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Co-operative
Consulting for postdocs - a new programme by Graduate
Academy
Resulting from our recent
second Postdoc-Survey, Graduate Academy initiates a co-operative
consulting programme for postdocs. The idea
of co-operative consulting, or intervision, is that
colleagues or members of the same professional status
group get into an active and structured exchange to
solve problems and discuss questions around a shared
topic of their professional life. The regular meeting
with the group enables you to get know-how and useful
information from status colleagues, or even pass on
your own knowledge. For more information on the idea
of co-operative consulting/intervision, click here.
Jena Graduate Academy offers all postdocs to either
take part in a series of co-operative consulting
meetings this fall, which are guided by a coach and
introduce the methods as well as the general topics
around professional roles and issues of postdoc life
(see next article, workshop is in German).
We do, on the other hand,
also support individual efforts by postdocs who would
like to go into exchange with others about specific
topics:
- We organise meeting dates and coordinate possible
group members; we function as contact person for
questions and issues around the co-op.
- Once you start a group, we will help you by
organising an impulse workshop with an experienced
professional, around the topic of your co-op group.
- After the workshop, you decide as a group to go
into regular meetings around your co-op topic, and
we will help you organise that.
- Co-op groups that work together for a longer time,
will receive qualification vouchers for further
expert workshops.
Legible to the programme
are all prostdocs at FSU or in our member graduate
programmes (academic staff members, scholarship
holders, junior research group leaders). If you are
interested in this offer or would like to be informed
about your options, don't hesitate to contact us.
Contact person:
Anne Dünger, Graduate Academy; tel.: 03641 9-30392; anne.duenger@uni-jena.de
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First
Workshop series for co-operative consulting starts
this fall
In the context of this
fall's qualification programme, Graduate Academy
offers a first workshop series around
co-operative consulting.
The workshop will consist
of six meeting dates and is called "Aufgaben
jonglieren, wachsende Veranstwortung tragen, mit
Konflikten umgehen: Kollegialer Austausch unter
Postdocs" (Juggle tasks, deal with responsibilities,
handle conflicts: co-operative exchange between
postdocs) Starting on 24 October 2019, five to ten
postdocs will meet in a small, interdisciplinary group
to address topics and issues around the academic
professional life and profit from others' experiences.
The workshop will be assisted and coached by a
professional trainer. The workshop language is German.
You can regularly inscribe for this
workshop in our Qualification
Portal, starting 1 August 2019. If you have
questions regarding this offer, don't hesitate to
contact Evelyn
Hochheim.
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Subscribe
to our new qualification programme: Inscriptions start
1 August 2019
This fall's qualification
programme is now available online
and as printed brochure (in the Graduate Academy
at Johannisstrasse 13 and around FSU institutions).
Starting from 1 August 2019, at 09:00 h, you can
inscribe yourself for workshops during the upcoming
winter semester!
The programme offers more than 50 workshops around the
topics of "Fundamental questions of Sciences and
Humanities", "Research Methods", "Presenting and
Publishing", Communication, Leadership, Management",
"Career Planning and Job Application", and
"Languages". In the printed Brochure, you will also
find an overview of all offers around teaching
qualification and of more qualification offers from
FSU institutions. All offers are open to doctoral
candidates and postdocs of all disciplines.
Registration for the qualification programme
will be possible via the FSU qualification
portal. We are looking forward to seeing you in
our workshops and wish you the best success and lots
of new insights!
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Graduate
Academy re-establishes funding programme for postdoc
initiative projects
Starting 2019, we will give our funding
programme for postdoc initiative projects a
fresh new start: Financed by university means to enable
early career independence in postdocs, we will fund
self-initiated events (symposiums, lectures, etc.) for
the year 2020, as long as they are started and
co-ordinated by at least two early career researchers
(postdocs - however, co-ops with doctoral candidates are
accepted). Also, publications may receive funding
support, if they result from an initiative project that
has already been funded by Jena Graduate Academy.
The call for applications will be
published September 2019, funding will start in 2020. In
the case of well-founded exceptions, we may be able to
fund projects for the fall of 2019. Please see Graduate
Academy's contact persons for more information and
consulting around the programme.
Contact person:
Anne Dünger, tel.: 03641 9-30392; mail: anne.duenger@uni-jena.de
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Save
the Date: Career Steps for Postdocs in Academia and
Industry in Jena on 28 October 2019
“Career Steps” is the biggest German career
event for postdocs that is organised by
Max-Planck-Society every year, at different venues
throughout the country.
We are happy to announce that on 28 October 2019, the
event will come to Jena, as a cooperation with
Friedrich Friedrich Schiller University. The schedule
includes several short workshops, for instance
“Funding your international research stay”, „Finding
job opportunities on the non-academic job market“, or
“Faculty recruitment: What do we learn from
appointment procedures for planning an academic
career?“
All postdocs of FSU are warmly welcome to join the
event. Registration starts in
September, there will be more information around the
event coming up soon.
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Free
places in this summer's qualification programme
There are still free
places available in the upcoming workshop around
founding management this September.
