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10 Years of Transferable Skills Training for Doctoral Candidates

posted by Allison O'Reilly

Doctoral Education, transferable skills

Allison OReilly

Bianca Lindorfer

Bianca Lindorfer from the Center for Doctoral Studies talks about her experiences organising transferable skills training for doctoral candidates at the University of Vienna and what she has learnt in the last 10 years.

Links:
The Center for Doctoral Studies at the University of Vienne: https://doktorat.univie.ac.at/en/

Their training programme: https://forschung.univie.ac.at/en/services/events-trainings/doctoral-candidates/

A link to the CARLiS project can be found here shortly.

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