Dear reader,

welcome to the July issue of the monthly GAUSS newsletter with information from the GAUSS Office including courses and events organised by GAUSS. Furthermore, the newsletter contains information about workshops and events offered by partners at the Göttingen Campus and additional information that might be of interest for doctoral students in Göttingen. For more information about each topic, please follow the links below.

Some of the events or seminars are advertised in German as the language during the events or workshops will be German. Feel free to forward this email to other interested students. If you do not want to receive information like this again, please let me know and I will remove you from the mailing list.

All the best,
Dirk

GAUSS Office

GAUSS Examination Office: summer break, 31 Jul-21 Aug 2020

Please note that the Examination Office will be closed for summer holidays between 31 July until 21 August 2020. This means provisional and original doctoral certificates cannot be issued, and registration for the doctoral examinations is not possible. Read more...

Call for course registrations – October 2020

Registration for methods and professional skills courses held in October 2020 will be open from 1 August. You can register for courses taking place in October from 1-20 August; the slots will be allocated on 25 August. Read more...

Results: election of the doctoral student council (Promovierendenvertretung (PromV))

The results of the election of the doctoral student council for the period from 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021, with one member to be elected per faculty, can be viewed here. The members of the doctoral student council were elected in a free, … Read more...

Interim result of the 3MT competition: we´re in the finals!

A total of 19 out of the 41 member universities of the Coimbra Group have taken part in the competition this year. These universities have submitted the video of their institutional winner and a total of 26 universities have sent in their votes. Voters … Read more...

Workshops and Events

17th Horizons in Molecular Biology, 14-17 Sept 2020, Online Conference

The 17th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place this year from 14th to 17th of September. Due to the COVID-Pandemic and the related uncertainties regarding travels and gatherings of large crowds we decided to host the event this year online … Read more...

7th ESI System Neuroscience Conference ESI SyNC, 24-26 Aug 2020

The Ernst Strüngmann Institute Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESI SyNC) 2020 will be held this year on August 24-26 as a fully virtual conference. Read more...

[in German] Karrierekonferenz KURSWECHSEL für Doktorandinnen und Postdoktorandinnen, 28-29 Sept 2020

Sie sind hochqualifiziert. Anwärterin auf berufliche Spitzenpositionen Ihres Fachgebietes. Aber kennen Sie alle erreichbaren Karrierewege? Fehlen Ihnen Kontakte? Erscheinen Ihnen Hemmschwellen zu hoch? Mit KURSWECHSEL ONLINE … Read more...

Short online course: Introduction to Statistics for PhDs, 17-18 Sept 2020

This short online course gives an overview over some core principles of Statistics. It is best suited for beginners and those who would like to refresh their knowledge about Statistics for their PhD. The course will take place online via BBB … Read more...

SUB: Online course on Introduction to IT

Targeted mainly at the students of Humanities and Social Sciences, “IT in a Nutshell. Online Course on Information Technology” is designed to equip students with the basic knowledge and understanding of information technology (IT) and provide an overview of … Read more...

5 day online GMP course, 28 Sept-2 Oct 2020

We are happy to announce another 5-day course on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Due to the current situation the course will take place online this time!

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

Fulbright fellowship – deadline 01 Oct 2020

The German-American Fulbright Commission provides four to six-month stays in the USA for young German scientists who are conducting a research project at a U.S. university or scientific institution within the framework of the Fulbright fellowship … Read more...

Miscellaneous

Application for start-ups | AHEAD Life Science Track 2020 | DEADLINE 01 Aug 2020

This is an announcement for the AHEAD Life Science Track starting in autumn this year at the Life Science Factory. AHEAD is an accelerator program of Fraunhofer Venture, which supports intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs in turning their technology into a company. …

Survey: Interdisciplinarity in doctoral research

The Coimbra Group is interested in finding ways to foster research collaboration and visibility, to improve the research environment in member universities and to increase the impact of research results on society. In a survey … Read more...

European Research Area (ERA) corona platform for information on related research & innovation

The European Commission has launched a website with information on the Corona pandemic. There you can find all changes to postponed deadlines as well as links to the continuously updated FAQs on the implementation and assessment of Horizon 2020 projects.

Culinary trip around the world

Your actual summer plans had to be cancelled and you still want to explore the world? You can do this by taste and take a culinary trip.The university’s corporate health management together with the international office published an international cook book ... Read more...

Dr. Dirk Kamin

Scientific Coordinator
Georg-August-University School of Science (GAUSS)
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 | level B01, Room 126 (map) | 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Phone: +49 551 39-24094 | E-mail: office@gauss.uni-goettingen.de
Web: http://www.gauss.uni-goettingen.de