Personal development VU employees

Development opportunities

• Career guidance and coaching

  On this page you can find all the information on career guidance and coaching for employees. 

• Training courses for scientific staff, PhD students and postdocs

  • Career orientation for PhD students and postdocs
  • PhD success and personal efficacy 
  • Supervising PhD candidates 1-5 years experience 
  • Supervising PhD candidates (senior variant) 5+ years experience
  • Surviving Academia for postdocs
  • Cooperation in science for postdocs
  • Leadership in science for postdocs
  • Active bystander training
  • Mentoring programme for talented scientists (registration by nomination)

• Training courses for supervisors of PhD students

  • Supervising PhD candidates 1-5 years experience 
  • Supervising PhD candidates (senior variant) 5+ years experience
  • Inspired Supervision
  • Building strong teams in research for senior researchers
  • Leadership Coaching

  All supervisors of PhD students working at VU Amsterdam are obliged to follow the basic training course Supervising PhD candidates. This also applies to experienced supervisors, unless they receive permission from the dean to follow a customised trajectory. In the flowchart Training for supervisors of PhD students, you will find more information on which training is the best match.

• Training courses for employees in operations (support and administrative staff)

  • Active bystander training
  • Leadership and management skills for team leaders support staff
  • Mentoring programme for talented professionals in operations (registration by nomination) 

• Training courses for employees in education

  The VU Centre for Teaching & Learning (CTL) is the central expertise centre for sharing knowledge, ideas and experiences about educational development at VU Amsterdam. With our programmes, tools, events, coaching and advice, we’re working together on your personal and professional growth.

• Training courses for managers

  • Leadership and management skills tailor-made English programme
  • Annual consultations for new managers
  • Recognizing social safety
  • Peer consultation for managers (start september 2024)

  For more information about leadership at VU you can take a look at the page Leadership.

• Language training courses

  • Taalcentrum-VU
  • VU-NT2
  • Academic Language Programme

• Training for impact

  • IXA-GO

• VU E-learning

  • GoodHabitz