Courses offered by the Doctoral Academy Graz

Specific skills are required to successfully complete a doctoral degree program. The Doctoral Academy Graz therefore supports you with a tailor-made range of courses, in which you can also acquire relevant qualifications for successful international research careers.

The Doctoral Academy Graz team will not be available during the holidays.
Your inquiries will be processed again starting on January 7, 2025.

Training on the topic of AI

Current offerings at the University of Graz

Workshopoffer of the Postdoc Office, open for interested PhD candidates


Recognising and leveraging your transversal skills for careers outside academia

25.03.2025, 08:30 - 15:00
Details and Registration

If you have completed three Doctoral Academy Graz courses, you can apply for a Doctoral Academy Certificate in Transferable Skills, which confirms the skills you have acquired.
Further information can be found below. If you have any further questions, please contact doctoral-academy@uni-graz.at

Doctoral Academy Certificate in Transferable Skills

What is it?

The Transferable Skills Certificate is awarded by the Doctoral Academy Graz to highly motivated doctoral candidates.
It serves as evidence for the doctoral candidates' expertise in key activites of the academic field (e.g. Publishing, Proposal Writing, Teaching, etc.).

What are the requirements?

Doctoral candidates have to attend three courses of the Academy's course program within one academic year.
One of these courses has to cover the field of research integrity/good scientific practice.

How much does it cost?

The Transferable Skills Certificate is for free.

How to get it?

Doctoral candidates who fulfill the requirements are invited to submit an informal request for the certificate including a list of the attended workshops to doctoral-academy(at)uni-graz.at.
The Academy checks the application and, if the data provided is correct, sends the certificate to the postal address provided by the doctoral candidate.