VLAG Postdocs


Summary

information for postdocs on registration, training and funding

null

At Wageningen University, you can benefit from various opportunities for personal and professional development as an early-career researcher. Together with the other Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS), we provide courses and training opportunities for Postdocs, as well as other resources to support you with your development. VLAG also has funding available for Postdocs, for instance, to support international secondments.

Registration

If you are a new postdoctoral researcher with one of the VLAG research groups, please fill in the Postdoc Registration Form.

As a registered Postdoc with VLAG Graduate School, you:

  • Receive the VLAG newsletter with information on events, calls, training opportunities, etc.
  • Will be informed about activities specifically aimed at postdocs
  • Can participate in training activities aimed at early-stage researchers (often with reduced fees)
  • Can apply for VLAG Postdoc fellowships

Please submit this form to VLAG Office.

Development opportunities

Career development

The career development plan is a document to support you in thinking about the goals/deliverables of your postdoc, your career ambitions, and (training) activities you can plan/follow to optimise your career perspectives. The document is a tool to constructively discuss these plans and ambitions with your chairholder/PI. Ideally, you do this at the start of your postdoc and afterwards, at least once per year, e.g., during your Progress and Development (P&D) conversation. You can find the document here.

Courses and training opportunities

A variety of courses, seminars, workshops, and symposia is available to increase your in-depth knowledge of specific research topics or to broaden your scientific horizons and professional network. Additionally, the general skill training activities will enable you to continue your career inside academia or to explore alternative career paths outside of academia.

Think, for instance, of a training on Writing Grant Proposals or support with Developing your Research Vision. For the full overview of courses offered by WGS click here.

At the Teaching & Learning Centre, you can also register for courses to work on obtaining your University Teaching Qualification (UTQ; in Dutch “BKO”).

When you would like to explore career paths inside and outside of academia, you could join the training on Career Development for Postdocs: Science and the Alternatives.

If you are looking for discipline-specific courses, the courses organized by VLAG are open to Postdocs as well. Also, we provide a list of suggestions on where to look for external courses.

Funding

VLAG Graduate School has Research Fellowships which aim to promote the quality of scientific research and strengthen international collaborations. Especially, the Postdoc Fellowship for international secondments is highly recommended.

After registration with VLAG, you will also receive our newsletter in which we advertise additional/external funding opportunities.

You can also find information about national, European, and international financing programmes and subsidies via the Wageningen Grant Office.

Resources

Get connected!

Follow VLAG Graduate School on LinkedIn.

Through Viva Engage and MS Teams you can connect to colleagues at WUR through a broad range of interest groups and stay up-to-date with news, events, and other opportunities.

There is a university wide Postdoc Council, to represent postdocs across all Wageningen Graduate Schools. The council focuses on 1) building a strong and supportive postdoc network, 2) providing training and workshops tailored to postdoc needs, and 3) being an active voice to represent, advocate and implement beneficial changes for postdocs. They can be reached by email (wur_postdoc_council@wur.nl).

Monthly meet-ups are being organised, to which all WUR Postdocs are warmly invited. The information about the dates and venue of upcoming meet-ups is shared through the postdoc network group on Viva engage and Wageningen University postdoc network on LinkedIn, make sure to join those and stay up to date.

If you have any questions, or if you have suggestions to organise something for VLAG postdocs, feel free to reach out to VLAG by email or to find us at our offices in Axis X (X0107 and X0108).

Links to other resources