The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in February 2025 will be open from 1 December 2024. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-20 December online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in February; … Continued
The GAUSS & Examination Office, will be taking a well-deserved break during the Christmas Holidays.
Accordingly we will not be available between 23 December 2024 and 5 January 2025.
Examination procedures (e.g. admission to the doctoral examination) cannot be handled during this time.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! … 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
This course is designed for researchers and scientists from the University of Göttingen, the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), and the Max Planck Society who are interested in enhancing their research capabilities through the application of artificial intelligence (AI).
Participants will explore how AI can assist in analyzing large datasets, automating routine tasks, and improving literature research and organization. … Continued
Choosing the right Creative Commons (CC) licence when publishing your research is crucial. The DEAL Consortium strongly advocates for the Creative Commons license type CC BY, as emphasized in their recent campaign.
To reinforce this recommendation and to give authors a deeper insight into the licence choice and its wider implications, … Continued
On 5 December 2024, from 10:00-11:00h, the oa.talk “Open Access Fundamentals: definitions, formats, licenses and costs” is taking place online.
This talk is aimed at students, doctoral candidates, and experienced researchers who want to learn more about Open Access and academic publishing. Anyone else who is interested is also welcome to attend. No registration is required. … 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!
Companies & organizations from IT, … Continued
Please save the date for the next Open Science Göttingen Meet-up (OSMU): Monday, 9 December 2024. The meet-up will start from 13:00h at the Digital Creative Space in the central campus library.
What will this meeting be about: The organizers would like to brainstorm ideas with you on how to create OSMU-as-guest-at-faculty-X editions. … Continued
InDIGU-PLUS bietet eine Vielzahl von Veranstaltungen an, die Studierende auf ihrem akademischen und beruflichen Weg in Deutschland begleiten und unterstützen sollen. Dies sind die kommenden Veranstaltungen, die auch für internationale Promovierende interessant sein könnten:
10.12.2024 Alumni berichten – Karrierewege internationaler Absolvent*innen
Interviewveranstaltung mit mehreren Alumni, die als internationale Studierende an der Universität Göttingen studierten und anschließend in Deutschland beruflich Fuß gefasst haben. … Continued
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Startschuss für den LIFT-OFF Gründungswettbewerb der Universität Göttingen
Der LIFT-OFF Gründungswettbewerb der Universität Göttingen geht in die nächste Runde. Bewerben Sie sich bis zum 10. Dezember 2024 mit einer Gründungsidee und erhalten Sie im Jahr 2025 Unterstützung bei der Entwicklung und Ausarbeitung eines Geschäftsmodells!
Begleitet wird der Wettbewerb durch verschiedene Veranstaltungen und Workshops sowie einem Mentoringprogramm während der kompletten Wettbewerbslaufzeit. … Continued
Boehringer Ingelheim is hosting a series of webinars to promote the different career paths available within the company. Dive into Research & Development with Boehringer Ingelheim’s “Meet Our Scientists” webinar series. Understand industry processes, explore career paths, and experience the work culture. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to explore your future in the pharmaceutical industry! … Continued
We would like to draw your attention to an opportunity to take part in the Global Health Hackathon 2025 with more than 6 countries and international partners as AstraZeneca, Microsoft and many more, hosted by the Life Science Factory (Sartorius) in Germany.
What to expect from the Hackathon?
The Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden is organising another series of online info events in German on how to apply for a HAW Professorship especially concerning the required application documents.
The virtual coffee break format consists of three 30-minute sessions and is aimed at anyone interested in a professorship at a university of applied sciences (HAW).In addition to input from the speakers, … Continued
The International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences (ISCOMS) is the world’s leading student congress in the field of (bio)medical sciences. ISCOMS is Europe’s largest biomedical student congress and attracts more participants each year. Last year, over 600 students from more than 60 countries attended the 31st edition of ISCOMS.
Next year, the 32nd edition will take place from 2-5 June 2025 at the University Medical Center Groningen. … Continued
Have you written an outstanding dissertation and are you very keen to explain your research findings in a clear and comprehensible manner to a large number of people, including those not familiar with your subject? Then write an article about your work and enter it into the competition for the KlarText Award for Achievements in Public Understanding of Sciences. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
This is a reminder to participate in the survey, that the SUB Göttingen is sharing right now to determine the need for information and training on the Göttingen campus on the subject of “Publishing and Open Access”. Please use this survey to give them brief feedback on which topics are particularly relevant to you: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/882475?lang=en (in German: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/882475?lang=de). … Continued
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
