In september 2006 five PhD shortcourses are offered by partners of the EU-FP6 integrated project NoMiracle. The courses will take place at the University of Antwerp, 11-12 September 2006 and addressess young scientists (PhD students and young post-docs). The different topics adressed are: framing risk assessment, fate and exposure modelling, separation of uncertainty and variability in spreadsheet models, toxicogenomics and mixture toxicity (response characterisation, experimental design and data analysis). If interested, feel free to have a look at the NoMiracle Newsletter No.4 on the NoMiracle website: http://nomiracle.jrc.it/default.aspx.