21 September 2023
(DFG): Prospects Research Careers Series: DFG Funding Opportunities for Postdocs (in English)
Germany’s largest independent research funding organisation offers funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. This online seminar focuses on career funding opportunities for postdocs. It takes place from 16:30-18:00 p.m. More infos (including event link) are available here.
4-8 September 2023
(iDiv): Summer school 2023 - Integrating ecological and economic theory for modelling biodiversity change
The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig will conduct its seventh summer school in Leipzig, Germany. The summer school is aimed at early career scientists (3rd year doctoral researchers & early postdocs) from around the world with an overall interest in ecological and economic modeling. The application deadline is Sunday, 30 April 2023. More information and registration details are available here.
3-7 July 2023
(WASS): Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture: Updates on Modelling and Applications
This summer school is organized by Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS). Participants will learn theories concerning risk analysis and risk coping strategies and will develop proficiency with software to facilitate the initiation of their own research in topics related to risk in agriculture. The course deals with both conceptual and methodological issues. The course is oriented toward PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers and others with background in agricultural and applied economics. Registration deadline: 19 June 2023. More info here.
28-29 June 2023
(LRN/IOER): Doing Justice! Doing Just This! Understanding justice in transdisciplinary and transformative research
To reflect upon and deepen our collective understandings of justice as applied to transdisciplinary and transformative research (TTR) for sustainability transformation, you are invited to a two day postdoctoral summer school organised by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden, Germany, in collaboration with the Leibniz Research Network “Knowledge for Sustainable Development”. More info is available here.
23 May 2023
(DFG): Prospects Research Careers Series: Walter Benjamin Programme (in English)
Germany’s largest independent research funding organisation offers funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. This online seminar focuses on the Walter Benjamin Programme. It takes place from 16:30-18:00 p.m. More infos (including event link) are available here.
3 May 2023
(DFG): Prospects Research Careers Series: DFG-Förderangebote für wissenschaftliche Karrieren (in German)
Germany’s largest independent research funding organisation offers funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. This event gives an overview of funding instruments for the time after your PhD. It takes place from 10-11:30 a.m. More infos (including event link) are available here.
18 and 24 April 2023
(InGrA): Clear at glance! Designing Effective Academic Posters
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. More information and registration details available here.
8 and 20 March 2023
(InGrA): Successful Networking
The goal of this workinar (workshop meets webinar) is to identify and unlock successful networking behaviours and learn new ways of communicating. How can I best introduce myself to others? What is most important about reaching out to contacts? Working together we will mobilize your most promising networking skills (both for academic and non-academic opportunities). More info and registration is available here.
15 March 2023
(DFG): Prospects Research Careers Series: Emmy Noether-Programm (in German)
Germany’s largest independent research funding organisation offers funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. This online seminar focuses on the Emmy Noether Programm. It takes place from 2-3:30 p.m. More infos (including event link) are available here.
28 February–3 March 2023
(InGrA): Introduction to Statistics and R
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. More info and registration here.
1 March 2023
(Scholar Minds Berlin): Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Garret O’Connell
This event series features a scholar's story focusing on doubts, struggles, detours, failures, and successes throughout all career stages. The primary goal is not to offer classical career advice but to examine in some depth and in the context of a broader narrative the hidden human factors of working in academia. This online event features Dr. Garret O'Connell (Senior Data Scientist at Bolt) and takes place from 5-6:30 p.m. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.
6, 13, 20 and 27 February 2023
(InGrA): Push Your Career in Germany‘s Industry (2) – Salary, Interview, Work Permit & Culture
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. More details and registration here.
19, 26 January and 2 February 2023
(InGrA): Push Your Career in Germany‘s Industry (1) – Job Search & Application
Leaving academia and looking for a job in the industry is an important and sometimes difficult step. This intensive online course enables you to go through a quickly and successful job search process. It consists of live webinars and self-learning videos. More details and registration here.