The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in October 2025 will be open from 1 August 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-20 August online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in October; … Continued
We are offering intensive 3,5 hours/day (two weeks, Monday to Friday, 15-26 September 2025, 9.00 to 12.30) skill-oriented German courses for (PhD) students of GAUSS/GGNB. These courses are primarily designed to develop the ability to communicate in simple everyday situations.
Most of them are intended for students who have little or no prior knowledge of German. … 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
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 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
The Hochschuldidaktik of Göttingen University is offering several workshops in English to refine the teaching skills of its academics. Upcoming topics include:
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 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
Working in academia often entails several challenges: In most positions, a high level of self-organization is necessary, excellent research needs to be conducted, teaching and publishing has to be tended to, funding proposals need to be written and leadership skills have to be developed. Additionally, administrative tasks can take up many hours each day. Many scientists also have care work responsibilities.This multitude of demanding and very different tasks can lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed or stressed and it can lead to the motivation to take care of one’s own mental and physical health.In this workshop, … Continued
The first Göttingen Cognition Forum 2025, taking place from 13 – 15 October 2025, focuses on how social and physical interactions shape cognition in humans and non-human animals. Addressing this topic requires interdisciplinary perspectives – from neuroscience and behavioral biology to psychology and computational modeling.
The forum provides a platform for discussing neurocognitive mechanisms, … 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
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
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
The Zia Fellowship Program offers young female researchers the opportunity to develop both professionally and personally over the course of one year. Through targeted networking opportunities and exchanges with other talented early-career scientists and experienced role models, participants receive valuable input to help advance their careers in academia.
The application period runs from 1 July to 31 August 2025, … Continued
Each year 15 Fellowships are awarded by the Canon Foundation in Europe to highly qualified European and Japanese researchers. While European Fellows are expected to pursue a period of research in Japan, Japanese Fellows are expected to do their research in Europe. The Canon Foundation Fellowship is set for a minimum of 3 months to a maximum of 1 year. … Continued
The Boehringer Ingelheim Fund (BIF) awards scholarships to outstanding young scientists worldwide for ambitious scientific doctoral theses in basic biomedical research conducted in internationally renowned laboratories.
In addition to the monthly stipend, the fund provides seminars, travel grants for congresses and courses, a worldwide network, and individual and personal support. Fellowships are for two years, … 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
On 17 October 2024, GGNB alumna Prof. Dr. Jana Lasser (University of Graz) gave a thought-provoking talk at the Alte Mensa on Wilhelmsplatz titled “Hierarchy and Abuse of Power: Challenges in the Scientific Work Environment.”
For those who couldn’t attend the event or would like to revisit the discussion, a recording of the talk is now available here, … 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
As part of the Quantum Year 2025 and the 2nd DPG Fall Meeting, a special public evening event will take place in Stadthalle Göttingen (Jina-Mahsa-Amini-Platz 1, 37073 Göttingen) on 10 September 2025, from 18:30 – 20:30 h.
The highlight of the evening will be the world premiere of “Die Ordnung der Wirklichkeit” … Continued
Currently, a team of PhD students is conducting a research survey to better understand the practices and perspectives of AI service users and providers, and is looking for volunteers.
The survey takes only 5-10 minutes to complete and aims to gather insights on how AI technologies are built, deployed, and maintained. Your responses will be valuable in shaping academic research and guiding future ethical AI standards. … 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
