Facilities for Doctoral Candidates

 

The Faculty of Law offers several facilities for doctoral candidates who are employed as "Promovendus" and doctoral candidates with a scholarship.

 

Doctoral Candidates Training Fund

Doctoral candidates (employees or with financial support of a scholarship) can make use of the Doctoral Candidates Training Fund to buy books for their studies and to participate in congresses. They can use up to € 750,- a year during four years.  

Furthermore, these doctoral candidates can claim up to € 1000,- as a contribution towards the printing costs of the dissertation. 

 

• Click here  [PDF] for the Doctoral Candidates Training Fund, June 2006 (in Dutch).  
• Click here  [DOC] for the Expense Account Form.   

 

Terms of employment

Here you can find information on the Legal Positition of a salaried PhD Candidate. You can also directly download the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities.

You can find more information on terms of employment for RUG staff here. Also please consult the relevant regulations, protocols and policy documents. For example, every employee can by a new bicycle at favourable terms by using the bicycle incentive scheme.  

  

Confidential Advisor

The confidential advisor assists staff who have experienced: undesirable conduct (sexual harassment, aggression, violence, and discrimination), unequal treatment or problems in co-operation at work. The confidential advisor is independent and has access to all necessary information.