The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in February 2026 will be open from 1 December 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-16 December online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in February; … Continued
Die Graduiertenschulen bieten verschiedene Maßnahmen mit Fokus auf das Wissenschaftsmanagement an. Folgende Angebote stehen aktuell zur Verfügung:
Diese Veranstaltung fand am 17.11.2026 statt. Falls Sie ihn verpasst haben, gibt es hier eine Zusammenfassung.
Teilnehmende der o.g. Veranstaltung am 17.11.2026 erhielten einen Überblick über wissenschaftliche Tools, welche an der Universität Göttingen für die Erzeugung, Verarbeitung und Veröffentlichung Ihrer Forschungsdaten zur Verfügung stehen. Jana Böhm (GWDG) und Lena John (TIB Hannover) gaben eine Einführung, … 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 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 RTG 2906 “Curiosity” invites to a Guest Talk: “What sparks curiosity? Tracing its evolutionary roots in humans and non-human primates“. The talk is delivered by Sae In Lee from the University of Zurich. Scheduled for 1 December 2025, 14:00h in ZHG 005.
What is the lecture about? … 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
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!
The EU Office will organise an online event with the title “The Participant Portal – Your Tool to EU Funding” on 8 December 2025 from 10:00 to 11:30h. It will take place online via Zoom and will be held in English.
The “EU Funding & Tenders Portal” is the entry point to many EU funding programmes. … Continued
Are you an international student thinking about your next career steps in Germany? Feel invited to an inspiring afternoon featuring three role models who will share their professional journeys and offer practical insights into starting a career in the German working world! In addition, the Transfer & Startup Hub and the Career Service will introduce their support services. … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering virtual GMP basic courses in February 2026 in German and in English:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … Continued
The LIFT-OFF Start-up Competition for the promotion of start-ups enters its next round. The competition is aimed both at people interested in starting a business and active founders (teams and individuals) from all fields. The competition is accompanied by various events and workshops and a mentoring program in the field of entrepreneurship. … Continued
The Science Communication Network Göttingen invites all researchers across the Göttingen Campus to take part in the first edition of the “Research Image of the Year” contest.
Whether your image comes from the lab, the field, the microscope, your data visualizations, or your artistic imagination, they want to see how you capture the essence of your research in a single image. … 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
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The Citavi campus licence at the University of Göttingen expires on 30 November 2026, i.e. in approximately one year, and unfortunately cannot be renewed. We are aware that you as doctoral students are among those most affected by this, as your projects take longer than one year.
The Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic for Students (PAS) provides specialized outpatient support for young adults experiencing crises, mental health challenges, or study-related difficulties, and is open to all students of the University of Göttingen.
Open consultation hours are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 11:00-12:00h, and Friday from 10:00-11:00h. Although the flyer is in German, … Continued
TODAY, on 28 November 2025 InDiGU-PLUS is organizing a games afternoon entitled “Games from around the world” in the Alte Mensa. To make the games afternoon colourful and intercultural, students (and not only students!) have the opportunity to present their favourite games and play them with visitors.
The event is open to everyone and free of charge: anyone can register as a “team” … Continued
Hinterherpfeifen, sexualisierte Gesten und Rufe, sexistische Sprüche, übergriffige Kommentare – Catcalling ist eine alltägliche Form von sexualisierter Gewalt im öffentlichen Raum. Es ist kein Kompliment, kein Spaß und keine Bagatelle.
Fünf Jahre nach der Petition „Es ist 2020. Catcalling sollte strafbar sein“ greifen Expert*innen das Thema erneut auf und diskutieren, weshalb Catcalling weiterhin nicht strafrechtlich verfolgt wird und welche gesellschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklungen notwendig wären. … Continued
We would like to draw your attention to the Science Speed Dating event taking place on 3 December 2025, at 20:00h at Café Liesels in the Forum Wissen!
The event offers scientists from all disciplines the opportunity to discuss their research in a relaxed atmosphere and make new interdisciplinary contacts. In several speed dating rounds, … Continued
The Pint of Science Göttingen team is looking for volunteers!
Pint of Science is a non-profit global science outreach initiative where researchers are invited to give fun and engaging talks in bars and pubs. While preparing the 2026 edition the organizers are looking for volunteers to help them organise the next year’s event. … Continued
The special exhibition “Like magic! How our world organizes itself” had its opening on 28 August 2025 at Forum Wissen. Until 1 February 2026 you can explore dynamics and self-organization in nature and observe a 3D simulation of cells, experience turbulent currents and experiments on a model wind farm trying to find the best position of the wind turbines. … 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
