Dear reader,

welcome to the November 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

Call for course registrations – February 2023

The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in February 2023 will be open from 1 December 2022. You can register from 1-20 December online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in February; the slots will be allocated around 22 December. Read more...

GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr Debsankha Manik (MOIA GmbH): "Physics of Complex Systems to Data Science in Mobility Industry" (2 Dec 2022)

We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Senior Data Scientist Dr Debsankha Manik (MOIA GmbH.), an alumnus of the GGNB program "Physics of Biological and Complex Systems", on Friday 2 Dec 2022. Read more...

New course offer: Active Bystander Training (3 February 2023)

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to challenge someone’s behaviour - but you didn’t know how to do it or what to say? We will offer a short Active Bystander training session that aims to help our PhD Student community to challenge poor behaviours which may have become normalised over time. Read more...

Advance notification for the call for participation in the "Three-Minute Thesis competition" in March 2023

Can you present the core message of your doctoral thesis in just three minutes and with only one static slide? Can you explain your research to a group of lay people – in English? And finally, are you interested in a trip to Cologne in June 2023? Then this is something for you! We are pleased to announce that the … Read more...

[in German] Vorankündigung: 7. Runde des Mentoringprogramms „Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement (WeWiMento)“ 2023/24

Wir freuen uns auf die siebte Runde des Mentoringprogramms „Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement (WeWiMento)“ mit bis zu 12 Mentees. Das Programm richtet sich an Promovierende und PostDocs aller Fachrichtungen des Göttingen Campus. Read more...

Workshops and Events

REMINDER: Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring and Career Coaching (apply until TODAY, 30 Nov 2022)

The University of Göttingen is offering again the Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program and the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching Program for female postdocs and in case of the mentoring also for female doctoral candidates (in their final year) at Göttingen Campus, designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development. Read more...

Online-Event: "Seven Dialogues for Future Research and Science with Early Career Researchers (2 Dec 2022)

On Friday, 2 December 2022 selected young scientists from Kyoto University would like to exchange ideas with interested early career researchers from Göttingen University and some other partner universities. The Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) together with three of the … Read more...

DATAETHICS Winter School 23-27 Jan 2023 - Call for applications (deadline 4 Dec 2022)

Following the very successful DATAETHICS Pilot Summer and Winter Schools, applications to the DATAETHICS Winter School 2023 from 23 January - 27 January are now open. The Winter School will be hosted by the Leiden University Medical Center. Read more...

Open Science Meet-up (6 Dec 2022)

The next Open Science Meet-up on Tools for Open Science will take place on 6 December 2022. What’s your favourite tool when you practice research or communicate findings? How does it help you to share, collaborate and/or publish openly? Join us for a lively show & tell session! Read more...

ELSA-Pitch Bowl (15 Dec 2022)

ELSA Pitch Bowl is the public final pitch event of the ELSA (Entrepreneurial Life Science Accelerator) program, which the Life Science Factory runs together with Fraunhofer and Helmholtz Munich. Read more...

Courses offered by the Göttingen State and University Library (Dec 2022)

We are pleased to let you know that this semester the SUB Göttingen is offering the courses “Basics for Beginners: Introduction to Research”, "Introduction to Citavi", and “Introduction to Zotero” again in English. Read more...

Two workshops on Transfer and Start-up topics (14 Feb and 14 Mar 2023)

The Research and Transfer Services of the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Falling Walls Foundation are organising two workshops on Transfer and Start Up topics next spring. Both workshops are aimed for PhD students and PostDocs and will be held in English. Read more...

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

DFG Communicator Award (apply by 5 Jan 2023)

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) just opened the next call for the "Communicator Award - Science Award of the Donors' Association". The Communicator Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in science communication and comes with a prize money of 50,000€. Read more...

BUND research award (apply until 15 Jan 2023)

For the seventh time, BUND is offering a prize to be awarded for research on sustainable development. The aim is to strengthen this topic and increase public awareness of scientific achievements in this field. With this prize, BUND wants to recognize outstanding achievements and contribute overall to a stronger orientation of the scientific system towards the major challenges facing society. Read more...

Fast Forward Science Competition (deadline 7 Feb 2023)

You have a passion for research, innovative multimedia formats and communication? Then you should consider taking part at the Fast Forward Science competition! The competition, which is equipped with a total of €23.000, is a joint project of Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Stifterverband and has taken place annually since 2013. 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