Guidelines for activity or course organization

General about FoSW PhD-courses

FoSW PhD courses are primarily for PhD students. If a place is available at the time of the deadline for course application, researchers can attend a course, but will not participate in potential course-related individual projects.

Focus on Soils & Water is fully funded by SLU's faculty of Natural Resources and Agriculture for post-graduate education. For this reason, each course needs to have a minimum number and percentage of SLU PhD students to be fully funded.

Moreover, an additional course fee can be asked of those who are interested to participate, but are not PhD students or SLU employees. This can be relevant, for instance, when there is a commercial interest in a competence the course covers. The steering committee suggested a tentative additional course fee of 1000–1500 SEK per course day excluding costs for lodging, food, course material.

Steps for an organizing a FoSW activity or course

1. Establish a course plan & budget, see also NJ faculty's guidelines for independent doctoral courses
2. Establish a course homepage
3. Announce course
4. Collect registrations and list of participants
5. Contacts to teachers
6. Book locality/room
7. Order food
8. Course evaluation
9. Economy
10. Course report

Documents

The FoSW coordinators can provide the following document if you are interested in oragnising a course or activity.

• FoSW's guidelines for organizing an activity or course
• Word template for suggesting PhD courses or other activities

The following documents can be downloaded from the staff web:

• NJ faculty's guidelines for independent doctoral courses (pdf)
• Course budget template (xlsx)
• Compulsory Research School Activity Evaluation (xlsx)