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. 

GAUSS Office

GAUSS Office on holidays

Dear GAUSS doctoral students, due to the holiday season, the GAUSS Office will not be occupied from 16 to 20 August. Read more...

Call for course registrations - October 2021

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

Vaccination offer from Uni Göttingen & assessment of needs

The University is offering vaccination against the coronavirus to all students and staff. The vaccinations take place in the vaccination station in the "Mensa am Turm" (vaccine Biontech). Registration is required... Read more...

Reminder: Re-registration for winter semester 2021/2022 - deadline 31 Jul 2021

Don’t forget to re-register, if you want to continue your studies at Göttingen University, or apply for a leave of abscene. The re-registration period for the winter semester is 1 June to 31 July. Read more...

Workshops and Events

[in German] Kurse der Personalentwicklung - Resilienz und Stressbewältigung (nur für Uni-Angestellte)

Der Bereich Personalentwicklung bietet in ihrem Qualifizierungsangebot 2021 derzeit Kurse zu Resilienz und Selbstorganisation/Stressbewältigung (geplant in Präsenz) an. Die Kurse stehen nur den Beschäftigten der Universität zur Verfügung.

Neu im Programm: Resilienztraining nur für Männer

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Online course „Introduction to Zotero“ from the SUB, 10 Aug 2021

Zotero is a research software that "senses" research automatically on the internet. Whatever article, book or news you are searching for, with Zotero you will find what you are looking for. You can organize your research articles and sort them into collections, or create automatical searches to add the latest articles. References and/or bibliographies will be created automatically … Read more...

Virtual group coaching for international students: how to start your career in Germany, 20 or 24 Aug 2021

How to start your career in Germany? How to job search and apply for the right job? The Career Service of the University offers a workshop to explore your individual strength and potentials for your career and gives you orientation about the search, application and interviews in Germany. The virtual group coaching for international students includes learning about networking and … Read more...

[in German] Zwei GxP Intensivtrainings, 30 Aug oder 27 Sep 2021

Neben der bts-Göttingen bietet Euch nun auch die bts-Frankfurt in Kooperation mit der Pharmaakademie ein GxP Intensivtraining an. GxP - Was ist das und warum wollen so viele Naturwissenschaftler*innen ein Intensivtraining machen? Read more...

Online conference - 18th Horizons in Molecular Biology, 13-16 Sep 2021

The 18th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place this year from 13-16 September 2021. Due to the COVID-Pandemic and the related uncertainties regarding travels and gatherings of large crowds the organizers decided to host the event this year online.

Also this year the conference will host a career fair during which Peggy Sotiropoulou from Celyad Oncology, Elisabeth Steib from Kurzgesagt, Kiana Aran from Cardea, and many more will be giving exciting talks. Read more...

Next dates of webinars and workshops of Young Intrepreneurs in Science, Sep - Nov 2021

The goals of the Young Intrepreneurs in Science programme are to improve the chances of doctoral students and scientists in career development and to open up new career perspectives during or after the doctorate. Existing skills and potentials are to be discovered through the workshops and webinars and you will playfully find out "How much start-up is in the doctoral thesis". Read more...

TEDxUniGoettingen Conference, 20 Nov 2021

The next TEDxUniGoettingen Conference is scheduled for 20 Nov 2021, and the organizers are currently looking for speakers who would like to share their ideas. The theme of this year's conference will be 'Install Now!', whith which they want to give you the opportunity to 'install' your vision, ideas and concepts into the audience's minds. What are the exciting advances, inventions, or changes currently happening in your field? What are the updates, ideas or thoughts that should be 'installed' for the betterment of society? Read more...

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

3rd ENLIGHT Call for Mobilities and Projects in 2021

The University of Göttingen will provide further financial means, funded by DAAD and BMBF, to support joint activities within the ENLIGHT European University network. Mobility schemes and resources for research, teaching or management projects in 2021 are eligible measures for funding. Read more...

LifeScienceXplained: Sartorius Communication Award, deadline 15 Aug 2021

The life sciences are not only a particularly innovative field of research, but also a particularly complex one that requires explanation. Their findings and applications are of considerable relevance to society. This makes it all the more important that even non-experts can access these topics, find out about them and deal with them. Sartorius is therefore looking for young science explainers who, in their blog, video, slam, podcast, article or other format, make complex life science content easy to understand and motivate people without a scientific background to engage with these topics. Read more...

Miscellaneous

[in German] Online Training "Freiraum im Kopf" für Berufstätige

The University of Saarland in cooperation with the Leuphana University Lüneburg have set up the study project FREIRAUM IM KOPF! They developed scientifically supported stress reduction online trainings for empolyed people, to get "Freiraum im Kopf" after work. 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