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Annual PhaNuSpo Retreat
An annual two-day retreat will be held at a venue outside the university which will be open to all doctoral students within VDS PhaNuSpo, participation is obligatory for doctoral students who are school-members. Within the retreat doctoral students will e.g. report the advances of their work, critically discuss recent and future research trends with all school members and invited experts, decide upon further procedures and strategies, and discuss their future perspectives/job possibilities in an interdisciplinary and translational environment. All PIs/supervisors shall be present as well as invited key researchers from academia and/or industry. Moreover, the SAB will be invited to attend the retreat and provide input into the future directions and decisions of the school.
The next Annual Retreat is scheduled for September 2026.
Previous Retreats
4th Annual Retreat
The fourth Annual Retreat took place on 25-26 September 2025 in Frankenfels, Lower Austria.
During the two-day programme, our PhD candidates had the opportunity to listen to the keynote lecture about the importance of scientific communication, present their own research during the poster session, and talk to experts from industry.
3rd Annual Retreat
Unfortunately, we had to cancel the retreat due to severe flooding in Lower Austria, where the seminar hotel is located.
However, part of the programme could be transferred to an alternative date: The poster session has been transferred to 14 November 2024 at the UZAII in Vienna, and the icebreaker and PowerPoint karaoke presentations to the Christmas Party in early December 2025.
2nd Annual Retreat
18-19 September 2023 in Söchau, Styria
1st Annual Retreat
12-13 September 2022 in Seitenstetten, Lower Austria
VDS PhaNuSpo Kick-off
Online on 23 March 2021