Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) biannually provides funding for scholarships. The funding comes from the Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. Start of the funding for this call is in the winter semester in October 2025.
Announcement of graduate scholarships for doctoral candidates according to the Graduate Promotion Act of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (in German):
The next PhD Round Table will take place on Wednesday, 7th of May 2025, 7 pm at Blaue Stunde at Martha-Brautzsch-Straße 10. As always, you can meet other PhD students and postdocs as well as PhD Network staff at the monthly get-together and network.
Pioneering Women – female scientists whose skills and contributions to science were not recognized during their lifetime –
With the help of Gesine Born from the Bilderinstitut and an artificial intelligence, the Research Training Group BEAM is able to portray them as they deserved and as their male colleagues were lucky enough to experience.
Spokesman D. Hinderberger and science communicator G. Born in front of an AI generated image of Agnes Pockels.
In the two-day innovation workshop, tailored to researchers of all disciplines, you will discover your entrepreneurial skills. Guided by professional innovation coaches, you will develop ideas for a potential business case in small groups.
The workshop takes place on-site in Potsdam
on June 12-13, 2025
between 9.00 am and 5.00 pm.
Participation is free and no prior knowledge is needed.
With its “Young Entrepreneurs in Science” project, the Falling Walls Foundation offers a diverse workshop program for doctoral candidates and postdocs.
How to find a job in the public / private sector in English – The Complete Package
Agenda
What are your hard strengths and soft strengths and when are they relevant in the job application process?
How can you write a good covering letter? Techniques, theory and practice
Here you will have the opportunity to get some feedback on a one-to-one basis with respect to your CV in English. You send your CV to the trainer who will give you personalised feedback .
Difficult questions in job interviews in English – what are they and how can you answer them?
What do politicians mean when they refer to the ideals of the Enlightenment? Angela Merkel declared in the Bundestag in 2021 that she believes in the “power of the Enlightenment”. French President Emmanuel Macron repeatedly invokes the need to defend the “spirit of the Enlightenment”. “Critical research must of course question what interpretation of the concept of enlightenment underlies these political statements,” says Décultot. A look at the past shows that this interpretation changes and is often guided by interests. Critical voices even see the philosophy of the Enlightenment as a product of Eurocentrism, which has fostered the colonialism and racism of the West.
According to an anonymous source archaeologists found by chance an ancient PhD certificate below the old bunker at the Universitätsplatz in Halle (Saale).
First picture of the ancient certificate.
During the renovation of the Universitätsplatz in 2002 several reconstruction were made. With regard to current instabilities of bridges in Germany, tests of the stability of the structure below the Universitätsplatz have been carried out in the last weeks. Engineers together with archaeologists found an old Roman cavern with several stone chests below the bunker.
Luckily in one of the chests an ancient PhD degree certificate has been found. Future days may reveal even greater findings in the old caverns.
The next PhD Round Table will take place on Wednesday, 2nd of April 2025, 7 pm at Café Nöö at Große Klausstraße 11. As always, you can meet other PhD students and postdocs as well as PhD Network staff at the monthly get-together and network.
