“Afstudeerproject” course at the Ecology and Biodiversity Group
First of all, read the course rules and regulations.If you have any questions regarding the course rules, regulations, forms and documents, you need to contact the course coordinators (scriptie.bio@uu.nl). Group coordinators are not the course coordinators. They can only help you to find projects within their group.
As the Ecology and Biodiversity Group, we offer various projects during different course periods. Here, you can find the topics of our staff:
Topic | People |
Soil Ecology and Peatland Conservation | Janna Barel, Duygu Tolunay |
Microbial Biodiversity | George A. Kowalchuk |
Plant Community Ecology | Kathryn E. Barry |
Plant Biodiversity | Yann Hautier |
Forest Ecology and Conservation | Marijke van Kuijk, Joeri A. Zwerts |
Ecological Scaling | Jonas Lembrechts |
Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics |
Daily supervision can be provided by someone else within the group.
- If you would like to join our group for the “Afstudeerproject” course, please fill out the form.
- If you are only looking for an examiner, please fill out this form.
- If you cannot find answers to your questions on the “Afstudeerproject” course webpage or on the webpage of Ecology and Biodiversity Group, you can send an email to the E&B Group Coordinator, Duygu Tolunay (EB.afstudeerproject@uu.nl).
- If you have a research question that you want to test, your own projects are also welcome in our group (mention your project in the application form under the motivation text section). In this case, the research question should be relevant to the topics of our group, you should have an idea about the experimental design, and it can be tested during the course.
Important points
- Arrange your internship (stage) and thesis (scriptie) components of the “afstudeerproject” in the same period. This structure is preferred by the E&B Group and is compulsory for the course (with motivated exceptions sometimes allowed).
- We don’t offer the PLONS course unless the supervisor and the student agree.
- If you do your internship (stage) and thesis (scriptie) parts outside the UU, you must arrange for an examiner. If you need an examiner from the E&B Group, you must arrange this before starting your internship. Otherwise, we will not respond to last-minute requests.
- If you do your internship (stage) part outside the UU, also arrange the thesis (scriptie) part with the same institution. This is a course requirement, and then you only need to arrange for an examiner from the UU, which the E&B Group can provide.
- If you do your internship (stage) or/and thesis (scriptie) part outside the UU, first check the list of examiners on the course webpage and try to find a best fit for your topic. Then, write to the relevant group coordinator about your request. For E&B Group, you need to fill out a form.
