High-quality PhD research is widely recognized as one of the key success factors in every academic institution. While doing a PhD necessarily implies a high amount of individual research work, the role of supervision is essential for the systematic operation of the process and its successful finalization. The research seminar has the explicit purpose of coordinating the doctoral research of participants and monitoring the overall operation of the process. Students will submit a PhD progress report and present their research to fellow PhD students and PostDocs and will receive feedback. The seminar itself will be carried out as blocked seminar in Innsbruck.