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It is important to regularly discuss your educational needs with your supervisors.

• At the start of your PhD trajectory you fill in the Training and Supervision Agreement (TSA)  together with your supervisors and subsequently upload it to MyPhD under the TSA-tab.
• After you have completed a training or course register them - together with the certificates - under the Portfolio-tab in MyPhD.
• Discuss your progress during your annual Assessment and Development interviews (employees) or PhD progress meetings (non-employees) with your supervisor(s) and in meetings with your mentor. You may utilize the for these discussions as well. 

ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) are in essence a unit of time that is used and standardized throughout higher education in Europe, with 1 ECTS = 28 hours and 1.5 ECTS = 1 week. 
This means that if a given course or training does not state how many ECTS it provides you with, you can calculate the number of credits depending on the time investment it asks and record it accordingly in MyPhD. 

Please keep in mind that at the GSNS we do not calculate with less than 0.25ECTS so please round up. 

Most courses offered by GSNS are free of charge, which does not mean free of responsibility: Once you have signed up for a course or training, you are expected to attend. We are handling the following cancellation and no-show policy:

• Cancellation of the course registration is possible up to the registration deadline (usually 2 weeks before the course; 3 weeks for COSKA & ARTESC courses). After this date you can only cancel if you have a GSNS PhD candidate to replace you in the course. Send the name and contact information of your replacement to science.phd@uu.nl, at least 2 working days before the start of the course.
• We expect you to actively attend the full course.
• Not meeting the requirements above means that you will be charged a no-show fee: €50 for every course <1 day; €200 for courses >1 day. An invoice will be sent to you after the course has ended.
• Exceptions to this policy will only be made for valid reasons (e.g. illness or death in the family 1^st/2^nd degree or partner), communicated by e-mail to science.phd@uu.nl

Download this policy as PDF here.

Toward the end of the PhD, you have the option to request a GSNS Training Certificate if your training portfolio registered in MyPhD meets the requirements outlined below.

In addition to your PhD Diploma, the Training Certificate demonstrates that you have actively participated in doctoral education and developed your personal competencies during your PhD. It also serves as transcript of the training that you have taken while pursuing your PhD.
To obtain a GSNS PhD Training Certificate, the PhD candidate should have done a minimum of 5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System; 1 credit = 28 hours and 1.5 credits = 1 week) for each fulltime equivalent year of research appointment. A minimum of 20% of the total credits is spend on transferrable skill training.

Please request your Training Certificate at least 8 weeks before your PhD defence through . It is also possible to request the certificate after your defence.