Curriculum & Graduation Requirements

All students

Please register at the beginning of each semester via u:find* to receive ECTS:

• Priming your PhD (please sign up during the first semester after your university registration is complete) – 6 ECTS | mandatory in your first semster
• Interdisciplinary (= Monday) Seminar  – 1 ECTS | mandatory each semester
• Journal Club – 1 ECTS  | mandatory each semester
• Work in Progress  – 1 ECTS  | mandatory each semester
• Career development plan & mentoring meetings (also "Career development plan" on ufind) – 1 ECTS | mandatory annually
• VBC/RISE Lectures – 0.5 ECTS
• How do you do it? – 1 ECTS (per year)

*If you’re asked to distribute 1000 points across your chosen courses, assign them as you like. The points usually indicate priority for limited spots, but our courses have no participant limits, so it won’t affect your registration.

ECTS assigned automatically, no registration necessary:

• Expert groups – 2 ECTS
• PhD Retreat – 1 ECTS
• Modern Concepts in Structural Biology – 1 ECTS

• VBC RNA Club: Research Report in RNA Biology - 2 ECTS

   

Additional documentation needed for ECTS assignement:

• Attendance at international workshops/congresses - 1 ECTS
• Presentations (talks or posters) at international conferences - 2 ECTS
• Attendence of core facilitiy training on campus – 1 ECTS

To receive those ECTS, please send a scan of attendance letters and detailed conference schedule incl. abstract (if applicable) or a confirmation of attendance (core facility training) to phdstudentlounge@maxperutzlabs.ac.at.

Medical University of Vienna

Students whose home university is the Medical University of Vienna are required to complete a total of 6 semester hours of propedeutics. Within this requirement, "Ethics and Good Scientific Practice" and "Project Management and Intellectual Property Rights" are mandatory courses. For further details, please refer to the Medical University of Vienna webpage.

You register for the courses via MedCampus.

• A total of 30 ECTS credits
• minimum of 6 semesters registered with the university
• Written thesis in the form of a monograph or a compilation of publications (cumulative thesis).
  • Demonstrable contribution of new knowledge to the research field
  • Demonstrable ability to conduct independent scientific research
• Publications are desirable but not mandatory (if used for a cumulative thesis, the publications need the affiliation of the program)
• public defence (viva) ​