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InGrA Program 2025

29. Sep 2025

Mental Health Awareness Days 2025 – Improving your resilience during the early career phases (December 2-4, 2025 | online)

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Mental Health Awareness Days 2025 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), such as stress reduction in private and professional life, leadership positions and well-being in the academic environment, playfulness in the work context, and time and self-management skills.

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18. Aug 2025

What the heck is tenure track (October 10, 2025 | online)

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In the German academic system, Tenure Track is a relatively new concept. With a tenure track position, one gets the opportunity to immediately transition to a permanent position when successfully completing the probationary period (known as the tenure track phase). The majority of tenure track positions comes along with a professorship; less common and known are lecturer or researcher positions with tenure track.

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1. Aug 2025

Read scientific texts fast and efficiently (October 08 and 09, 2025 | onsite)

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Scientific work involves a significant amount of reading. How about increasing your reading speed significantly while at the same time improving the quality of your reading…and boosting your motivation? In this systematic step-by-step program of practical exercises and well dosed theoretical parts you will overcome typical reading faults and sharpen the focus of your reading. 

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7. Jul 2025

Academic Writing for Natural Scientists (September 15 and October 13, 2025)

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Aim and Content

The interactive workshop aims at improving non-native English speakers’ skills in writing scientific texts in English and to permanently upgrade the linguistic quality of their English writing. Participants will be equipped with a textbook written by the trainer that covers all the features introduced during the sessions, they will have ample opportunity to ask individual questions, and they will receive immediate feedback on their own writing.

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7. Jul 2025

KI und Recherche für Promovierende (September 04, 2025)

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In dieser Veranstaltung soll den Teilnehmenden der Einsatz und die Grenzen von KI für die wissenschaftliche Recherche vermittelt werden.

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7. Jul 2025

Good Scientific Practice (September 05, 2025) => postponed to 2026

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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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8. Apr 2025

The complete job application package – English (May 20, 2025)

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Goal

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?
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10. Mar 2025

Communication & presentation in the academic context: How to be confident and persuasive (May 06-07, 2025)

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Whether small talk or academic subject presentation – the ability to present oneself adequately and to communicate one’s concerns effectively is a deciding factor of career related success in academia.

With a few fundamental strategies for communication and presentation techniques it is possible to illustrate complex data in a context relevant way, to convince others, to win supporters and thus reach the respectively set goals.

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12. Feb 2025

Open now – Registration for workshops in March and April 2025

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InGrA Workshops in March 2025
  • Successful Networking for Personal Branding (March 11, 2025) —
    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.
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  • —Das 1×1 der Konflikte (March 13, 2025)
    Jeder Konflikt birgt die Chance auf eine Veränderung in sich und bringt die Energie für einen Wandel.  Um das Potenzial eines Konflikts konstruktiv zu nutzen, ist es wichtig, ihn in seiner Dynamik besser zu verstehen und im Konfliktfall sicher und angemessen zu reagieren.
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  • —Introduction to Statistics and R (March 18-21, 2025) —
    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.
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InGrA Workshops in April 2025
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10. Feb 2025

English Academic Writing: The Ground Rules of Writing Well (April 10, 11 and 14, 2025)

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This workshop addresses junior scholars from the social sciences, economics, and the humanities who have good command of the English language, seek to improve their English writing skills, and strive to make their academic papers more idiomatic. The workshop seeks to create an awareness of the typical patterns of non-idiomatic writing to which non-native authors writing in English – and especially German-speaking academics – are prone and equip the participants with strategies to avoid these pitfalls.

The workshop will be held on three days (two days in person; a half day online, during which you will receive individual feedback). It will be conducted in English by two trainers who have a professional background in the social sciences and many years of experience in teaching English academic writing and in translating and editing academic texts by German-speaking scholars. 

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