During the second semester of the first year, students will take the following curricular units:

• Neuroscience Today (4ECTS): Attendance and active participation in the Neuroscience Seminars @UC, where international speakers will share their latest works. Before selected seminars, groups discussions will be organized in the form of Pre-Talk Journal clubs, where students will discuss some of the works of the invited speakers, to incentivize active discussion and critical thinking.
• Lab Rotations (6 ECTS): students will choose a laboratory different from their supervisor’s to perform a 2 weeks lab rotation.
• Thesis Project defense (20 ECTS): The final goal is that each student, in liaison with one or more supervisors, builds a credible work proposal in a topic within the Neuroscience field that they can implement in the second, third and fourth years.