Courses
The training programme consists of 180 ECTS: 150 dedicated to individual research training and 30 to courses. The latter include “Complementary and transferrable Skills”, disciplinary credits (5 and 12 respectively) and elective credits (13 ETCS). All credits should be earned at first year. However, the acquisition of the elective credits in the second and third year is allowed. Complementary and transferrable skills courses offered GeSoRAFA PhD board are: Gender equality in research (1ETCS); Writing, publishing, presenting and searching scientific literature (3 ECTS); Scientific Communication skills (1 ECTS); Further Complementary and soft skills courses are offered by the University of Florence. Disciplinary courses common to all curricula include Environmental, Agricultural Forestry and Food Sustainability (2 ECTS); Quality of life: (2 ECTS); Artificial Intelligence and Innovation in Forestry, Agricultural and Food Systems (2 ECTS). PhD students must register to two statistical courses and all courses have a “hands on”: Introduction to “R” (2 ECTS) and the advanced course “Multivariate Methods in Data Analysis (2 ECTS). Further 2 compulsory ECTS vary across curricula.