Dear reader,

Welcome to the March 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.

If you are interested in individual career counselling & advice or CV & application checks, please learn more about this service we are offering here.

If you are interested in an overview of funding opportunities for postdocs and junior group leaders, please check out the section research funding on our webpage, where we listed short profiles of different funding schemes with information on eligibility criteria, deadlines, duration and type of funding.

Please feel free to forward this email to your peers who might be interested in the information provided but are not yet on our mailing list (register here). If you do not want to receive the newsletter anymore, please let me know and I will remove you from the mailing list.

All the best,
Stefanie

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Career Workshops and Events

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 …

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GAUSS Career Impulse Session "What to expect from a job in a pharma research organization and how to get one" with Dr. Manuel Landesfeind (Evotec) on 26 April 2019

The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next Career Impulse Session titled “What to expect from a job in a pharmaceutical research organization and how to get one” with Dr. Manuel Landesfeind from Evotec. Manuel studied Computer Science in Göttingen having Biology as “area of application” and did a PhD in Bioinformatics at the Department of Bioinformatics (Prof. …

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GAUSS Career Workshop: "Conflict Management", 29 May 2019

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke. The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, professional and personal development. Dates: Wednesday, 29 May 2019 …

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Jobvector Career Day for natural scientists, physicians, IT specialists & engineers in Frankfurt (27 March 2019)

The jobvector career day is Europe´s biggest career fair for Natural Scientists, Physicians, Engineers and Computer Scientists where you can receive valuable information for a successful career! Be inspired by talks of top companies and recruiters. Seize your chance and personally contact them at the fair!

The next jobvector career day will take place in Frankfurt on 27 March 2019. See below for future events in different cities across Germany.

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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 …

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Brown Bag Lunch Series: "Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network" (10 April 2019)

The next Brown Bag Lunch Talk organised by the Göttingen Campus is coming up on 10 April 2019, 12-13h. The topic will be the "Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network" presented by Camille Couralet and Melissa Sollich. The Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network is run by and for postdoctoral researchers of the Göttingen Campus. The Postdoc Network facilitates communication and information exchange among …

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Funding Opportunities and Prizes

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.

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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 …

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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 …

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Deutsche Krebshilfe Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program for max. 2 yrs (Deadline: 22 May 2019)

The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.

This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.

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Deutsche Krebshilfe Max-Eder Junior Group for 4 yrs (Deadline: 22 May 2019)

The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 December 2018. Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, this funding scheme is supporting them over …

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Dr. Stefanie Klug
Coordinator Career Service and Alumni Network
Georg-August-University School of Science (GAUSS)
Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 room 0.227 (
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Phone: +49 551 39-26684   |   E-mail:
career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de
Web: www.gauss.uni-goettingen.de/career   |   Blog: GAUSS Career Blog