The DOC Center, HR Development, and other departments at TU Wien offer various courses for doctoral candidates. All courses at the DOC Center are conducted in English.

DOC Center workshops and seminars

Course 056.004 – 1 ECTS/blocked LVA

This course covers topics such as research ethics, research integrity, and societal responsibility, encouraging reflection on the possible societal implications of research.

NEXT DATE: April to June 2026
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This two-day workshop offers support to researchers towards identifying critical techniques so as to overcome challenges and achieve their degree as well research goals.

NEXT DATE: June 1 and 2, 2026
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This two-day communications skills workshop is designed to help academic professionals align their body language with their purpose and intentions in the present moment in order to create an effective and powerful presence.

NEXT DATE: June 11 and 12, 2026
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This two-day workshop is designed to provide doctoral candidates with insight into how to prepare, write, and submit scientific papers.

NEXT DATE: June 24 and 26, 2026
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Find and manage academic information resources at TU Wien and beyond: find scholarly information resources, understand the information, utilize the existing tools (e.g., SCOPUS, Web of Science, etc.) and get further resources.

NEXT DATE: November 9 and 10, 2026

This one-day workshop is designed to assist in identifying your personal motivation for networking, build a plan to diversify your connections and develop your own personal networking strategy.

NEXT DATE: tbd
 

During this one-day workshop, you will learn practical strategies for managing your time and energy effectively to help you thrive on your doctoral journey and strengthen your focus and well-being.

NEXT DATE: December 9, 2026

Other courses at TU Wien

You have heard of GitHub or GitLab, but you are not sure whether such Git-based systems are suitable for you.

Version Control Systems facilitate effective collaboration between people. Although these tools are mostly used in the field of Software Engineering, they are not limited to this use case. Version Control Systems like Git can be used for collaboration on text documents (training material, documentation, etc.) and keeping track of any changes.

This workshop aims to guide participants through the setup of Git and explain the basic terms and concepts. It will enable participants to create a Git repository and contribute to an existing one.

You will learn how to…

  • configure an SSH-Key for your GitLab Account
  • create new Git repositories
  • commit changes to a Git repository
  • explore the history of your Git repository
  • synchronise a local repository with a remote repository by using the push and pull commands.

Note: To learn more about Git, we recommend the course Mastering Git, in the afternoon.

NEXT DATE: February 4, 2026,  10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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The data repository workshop is touring TU Wien, and we look forward to seeing you at the Arsenal Science Center in May!

In the workshop, you will learn about the FAIR principles, licenses for data and code, and how to preserve, share, and publish your research data in TU Wien Research Data, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster, the institutional data repository of TU Wien. You will hear about special features, including communities, automated upload via REST API, and record versioning.

NEXT DATE: May 6, 2026, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Are you new to version control or eager to enhance your development workflow?

This course provides a hands-on introduction to how Git can simplify routine file operations. Whether one has used Git before or not, this course is for all developers, data scientists, researchers, and students who write or modify code or documents.

We focus on the basics: how to use Git locally to record snapshots of your work, see previous versions, recover lost changes and understand the history of what was happening in your project. Time is spent getting comfortable with the basic set of commands you use every day; branches and GitHub are mentioned briefly to show folks where these concepts fit in. The workshop is hands-on: simple tasks follow a brief explanation, allowing participants to try things out right away and learn by doing. 

NEXT DATE: May 20, 2026, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Deadlines do not wait, and sometimes a Data Management Plan lands on your desk right when you are juggling a dozen other tasks. This workshop is designed to help you handle that situation efficiently and without stress.

The core of this session is a guided, practical walkthrough of the TU Wien DMP Tool. There are no long presentations and no long theory blocks. Instead, we go straight into the tool and show you how to use it step by step. You will see how to create a clear, funder-compliant DMP for FWF, FFG, Horizon Europe, and other major funders, and you will get an overview of what information you need and how the tool helps you structure it.

This workshop focuses on using the tool effectively rather than exploring research data management in depth.

NEXT DATE: May 27, 2026, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Learn about research data management to fulfil funders' requirements and to benefit in your daily work.

In their request for open science and FAIR principles, funding bodies increasingly require well-defined data management and a Data Management Plan (DMP). A DMP helps researchers consider all relevant questions concerning data handling along the research lifecycle. This includes storage and archiving infrastructures, publication of data, as well as citation, use of persistent identifiers, long-term access, and potential deletion.

Participants of this workshop will learn about the tools and support available with respect to research data management at TU Wien and beyond. The workshop covers the expectations of funders as well as the benefits for individual researchers from improved data management, useful tips for creating DMPs, and a demonstration of the TU Wien DMP Tool.

NEXT DATE: June 24, 2026,  9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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You have heard of GitHub or GitLab, but you are not sure whether such Git-based systems are suitable for you.

Version Control Systems facilitate effective collaboration between people. Although these tools are mostly used in the field of Software Engineering, they are not limited to this use case. Version Control Systems like Git can be used for collaboration on text documents (training material, documentation, etc.) and keeping track of any changes.

This workshop aims to guide participants through the setup of Git and explain the basic terms and concepts. It will enable participants to create a Git repository and contribute to an existing one.

You will learn how to…

  • configure an SSH-Key for your GitLab Account
  • create new Git repositories
  • commit changes to a Git repository
  • explore the history of your Git repository
  • synchronise a local repository with a remote repository by using the push and pull commands.

Note: To learn more about Git, we recommend the course Mastering Git, in the afternoon.

NEXT DATE: July 1, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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Do you already know how to set up Git and clone repositories to your computer? Still, is Git giving you a hard time now and then, especially when you encounter a merge conflict? Then this course suits you well.

You will learn how to…

  • work with branches (merging, squashing)
  • encounter merge conflicts
  • use GitLab in a larger team.

Note: To learn about the basics of Git, we recommend the Introduction to Git, course in the morning.

NEXT DATE: July 1, 2026, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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