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. … Continued
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
Inspired by the celebration of the Postdoc Appreciation Week in the USA and the UK, the PAW Germany coordination team invited researchers and research institutions, postdoc coordinators and research administrators all over Germany to create a special program, events and a social media campaign to honor the incredible work of postdocs! … Continued
The German Postdoc Network is offering an online Career Coaching for Postdocs on 15 Sept 2025.
This webinar is hosted by Judith Münch from the German Postdoc Network and is designed to support postdocs in a phase of career orientation. It offers both an orientation to your career options and a deeper dive into career coaching – … Continued
The Young Entrepreneurs in Science powered by the Falling Walls Foundation offers an in-person workshop called “From PhD to Innovator x Sartorius” in September in cooperation with Sartorius/Göttingen. 25 slots are available which will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation is free of charge and no prior knowledge is needed. … 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:
The Hochschuldidaktik of Göttingen University is offering several workshops in English to refine the teaching skills of its academics. Upcoming topics include:
The SUB Göttingen has recorded a training course for professors, Junior PIs, Postdocs and all those who publish at the University of Göttingen which offers an introduction to Open Access publishing and informs you about current funding opportunities such as the University Publication Fund and various publishing and licensing agreements. … Continued
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is initiating the 11th Young Investigators Academy for Medical Technology (NAMT) under the motto “Innovative Medical Imaging in Inflammation”.
The aim of the Young Investigator Academies is to prepare scientists at an early stage of their careers to carry out independent research projects and to introduce them to the management of their first DFG project. … Continued
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
The SUB Göttingen offers online GRO.publications training courses. These trainings introduce GRO.publications, the publication management system of the University of Göttingen. The system can be used to manage personal publication lists, but also lists of projects, working groups and organizational units. In addition, full texts can be uploaded. … Continued
The Hochschuldidaktik team of Göttingen University is again offereing their Teaching and Learning in higher education certificate programme for all researchers with teaching duties.
The course language is German, but written assignments can be in English and there is a supportive atmosphere between participants, plus the trainers speak English and are happy to translate where needed. … Continued
The HR and Oganization Management of University of Göttingen offers the workshop “Resilience Training for Academics” by Dr. Taiya Mikisch.
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 September, … 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 GMP Academy is offering virtual GMP/GLP basic courses and basic statistic courses in the second half of 2025 in German and in English:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … Continued
The LMU Open Science Center is organising a hybrid 5-day Open Science Summer School on 15-19 September 2025 to allow early career researchers of any scientific discipline to gain more trust in the research that they do, and make it as credible, reproducible, and transparent as it can be in the eyes of their peers, … Continued
After very successful Research in Europe events in Göttingen (2023) and Kiel (2024), you are warmly invited to the next edition on 25 September 2025 at the University of Augsburg.
Organised by the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) and the University, “Research in Europe” brings together everything early career researchers need to know about individual funding opportunities – … 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 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 Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS) offers an Affinity Designer Beginners’ course in September 2025 for which there are still some slots available. In this compact course, the participants learn from scratch how to use the vector based graphic software Affinity Designer. No prior knowledge is necessary.
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
In June the European Research Council published important changes to its ERC work programme 2026 and 2027 regarding the proposal structure, evaluation of proposals, additional funding for relocation of labs, new funding instrument, eligibility and resubmission restrictions. Please see below for some details on the main novelties for 2026. … Continued
ERC Starting Grants (up to 5 years and € 1.5 million) are designed to fund Principal Investigators (PIs) who already produced excellent supervised work and are ready to work independently showing potential to be a research leader.
Researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme 2026), … 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
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university.In addition to the stay abroad, … Continued
The Jung Career Advancement Award adresses medical professionals in residence training, who have completed at least two years of scientific research (preferably abroad), have a documented record of scientific accomplishment, and who return to Germany to complete their residency training.
It comprises a grant of 210,000€ which are intended to support a research project over a three-year period. … Continued
Clausthal University of Technology provides start-up funding (for max. 3 yrs and max. 300k€) to support researchers in the early stages of their careers to develop academic independence and their own research profile. The funding provides a basis for independently preparing an application for publicly funded open-topic research projects. … Continued
The ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship programme (ETH Fellows) supports incoming postdoctoral researchers at ETH Zurich and is intended to foster young researchers who have already demonstrated scientific excellence in the early stages of their careers. This prestigious early career programme is geared towards high potential academics with 40-50% of the fellows securing a professorship within a few years after the fellowship. … Continued
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation is currently focusing its support on the field of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”. This programme supports molecular biological studies of illnesses whose development is based on genetic defects or with which gene variants contribute to the development of complex illnesses.
In the area of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”, … Continued
Are you interested in joining the renowned DKFZ? Then take your opportunity and apply for one of their Postdoctoral Fellowships representing the most prestigious and competitive postdoc recruitment process at the DKFZ. The call is now open! It is intended to recruit highly talented and motivated young scientist, … Continued
Annually, the Canon Foundation in Europe grants up to 15 Fellowships to highly qualified European and Japanese researchers. European Fellows are expected to pursue a period of research in Japan whereas Japanese Fellows are expected to do their research in Europe.
Applications from all research disciplines without any limitations or restrictions are welcome. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 25 September 2025.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 25 September 2025. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
The funding scheme at a glance:
The AI Research Groups Lower Saxony funds research groups in computer science, artificial intelligence and applications disciplines with up to 2 million EUR for up to 5 years. The state of Lower Saxony wants to attract and support scientifically excellent researchers at early career stages in order to advance development and application of artificial intelligence in the state in the long term. … Continued
The Klaus Tschira Boost Fund is a joint program by GSO and Klaus Tschira Stiftung offering flexible funding and career development to promote researchers in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science.
You can apply for flexible funding for up to 2 years for independent, explorative, risky and interdisciplinary projects. … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships (two of them in cooperation with the Reinhard Frank-Foundation) to exceptional postdoctoral researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. to selected postdoc researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. … 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. Application deadline for this year’s round is 30 October 2025. … Continued
Since 2020, the Hector Fellow Academy offers the opportunity to apply for the Hector Research Career Development Award (Hector RCD Award). W1 assistant professors (with or without Tenure Track) and junior research group leaders in similar positions in natural or engineering sciences, medicine or psychology, who work at German universities or research institutions are encouraged in further strengthening their independent research. … Continued
To encourage more scientists to translate their research, the BioInnovation Institute (BII) and Science Magazine present an annual award to recognize bold researchers who are asking fundamental questions at the intersection of the life sciences and entrepreneurship.
The three winners will have their essays published in Science magazine and will be invited into BII’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. … Continued
The Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change, a new Cluster of Excellence funded by the DFG, is launching at the Technical University of Munich
To help shape this ambitious initiative from the start, they are currently recruiting four key positions: