Euron certificate

EURON offers an additional EURON PhD certificate to EURON PhD – students which is awarded above and beyond the regular local PhD degree. This EURON certificate is recognized as a quality mark that will give a direct  advantage in such a way that student will experience fewer problems obtaining industrial or university positions, not only in their own country but also in the other EC countries and the USA and Canada.

To obtain this certificate is dependent on the following requirements:

• PhD thesis in English language
• Obligation to follow courses and to obtain credit points (based on the ects system; 10 ects from the EURON course programme according to the entire PhD)
• One EURON member (not from the home university) should represent EURON on the dissertation review committee and at the dissertation defence. The review committee consists of at least five members
• Scientific exchange visit(s) to other EURON research groups for a period of at least 3 months, related to the PhD programme (note that EURON will provide the basis for achieving this goal for each PhD student fellow)
• Other foreign experience is strongly encouraged
• The thesis should consist of at least four papers or of papers with a total Impact Factor of at least 10 as first-author or joint first author. Adjusted weight factors for the various disciplines in neuroscience are considered
• Admittance to the EURON PhD degree programme is limited to individuals holding a MSc, MD or MA degree or equivalent.

Individual exceptions will be possible, as judged by the EURON Director and Board.