 Dec, hybrid live seminars each Tues, 15:30-17:30 CEST/CET
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Full course description available for download here:
ModuleDescription_MetalContaminants-Metals_in_the_Ocean_forSEA-EU
Seafloor Mapping School
The GEOMAR-iMAGE CREATE Seafloor Mapping School provides training in remote predictive geological mapping techniques with a focus on seafloor geology and GIS application. Application closed.
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The GEOMAR-iMAGE CREATE Seafloor Mapping School provides intensive introductory training in seafloor geology and remote predictive geological mapping techniques. Students are introduced to data compilation and integration, accessing data repositories, how to process different data sets such as multibeam bathymetry and geophysical data, how to set up map projects in a GIS with the relevant data management tools and editors, and how to interpret the compiled data in terms of the geological attributes of the seafloor. Students learn how to construct a geological map legend, create relevant map layers, including regional time-stratigraphic models, and undertake geodynamic reconstructions of large areas of the oceans.
The first four days of the Mapping School are an introduction to marine geology and seabed mapping. The remaining 5-6 days consist of practical exercises, lectures, and discussions.
Application Deadline: 14 July 2024
Course Type: On-line lectures and practical exercises with GIS. Independent work on the mapping project and report writing is expected.
Participation: 10 days x 6-8 hrs/day.
ECTS: 5
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