Dear reader,

welcome to the August 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

Call for course registrations - August 2021

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

GAUSS emergency support - new scholarship

In February 2021 our (former*) GAUSS student representatives Christian Roth & Hanna Knirsch invited you to take part in a short GAUSS COVID-19 funding survey. The survey was aimed at getting an insight about the funding issues of the GAUSS doctoral students which may become particularly challenging in times of the pandemic. The result of …

Election of the doctoral student council 2021 (Promovierendenvertretung (PromV))

Elections for the doctoral student council (Promovierendenvertretung (PromV)) for the next one-year term of office (starting 01.10.2021) will take place soon. The doctoral student council consists of 13 members, with one member to be elected per faculty. Read more...

Online consulting service in statistical questions

The Centre for Statistics continues to offer statistical advice online via BBB with Dr. Jennifer Lorenz. The service exists since 2017 and is open for all PhD students of the four Göttingen graduate schools. Read more...

Workshops and Events

Consultation hour for scientific work

Are you looking for advice on search techniques? Let us help you trace useful literature, beat writer’s block, and cite sources correctly with referencing tools such as Citavi, Zotero, Endnote and BibTex. We also support your formatting needs in MS Word and MS Excel, and offer help on statistical data, and … Read more...

University’s start-up support: program for this summer semester

You have a unique idea? You think other people might be interested in your idea? You are not sure if you like to stay in academia, but working for a company does not sound so great to you? Well, you definitely should think about founding your own business. The university’s start-up support can assist you in many ways. Read more...

Lecture series "Changing Academic Careers” in June 2021

The DZHW (Deutsche Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung) is presenting an online lecture series in June by experts in the field of academic careers. Read more...

[in German] online series „Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement - kurz vorgestellt“, next 09 June 2021

The mentoring program "WeWiMento - Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement" and the introductory workshop „Wissenschaftsmanagement - ist das was für mich?" still pause due to the pandemic, because both formates require personal contact and live from inter-communication. Therefore, the Göttingen Graduate Schools have created a new online information service on science management. Read more...

[in German] bts-Veranstaltung: Fort und Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten für Life Sciences Absolvent*innen, 14 Jun 2021

"Dein Weg zum Traumberuf – Fort und Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten für Life Sciences Absolvent*innen" Du stehst kurz vor Deinem Abschluss und fragst Dich welche Berufsperspektiven es für Naturwissenschaftler*innen gibt? Du möchtest für die spätere Jobsuche Deine Softskills verbessern und karrierefördernde Schlüsselqualifikationen erwerben? Read more...

19th Open Science Göttingen Meet-up, 21 Jun 2021

Open Science & Services in a Nutshell @ Göttingen Campus Making Open Science work has many facets - some will be pretty straightforward while others may be less easy to implement and lead to questions (e.g. how to cover publication costs, how do I meet the Open Access requirements of my grant, how to publish a dissertation). Read more...

IVAC Festival, 23 Aug - 03 Sept 2021

The project "Change of Perspective - Globale Leraning: Intercultural Experiences and Interdisciplinary Diversity" of the University of Göttingen is going to host the international IVAC Festival (International Virtual Academic Collaboration) for students and teaching staff from Göttingen and its international partner universities. Read more...

Funding & Prizes

Application for funding in the second Enlight call, deadline 18 July 2021

Scientists, doctoral students and staff members of the University of Göttingen (including University Medical Center Göttingen) can apply for funding within the second Göttingen Enlight call. Read more...

Miscellaneous

Further qualification measures at the Göttingen campus

In addition to the Graduate Schools other departments of the Göttingen campus are offering special qualifacation courses as well, which are open to PhD students. Read more...

Article on power abuse in science

New article on the topic power abuse in science of the N2 Network of Doctoral Researcher Networks. Read more...

[in German] „Die Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart – Post/Kolonialismus in der Lehre“ - Diversität in Theorie und Praxis, 11 Jun 2021

In der Veranstaltungsreihe „Alle Gleich Anders!? – Diversität in Theorie und Praxis“ steht in diesem Jahr der Umgang mit der (deutschen) Kolonialgeschichte in der Lehre im Mittelpunkt.