The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in September 2026 will be open from 1 July 2026. 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
06.07.-19.07. eingeschränkte Prüfungsverwaltung // limited examination administration – substitute service in GAUSS Examination Office (no issuance of certificates) … Continued
GAUSS & GGNB offer a monthly online meeting for students approaching their thesis submission and examination. The final sprint meeting takes place every second Monday of the month at 9:00h via Zoom. The next meetings are scheduled for 13 July, 10 August, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Impulse Session on 10 July 2026, this time with Dr. Lydia Frick, Director Market Access at Kintiga in Hanover.
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
PBCS Lecture Series
(Physics of Biological and Complex Systems ) – Current Topics in Biophysics and Complex Systems.
(Poster)
06.07.2026 – Fred Wolf (Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks): Design and Dynamics of Sensory Systems
Time: Monday 10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Seminar room SR 16 – Third Institute of Physics [Section F, … Continued
Impossible Founders, in collaboration with University of Hamburg, UKE, DESY, Stellenbosch University and the University of Groningen, is launching the iFSummerSchool from 13-18 September 2026 in Hamburg – a selective 6-day program bringing together PhD students from physics, medicine, medtech, innovation and business.
It addresses a structural gap in PhD education: breakthrough research in physics, … 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 19 August 2026 (six sessions, Wednesdays, 17:00-18:30 h, free of charge).
High levels of self-discipline, good organizational skills and stamina for independent work are often required skills for successful completion of a master’s or doctoral degree. … Continued
The Matrix Evolution consortium invites you to the second Matrix Evolution Symposium in Hannover. Together with colleagues from materials science, cell biology, biophysics, clinical research, and bioinformatics, discuss current developments, methodological innovations, and translational perspectives in the field of biomaterials will be discussed.
We are pleased to announce the Göttingen Emergent Minds Winter School: Learning and Computation in Brains and Machines, which will bring together researchers from neuroscience, machine learning, information theory, and applied mathematics to explore how complex systems learn, compute, and form representations.
The school will take place in Göttingen (Germany) from 15 February – … Continued
The 23rd Horizons in Molecular Biology Symposium, organized by the students of our IMPRS for Molecular Biology Program, will take place this year from 7 to 10 September 2026 at MPI-NAT, Faßberg campus in Göttingen! Please save the date in your calendars! … Continued
The LMU Open Science Center is organising it’s 5th hybrid Open Science Summer School from 7-15 September 2026 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
As part of the ENLIGHT Doctoral Network, the University of Groningen offers the interactive training session “Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing” on 16 September 2026.
It is designed for PhD candidates interested in an academic career and offers practical insight into the grant landscape, academic career paths, funders’ expectations, … Continued
We are happy to announce that the 7th edition of the Third Infinity Conference will be held
23 – 25 September 2026 at the Max Planck Campus in Göttingen.
Organized by PhD students of the International Max Planck Research School for Physics of Biological and Complex Systems, the conference provides an interdisciplinary platform for young and experienced researchers to network and exchange ideas. … Continued
For the first time, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers scholarships for exceptional commitment alongside the prestigious DAAD Prize for outstanding academic achievements by international students. These two funding opportunities showcase the diversity of the international student community. They also honor the valuable contributions to both academic and social life at our university. … 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. Juni bis 15. … Continued
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For the third 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 19 July 2026!
They are seeking published datasets and software that adhere to the FAIR principles or the FAIR4ResearchSoftware principles. … 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
Good news for professors and PhD candidates with international ambitions: the ENLIGHT alliance has signed a comprehensive joint PhD framework agreement. With this achievement, ENLIGHT positions itself among the frontrunners in Europe in terms of structural collaboration on joint doctorates.
The agreement applies to all disciplines and all ten partner universities, and sets out clear provisions for joint supervision, evaluation and defence. … Continued
In July, once again a cycling course for international students is offered by the International Office. Capacity: 10 participants; first come, first served. If you’re interested, please email patrick.lajoie@zvw.uni-goettingen.de … Continued
The aim of this website is to support students, research and teaching staff, administrative personnel, and guests in acting responsibly and safely when operating in an international context.
International cooperation is a key principle of research and teaching, even a prerequisite for excellent scientific performance and for a first-class university education that enables its graduates to act with responsibility in their scientific activities, … 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
