Training & Education

Training & Education with TRAIL
One of the main objectives of TRAIL is to provide in high quality training and education for TRAIL PhD candidates. TRAIL wants to educate PhD Students in order that they become excellent researchers, who prove to be able to conduct self-reliant, independent, and scientifically accountable research.

The curriculum that TRAIL Research School has set up offers great opportunities for PhD Candidates to obtain knowledge they will need in their careers and to develop necessary skills. Then they will successfully finish their PhD-thesis and can expect to enter the labor market in a good position, and to be sought after by research institutes, government institutions and the private sector.

Objectives
TRAIL's educational curriculum is designed to fit the individual needs of the Ph.D. candidates and has three branches:

• Coursework (Training & Education);
• The qualification project, which covers the actual research activities (Research & Development);
• A program of seminars and information exchange (Knowledge Transfer, see Agenda).

Arrangements with respect to the training & education program, the research program and also the publication program and the type of supervision are laid down in the TRAIL PhD Student Refenrence Guide and Agreement.