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The session "What can I do after my PhD?" will be held next Wednesday 21^st June in the Doctoral School (Sala Carles de Perelló). This session is aimed at enlightening doctoral students in their last years about the next steps they can take to foster their careers.

On Friday 17 May at 6 p.m. the 13th PhD degrees and extraordinary PhD awards ceremony will take place at the Sala Arnau de Vilanova of the Hotel Exe Campus, located in the UAB's Vila Universitària.

Two of the projects recently awarded grants in the MSCA-Doctoral network 2023 call of the Horizon Europe programme will be conducted by the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering and by the Department of Physics. The call, which aims to train doctoral candidates through international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial projects, has awarded a total of 443 millio euros to 128 different projects.

The final competition of "Thesis in 4 Minutes", in which PhD students are encouraged to present their doctoral thesis in a maximum of four minutes, will take place on 7 May at 12 noon, at the UAB Doctoral School. The event will be streamed live on the UAB's YouTube channel.

The TOUCH MSCA-COFUND doctoral training programme, led by UAB and focusing on the field of mental health, has opened its first call for applications, offering 13 doctoral positions. The deadline for applications is 30 June.

The UAB will be holding a new edition of its "Thesis in 4 minutes" competition, in which PhD students are asked to explain their research in a maximum of four minutes. Candidates may submit their applications from 4 to 20 March, and the competition will take place in front of a jury on 7 May.

The UAB Research Park and the Doctoral School are holding a new edition of the programmee "How to Validate Your Research" addressed to UAB first stage researchers as a way to help them in finding practical applications to their research projects. The registration period will be open until 10 April.

Female PhD students and supervisors from different fields participated in a colloquium to increase visibility of women in science.

The Doctoral School celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with a colloquium to make women visible and reflect on their presence and role within the scientific community.

Marta Mozo from the UAB PhD programme on Education is mediator and educational psychologist. She was recently awarded with the ADR Justícia 2023 Award for her PhD thesis on mediation and other conflict-resolution methods.