In the workshop, postdocs and doctoral candidates who
are interested in starting a company or their own
professional career around their research, can get
information and best practice around important aspects
of founding, such as Design Thinking, patent and
protection laws, juridical questions, as well as
financing and funding options. There will be also an
open exchange with start ups, whose founders will be
present at the workshop. Please note: this workshop's
language will be German.
If you are interested in the workshop, click the link
below to register:
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New
DFG funding programme for young postdocs - the Walter
Benjamin-Programme
Starting this July, the
German Research Foundation (DFG) is offering a new
funding programme specifically for the early career
phase right after the doctorate. Before, there had
been a gap in the DFG funding portfolio that offered
scholarships for international research stays for
young postdocs, but had nothing to offer for early
postdoc researchers within the country. The Walter
Benjamin-Programme is now closing this gap by enabling
postdocs to realise their own research inside or
outside Germany, for a maximum period of two years.
The programme supports postdocs in developing their
personal academic career by realising their own
independent research project: Throughout the first
years following the doctorate, mobility can be a very
important aspect of an academic career, thus the
programme regularly assumes that the applicants change
their research institution. The hosting research
institution may be chosen freely - either in Germany,
or abroad. Even a combination of research phases in
and outside Germany is possible.
The funding in Germany will be realised through a
regular research position, for research projects
outside Germany, successful applicants will receive a
scholarship. The funding includes a monthly lump-sum
to cover for material and travel costs.
Applications can be
submitted at any time, without deadlines. It is
possible to apply before the conclusion of your
doctorate, as soon as the dissertation has been handed
in with your relevant faculty.
Legible to apply are
German and international researchers. Note that for
international research projects there is a
restriction: Applicants must have concluded research
in Germany for at least three years prior to the
application.
For more information,
please click here.
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Further
announcements for postdoc scholarships
Until 10 August
2019: Rowena Morse Mentoring Programme for young
female Postdocs:
The Thuringian Competency Network for Equality (TKNG)
announces the interdisciplinary Rowena Morse Mentoring
Programme. The scholarship programme supports female
doctoral candidates in the final phase of their
doctorate, as well as female postdocs in their early
career phase in planning their academic career
options. For a time of 12 months, all mentees will
profit from a common network group as well as from
special workshops and individual mentoring by
experienced professors of Thuringian universities and
higher education institutions.
Application deadline is
10 August 2019.
For more information, please click here.
Until 1 October 2019: FSU scholarship
programme for female postdocs
Starting 9 August 2019, Friedrich Schiller University
will announce their call for applications
for the next round of its scholarship programme for
female postdocs at FSU. The programme aims to support
the academic profiling of female postdoctoral
researchers:
Throughout an academic career, there may occur
financial problems due to transition periods,
and female researchers are very often affected by this
instance. In order to support the academic career
advancement of excellent postdoctoral researchers in
such transition phases, the university offers
scholarships financed by the Thuringian Ministry of
Science, Industry, and Digital Society. Applicants may
receive funding for preparing or advancing a new
research project or -subject, as well as for preparing
an application for third party funding. Furthermore,
funding may be granted for re-entry into the academic
career, for bridging phases, or the conclusion of
postdoctoral academic qualification. Scholarships
include a monthly payment of EUR 2.000, with an
average running time of 6-12 months.
For more information around application details, or
for a personal consulting appointment with Graduate
Academy, please see our website.
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Open
Places in FSU qualification offers
Servicestelle
LehreLernen (University Didactics Qualifications)
Right now, Servicestelle LehreLernen accepts
applications for their certificate programmes in
university didactics qualification (in German). Please
find more information around the programmes on the
Servicestelle website: Zertifikatsprogramme.
The didactics qualification service center also offers
day workshops and short-term workshops, as well as
individual consulting.
For more information,
contact the contact person and head of Servicestelle
LehreLernen, Evelyn Hochheim; Tel.: 03641 9-31091;
Mail: evelyn.hochheim@uni-jena.de
Service Center
Research and Transfer
Until
23.August 2019, researchers interested in taking
part in one of the many academic fairs in 2020, may
register at the Service Centre Research and
Transfer. For many years, Friedrich Schiller
University has been present at fairs like Hannover
Messe, didacta, Analytica, or MEDICA to show the
latest research at our common fair stand "Research
for Future" together with universites from Saxony
and Saxony Anhalt.
Find a listing of the planned fairs here.
If
you seek further information regarding specific
fairs, conditions or organisation, please contact
Eva Bartholmé; Tel.: 03641 9-31077; Mail: messen@uni-jena.de.
Department Human
Resources at FSU
This August, the human
resources department of FSU offers an information
event on the topic „Die Balance muss stimmen –
Vereinbarkeit Beruf und Familie“ (How to keep the
balance - dealing with academic careers and family)
The event is in German and deals with German
regulations around motherhood protection and its
regulations at FSU, practical advice around applying
for parental leave and parental support, and the
consequences of the latter for the annual vacation.
Speaker
Anja Wahlmann is head of the academic staff section
at FSU human resources department. Following
the lecture, individual questions will be answered by
both the speaker and the head of FSU family office,
Anja Dragowsky. For more information please contact
the department.
Find more qualification
offers in the FSU Qualification
Portal.
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