2022 Retreat

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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 5th Annual Retreat will take place in 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

Retreat was cancelled due to several floodings, Poster Session took place on 14 November 2024 in UZAII, Vienna, Austria.

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