Workshops and Events
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
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
Von September bis Dezember 2024 finden zahlreiche Fortbildungen zu Chancengleichheitsthemen statt, die von Seiten der Stabsstelle Chancengleichheit und Diversität im Qualifizierungsprogramm für Beschäftigte organisiert werden:
Mehr Informationen:
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Kontakt: Dr. Daniela Marx … Continued
We are pleased to announce the upcoming Winter School organized by the Eurolife network. This intensive program will take place from 15-20 December 2024 in Obergurgl & Innsbruck, Austria and focus on the critical theme: “Big Data Divide and Governance of BBD Platforms.”
The target Audience is students from Eurolife institutions, … Continued
On 19 December 2024 the DATATEHICS International Conference on the topic “Ethical Governance of Biomedical Big Data – Advancing Social Justice and Human Rights in Digital Health” is taking place in Innsbruck, Austria.
The event is open to the public and aims to foster dialogue among interdisciplinary experts, policymakers, students, and the general public on the ethical challenges surrounding biomedical big data. … Continued
We are happy to invite you to a talk and discussion round:
Prof. Dr. Jana Lasser (Uni Graz):“Hierarchy and abuse of power: challenges in the scientific work environment”Date: Thursday, 17 October 2024, 17-19h
Location: via zoom webinar (https://uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/j/64993787111) or in person at the Alte Mensa, … Continued
- Date: Friday, 18 October 2024
- Time: 14:00-15:30h (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
About the speaker:
Lennart Mohnike studied “BSc. Biology” and “MSc. Molecular Life Sciences” at the University of Göttingen. … Continued
We would like to draw your attention to the Lectures series “Current Topics in Biophysics and Complex Systems” which is offered by the GGNB PhD Program “Physics of Biological and Complex Systems”.
The lecture series is open to all interested Master/PhD students of the natural Sciences!
The lecture will be held in presence, a prior registration by email to imprs-pbcs@gwdg.de is appreciated but not required. … Continued
Every two years the University Medical Centre (UMG) is inviting applications for the Margaret Maltby Mentoring Program. This program is offering young female scientists the opportunity to manage their careers successfully with mentoring; a combination of personal accompaniment by a female or male mentor, training and qualification as a person of leadership, … Continued
It’s our pleasure to announce that the 31st Open Science Göttingen Meet-up, this time on the topic “Financing your publications: Diamonds are a researcher’s best friend?”, will be taking place in October.
Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 13:00-15:00 h
Venue: Online (Zoom link cooming soon)
Registration: https://events.gwdg.de/e/31osmu
In this session the following questions are targeted:
- What alternatives to publication fees are available and how do journals and institutions implement this approach?
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Would you like to improve your research data management and data skills? Do you know how to manage, analyse, visualize and share your data?
During the Winter term 2024/2025, the University of Göttingen offers a digital course on “Data Management and Data Carpentry Social Sciences” that will provide you with basic data skills on research data management and an introduction to the use of selected data tools (e.g. … Continued
For all those who are about to complete their doctorate or have already completed their doctorate and are preparing for an academic career as parents:
Children make life fast-paced and colorful. Children shake up our view of the world and throw our life plans into disarray in a good mood. And they need time and our attention – … Continued
This is a reminder, that there are still free slots available for the two courses offered in November 2024 by the Faculty of Physics on “Leadership Excellence in the Knowledge Society” with lecturer Silvie Klein-Franke.
From 12-13 November 2024 there will be a 2-day course in English (full day, … Continued
An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit… 3 minutes.
The Three Minute Thesis competition is an internationally renowned competition held at numerous universities worldwide and was adopted by the Coimbra Group to which the University of Göttingen belongs.
In 2024 the Graduate Schools and Alumni Göttingen are hosting their own Three-Minute-Thesis format in the course of the universities alumni day according to the rules and judging criteria of the University of Queensland, … Continued
Funding & Prizes
Bis zum 1. November 2024 können sich deutsche Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen bei Fulbright Germany für ein Doktorand*innenstipendium bewerben. Gefördert werden vier- bis sechsmonatige Forschungsprojekte an einer US-Hochschule oder Forschungsinstitution, die zwischen dem 1. August 2025 und 31. Dezember 2025 begonnen werden.
Das Stipendium finanziert Reisekosten in Höhe von 1.400 Euro, Unterhaltskosten von 2.400 Euro/Monat (für maximal sechs Monate), … 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 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation is aiming for the advancement of science and to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children. Excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are supported by providing them with funds to be used for additional childcare and domestic help (1-2 years, monthly 500 €). The Foundation intends this contribution to enable young mothers to gain greater flexibility and time for their scientific work and thereby to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany’s leading scientific research. … Continued
Permanent Articles
In accordance with the PersDatO (privacy regulations of the University), as of January 2024, GAUSS (incl. GGNB) will switch to using the student e-mail address (…@stud.uni-goettingen.de) for all communication with doctoral students.
