Doctoral training at VU Amsterdam is organized in graduate schools. After you have been accepted for admission to the doctoral program as a PhD candidate you and your supervisor devise a training and supervision plan (TSP).
The TSP is the core part of every PhD process. It is considered an agreement between the candidate and the supervisor on obligations and duties of both parties and consists of 8 elements of information:
- type of PhD candidate
- faculty and graduate school
- financing instrument/time allocation
- conference plan/workshop, study visit, summer school plan
- internships for PhDs
- supervision plan
- research plan
- teaching plan
- training plan
- PhD trajectory for 3 or 4 years,
- evaluation and reporting plan
The PhD candidate must obtain 30EC (European credits) through the training component.