Please subscribe as soon as possible to make sure that your stay overnight is guaranteed.
If you are not an EPP member, you will have to pay €500 in advance to cover the costs of the symposium.
If you are an EPP member and you prefer a single room (in stead of the standard double room), you will be charged with an extra fee by the accommodation.
The dissertation, generally containing multiple scientific articles, is a major outcome of any PhD project. Many PhD students find writing their first scientific article difficult, but most overcome this difficulty and successfully complete their dissertation. Nonetheless, PhD students (and others) may benefit from developing additional writing skills. We might want to prepare a press release about recent exciting findings. We might be asked to contribute to a popular-science magazine or website. We might consider blogging about our research outcomes and experiences. We might want (or need) to submit a research proposal to a granting agency, in order to fund our next project.
In this symposium we will focus on the art of writing. Participants will learn to write (first) scientific articles more efficiently, and will learn about popular-science writing, blogging, and grant writing.
Registration deadline: 29 October 2026
Date
December 10-11, 2026
Location
Landgoed de Horst, Driebergen/Rijsenburg, The Netherlands
www.kapellerput.nl
Organization
Alex Wong (Erasmus University Amsterdam), Angelos Krypotos (KU Leuven)
Program
Thursday, October 10
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Speaker 1: |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Speaker 2: |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | PhD talk: |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | PhD talk: |
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15.45 – 16.45 | Speaker 3: |
| 16.45 – 17.30 | Assignment 1 |
| 17.30 – 17.45 | Closing comments |
| 17.45 – 18.30 | Drinks |
| 18.30 | Dinner |
| 20.30 | Evening program |
Friday, October 11
| 09.15 -09.45 | PhD talk: |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Speaker 1: |
| 11.00 -12.00 | Speaker 2: |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 -15.00 | Speaker 3: |
| 15.00 -15.15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Closing comments |