Tools at your disposal

The "PhD Welcome Pack" is aimed at people wishing to embark on a doctorate, doctoral students and PhDs. It's a toolbox designed to help you on your PhD journey. Tips and tricks, articles, conferences, appointments, you'll find a wealth of information to support you.

The PhD Welcome pack

Why and how to start a PhD

• The advantages of a PhD
• Preparing for your PhD
• Questions to ask yourself before starting a PhD
• The legal framework

How to manage your doctorate

• Managing your doctoral career
• Doing a doctorate with an assistantship
• Cross-disciplinary skills
• Writing your thesis
• Promoting your research
• Researchers' rights and duties
• Coping with difficulties

Post-thesis

• Job opportunities after the doctorate

• The lab notebook, electronic version: don't lose your memory!
• Invention declaration (ID), the starting point for your projects and collaborations.
• Researchers, research and results: UNamur's IP regulations.
• The maturation charter ? Action ... Innovation !
• The regulations concerning spin-off projects.

All these documents are available on request. Contact: secretariat.adre@unamur.be

For any information regarding documents or contracts, please do not hesitate to contact the legal support of ADRE.

• UNamur Apps Developper, an opportunity for researchers to disseminate the results of their research in the form of a PC, cell phone or tablet application.
• Valolo, the guide to software valorisation.

• IT guide: Advice and information for staff members on the use of IT resources. (Document available on the intranet)
• Personal data protection (Document available on the intranet)
• Informatics guide (Document available on the intranet)
• DoARNum : Resources to support the scientific community in managing and sharing their data

The Accounting Unit centralizes all the Institution's accounting documents. Internal document available on request.

Contact : clients-internes.comptabilite@unamur.be

• The Administration de la Communication (AdCom) designs and distributes messages for different audiences, both internal and external: website, support for scientific meetings, congresses, colloquia, kick-off meetings, brochures, leaflets and presentation videos. Contact: communication@unamur.be
• Le Confluent des Savoirs (CDS) creates a link between the world of research and the general public by supporting researchers in the production of popularized media. Visit the Confluent des Savoirs page.
• Private groups on Facebook: Doctors@UNamur and UNamur Community.

The TRAKK is a place supported by 3 partners, the BEP, the KIKK and the University of Namur. Located in the center of the Walloon capital, TRAKK is a space dedicated to cultural and creative industries, and digital.

The LiEU Network brings together the Knowledge Transfer Offices (KTOs) of the five universities of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. LiEU is a single gateway to all the universities' skills: it brings together researchers and private or public partners with a view to stimulating collaborations.

Researcher services

• Researcher's interactive memo
• Thematic fact sheets: fundraising, European patent, freedom to operate, dual-use

Intellectual property protection

The Digital learning platform : Discover 3 modules : Whatever the level of maturity of your research project, whatever the discipline in which you work: Intellectual Property concerns you.

The Software disclosure form, the identity card for your software