External Training Opportunities

Opportunities for additional training particularly relevant to EastBio students will be advertised as they arise.

Information will be advertised here and via our mailing list and social media.

Points for External Training and Development

First and second year

First and second year EastBio students may apply to receive EastBio training points for training and development opportunities external to the programme, either delivered by the local institution or by an external provider that are not currently accounted for in the training programme.

External opportunities can fulfil a maximum of 20% of the total training point requirements; amounting to 40 points out of the 200 training points that should be aggregated by the end of the first two years of PhD study.

Third year

Students in their third year are eligible to apply if they have outstanding training to complete. Please complete the EastBio form for each training you wish to apply for points for.

Apply for points

Eligibility

Eligible training must be at least one-day long and fulfil at least one of the stated criteria.

To apply, students should:

(a) complete the online form, and

(b) provide evidence of the training by emailing bioenq@exseed.ed.ac.uk

Evidence can include:

• certificate of completion,
• ‘thank you for attending’ email,
• screenshot of online attendance,
• confirmation of attendance from trainer/supervisor.

Examples of eligible training include:

• scientific methods,
• advanced training,
• teaching or demonstrating work undertaken,
• non-academic work towards a specific skill development.

After a review of your application form, EastBio will contact you to confirm the training points approval (or seek clarifications, as necessary) and we will update your Training Development Record accordingly.

Applications will be reviewed: 11th December 2023, 4th March 2024, 3rd June 2024, 2nd September 2024.

Learn to Discover (L2D) Training opportunity

in 2024 EastBio will fund 12 places on the online Learn to Discover - Training in Data Science & Machine Learning for Health, Disease and Bioscience course , open to EastBio first-year students on a competitive basis – total worth of award ~10,000.

• Learn to Discover - Training in Data Science & Machine Learning for Health, Disease and Bioscience

Apply

Please fill in the Application form for the course you are interested in after discussing its benefits for your research project and skills development with your supervisor/s.

Your supervisor must support and sign your application. Submit your completed and signed application to EastBio no later than the closing date, below.

Email EastBIO

We also encourage you to speak to EastBio students who have previously completed the SysMIC course – contact details available on request.

Closing date

25 September 2024

Further information

L2D overview video

For any further questions you may have, please email EastBio.