Courses
Amsterdam UMC offers a variety of courses aimed to stimulate personal and academic development and further improve soft skills that are important for post-doctoral researchers.
Date, Time and Location: TBA in 2025
Content: This five-hour-long grant-writing course will give you the necessary skills to write well-structured, clear, concise, reader-friendly and persuasive grant proposals. We will discuss what to write in each of the different sections of a grant proposal, including sections in regards to open science, data management, exploitation and valorisation. Amsterdam UMC postdocs and last year PhD students are invited to register. Both beginners and advanced grant writers will benefit from this workshop.
Detailed
9:30-9:45. Grant Planning.We will go over how grant planning can help you to reach your research and career goals, and how you can design your multi-year funding plan.
9:45-10:00. Narrative CV.We will expose important concepts when developing your narrative CV (a CV in a format that provides a structured written description of a person's contributions and achievements reflecting a broad range of relevant skills and experiences).
10:00--10:30. Grant Writing: Writing for Reviewers.We will define how to produce a grant narrative that convinces and enthuses a grant committee of reviewers.
10:30-11:00. Grant Writing: Two writing templates.We will review two writing templates to help you improve your story line to enhance the clarity, structure, cohesion and simplicity of any text.
11:00-11:15. Break.Coffee and snacks will be served.
11:15-12:30. Grant Structure: Grant Template & Abstract.We will discuss how we can incorporate a specific grant writing template to help you write the different sections of the grant. We will also review and provide actionable tips to write grant abstracts. Finally, we will go over the structure of a grant proposal and provide tips and tricks on what to consider when writing each of the different sections of a grant proposal.
12:30-13:00. Vegetarian Lunch will be served.
13:00-13:40. Open Science.We will go through the differentopen science practices that researchers can incorporate in their proposal.
13:40-14:20. Data Management.We will discuss the differenttypes of data a research project can generate, and how data can be managed FAIRly.
14:20-15:00. Valorisation and commercialisation.We will go over the most important points to consider when writing the exploitation section of grant proposals.
This workshop is organized by Research Policy Office and will be instructed by Amsterdam UMC staff from four different Research Support Domains: Research Grant Support (Bart Jordi and Silvia Calpe), Medical Library (Lieuwe Kool), Research Data Management (Meriem Manaï), and Valorization (Maaike Alderliesten).
For more information about this workshop please contact the organizers: Raiza Hasrat (RPO, researchsupport@amsterdamumc.nl) or Silvia Calpe (RGS, s.calpe@amsterdamumc.nl).
Post-doctoral researchers are given opportunity to discuss work-related non-research issues in groups of peers under guidance of a policy advisor of the Research Policy Office. These meetings are designed to connect peers and create a confidential environment for open discussion and reflection.
Course overview
Intervision is a form of peer learning that helps to create a safe and reflective space to tackle a common challenge or problem. During intervision you will get support from peers (fellow postdoctoral researchers), reflect and discuss issues without hierarchical differences. You get insight and find possible solutions to the cases, which could be recognizable for everyone in the group. At the end of each session, the case presenter and all other participants find new and helpful ways to address an issue at their workplace.
Please make sure you are available during these meetings.
Dates
Discussed together with the group
Number of participants
Groups will consist of 4-8 participants.
Registration
For more information contact
University Teaching Qualification VU in English
Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs UvA
Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs VUmc Do you need an English spoken BKO-course?In case you are employed by Amsterdam UMC, you are teaching in a (English spoken) bachelor or master program and you need an English spoken BKO-course, please explain your situation in an email to aanmelden.bko@amsterdamumc.nl
Are you a PhD or Postdoc and have you ever thought about the impact your research can have outside of academia? Would you like to explore how you can increase the impact you’re already making?
IXA offers a new modular learning path on getting involved in valorisation and creating impact particularly suitable for late phase PhD students and postdocs who want to become proficient in valorising their research.
The objective
To inspire you and make you aware of the power that comes with creating value and impact through your research.
