Additional courses open to LNDS PhD students in Geneva and Lausanne

— incl. Transversal skills training offers —

Please see here our website listing e-learning activities and how they can be validated.

Please note that courses listed below have varying modes of registration:

  • Courses marked * : direct you to a self-enrollment website. Register and send the course certificate to the LNDS coordinator. Please note that the UNIL language courses are often only accessible for UNIL students.
  • Courses marked + : are organized by UNIGE and often only accessible for UNIGE students. Please directly contact the course organizer to enroll. In case of problems, ask the LNDS coordinator for help.
  • Courses unmarked : Send an e-mail to the LNDS coordinator at least 2 weeks before course start.
Scientific topicsECTSDetails
* Animal experimentation and statistics courses of the RESAL Lemanic NetworkGeneva and Lausanne
* UNIL: Workshops of the Cellular Imaging Facilityvarious
* UNIL: Courses of the Electron Microscope Facilityvarious
* Courses of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)various
UNIL: Course program of the FBM-UNIL Life Science PhD program various
UNIGE: Course program of the UNIGE Life Science PhD programvarious
Transversal Skills and Career Development HelpECTSDetails
Innosuisse Startup Training3Geneva and Lausanne
+ UNIGE Center for Continuous and Distance Education (e.g. Programming and Data science courses)various
+ UNIGE Scientific writing and communication2Autumn semester
+ UNIGE library courses (e.g. Data management plan; bibliographic search and referencing)various
+ UNIGE courses on complementary skills offered by the Teaching Divisionvarious
+ UNIGE Graduate Campusvarious
* UNIL Graduate Campus Workshopsvarious
* UNIL Skills for Scientists workshops and eventsvarious
* UNIL Academic writing skills for doctoral students2various
* UNIL: Presenting Research in English12-day course in January and June
* UNIL: Communicating in English in an Academic Context for Master and PhD students25-day course in January and June
* UNIL: Preparing a 3 Minute Thesis Presentation in English for Doctoral Students0.5tbd
* UNIL /CHUV workshops on data management, bibliographic search and referencing and more …various
UNIGE: Course program of the UNIGE Life Science Doctoral programvarious
UNIL: Course program of the FBM-UNIL Life Science PhD program various
REGARD: Le programme d’ateliers pour la relève fémininevarious
CUSO: Course offers by the CUSO program various