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Several best practices in place at the various universities are described below:

Best Practice: University of Groningen

Rosalind Franklin Fellowship
The Rosalind Franklin Fellowship programme is a University of Groningen initiative that opens the door to professorship for talented women scientists ...
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Best Practice: Delft University of Technology

New doctoral candidates kick-start programme
PhD Start UP is a three-day training programme in Soest. If it were up to the Delft University of Technology, the training programme would be booked in the diary of every new doctoral candidate at the university ...
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Best Practice: Utrecht University (II)

Sharpen talent for Mosaic programme
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) developed the Mosaic programme to enable a larger number of ethnic minority graduates to advance in science, and become eligible for a doctoral grant ...
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Best Practice: Utrecht University (I)

‘Academic Professionalism’ - new development programme for doctoral candidates
Utrecht University has incorporated all PhD and Research Master’s degree programmes in the Graduate School. ‘Academic Professionalism’ is a new programme component, which offers doctoral candidates coaching while strengthening contacts between other doctoral candidates. They also have the opportunity to follow courses to enable them to reinforce their competencies ...
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Best Practice: Wageningen Universiteit en Research Centre

Postdocs train to become future research leaders
‘Best Practice Talents and Topics’, a programme offered by the research school at the Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS)l, offers postdoc training programmes relevant to future research leaders. The university offers researchers further career perspectives ...
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Best Practice: University of Twente

Mentoring programme promotes women in science
To encourage women to pursue their careers in science, the University of Twente provides career guidance to women university lecturers and postdocs. A mentoring programme individually links women to senior university lecturers and professors ...
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Best Practice: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Seminar lecturer positions: opportunities for talent and the faculty
The study programme in public administration held by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam offers Master’s graduates a position as seminar lecturer. Apart from teaching, alumni also perform research as seminar lecturers ...
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Best Practice: Leiden University

Look and think one step ahead
The University of Leiden’s Science Faculty aims to excel internationally in research and education. One way to achieve this is by pursuing a comprehensive career development policy for doctoral candidates and postdocs ...
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Best Practice: Eindhoven University of Technology (II)

PROOF programme promotes the personal career development of doctoral candidates
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) designed the Proof programme to offer doctoral candidates personal development as well as growth opportunities in science ...
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Best Practice: VU Medisch Centrum (VUMC)

Control your career thanks to clarity about your own ability and requirements
To improve the career prospects of doctoral candidates, postdocs and medical researchers VUmc focuses on their personal development ...
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Best Practice: Maastricht University

Online tracking system TRACK makes progress on obtaining a doctorate transparent and flexible
To ensure that doctoral candidates’ progress can be clearly followed, the CAPHRI School at Maastricht University built an online monitoring system. CAPHRI tracks several areas for doctoral candidates and serves as an example for the rest of the university ...
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Best Practice: Eindhoven University of Technology (I)

TU/e international doctoral candidates can count on a buddy
Sometimes international staff, including doctoral candidates and postdocs, find it difficult to feel at home in the Netherlands. To avoid this, TU/e has set up a buddy system which links a university staff member as a buddy to an international doctoral candidate or postdoc ...
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