PhD Schools and courses

We fund cross-university PhD schools and national PhD courses. Get an overview.

Upcoming activities

PhD School on Intersections of Algorithms and Machine Learning Theory

1 – 4 July 2025
University of Southern Denmark, Odense Campus

PhD Event: Improve your pitching and networking skills

21 October 2024
Join this one-day event for PhD students in Computer Science, Digitalization, Information Technology, Software Engineering, and related fields across the eight Danish universities to share knowledge, ideas, and challenges and form new relationships and collaborations across different digital research areas.

Aarhus Summer School on Learning Theory

19 – 22 August 2024
The Aarhus Summer School on Learning Theory brings together top international PhD students to educate them on fundamental topics in theory of machine learning. The summer school takes place in beautiful Aarhus, Denmark.

PhD School: Confronting Data through Design Methods – Speculating with Generative AI

28 – 30 May 2024
This course is aimed at PhD students, researching within the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Science- and Technology Studies (STS), Participatory Design (PD) & Critical Data Studies, but the course is open to PhD students from all areas of work- and design studies.

Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

27 – 31 May 2024
Join this PhD-course (2.5 ECTS) to grow your entrepreneurial mindset and learn how that can benefit both your current research and future career.

Summer School on Missing Data, Augmentation and Generative Models

14 – 18 August 2023
This summer school will introduce the state-of-the-art for handling too little or missing data in image processing tasks.

IC2S2 – 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science

17 – 20 July 2023
IC2S2 has emerged as the dominant conference at the intersection of social and computational science, bringing together researchers from around the world.

Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

30 May – 2 June 2023
Calling all young researchers in AI and data science with an interest in entrepreneurship!

Contemporary Computer Supported Cooperative Work Research

8+14 May, 12+13 June 2023
This PhD course is for PhD students conducting their research within the areas of Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Human Centred Design – currently working on positioning their research theoretically to push the boundaries for the novel and contemporary research contributions in CSCW research.

What if? Designers and researchers must challenge the dark side of technology

22 February 2023
How do we create future technologies and at the same time maintain a critical approach to the many new possibilities? A workshop on speculative design challenged the PhD students to take a critical look at the downside of technology.

PhD course: Confronting Data Through Design Methods

7-9 February 2023
Join this new PhD course and explore different modes of inquiry with data-applying design methods. 

VaMos 2023

25-27 January 2023
17th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

Make your research visible and understood outside of academia

27 September 2022
At this year’s DIREC seminar, we invited PhD students and others interested in making their research visible outside academia to a workshop with Peter Hyldgård who has more than 20 years of experience with science journalism and communication.

Summer School on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

1-4 August 2022
At the PPML School 2022 lecturers with both a theoretical and applied background will cover a broad spectrum of subjects such as Multiparty Computation, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Differential Privacy, Federated Learning as well as practical attacks.

MOVEP 2022: Five Intensive Days on Modelling and Verification

17 June 2022
The five-day MOVEP Summer School 2022 on modelling and verification of parallel processes had attracted 70+ participants, primarily PhD students, but also people from the industry.

MOVEP 2022

13-17 June 2022
MOVEP is a five-day PhD summer school on modelling and verification of infinite state systems. It aims to bring together researchers and students working in the fields of control and verification of concurrent and reactive systems.

Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Academy

22-24 May 2022
Join the Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Academy PhD summer school to grow your entrepreneurial mindset and learn how that can benefit both your current research and future career.