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5. Feb 2024

Clear at glance – Designing Effective Academic Posters (April 9, 2024)

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Poster sessions are an integral part of almost every scientific conference. Their purpose is to highlight research results, visualize them, and stimulate discussion. To draw your audience in, you need a crystal-clear message, 
a text format optimized for best legibility and well-chosen graphics. And above all, you need to think well through how to organize, arrange and illustrate your research content for a printed or digital poster format.

Basic rules of graphic design and layout technique will help you to present your work in a visually well-structured and compelling way. The training shows you how to present your research efficiently and provides time to put directly into practice what you have learned. 

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15. Jan 2024

Introduction to Statistics and R (March 11-12 and 18-19, 2024)

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R has become a leading statistical programming language in data science and statistics. The R software is free, highly extensible, and allows to easily produce publication-quality plots. The aim of this course is to equip participants with the basic skills to effectively use the software R, embedded in the user interface RStudio. These skills will cover data import, processing and data exploration, graphical representations with ggplot2, basic concepts of statistical inference and linear regression. All topics will be demonstrated in working examples and practiced with hands on examples.

In the first two days we are going to teach the basic functionality of R, RStudio, and ggplot2. Day three and four are dedicated to the application of statistical tests, which will be extended to linear mixed-effects models.

Specific Topics

Part I (March 11 and 12)

  • Introduction to R and RStudio
  • Data types (vectors, data frames, matrices, lists, factors)
  • Explorative data analysis
  • Creating functions and data manipulation
  • Creating and customizing plots with ggplot2

Part II (March 18 and 19)

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15. Dec 2023

Good Scientific Practice (February 21 and 26, 2024 | online)

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“Scientific integrity forms the basis of trustworthy research,” states the preamble to the DFG’s Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice. 

In his interactive workshop, Dr. Michael Schöner will address what scientific integrity or scientific misconduct means in this context and show that there are gray areas between the two extremes, using the most common problems in questions of authorship, research data management (also related to diversity and gender variables) and supervision. 

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13. Dec 2023

Successful Networking for Personal Branding (March 6, 2024)

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As a scientist, your reputation is your personal brand. You’re going to have one whether you choose to influence it in a particular direction or not. How others perceive you stems largely in part from your research results, your behaviors, and your overall actions. Just as in the business world, your personal brand is what defines how successful you can become, and it’s vital that you spend a portion of your resources to cultivate and protect it. In this workshop we will explore networking as an important aspect of those efforts. 

Take-aways

  1. Exploring your ‘presence’ and receiving feedback from the group
  2. Developing a workable elevator pitch
  3. Increasing your self-awareness
  4. The opportunity to examine critically both your professional identity and your value proposition
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12. Dec 2023

Push Your Career in Germany’s Industry (2) – Salary, Interview, Work Permit and Culture (February 8, 15, 22, 29, 2024 | online)

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Leaving academia and looking for a job in the industry is an important and sometimes difficult step. This intensive course enables you to go through a quickly and successful job search process. It consists of live webinars and self-learning videos.

Content

The seminar provides knowledge on:

  • Determination of salaries
  • Preparation and phases of interviews
  • Answering interviewer questions
  • Salary negotiation procedure
  • Self-presentation practice in small groups
  • Typical working conditions for academic job starters
  • Visa conditions for job search and employment (only for foreigners)
  • German cultural rules at work (Germans are welcome)

Specific Topics

Subject “Salaries”

In a live webinar we will talk about typical salaries for job starters and criteria which can influence the salary. We practice a salary calculation method you can use to determine a salary for a specific position. At the end various research options are introduced which you can use to find out more about a company’s internal salary structure.

Subject “Job Interviews“

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11. Dec 2023

Push Your Career in Germany’s Industry (1) – Job Search and Application (January 18 and 25, February 1, 2024 | online)

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Leaving academia and looking for a job in the industry is an important and sometimes difficult step. This intensive course enables you to go through a quickly and successful job search process. It consists of live webinars and self-learning videos.

