Study programme: Fishery
doctoral study, full-time form
Postgraduate study in the accredited study program Fishery represents an interesting possibility to continue with acquiring new scientific knowledge according to an individual study plan. This study deepens knowledge and abilities acquired in the master study in relation to detailed professional specialization usually in context with current scientific and research issues in aquaculture, fish genetics and reproduction, fisheries, water protection, hydrobiology, aquatic toxicology etc. Students will be included in working groups in scientific laboratories of our faculty based on their dissertation topic. Aside ability to work in team, students will be requested to show creativity and self-activity and ability to publish results in scientific literature. Study aims to prepare students for their future research, scientific or pedagogical career at universities or research institutions and top-management of big companies even transnational ones.
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• It is a daily study with minimum of 25 days of vacation + 12 days of national holiday. • The study is free of charge – when you study in standard period. • Under this study a scholarship will be paid to you. • You will get a minimal work load at our faculty of 10 %. Under certain condition it might be up to 100 %. • Your average monthly income (scholarship + salary) will be about 15,000 – 20,000 CZK. Excellent students can have income even more than 20,000 CZK. • It is a Czech program, but applicants from worldwide can be admitted to this program. Knowledge of Czech language is not an obligation. It is enough when you speak English. |
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1) Look at the offered themes of Ph.D. thesis for the coming academic year and select one of them. The themes are here. 2) Get in contact with supervisor written by the selected theme. In case of a mutual deal, complete the application to study at a university on-line application on https://wstag.jcu.cz/portal/studium/uchazec/eprihlaska.htmlhttps://wstag.jcu.cz/portal/studium/uchazec/eprihlaska.html, from which then print the application form or complete the application form (also available here). The name of the program of study, the form of study and the language of study (Czech or English) must be specified in the application. 3) Include all necessary attachments:
All attachments except for the documents verifying the level of achieved education can be delivered as e-attachments when submitting the application online by ............... (by e-mail to the address of the Study Office or as an attachment to online application to study). In case of fields of study taught in English, the application and all attachments must be in English. If there are any formal deficiencies in the application, the Study Office will call for rectification of these deficiencies. In case that substantial formal deficiencies are not removed by ....................., such applications will be excluded from the admission procedure. Applicants are responsible for accuracy of data provided in the application. If the applicant specifies incorrect information in the application, they can be excluded from the admission procedure or they will not be allowed to enrol to study at the FFPW USB. Applications for study shall be sent to the following address: University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters
Office DSP and foreign relationship
Zátiší 728/II 389 25 Vodňany Czech Republic
4) Pay a fee of 500 CZK for processing of your application and admission procedure (see details below). 5) Wait until you are contacted by our study office with further instructions 6) In case of doubts, feel free to contact our study office. Contact is shown below. |
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION TO STUDY:
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All applicants whose application will not be rejected by the Admission Committee from the admission procedure due to formal deficiencies will be invited to an admission interview. In justified cases, the admission interview may take place using electronic communication technologies. In that case, however, the applicant bears the risk associated with the evaluation due to the poor quality of the connection. Applications from the candidates who do not take part in the admission interview will be excluded from the admission procedure. During the interview, the applicant must demonstrate a sufficiently broad basis of general knowledge of animal biology, fishery and water ecology. It is also expected that the applicant has the knowledge of basic professional literature in the given field with a clear idea of the topic of the dissertation thesis and ways of solving the given problem with the expression of interest in scientific work. An integral part of the admission interview is to verify the ability to communicate in English. Based on the oral interview, the Admission Committee will award an applicant 0 - 15 points. Another 0 - 15 points will be awarded to the applicant based on the data about previous education, experience, publishing and pedagogical activity, etc. In evaluating the applicant, the Admission Committee will take into account the opinion of the head of the relevant organizational unit of the Faculty where the student is supposed to work and a the opinion of the potential supervisor of the applicant, unless they are direct members of the Admission Committee. The evaluation itself will be created by the average of score proposals of the present members of the Committee with rounding to two decimal places. The applicants who do not obtain 20 points cannot be admitted to the study. If more than one candidate applies for a given dissertation thesis's topic, the applicant who obtains the the highest score will be accepted. In the case of the same number of points, the lot will decide on the selected applicant. If one candidate applies for a given topic a receives at least 20 points from the Admission Commitee, he/she will be accepted to study after fulfilling the other conditions. The applicants who obtain more than 20 points but the topic of the dissertation thesis to which they applied will be occupied by a candidate with a higher number of points, will be offered the opportunity to be accepted on onuccupied dissertation topics if the supervisors are interested. The offer of unoccupied topics of dissertation theses to free applicants will take place according to the instructions of the supervisors who listed the topics. The admission procedure for the English doctoral program will be held entirely in English. The other conditions for the admission procedure for the doctoral studies remain the same as above. The fees for study in English are set by the Dean of the Faculty in a separate measure, in advance of the deadline for submission of applications.
The admission interview for the Doctoral study will take place from........................ (subject to change). Date, time and place of the admission examination is sent to the applicants’ contact email addresses stated in their application no later than 7 days before the date of the admission interview.
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The fee for the activities associated with the admission procedure is CZK 500 and must be paid by the time of the application submission, preferably by a bank transfer or by a post money order to:
In case of payment discrepancies, applicants will be asked to provide evidence of the payment for the admission procedure (bank statement, bank confirmation of the bank transfer, money order receipt, etc.). |
Are you missing information? Did you not find answers to your questions? Contact the study office: |
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Bc. Lucie Kačerová
study office of doctoral study of the FFPW USB
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Tel.: +420 38 777 4736, +420 734 269 084
E-mail: lkacerova@frov.jcu.cz
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