GAUSS Career Workshop: “Project Management for Postdocs” (30 Sept – 1 Oct 2025)
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career workshop “Project Management for Postdocs” by Dr. Peter Schröder. This workshop’s target group is not PhD students but rather postdocs and junior PIs – so email us today to secure you place and the opportunity to aquire useful techniques and knowledge in the field of project management.
- Target group: for Postdocs and Junior PIs in the Natural and Life Sciences
- Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, 30 Sept -1 Oct 2025
- Duration: 1.5 days (Tuesday, 10-17h; Wednesday, 10-14h)
- Location: in-person on North campus
- Trainer: Dr. Peter Schröder
Registration: Please register here and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop.
Workshop Description:
This workshop intends to facilitate synergistic effects and implement basic project management culture to increase the efficient use of resources and improve teamwork. The trainer will pick up existing problems and work on solutions together with the participants in a mixture of „ex-cathedra“ teaching, jointed and group phases.
Topics:
- Planning scientific projects
- Monitoring and controlling scientific projects
- Managing scientific objectives
- Managing my team
- Planning daily work
- Strategic planning
- Structuring work and workplace
- Risk & output management
- Communication in scientific projects
- Time & Ressourcemanagement tools
Testimonials by former participants:
“Peter is a great teacher! His workshop covered the basics of how to plan any project effectively. I’ve learned important lessons on how to respond to unforeseen challenges and how to produce a concrete, adaptable plan. Highly recommend this course to anyone”
“It is a great workshop to join if you want to learn about project management and apply it to everyday research life in just two days. The lecturer gives wonderful explanation what every step of the project management is used for and uses vivid examples to show how to do them. I am surprised how much I learnt within this short time to make a positive change in my plans.”