The Learning Path is composed of 2 modules of a total of 3 workshops interspersed with online information.
The first Module focuses on impact, what it means for you, how to create it, the challenges you’ll encounter and how to take the first steps to create impact. Module 2, consisting of two workshops, guides you in concretising your ideas or research results into a plan. You will make a stakeholder analysis and learn about the support available within the knowledge institute.
No costs
Participation is free of charge. Registration is required, so is cancellation if you are not able to attend.
For other questions contact Christine Schalkx or Caroline Kleine Staarman at: programs@ixa.nl.
Amsterdam UMC considers it important that you, as an employee, can influence your own career and development. There is a variety of opportunities available to you, e.g. by understanding or further developing your qualities, or exploring career opportunities.
Functioneren & persoonlijke ontwikkeling (intranet, in Dutch)
Intranet VUmc–GoodHabitz (Online training)
Supervision courses are important if you want to supervise PhD candidates and master students. The courses can be found on the doctoral school website: Superb Supervision; several courses or inspiration meetings on mentoring your PhD Candidate (amsterdamumc.org)
Inspired Supervision: Inspiration meetings for Experienced Supervisors of PhD Students VU Centre for Teaching & Learning - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam UMC offers various leadership courses to improve your guidance of more junior researchers and how to balance your work with new additional responsibilities.
Leiderschapsontwikkeling (tulpintranet.nl)
Amsterdam UMC, Locatie VUmc - Cursus Projectmanagement in de zorg
Amsterdam UMC, Locatie VUmc - Basismodule Spin in het web & Vervolgmodule Projectmatig werken
Are you interested in exploring your career opportunities inside or outside Amsterdam UMC? Would you like help in developing your transferable skills to increase your career chances in or beyond academia? Are you looking for courses to develop your communication skills or? Look which Personal Development courses suit your needs or sign up for a mentoring program. Alternatively, you can choose to reflect on your how to use your strengths and surpass your weaknesses to benefit your career during individual coaching sessions with a coach from the Amsterdam UMC coachpool.
If you have questions regarding your career trajectory, make sure you contact the career trajectory team (loopbaanontwikkeling) loopbaanontwikkeling@amsterdamumc.nl or coachpool@amsterdamumc.nl (English and Dutch)
Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc - courses on Research Integrity
The VIRT2UE course explores what it entails to perform ‘good’ research as a researcher and discusses the moral dilemmas encountered in research. Moreover, it explains what it means to act professionally and with integrity.
As a researcher from Amsterdam UMC you have access to a variety of support services including consultations, tools and training from the Research Data Management Team (Research Data Management Amsterdam UMC). You can request such RDM support through the RDM Helpdesk. An extensive overview of the services offered by RDM can be found here.
Highlighted RDM training and support services:
‘Writing a DMP’ Training (VUmc) This interactive training will teach you how to set up an effective Research Data Management Plan (DMP). The training is most suitable for researchers that are in the beginning stages of their research as you will be working on your own DMP and will receive concrete, personalized feedback on your DMP. For more information and dates see the RDM course overview.
‘RDM’ (AMC) This course explains the concepts of a Research Data Management Plan through a combination of an e-learning module and an in-person course day (3-4 h). The e-learning module covers procedures and software applications for research data management, as well as how to deliver a reliable and reusable data set for data analysis by correctly defining, collecting, and processing data. During the course day (online) the FAIR principles, (institutional) guidelines, and their documentation in a data management plan will be discussed.
For more information and dates see AMC Intranet - Cursussen.
Amsterdam UMC RDM course Research Data Management is currently harmonising the ‘Writing a DMP’ (VUmc) and ‘RDM’ (AMC) courses to be able to offer one Amsterdam UMC Research Data Management course. The course will include both an e-learning component and a course day (3-4 h) to explain the concepts of a Research Data Management Plan.
Dates: To be announced
For more information contact the RDM Helpdesk
RDM Consultation For personal help with your Data Management Plan, you can request an RDM consultation via the RDM Helpdesk.