The International Graduate Academy (InGrA) has developed a workbook for individual career development within the UNIBUND with the Universities Jena and Leipzig. The workbook “Career Development for Postdocs” (link) is designed to help you consciously shape your professional future. It provides structured impulses and practical tools to guide you. The workbook enables you to reflect on your personal goals, analyze your skills and strengths, and prepare for the next steps in your career. It can be used to prepare for a career within academia or to plan an outside-of-academic career.
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Depending on your current phase as a postdoc, you can use individual exercises separately or systematically work through the content over an extended period. The workbook is also suitable for preparing for staff meetings or consultations. This way, you gain more clarity about possible options and can make well-informed decisions for your further career path.
There are free slots at one of the workshops of MLU’s grad school POLY-Sustainable Polymers graduate school POLY within AgriPoly II.
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Good time management is crucial, at the latest in the doctoral phase, in order to be able to complete your studies successfully and efficiently. How do you manage to keep track of everything from the big project “doctoral thesis” to papers and conferences to the deadline for the defense? How do you avoid procrastination and can’t everything be done more efficiently?
GSO is now accepting applications for the 8th cohort of the Klaus Tschira Boost Fund, providing up to €115,000 in funding for postdoctoral researchers who:
conduct non-clinical research in one or more of the following areas: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, Neurosciences and Physics
are employed at a public university, university of applied sciences, or non-university research institution in Germany,
do not yet have a permanent or tenured position,
and have not yet successfully secured funding for a junior research group program
As a collaborative initiative between GSO and the Klaus Tschira Stiftung, the program is designed to boost scientific careers and promote early independence for postdocs through:
The four Universities of Applied Sciences in Saxony‑Anhalt (HAW LSA) are proud to invite you to celebrate the European Doctoral Day. The HAW will put the PhD experience in the international spotlight.
On May 13, starting at 1:00 pm the HAW will host the online event Futures in Applied Research – Voices, Paths and Impacts in Saxony-Anhalt. Hear from international doctoral students about their personal experiences, discuss motivation, and gain valuable insights into their daily research routines as well as career prospects both within and outside academia.
Starting a PhD is overwhelming. How do you break the immense work load into manageable tasks and milestones? How do you manage the available time and resources so you finish on time and stay healthy? What to do when things go wrong?
In this workshop, you learn key skills to tackle these challenges and lead their project to success.
GSO – Guidance, Skills & Opportunities for Researchers e. V. offers the following webinar.
Researchers consider a professorship in Germany, but the path towards it often remains unclear.
In this webinar, we will talk to Katharina Lemke, an expert on academic careers and appointment processes in Germany. We’ll address key questions such as:
Doctoral students can also receive Erasmus funding for a research stay or internship abroad. Minimum duration is 2 months. They benefit from: a funding rate of almost 100% (within Europe), a short-term application deadline as well as worldwide funding opportunities (also outside Europe).
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.
