Several changes in the doctoral degree regulation (RerNat-O; see amtl. Mitteilung) come into effect on 1 October 2025. They apply to all doctoral students in GAUSS, independent of the starting date of their PhD. We have adjusted the checklists and handouts on our homepage accordingly. Below we would like to summarize the modifications we consider most relevant. … Continued
The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in December 2025 will be open from 1 October 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-20 October online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in December; … Continued
From 6-17 October 2025 you can register for the GAUSS/GGNB German Language Courses via Stud-IP!
The evening classes (level A1.1 to B2.1) with a duration of 2 x 1,5 hours per week will run from 3 November 2025 – 6 February 2026. Please check carefully for scheduling conflicts. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Christina Kerntke, Quality Compliance Manager at BioNTech SE. Join us for an insightful session with Christina, where she will share her career journey from academia to a leadership role in industry.
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Marcel Forster, Project Manager at Syserso Networks GmbH in Göttingen.
Attending a course on Good Scientific Practice is a mandatory requirement for the completion of your PhD. GAUSS/GGNB offers various GSP courses throughout the year but most of them are focused on specific research fields (i.e. Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc.) and trainers usually do not admit students from other faculties.
We are therefore pleased to inform you, … Continued
We would like to inform you that the module directory of the cross-faculty key competencies for the winter semester 2025/26 is now available on the key competency pages of the University of Göttingen (http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/196175.html).
On these pages you will find the module handbook with an overview of the decentrally offered interdisciplinary and interdepartmental key competence modules as well as the offerings of central institutions of the University of Göttingen. … Continued
The SUB Göttingen has recorded a training course for professors, Junior PIs, Postdocs and all those who publish at the University of Göttingen which offers an introduction to Open Access publishing and informs you about current funding opportunities such as the University Publication Fund and various publishing and licensing agreements. … Continued
The SUB Göttingen offers online GRO.publications training courses. These trainings introduce GRO.publications, the publication management system of the University of Göttingen. The system can be used to manage personal publication lists, but also lists of projects, working groups and organizational units. In addition, full texts can be uploaded. … Continued
In November, the GMP Academy is offering virtual GMP basic courses 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
We are pleased to announce the upcoming Winter School organized by the Eurolife network. This intensive program will take place from 15-19 December 2025 in Obergurgl, Austria and focus on the theme: “Social Justice, Legal Accountability, Bias, and Equity in AI and Biomedical Big Data”.
The program addresses pressing ethical, … Continued
During the Winter term 2025/2026, the University of Göttingen offers a digital course on “Data Management and Data Carpentry for Ecology” that will provide you with basic data skills on research data management and an introduction to the use of selected data tools (e.g. OpenRefine, R) necessary for conducting research. … Continued
KI.Connect bringt Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Nachwuchstalente zusammen – für Austausch, Anwendung und Zukunftsideen rund um Künstliche Intelligenz in Göttingen.
Mit Vorträgen, Diskussionen, Workshops und einem Marktplatz für KI-Abschlussarbeiten bietet die Veranstaltung eine Plattform für alle, die KI praxisnah erleben und gemeinsam weiterentwickeln wollen.
Das Event wird veranstaltet von der Universität Göttingen, CIDAS, GWG Göttingen, RZGö/GWDG und KISSKI. … Continued
On 15 November 2025 from 9:30 to 18:00h the Change by Women Conference is taking place at the Alte Mensa at Wilhelmsplatz.
With keynote talks, panel discussions, workshops, and countless networking opportunities, the conference offers a full day dedicated to sharing ideas, inspiration, and empowerment. The event highlights stories of success and brings inspiring women to the stage – … Continued
The Göttingen Neural Networking Day enters its 5th round – a networking opportunity for everyone studying neuroscience in Göttingen! Join for a day of scientific exchange across all projects on neuroscience.When? Monday, 8 December 2025, 10:00 – 17:30 hWhere? German Primate Center
Bring your poster (previously presented posters are welcome!) and win a slot to present your most exciting findings in a 5 minute … Continued
To encourage more scientists to translate their research, the BioInnovation Institute (BII) and Science Magazine present an annual award to recognize bold researchers who are asking fundamental questions at the intersection of the life sciences and entrepreneurship.
The three winners will have their essays published in Science magazine and will be invited into BII’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. … Continued
Chancen für Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen: Forschung in den USA mit Fulbright
Planen Sie im Rahmen Ihrer Promotion einen Forschungsaufenthalt in den USA?
Das Fulbright-Doktorand:innenprogramm bietet Ihnen die Chance auf ein Stipendium an einer US-Universität oder wissenschaftlichen Institution.
Wir fördern vier- bis sechsmonatige Forschungsprojekte an einer US-Hochschule oder Forschungsinstitution, die zwischen dem 1. August und dem 31. Dezember 2026 beginnen. … Continued
The Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) funding is aimed at academically excellent and committed doctoral students in all subjects.
The funding consists of the following benefits:
The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation is aiming for the advancement of science and to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children. Excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are supported by providing them with funds to be used for additional childcare and domestic help (1 year, monthly 500 €). The Foundation intends this contribution to enable young mothers to gain greater flexibility and time for their scientific work and thereby to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany’s leading scientific research. … Continued
Are you working on an innovative project in materials science or engineering? The SAMPE Innovation Award is now open for applications – and it might be the perfect opportunity for you to gain international recognition for your academic work.
Who can apply?Bachelor’s, Master’s, Diploma, or PhD students that deals with:
What’s in it for you? … Continued
In July 2025, the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) has published a position paper proposing a significant overhaul of how careers in German academia are structured. The goal is to make the system more attractive, transparent, and internationally competitive — especially for those, such as postdocs, … Continued
From 18 October – 2 November 2025 Göttingen’s Literary Festival “Literaturherbst” is about to take place for the 34th time and will definitely be worth a visit for everyone who is interested in literature.
You can either attend in person or purchase a ticket for “Literaturherbst ON AIR” (29€) which will enable you to watch all of the events online via video streaming. … 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