All doctoral students have been informed prior to the change, and are already asked to regularly check their student e-mail or preferably integrate it in their e-mail client. … Continued
The programme of the Graduate Academy (GRADE) of Goethe University Frankfurt is intended as a general introduction to the topic of “Good Academic Practice during Doctoral Studies” for doctoral students.
With six modules, it forms a mixed form of clearly prepared information, optional links to deepen the understanding of individual terms and test questions. … Continued
In educating and training junior scientists, the University is aiming to ensure the prevention of scientific misconduct, offer advice, help investigating cases of suspected violation of rules, and arbitrate cases of unclear authorship or other disputes.
Thus, in accordance with the binding GAUSS doctoral degree regulations of the math-nat. Faculties (§6 (2)) all doctoral students have to attend an official seminar on Good Scientific Practice (ideally) in the first year of their PhD. … Continued
The Centre for Statistics of the University of Göttingen offers courses and consulting services in statistical questions for all Göttingen PhD students.
The service comprises in particular consultation on data collection, statistical modelling and statistical inference.
If you are interested in 1-to-1 statistical consulting or further information about the service please follow this link. … Continued
Important rules for course registration. … Continued
Do you know, that each GAUSS PhD-program has its own student representative(s)?
If not, you can find all representatives listed on the GAUSS webpage.
For each program, at least one program representative is appointed for a term of office of one year – reappointment is possible. The program representatives represent the doctoral students of their program at the annual meeting with the GAUSS Board. … Continued
Every GAUSS PhD student is affiliated with the University of Göttingen through their membership in one of the GAUSS porgrams and their mandatory matriculation at the University. No matter if you are pursuing your PhD at a department or institution of the University, the Göttingen Campus (MPI, DPZ,…) or external. The affiliation to the University of Göttingen has to be stated in every publication in that a GAUSS doctoral student is listed as an author! … Continued
Scholarships for doctoral students in all disciplines are awarded by the following foundations. Information on the scholarship providers and the application requirements can be found via the links.
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung https://www.boeckler.de/de/stipendium-fur-promovierende-2670.htm
Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung https://www.hss.de/stipendium/
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung https://www.boell.de/de/stipendien
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes https://www.studienstiftung.de/
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung https://www.fes.de/studienfoerderung
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung https://www.freiheit.org/de/stipendien-fuer-promovierende-0
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung https://www.kas.de/de/web/begabtenfoerderung-und-kultur/bewerbung
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung https://www.rosalux.de/stiftung/studienwerk/promotionsstipendium … Continued
We are delighted to introduce you to a feature on our GAUSS Career Service Webpage: a selection of Trainee Programs.
A trainee program is one option to start your career in industry and can be a great opportunity. As there are many in different sectors (e.g. Pharma, Chemical Industry, Consulting, Precision Engineering), … Continued
Every student is eligible to apply for a GAUSS emergency scholarship as long as this would help to finalize the doctoral research. … Continued
Since January 2021 the GAUSS Office sends automatic emails out of the GAUSS database to remind you of your next scheduled Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting and the approaching thesis submission deadline (in GGNB such reminder emails already exist for a long time).
As you know at least three TAC meetings and progress reports are mandatory during your doctoral studies within GAUSS (see RerNat-O 2018). … Continued
In case you are in need for professional help with personal/private/mental health problems. … Continued
The newest edition (2022) of the information brochure “An Orientation Framework for Good Scientific Practice” is available in English as well as in German.The brochure offers employees of the University and the University Medical Center guidance by formulating central standards of good scientific practice and explaining the ombuds system and its procedural paths at the University of Göttingen in a simple form. … Continued
Do you want to learn to program in Python but don’t know how to start?
The Gipp Lab and CIDAS have created a free YouTube course with short videos (2-10 minutes each) that teach you the basics of the Python programming language.
The 7 lessons will be published separately weekly on the CIDAS YouTube channel as well as within the OpenILIAS self-learning platform:
▶️ YouTube: https://t1p.de/Python_Course_YT
📖 ILIAS Course: … Continued
Online course on Data Visualisation in English by SUB.
The course “Bringing Data to the Point” provides a foundation in data visualisation and introduces visualisation forms, various tools and basic design rules that help to graphically present information and findings in an approachable way.
The course is available as an ILIAS learning module on StudIP and at the OpenILIAS-platform for non-members of the university. … Continued