The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in September 2025 will be open from 1 July 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-20 July online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in September; … Continued
30.06.-13.07. eingeschränkte Prüfungsverwaltung // limited examination administration – substitute service in GAUSS Examination Office (no issuance of certificates)
14.-20.07. GAUSS Prüfungsverwaltung und GAUSS Office geschlossen! // GAUSS Examination Office and GAUSS Office closed! … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Merit Wildung, Group leader at altona Diagnostics GmbH. Join us for an insightful session with Merit, where she will will share her career journey from academia to a leadership role in industry. … Continued
The Psychosocial Counselling (PSB) is offering an International Coaching Group for master and PhD students in English language. The new group will start on 27 August 2025 (six sessions, Wednesdays, 17:00-18:30 h).
Content: Completing a doctoral or master’s degree requires a high level of self-discipline, good organizational skills and independent work over a long period. … Continued
Anlässlich des 100. Todestages von Felix Klein findet am Donnerstag, den 3. Juli 2025, ein Felix-Klein-Kolloquium am Mathematischen Institut in Göttingen statt. Zwei Vorträge beleuchten sowohl aktuelle mathematische Entwicklungen als auch die historische Bedeutung des Wissenschaftlers:
14:15 Uhr: Yuri Tschinkel (New York University):„Groups and Geometry“
16:15 Uhr: Renate Tobies (Universität Jena):„Felix Kleins Lebensmotto: ‚…ist ein Leben köstlich gewesen, … Continued
Am Samstag, den 5. Juli 2025, findet von 11:30–16:30 Uhr eine Tagung zum 70. Jahrestag des Einstein-Russell-Manifests an der Universität Göttingen, Hörsaal ZHG 002, Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, Platz der Göttinger Sieben, statt.
Vor 70 Jahren, am 7. Juli 1955, veröffentlichten Bertrand Russell und Albert Einstein gemeinsam mit weiteren Nobelpreisträgern das bedeutende Russell-Einstein-Manifest. … 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 GMP Academy is offering virtual GMB basic courses in the first half of 2025 in German and in English:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … 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
A new course on DFG grant writing for early career researchers (final-year doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers) titled “From Research Idea to Funded DFG Project: Write It, Refine It, Win It” will be offered at the University of Göttingen, starting from 6 November 2025.
The Department of Research and Transfer Services is offering the course designed to help early-career researchers transform their research ideas into competitive proposals for the German Research Foundation (DFG). … Continued
On 17 July 2025 a locally organized Wiley Publishing Workshop is taking place at MN29, Tammanstraße, Göttingen, from 14:00-17:00h.
The event will be facilitated by a Wiley Editor and will provide practical tips on various publishing topics that would be interesting to researchers across all levels and disciplines. More details are in the registration page. … 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
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
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
Is it your goal to become a good scientist? Would you like to learn about the applicable rules of good research practice in general and find out which rules apply at the University of Göttingen? Are you looking for input to reflect on the importance of the rules of good research practice for your own PhD project? … 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 has been offering a training course for publishing open access. … Continued
The German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany’s largest independent research funding organization, offers a series of online talks introducing its funding portfolio for researchers at various career stages.
This series is particularly relevant for doctoral candidates and postdocs from all disciplines. It provides a comprehensive overview of DFG funding instruments for the post-PhD phase, … Continued
For the second time, the “Landesinitiative Forschungsdatenmanagement Niedersachsen” FDM-NDS is announcing the FAIR Data and Software Award Lower Saxony and warmly invites you to submit your contributions by 10 August 2025!
They are seeking published datasets and software that adhere to the FAIR principles or the FAIR4ResearchSoftware principles. … Continued
During the doctoral phase, laying the foundation for a successful academic career includes one key element: visibility – through publications, conferences, professional networks, or online presence.
But how can you increase your visibility in a way that feels right for you?
The new Prof:inSicht Configurator is a free, … Continued
Im Rahmen des berufsbegleitenden Studiums der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal führt Frau Angela Kämpfer qualitative Interviews für ihre anstehende Masterarbeit durch. Angela Kämpfer ist promovierte Toxikologin und hauptberuflich angestellt am Leibniz-Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung in Düsseldorf als PostDoc im Bereich der Partikeltoxikologie sowie als Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit.
Für die qualitative Studie zum Thema „Motivation von Promovierenden“ sucht sie Interviewpartner, … 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