Content

The seminar provides knowledge on:

  • Ideas for possible positions
  • Active and passive job search strategies
  • Content and design of an application
  • Individual application feedback in small group

Specific Topics

Subject “Job Search”

In the first seminar session, we discuss which competences are often acquired during a doctorate and their relevance for companies. You find out more about job profiles in the industry which might be interesting for you and how you can find other possible jobs. In a following self-study course, you get to know various options of active and passive job search strategies, incl. job databases and activities to come into contact with employers. Furthermore, you understand how to plan and organize your individual search for future employments.

Subject “Application Documents“

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14. Nov 2023

[A6] DFG Individual funding programmes for Postdocs (November 15, 2023)

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Department 6 – Research, Transfer and Third Party Funding Service offers the following information event on funding opportunities.

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The information event provides a short overview of the DFG individual funding programmes for the postdoc-phase. The funding requirements and conditions of the Walter Benjamin Programme, the Emmy Noether Programme and the Research Grant with Module Temporary Position for PI will be presented. The participants will have the opportunity to ask their questions.

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12. Oct 2023

[RTG 2498] Next Level Science Communication (November 8-10 | online)

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There are free slots at one of the workshops of MLU’s research training groups RTG 2498 “Communication and Dynamics of Plant Cell Compartments”.

  • Title: “Next Level Science Communication”
  • Date: November 8 – 10, 2023
  • Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (8 & 9 Nov); 9:00 am to 2:00 pm (10 Nov)
  • Location: online
  • Trainer:  PD Dr. Daniel Mertens

In science, information is key. For a scientist it is therefore vital to get information across. Key elements of successful transmission of information are structure, focusing on important detail only, developing a storyline and a central message. The workshop “Next Level Science Communication” covers some of what we think are essential elements to successfully communicate scientific information through presentations, posters and text in the form of theses, manuscripts, reports and grant and fellowship applications. 

The workshop designed to raise awareness and reveal the challenges and opportunities of improving the transmission of ideas and information in a clear, concise and engaging manner. Further, we believe that the same fundamental rules need to be applied to verbal, visual and written communication. We therefore cover in this workshop the skillful verbal and nonverbal communication.

Please find further details and registration at the RTG website.

11. Oct 2023

Mental Health Awareness Days 2023 – Improving your resilience during the early career phases (November 1-3, 2023)

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Mental Health Awareness Days 2023 for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers – Improving your resilience during the early career phases

are a joint initiative of Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, yDiv/iDiv and HIGRADE/UFZ. Organized by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions.

Aims

Our main aim is to inform and sensibilize you on how to cope with demanding or stressful situations during your research. Ideally, the presented topics will help you to smoothen stressful situations and even prevent too heavy mental load. During these three days, you will find various online offers (most of them in English), e.g. relaxation exercises in the mornings as well as, a number of short workshops on topics such as resilience, concentration, positive psychology, the risk of addictive behavior and mindfulness. In addition, there will be information on how to become a mental health first aider and you will be introduced to the method of peer coaching.

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5. Oct 2023

Collegial Counselling – Kollegiale Beratung (November 2, 2023)

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This workshop is part of the Mental Health Awareness Days 2023 a joint initiative of Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, yDiv/iDiv and HIGRADE/UFZ. Organized by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions.


Experience the effective power of collegial counselling: Develop solution strategies together for your challenges. Practical, interactive and supported by moderators.

Erleben Sie die effektive Kraft der Kollegialen Beratung: Gemeinsam Lösungsstrategien entwickeln für Ihre Herausforderungen. Praktisch, interaktiv und unterstützt von Moderatorinnen. 

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We give a short introduction to the method of collegial counselling, a structured form of counselling for result-oriented, practical and self-regulated handling of problems in a group.  During the course, you will have the opportunity to work out solutions to your individual concerns with the help of this method and the other course participants.

Wir geben eine kurze Einführung zur Methode der Kollegialen Beratung, eine strukturierte Beratungsform zur ergebnisorientierten, praxisnahen und selbstgesteuerten Bearbeitung von Fragestellungen in einer Gruppe. Sie haben im Kurs die Möglichkeit, zu Ihrem individuellen Anliegen Lösungen mithilfe dieser Methode und den anderen Kursteilnehmenden gemeinsam zu erarbeiten.

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