Quality of the Planned Research of the BOKU Doctoral School

Criteria:

  • Quality of research
  • Permeation of interdisciplinary research
  • Establishment of scientific focus areas at BOKU

  • Alignment of research areas to the fields of competences of BOKU
  • Addressing goals of “BOKU Strategy for Sustainability” and “BOKU Strategy for Internationalization 2010-2015” ( student mobility, international class-rooms, internationalization at home)


Quality of the Faculty

Criteria:

  • Scientific output in terms of SCI/SSCI publications

  • Available third-party funds

  • Interdisciplinary competences and coherence

  • Funding experience and capacity

  • Experience in supervision of doctoral candidates

  • Existing national and international collaborations

  • Strategy and measures to achieve gender balance

  • Optional: Strategy for integration of young researchers into the faculty


Quality of the Training Program

Criteria:

  • Structure and interdisciplinarity of curriculum

  • Type and extend of interdisciplinary meetings (e.g. joint seminars, retreats..)

  • Appropriate training program

  • Defined and transparent rules for selection/admission process

  • Quality of proposed monitoring process

  • International exposure of doctoral candidates

  • Admission of international doctoral candidates to the Doctoral School

  • Rules for quality assurance in education

  • Strategy and measures to achieve gender balance


Added Value

Criteria:

  • Added value to doctoral education/doctoral candidates at BOKU

  • Added value to the field of competences of BOKU

  • Added value to the faculty and beyond

  • Added value to international visibility

  • Optional: Intersectoral exposure and added value to stakeholders