PhD Timetable

When Action
Before starting at WUR Practical information - WUR
Registering Registration with WIMEK
Registration at department: PhD contract (for PhD candidates not financed by WU or NWO)
Upload of legal agreement by your first promotor in Hora Finita (if you do not have an employment contract)
Please read Preparing for your PhD for more information about for instance housing and visas
If applicable: payment of tuition fee (guest PhDs, sandwich PhDs with third flow funding)
Within 6 months You receive an invitation for the WIMEK introduction meeting
Fill out your first draft of the Training and Supervision Plan (TSP) and discuss it with your supervisor(s)
Official submission & formal approval of the TSP in Hora Finita
If you want to take BSc of MSc courses or want a Students sports card (and are not emplyed at WageningenUR), send us a request
Ribbon course
Read about Funding & Financial Support
Write your research proposal
Submission research proposal via wimek@wur.nl
Make Data Management Plan and upload it in Hora Finita
Assessment research proposal by WIMEK by external reviewers
Approval of research proposal by WIMEK
15-18 months Go/No-go conversation with supervisor
Formal admittance to the Wageningen PhD programme
N.B.: Check if you/your supervisor has a letter from SSC certifying that you have been admitted to the PhD programme.
During project Monitoring at 9 months and at 2, 3, 4 (etc.) years
Participation on WIMEK 2nd and 3rd year day
Participation on WIMEK impact days
Final year Read the doctoral degree regulations again
See the Final Phase-section on the DSC page
Find the way your future opponents will assess the quality of your thesis in Appendix 6 of the doctoral degree regulations
Tentative: participate in WGS session Last Stretch of the PhD Programme about the final 6 months
At least 15 weeks before graduation Apply for your WIMEK-SENSE diploma
Ca. at the time of graduation Final evaluation and registration as WIMEK alumnus