The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in March 2025 will be open from 1 January 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-20 January online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in March; … 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
Elections for the doctoral student council (Promovierendenvertretung (PromV)) for the next one-year term of office (starting 01.04.2025) will take place soon (13.01.2025, 12:00h until 21.01.2025, 12:00h).
The doctoral student council consists of 13 members, with one member to be elected per faculty.
These doctoral representatives are the ones of the faculties (taking part in the faculty council (Fakultätsrat)) that advise on questions concerning doctoral students and make recommendations to the university’s governing bodies. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2025, this time with Dr. Ritu Chakrabarti, Scientific Editor at Cell Press. In this session, Ritu will provide insights into her field of work, sharing her personal experiences and perspectives.
The deadline for registering for the Startup Competition LIFT-OFF 2025 has been extended once again until 9 January 2025. All you need to take part in the competition is a start-up idea. In 2025, you will receive support in the development and elaboration of a business model. The competition is accompanied by various events and workshops as well as a mentoring program during the entire competition period. … Continued
InDIGU-PLUS bietet eine Vielzahl von Veranstaltungen an, die Studierende auf ihrem akademischen und beruflichen Weg in Deutschland begleiten und unterstützen sollen. Dies ist die nächste kommende Veranstaltung, die auch für internationale Promovierende interessant sein könnte:
15.01.2025 Praktikum in Deutschland: finden, vorbereiten, nutzen
In diesem Workshop erfahren Sie, welche Kriterien ein qualifiziertes Praktikum erfüllen sollte, … Continued
The RTG 2906 “Curiosity” invites to a Guest Lecture with the topic “Saving is great, but spending isn’t all that bad: Exploring parent-child conversations about money.”
The lecture is delivered by Margaret Echelbarger from Stony Brook University (New York, USA). Scheduled for 15 January 2025, at 12:00h at the German Primate Centre, … Continued
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
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
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
The Merck’s Innovation Cup Summer Camp is taking place from 19-25 July 2025 near Frankfurt and is an initiative for researchers in natural sciences, computer sciences, business and administration to attend a training programme near Frankfurt. This in-person meet-up is designed to support career development of those who wish to move into R&D/industry by learning how the industry works. … Continued
The SUB Göttingen offers an online GRO.publications training courses in German on 3 February 2025, 3 March 2025 etc. (see full list here) from 10:00 – 11:30h. If you want to request this training in English, please write an email to support-gro.publications@uni-goettingen.de.
This training introduces GRO.publications, … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering virtual GMB basic courses in February/April/May 2025 in German and in English:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … 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
The ENLIGHT Impact Award 2025 aims to recognize and celebrate the outstanding initiatives from ENLIGHT partner universities that demonstrate excellence in creating tangible impact. These initiatives may cover education, training, research, and/or service to society. Applications from teams at ENLIGHT universities, with each university nominating teams through an internal selection process (details in the call text) are welcome. … Continued
The DFG has been awarding the Bernd Rendel Prize annually since 2002 to early career geoscientists with a university degree but as yet no doctorate. The prizes are funded by the proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation, which is administered by Stifterverband, and is intended to be used for scientific purposes, … 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
Every year, Körber-Stiftung presents the German Thesis Award to the best of young German researchers. In total the prizes are worth more than €100,000 for significant and innovative research, including three top prizes of €25,000 each. This makes the German Thesis Award one of the most highly endowed prizes awarded to young scientists in the country. … Continued
The Chemical Industry Fund awards the Kekulé Scholarship for doctoral students in chemistry and chemistry-related life science subjects. The aim of the scholarship is to promote highly talented young scientists.
Applications can be submitted on three dates each year. A prerequisite for the award of the scholarship is that the student has studied quickly and achieved outstanding academic results. … 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
The Foyer International team invites all students, including doctoral students, to a Christmas Potluck on 24 December 2024 at Von-Siebold-Straße 2 from 11:00 to 15:00 h.
Bring a dish to share and enjoy the holiday spirit together in the Foyer International. Make it a feast to remember! … Continued
Conflicts over authorship are a relatively common issue in discussions about proper research practices and can arise in various contexts. For instance, during collaborative publication efforts, researchers may encounter difficulties when co-authors fail to respond to requests for feedback on a manuscript or are unexpectedly unreachable.
In such cases, teams of authors face the challenge of publishing their work without compromising ethical research standards. … Continued
