Recognitions of external academic credits and acquired transferable skills
After conclusion of the doctoral thesis agreement, a maximum amount of 10 ECTS credits in total can be recognised for the doctoral programme.
Extracurricular workshops can be recognised upon approval by the Directorate of Doctoral Studies to a maximum extent of 2 ECTS credits each. Please provide evidence of when and where you obtained the external credits (certificate of participation or other certificates, conference programmes, publication: title, editor and publisher). Please note that processing recognitions may take up to two months.
The following credits can be recognised upon approval by the Directorate of Doctoral Studies (DSPL):
- Participation in conferences: 2 ECTS credits
- Presentations at conferences (paper): 4–5 ECTS credits
- Organisation of conferences: 3–4 ECTS credits
- Academic publications (not applicable for theses by publication): 4–5 ECTS credits
- Curating of exhibitions: 3–4 ECTS credits
- Teaching: 3–4 ECTS credits (3 ECTS credits if the doctoral candidate taught together with another lecturer)
- Participation in appraised academic research projects: 1–3 ECTS credits
- Internal summer schools at the Faculty (external summer schools only after consultation with the supervisor and directorate of studies): 3 ECTS credits
- Organisation of a ViDSS International Workshop: 3 ECTS credits
- Participation in a ViDSS International Workshop: 2 ECTS credits
- Participation in the production team of the ViDSS Podcast for one semester: 3 ECTS credits
- External training that is necessary for conducting the doctoral research: 1–3 ECTS credits
Form
Application form for the recognition of external credits
Please only complete the left-hand side on page 2 of the form. Please send the completed form to doktorat.sozialwissenschaften@univie.ac.at.