Dear reader,

Welcome to the February issue of our monthly GAUSS Career Service Newsletter with information on workshops and events organized by the Career Service (and other providers on Göttingen Campus or internationally) as well as current funding calls and job opportunities. If you are keen to know what workshops we are offering this year including some new topics, check out our workshop program 2019.

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All the best,
Stefanie

Career Workshops and Events

GAUSS Career Workshop: "A Career in Academia", 19-20 March 2019

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke. Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. This workshop gives an overview on how a career in academia …

GAUSS Career Workshop: "Job Hunting and Application Skills", 8-9 April 2019

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Dr. Gaby Schilling. The target group for this workshop are postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia. The goal is to become familiar with all steps …

"Advantageous use of patent knowledge" Workshop (27 Feb 2019)

Are you a researcher or planning to start a business? This workshop will show you how you can use patent knowledge for innovative research projects or in the context of start-ups, also in connection with planning and applying for research or start-up projects. You will get an overview of the potential of dealing with patents and can use your own …

WoCaNet 2019 "Towards a Dialogue!" (18-19 March 2019)

The next Women's Careers and Networks Symposium (WoCaNet) "Towards a Dialogue!" is taking place from 18-19 March 2019 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry featuring talks by successful women and men in science from different research fields, industry and other professional backgrounds.

For further information please see below the detailed message by the organising team of the WoCaNet 2019!

Göttingen Campus "Postdoc Support and Information Fair" on 4 April 2019

Göttingen Campus is organising the 2nd "Postdoc Support and Information Fair" on 4 April 3-5pm at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. Come and go as you please during the afternoon to share a coffee and dip in and out of the different stalls. Please join us for pizza and a glass of wine at 17:00. Find out …

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

Workshop "Gaining Insight into the Participant Portal – Your Tool to EU Funding" (EU Office), 21 Feb 2019

The EU recently replaced its well-established “Participant Portal” with the “Funding & Tenders Opportunities Portal” as the entry point for participants and experts to EU-funding programmes. In this workshop, research advisors from the EU Office, Lisa Grow, Claudia Sültmann and Christian Schöpper, will demonstrate how to do the following:

KlarText Award, Klaus Tschira Stiftung (apply by 28 February 2019)

Have you written an outstanding dissertation and are you very keen to explain your research findings in a clear and comprehensible manner to a large number of people, including those not familiar with your subject? Then write an article about your work and enter it into the competition for the KlarText Award for Achievements in Public Understanding of Sciences.

Through this prize, the Klaus Tschira Stiftung recognizes young researchers who explain their research results in a comprehensible manner in a popular science article in German. The call will close on 28 February 2019.

“Deutscher Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (apply by 1 March 2019)

Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines. In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. In total €100,000 are available including …

Independent Projects for Postdocs - Call for proposals to the CRDF (University of Bremen) - 1 April 2019

The University of Bremen opened the call for a funding scheme especially interesting for young scientists who have just completed their doctorate but also for advanced postdocs candidates with the career goal professorship. For further details please see below or via this link. Applications are considered until the deadline on 1 April 2019.

Fraunhofer Attract Research Grant for 5 yrs (€ 2.5 mio) - apply by 9 April 2019

The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 9 April 2019. An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped …

DAAD JSPS short term postdoc fellowships - call closes 30 April 2019

In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified Postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. The programme is open for German Postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. Application deadline for the next funding period (start between …

Job Opportunities

GAUSS is hiring - apply for the position of the GAUSS Coordinator (Graduate School)

The GAUSS Coordinator position is vacant and we are aiming to fill this post as soon as possible.

For details please check out the information below as well as this link (only in German) and apply by 15 March 2019 and se

Evotec is currently recruiting - Bioinformatics Scientists (Göttingen)

Evotec is currently recruiting for a permanent position as Bioinformatic Scientist in Göttingen. The candidate with a background in either biology or informatics should have a keen interest in applying state of the art bioinformatics to target ID and drug discovery. Check out the job advert for this position here. Evotec is applying advanced methods in transcriptomics, proteomics, CRISPR and …

Miscellaneous

Göttingen Campus Postdoc Social !PROST-DOC! on 28 Feb 2019

The Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network is launching a new Event, the first Göttingen Campus Postdoc Social "! PROST–DOC !" When: Thursday 28 Feb 2019 at 6-10 pm Where: Inti, Burgstraße 17 (Wilhelmsplatz) Please join the Postdoc Community to raise a glass or cup of your favourite drink whether coffee or beer or something else share a bite to eat, meet …

Dr. Stefanie Klug
Coordinator Career Service and Alumni Network
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