Journal clubs are taking place regularly in all institutions. Specific MolTag Journal Club sessions (including progress reports) will be mandatory for students.

All mandatory curricular activities will be offered as a series of „MolTag days“, which are all day events hosted by the groups at the different institutes. At the beginning of the project, a MolTag Introductory course will take place. It focuses on lectures covering the theoretical background of the scientific subjects and methods of the program.

Lectures by international scientists take place regularly and are chosen by their hosts (which are either students or PIs) on the base on the expected impact on the program, and illustrating the MolTag diversity. Students will get the opportunity to host and discuss their work with the invited lecturers

The students participate in lab rotations in one or more labs. Lab rotations usually take at least two weeks and are chosen in order to provide the students practical applications of techniques that are relevant for their thesis projects. These give them the possibility to become acquainted with the state-of-the-art technologies available at MolTag. Further, it allows establishing closer interactions with fellow students, postdocs and PIs. In most cases the lab and the topic are chosen to perform a concrete piece of work relevant for the thesis of the student and for his/her future work. At the end of each rotation, the students summarize the content and results in a brief protocol, which is evaluated and approved by the responsible faculty member.

All PhD students have to attend and actively contribute at International Scientific Meetings during their enrolment. The standard MolTag PhD program also includes an internship abroad. The students are encouraged to visit one or more (partner) labs for a period between 3 months and 1 year, in accordance with the individual project requirements.

Funding is provided by the training budget for each student.

In general, according to the rules of the Universities, the students may individually select their courses offered within the PhD programs of their host Universities. Students were actively encouraged to co-register at the partner universities of the MolTag Faculty to attend the courses offered. Consequently, the students could choose out of a broad portfolio of lectures, thus enabling an individualised curriculum with lots of opportunities to expand their knowledge base.