ECTS Points - Explanation
Courses
- Holds for PhD courses, PhD seminaries, summer-schools, doctoral symposia, courses on research methodology, and didactics courses
- ECTS confirmed in written form by course organizers will be directly accounted for.
- Without confirmation ECTS are given according to the following estimates:
- 1.5 ECTS per semester period per week (~14 hours of lecture)
- 0.5 ECTS per course day (~ 7 hours of lecture)
- Final decision discretionary to the doctoral committee
- For examples courses, click on the categories in the table directly!
For the accountance of courses the form "Achievement Report" (PDF, 79 KB) signed by the referent and a course confirmation is necessary.
Colloquium
- No registration needed beforehand, sign the attendance list
- You will receive 0.17 ECTS for every colloquium talk that you attend;
resulting in a total of 18 colloquium talks to earn the total
of 3 ECTS in this category.
Teaching Practice
- According to the workload: 1.0 ECTS ≈ 30 h of work
- Teaching assistance in lectures / seminaries: 0.5 - 3.0 ECTS according to the workload.
- Assistance in a typical lecture: 2.0 ECTS
- Supervision of master / bachelor / semester projects: 0.5 ECTS per semester
- No ECTS for supervision or correction of exams, tests, ...
- Discretionary to the advisor
Research Practice
- 8.0 / 4.0 / 2.0 ECTS per publication A / B / C. The rating A / B / C is field specific
- Downgrading in case of co-authorship is possible and discretionary to the advisor
- Research proposals: 1.0 - 2.0 ECTS according to workload
- Reviewing: max. 0.5 ECTS per semester
- No ECTS for administrative reports (e.g. SNF or EU reports)
- Discretionary to the advisor