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 2023-2024:

Time 4 Career

Organiser UBO

English
5th March – 7th April 2024

Silica: From stardust to the living world

Organiser UBO

English

I build my bibliographies with Zotero

Online synchronous workshop

Organiser UBO

English

Sessions:

  • 18th March 2023, 10am – 1pm
  • 30th May 2023, 9am – noon

Introduction to student mentoring

Online Workshop organised by UM

English
6th March 2024 17:00 – 22:00

Write a Data Management Plan

Organiser: UBO

 

English
28 March 2024 10:00 – 12:00
Beginner Level

Self-training format

Beginner Level

Portuguese language (A1.1)

Target group: students, professors, technical and administrative staff

Total workload: 30 hours

Register before 22 November 2024

Portuguese
6 January – 7 February 2025
Level: A1

The University of Algarve is pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming Virtual language course titled “Portuguese Language (A1.1)”.

Course Aims:
The course will focus mainly on communication in academic context. By the end of this course, using basic grammatical and communicative structures (present simple, pronouns, turn taking etc.), participants should be able: to interact (orally and in writing) using familiar words and basic sentences to describe personal details and simple academic situations; to write context-driven short texts, containing for example time, date and place and fill forms with personal information.

Course Details:
Target group: students, professors, technical and administrative staff
Language taught: Portuguese
Workload: 30 hours (remote learning)
Methodology: Participant/content-centred learning approach. Communicative language activities: reception, mediation interaction, production.
Prerequisites: None
Course Director: Prof. Manuel Célio Conceição; Contact: mconcei@ualg.pt

Key Information:
Dates: 6th January 2025 – 7th February 2025
Schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:00 to 12:00 (CET)
Registration Deadline: 22nd November 2024
Registration Link: SEA-EU – Portuguese language (A1.1) | Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais

Specific Learning Outcomes:
Greeting others
Sharing personal details
Describing individuals and providing details about objects and situations
Inquiring about and stating the time, and talking about locations
Describing individuals and providing details about objects.
Discussing daily habits and routines.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the Course Director email.