Dear reader,

welcome to the March 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

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GAUSS Office

Call for course registrations - June 2021

The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in June 2021 will be open from 1 April 2021. You can register online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in June from 1-20 April; the slots will be allocated on 25 April. Read more...

New GAUSS Student Representative

On 03 March the student representatives of the individual GAUSS programs met to appoint the new student representative of GAUSS. Read more...

Do you know your student representatives?

Do you know, that each of the >30 GAUSS PhD-programs 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… Read more...

Good Scientific Practice course, 8-9 Apr 2021

Target audience is physics PHD students, though the material is general enough to be relevant for other (exact science) disciplines also. If you want to attend, please sign-up viaStud.IP, … Read more...

Cross-faculty key competencies (Schlüsselkompetenzen) for summer semester 2021 available

The new module directory of the Cross-faculty key competencies for the summer semester 2021 is now available on the key competence pages of the University of Göttingen.

Read more...

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Workshops and Events

Online Introductory Event for International Students | Summer semester, 31 Mar-01 Apr 2021!

The International Office holds an online introductory event for international students. If you are interested, two dates are available: English 31.3.2021 German 01.04.2021 Read more...

[in German] Online series: „Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement - kurz vorgestellt“

The Göttingen Graduate Schools have created a new online information service on science management. The online series "Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement - kurz vorgestellt“ is targeting PhD … Read more...

Introduction to GRO.data, the research data repository of the Göttingen Campus, next event 13 Apr 2021

This online-tutorial introduces the usage of GRO.data alongside the basic concepts of research data management (data, metadata, data collection, data citation, persistent identifiers etc.). Read more...

Online lectures series “Current Topics in Biophysics”, start 16 Apr 2021

We would like to draw your attention to the Online lectures series “Current Topics in Biophysics” which is offered by the GGNB PhD Program “Physics of Biological and Complex Systems”. The lecture series is open to all interested Master/PhD students of the natural Sciences! Read more...

Online Seminar by Pro-Test Deutschland: Unsuck your Science, 21 Apr 2021

Online event "Unsuck your Science" - How a culture of care improves our lives as scientists, as well as those of our animals (http://unsuck.science) of the non-profit association Pro-Test Deutschland e.V. As PhD-students and postdocs, we’re the actual crew of this ship called Science. Read more...

Symposium: WoCaNet, Women’s Careers and Network Symposium, 27-28 May 2021

As of now the registration for this year’s Women’s Careers and Networks (WoCaNet) Symposium is open. The topic of the 7th edition will be "Transformation: Blaze your own Trail". Read more...

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Funding Opportunities and Prizes

[in German] „DISCOVER – leadership training through arts”, 3 x 20 Stipendien, Frist 25 Apr 2021

Der Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft bietet Stipendien für Studierende und Promovierende an, mit denen Führungskompetenzen gezielt durch Impulse aus Kunst und Kultur verstärkt werden können. Read more...

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Miscellaneous

Making Göttingen climate-neutral by 2030! Citizens' petition goettingen-climate-neutral: please sign.

Climate neutrality together – by 2030! Let us make Göttingen climate neutral until 2030 together: information about the petition and signing in times of COVID-19 can be found here: …

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Call for projects // Sustainable small-scale land use and urban gardening - student garden

In August 2020 Alumni Göttingen was provided with an allotment garden close to the Kiessee. For 2021, all students are invited to hand in projects that are going to be realized in the allotment garden. Read more...

Fun Facts: New German-COVID-Wordings

Fantastic article in the Guardian about the best and newest German words generated by COVID-19 - or do you have already Impfneid? Read more...

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 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