It is very common to be unsure about your next career step either at the end of your PhD or also during your postdoc phase. Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. We are aiming to enable you to reflect on your options and decide about your next career steps or activities to overcome challenges. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service will be closed for a late May break from 29 May to 1 June 2025. We will answer your request as soon as possible on our return. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Franziska Rathjens, Director of Global Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety at B.Braun in Melsungen. Join us for an insightful session with Franziska, where she will explore diverse career paths in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on Pharmacovigilance and touching on Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Florian Habenstein, Lead Data Scientist at Merck Life Science. Join us for an insightful session with Florian, where he will explore his journey from a PhD student to becoming a digitial transformation expert and data scientist. … Continued
On behalf of the Organizing Team we are happy to announce the 9th Women’s Careers and Networks Symposium (WoCaNet) on the 4-5 June 2025 at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences – Faßberg Campus in Göttingen.
WoCaNet has become a real tradition in Göttingen! Since its first edition in 2010, … Continued
The next job and career fair PRAXISBÖRSE of the University of Göttingen is coming up soon!
The PRAXISBÖRSE offers you the opportunity to look around for entry-level and career opportunities with attractive employers:
A University publication fund can cover costs for open access journals, but the options for publishing grow ever more complex every year. This makes it hard for researchers to maintain an overview, even though publishing is key to their career. This training will give you an overview of the current options and answers your questions.
The SUB Göttingen is organising monthly online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
Several Scientific Coordinators of Göttingen Campus are offering a workshop on the occupational field Science Management for all those interested in this career path. The in-person workshop will take place on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 from 9:00-14:00h. It will be held in German – please see below for a detailed description and further information. … Continued
Are you wondering what comes next after your postdoc? The talk series “Beyond the Postdoc” organized by the German Postdoc Network offers insights into diverse career opportunities beyond postdoctoral research. The talks take place online via Zoom over lunchtime (13-14h).
Upcoming talks:
The GRK2824 cordially invites you all to a panel discussion “Industry & me” – From Lab to Launch on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, starting at 16:00h. Invited speakers and attendees will discuss how MD/PhD students and postdocs can engage with the startup world.
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The Young Entrepreneurs in Science powered by the Falling Walls Foundation offers various workshops and events tailored to PhDs and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff to help you to discover your entrepreneurial skills. What do you associate with the topic of entrepreneurship? What enables you to become an entrepreneur yourself? … Continued
Are you looking for a job (or internship) in life sciences? Then, the career fair ScieCon is the right place for you! At ScieCon, you can get in touch with company representatives from life science industries and learn about internship and entry-level opportunities! There will also be a broad supporting program including application photo shoots. … Continued
The jobvector career day is Europe´s biggest career fair for Natural Scientists, Physicians, Engineers, and Computer Scientists where you can receive valuable information for a successful career! Be inspired by talks of top companies and recruiters. Seize your chance and personally contact them at the fair!
Read more: Jobvector Career Day for natural scientists, … Continued
The Equal Opportunities Office of the UMG now offers an equity and diversity workshop program open to all members of DFG networks on Göttingen campus.
Upcoming events:
Do you want to kick-start your career in Life Sciences industry? Do you want to get a better grasp of business topics, understand the success factors of Life Sciences companies and learn more about the different roles outside academia?
The next edition of the renowned BioBusiness Summer School is taking place from 30 June to 3 July 2025 (Amsterdam) and 4 July 2025 (Utrecht). … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering virtual GMB basic courses in the first half of 2025 in German and in English:
The European commission’s Intellectual Property (IP) Helpdesk regularly offers webinars to provide (potential) beneficiaries of EU-funded projects and EU SMEs involved in cross-border business activities with the best possible support enabling them to develop their own IP management strategies and processes. The webinars are offered free of charge and topics for April and May are already online available. … Continued
On behalf of the organizing team we are happy to announce that the 22nd Horizons in Molecular Biology Symposium will take place from 8-11 September 2025 at the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences (MPI-NAT), Fassberg campus in Göttingen!
The symposium starts on 8 September with a Career fair event with experts from outside academia to share their career path. … Continued
The Hochschuldidaktik of Göttingen University is offering several workshops in English to refine the teaching skills of its academics. Upcoming topics include:
KoWi-Talk is the podcast for the KoWi community on interesting topics from the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation and with extensive insights into the work of KoWis.
For a selection of podcast in English and German see below. For an archive of all podcasts episodes click here: https://kowi-talk-podcast.podigee.io/episodes … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 10 September 2025 and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
KoWi, the EU Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations, offers advice on all funding lines of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for researchers, from application to implementation (project management). They offer individual counselling sessions, information events at universities and research institutions as well as Webinars and other virtual information and counselling services. … Continued
The University of Kassel in cooperation with the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) offers an online introduction seminar on how to successfully apply for ERC Starting Grant and Consolidator Grant. The event takes place on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, between 10:00-11:00h.
In this open-to-all informational event you will learn more about the funding scheme and get some insights into the application procedure. … Continued
The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation awards up to five Research Fellowships each year to support the research of young scientists in the field of physics.
100,000€ are awarded for a duration of 2 years to outstanding early-career-researchers. The funds can be freely used for research activities, but not for one’s own salary. … Continued
Maria Leptin/EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships are aimed at bioscientists who wish to pursue a career in science journalism and journalists who want to deepen and broaden their knowledge of the latest research areas and technologies. Fellows receive stipends for 2-12 months to fund their stays in media outlets of any type, editorials offices or research institutions that make the fellows advance in their careers as science journalists. … Continued
The Lower Saxony Impulse Professorship addresses high-performing academics approaching the end of their early career phase (max. 10 years after completion of PhD). The goal is to support universities in the state of Lower Saxony in their efforts to attract and retain early career researchers and consolidate Lower Saxony as a science location. … Continued
The Applied Photonics Award is a prize for the promotion of young researchers for theses that are particularly relevant in the field of applied photonics. The award is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena. The institute has been conducting application-oriented research in the field of photonics for over 30 years and develops innovative optical systems for controlling light. … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers in laboratories throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International exchange is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. The career development is further supported by the EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and networking through the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics).
Usually seven scholarships (TVÖD E13) are awarded each year. The completion date of the doctoral thesis cannot be more than 4 years agao. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for up to 12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
Within the framework of “Researching Research”, the Volkswagen Foundation offers funding for workshops and summer schools that aim to reflect, combine, and experiment with the various methodological approaches or theoretical challenges in the area of research on research.
Funding offerThe program is aimed at post-doctoral researchers who are engaged in researching research. … Continued
The DFG is offering a variety of funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. To learn more about schemes suitable for postdocs join their online talk series “Prospects”. Some talks offer an overview and other talks are quite specific focusing only on one funding scheme. You will also get advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process. … Continued
The Research and Transfer Services‘ the Transfer & Startup Hub team at the University of Göttingen is currentloy advertising a position as Innovation Manager (f/m/d).
The position is full-time (100%, currently 39.8 hours/week, salary: 13 TV-L) and offers a limited contract until 30 April 2030. … Continued
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research annually publishes a report on Early Career Researchers. You can find the full report here (in German) or key findings here (in English).
The German Postdoc Network has analysed the key findings of the report and for their conclusions and summary see here. … Continued
Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival which brings researchers to your local pub/cafe/space to share their scientific discoveries with you. For more information, please check the respective links of the Topics.
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Events at Café Bar Dots
Barfüßerstraße 12-13, 37073, Goettingen, Germany (Get directions)
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