SENSE Education

 

Introductory Guide SENSE
All new PhD students are adviced to read the Intoductory Guide.
 
ITSP
SENSE PhD students are required to submit an Individual Training and Supervision Plan (ITSP). When you have completed your ITSP, you will get a SENSE Certificate. Read more about the requirements for your ITSP.
 
Funding
Some organisations offer opportunities for funding for PhD students. 
 
For Course Coordinators
Are you planning to organise a course? Are you already involved in a course?
We have compiled a page with information related to the organisation of your course within the SENSE Research School.
You can also read the SENSE Course Coordinators Guide!

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Courses

 
PhD Courses:

• the A1 and A2 course, SENSE courses, especially for SENSE PhDs, mandatory for the SENSE-ITSP,
• SENSE Courses given within the SENSE network (Sxxx courses),
• External Courses, not organised by SENSE, but highly recommended (SxxxE courses)
• General Skills Courses at several Dutch Universities
• E-learning Courses & Distance Education at several Dutch academic institution
• European Short Courses Portal

You can search for specific courses using the searchpage. 
 
PhD Discussion Groups:
The Wageningen graduate School PE&RC and the Wageningen School of Social Sciences offer a number of discussion groups. The PE&RC discussion groups are open for PhD candidates from all graduate schools. SENSE PhD candidates may also get ITSP credits for participation in these discussion groups. Read more 
    
Courses for PhD supervisors:

• Courses for Supervisors (SVxxx courses)

 

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Upcoming courses in the SENSE field by others > Read more

 

Online course

 
N44311: Environmental Problems: Crossing Boundaries between Science, Policy and Society (OU)

e-Learning, online course
4.3 ECTS
Link to the course (Word file).
 

Upcoming SENSE courses

 

S289E Sampling in space and time for survey and monitory of natural resources (postponed from April to May)
2-8 May 2013
1.0 ECTS
Course coordinator: Dick Brus (Team Soil Geography, WUR)
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1314

 

Workshop Material Flow Analyses with STAN 2.5

6-7 May 2013
0.6 ECTS
Course coordinator: Kimo van Dijk
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/articles/events/9372
Registration deadline: Update 8 April 2013: still 6-7 vacant places available

 

NEW!!  Postgraduate course Photosynthesis, climate and change

26-31 May 2013
1.8 ECTS
Course coordinator: Claudius van de Vijver / Lennart Susenbeek (WU)
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/articles/events/9530

 

S101E Speciation and Bioavailability

3-7 June 2013
2.0 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Professor Raewyn M. Town
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1262

 

S010A1 Linear Models

5-7 June 2013
0.9 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Dr. Gerrit Gort
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1238

 

S010A5 Introduction to R for statistical analysis

10-11 June 2013
0.6 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Dr. Gerrit Gort
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1323

 

S010A3 Generalized Linear Models

13-14 June 2013
0.6 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Dr. Gerrit Gort
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1324

 

S010B Basic Statistics

18-26 June 2013
1.5 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Dr. Evert-Jan Bakker
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1325

 

S010A2 Mixed Linear Models

20-21 June 2013
0.6 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Dr. Gerrit Gort
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1283

 

S602a Sustainable Bio-energy and Bio-products & Innovation

1-5 July 2013
2.0 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Annemiek ter Heijne (WUR)
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1312

 

S246E NCK Summer School: Estuarine and Coastal Processes in relation to Coastal Zone Management

1-12 July 2013
3.0 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Dano Roelvink (UNESCO-IHE)
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1318

 

S474E Measuring and Modelling Dynamics in Innovation Systems

26-28 August 2013
3.0 ECTS
Course Leader: Dr. Frank van Rijnsoever
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1322

 

A1 Environmental Research in Context

25-27 September 2013
2.0 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Ad van Dommelen, Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1317

 

S473E Hunger defeated? Long-term dynamics of global food security

27 September - 3 October 2013
2.0 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Lennart Suselbeek
Link to the course: http://www.pe-rc.nl/database/Courses%20and%20Activities/PE-RC%20postgraduate%20courses/Long%20term%20dynamics%20of%20global%20food%20security.htm

S234E Human Induced Soil Degradation - Seminar and Excursion in the Netherlands
30 September - 4 October 2013, preparation meeting 9 September
Course Teachers: Dr. Violette Geissen (Wageningen University), Dr. Johannes Botschek, Prof.dr. Coen Ritsema
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1307

 

S013E Multivariate Analysis

22-31 October 2013
1.5 ECTS
Course Coordinator: Claudius van de Vijver (Wageningen University)
Course Teachers: Dr Cajo J. F. ter Braak and ir. Saskia L.G.E. Burgers
Link to the course: http://www.sense.nl/?module=courses&func=displayplanned&planningid=1327