The new student representatives of GAUSS for the next one-year term from 01 April 2025 were appointed.
Greg Weiler, PhD student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Coumputer Science in the program Mathematical Sciences, is staying on the position as GAUSS student representative.
Aasish Kumar Sharma, PhD student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Coumputer Science in the program Computer Science was appointed as deputy representative. … Continued
The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in June 2025 will be open from 1 April 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-20 April online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in June; … 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 in German on 7 April 2025, 5 May 2025, 2 June 2025, 7 July 2025, 1 September 2025 (see 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. … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering virtual GMP basic courses in German and in English:
On 10 April 2025 a Welcome Event and Information Marketplace for international Students takes place at the Tagungshaus Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen. The following program will be offered:
Es gibt noch freie Plätze im GGG-Workshop “Stärken und Erfahrungen aus der Promotionserstellung erfolgreich kommunizieren – Ein Workshop für Promovierende beim Berufseinstieg”. In diesem Workshop erarbeiten und erproben Sie eine individuelle und überzeugende Kommunikationsstrategie, um Ihren Berufseinstieg mit Promotion zum Erfolg zu machen. Dazu werden kommunikatives und rhetorisches Handwerkszeug trainiert, das Ihnen helfen soll, noch selbstbewusster und sicherer aufzutreten.
Der Kurs ist zugeschnitten auf fortgeschrittene Promovierende und wird von der GGG (Göttinger Graduiertenschule Gesellschaftswissenschaften) angeboten. … 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
The University of Bordeaux is pleased to open the training course “Interdisciplinary issues of ecological transition: Contributing to decision-making in an Anthropocene context” for PhD students across the ENLIGHT network.
This course aims to allow PhD students to grasp the current socio-environmental issues of our society.
During the training, PhD students will work on a practical approach to answer theses challenges with leading research teams on these issues and based on case studies and live scientific data. … Continued
Below you will find information on the DAAD FIT-Program InDiGU-PLUS, which is being expanded at the University of Göttingen in the summer semester 2025. The program aims specifically to support international students (BA, MA, PhD) in developing their written and oral language skills during their studies as well as in their career orientation in Germany. … 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
In May 2025 the Faculty of Physics will again offer two courses on “Leadership Excellence in the Knowledge Society” with lecturer Silvie Klein-Franke.
From 6-7 May 2025 there will be a 2-day course in English (full day, approx. 8:30 am – 5 pm)
From 8-9 May 2025 there will be a 2-day course in German (full day, … Continued
The 9th Women’s Careers and Networks Symposium (WoCaNet) will be held on 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, WoCaNet has continuously achieved success and positive feedback from its attendees. … Continued
The Fast Forward Science competition, which is endowed with a total of €9,000, is a joint project of Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Stifterverband and has been held annually since 2013. Passion for research, for innovative multimedia formats and for communication – the Fast Forward Science competition honors people who are not only passionate about science themselves, … Continued
Chancen für Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen: Vernetzen Sie sich mit der Forschung in den USA!
Bis zum 1. Mai 2025 können sich deutsche Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen bei Fulbright Germany für ein Doktorandenstipendium bewerben. Es werden vier- bis sechsmonatige Forschungsprojekte an einer US-Hochschule oder Forschungsinstitution gefördert, die zwischen dem 1. Januar 2026 und 31. Mai 2026 beginnen.
Das Stipendium finanziert Unterhaltskosten von 2.400 Euro/Monat, … Continued
With the Stockmeyer Science Award, the Heinrich Stockmeyer Foundation honors practicable approaches and application-oriented research that contribute to improve food safety and consumer protection, and to enhance consumer confidence in the quality and safety of food products.
The prize is aimed at scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the above-mentioned field and is endowed with 10.000 €. … Continued
Das Zia Fellowship-Programm ermöglicht es jungen Wissenschaftlerinnen, ihre fachlichen und persönlichen Fähigkeiten im Laufe eines Jahres zu erweitern. Durch gezielte Vernetzungsmöglichkeiten und den Austausch mit anderen talentierten Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen sowie erfahrenen Vorbildern erhalten die Teilnehmerinnen wertvolle Impulse, um ihre Karriere im Wissenschaftsbereich voranzutreiben.
Die Bewerbungsphase für die nächste Kohorte startet vom 1. Juli bis 31. August 2025, … Continued
On 31 March 2025, 20:30 – 22:00h, and on 15 May 2025, 20:00-21:30h, the insightful and thought-provoking piece “Und der Alte würfelt doch!” is performed at the Deutsche Theater in Göttingen. The performance is commemorating a pivotal moment in scientific history: the centenary of quantum mechanics. On 31 March 1925, … Continued
On 15 April 2025 starts the auction of bicycles by the Fundbüro Göttingen. There you may find inexpensive, second-hand, found bicycles. The auction can be viewed via this link: https://www.fundbürodeutschland.de/versteigerungen … 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
