Events and Courses
As a young researcher at the University of Copenhagen you may work with your skills, by participating in a range of events, workshops, seminars and courses as shown in the image above (click on image to enlarge). You can read more about the offerings in the month-by-month overview below.
Once employed, you also have access to the extensive UCPH' Course Catalogue and Departments and Faculties also offer many relevant events.
In addition, as an employee you can find and sign up for more courses, events and workshops at your local department.
How to identify your Transferable Skills
As a PhD or Postdoc, you have developed a wide range of hard and soft transferable skills that have prepared you for multiple career options. These skills have an important role to play when building your future career. A workshop focusing on the difference between hard and soft skills, which skills are most highly sought after and transferable and tips on how to reflect your transferable skills when preparing for the transition to your next job
Boost your research career with Twitter and LinkedIn
Learn how to use Twitter and LinkedIn to reach out to a potential global audience for your own specific research field and project. A 2 halfday workshop that focuses on how to monitor specific fields, share via Twitter and LinkedIn networks, and integrate social media into conferences, seminars, research and communication.
Learn how to fund your postdoc project
A half day seminar will provide you with tools and knowledge that will improve your chances of having your postdoc research project funded. The main focus of the course is on how to write a good application and the specific requirements from some of the major private and public funding bodies.
CV and Cover letter workshop
A workshop that focuses on inspiring you and sharing practical methods on how you can strengthen and personalise your job application material. You will get tips on how to reflect your transferable skills in your CV and cover letter.
Project management
A project management course in 3 modules introducing you relevant, fundamental and central project management tools and the newest studies within project management. Through intensive training, participants will work with their own project management and leadership of specialists including learning about the University of Copenhagen’s project model.
Introduction to impact in research proposals
A workshop that will raise awareness of the importance of the impact dimension of research projects. This workshop will give you concrete tools to work on the impact section in your research proposals.
Focusing on funding
The Ministry of Higher Education and Science is offering short webinars that will equip you to search for major international foundations such as the ERC and Marie Curie.
Career, Woman and UCPH
This 2 module course will support and assist skilled female researchers and develop talented female leaders before they take up a management role, so that they can more rapidly and actively apply for roles as research team/section leaders, heads of study/department, etc. The intentions is ensure that there are well-qualified female applicants for all managerial roles at UCPH and to give female researchers that get management roles the best preconditions for competence in action.
Get ready for Horizon Europe Collaborative Projects
A course for reseachers interested in collaborative projects with a deadline in 2021 or later
Introduction to impact in research proposals
A corse for reseachers planning to apply for research grants
Introduction to University Pedagogy
The course provides you with the competences to plan, carry out and evaluate your own teaching. You will experience various examples of teaching as well as you will work with applying selected pedagogical principles and use these to make informed decisions about your own teaching. You will be engaged in discussions of key issues concerning teaching and learning in higher education more generally.
Read more about the programme at Faculty of Social Science and sign up (PCS).
ERC writing workshops
A workshop for young researchers planning to write an ERC proposal
Horizon 2020 Data Management Plan Workshop
A workshop for reseachers who started their project within the last 6 month
Intercultural Communication workshop
A workshop focusing on UCPH as a multicultural workplace. Both Danes and non-Danes can profit from learning about Danish and UCPH working culture and how you can optimize your intercultural communication and give effectively feedback.
PhD Day – a career beyond university
Watch the webinar introducing you to a career beyond university
Introduction to University Pedagogy
The course provides you with the competences to plan, carry out and evaluate your own teaching. You will experience various examples of teaching as well as you will work with applying selected pedagogical principles and use these to make informed decisions about your own teaching. You will be engaged in discussions of key issues concerning teaching and learning in higher education more generally.>
Read more about the courses at Department of SCIENCE and sign up.