Postdoc-Newsletter
03/2021
Dear Postdocs,
90,000 tweets about fixed-term contracts? The hashtag
#IchbinHanna has created a Twitter trend that has even made it
into the Tagesschau and the Bundestag. The trigger was an
explanatory video by the Federal Ministry of Education and
Research on fixed-term contracts in science. Researchers report
on their personal situation, show solidarity and demand
permanent positions for postdocs using #IchbinHanna. Nothing
fundamentally new, but it shows that awareness in politics and
the public is rising.
Moving chairs and making coffee? Unfamiliar activities
after 1.5 years of Corona: there are more face-to-face events
and meetings again, and the winter semester is getting busier!
Other than that, we present the most important
qualification offers, announcements and dates for the coming
weeks below.
Have fun reading and stay healthy!
Yours, Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner, Vice President for young
Researchers and Equality, and the team of Graduate Academy
7 October 2021
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Events
- Online event series on "tenure track
professorship" in Germany
For advanced doctoral candidates and postdocs, there
will be three online information evenings on "Tenure
Track" in October 2021. The events will take place
online on 11, 18 and 25 October 2021, each at
19.00h. The event language is German. You can find
more information here.
- Career Days
From 08 to 12 November, the Career Days for doctoral
researchers and postdocs will take place at the
University of Jena. There you will get an insight
into career paths in academia and learn about
strategies for finding a job in industry and
society. You can register for the short workshops
from 04 October. You can find more information here.
- Online panel on "Ich bin Hanna" debate
The hashtag #IchbinHanna
was used this summer to discuss the working
conditions of doctoral researchers and postdocs in
academia. The discussion was triggered by a video
from 2018 in which the federal ministry for
education has explained why fixed-term contracts
were necessary in academia. In response, many
researchers described their insecure personal
employment situation on Twitter. The discussion has
(fortunately) not yet died down: At an online forum
of the Joachim Herz Foundation on 1 November, for
example, the debate will continue. You can register
for it now.
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Announcements
The University of Jena is
announcing scholarships for female postdoctoral
researchers starting in 2022. These scholarships
may be granted for a duration of between 6 months and
2 years, depending on the type of scholarship. All
scholarships support female postdocs on their
scientific career path by bridging transitional
periods (for example, after the doctorate, between
projects, or due to delays caused by the CoVid19
pandemic). Female postdoctoral researchers who wish to
continue or conduct research at Friedrich Schiller
University for the first time can apply for one of
five different types of scholarships. Successful
applicants will be supported for their projects with a
monthly stipend of €2,000 and family allowances, if
applicable.
More information about the types and awarding
procedures of the announced scholarships and the
application modalities can be found here.
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Qualification
offers
- If you have recently arrived in your first postdoc
position at a German university, Graduate Academy
offers you a special group coaching and peer
support system to help you get accustomed to
both German academia in general, and to your
everyday life at Friedrich Schiller University,
specifically. You can register for this workshop
offer here.
- The workshop Third-party funding. Workshop for
Young Scientists aims at doctoral candidates
in the final phase as well as postdocs and provides
a basic overview of the research funding landscape
in Germany. Using the DFG as an example, basic
structures of a third-party funding proposal will be
discussed, and tips and tricks for a successful
proposal will be shared. The workshop language is
German. You can register for it here.
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This
may be of interest to you
- On the new online platform eDOCation,
young researchers can offer further education
seminars for companies. By doing so, they can
establish contacts with companies, check the
applicability of their own research and earn money
with their knowledge at the same time.
- In September, the conference
volume "Die Tenure-Track-Professur -
Impulsgeberin für das deutsche
Wissenschaftssystem" was published. The
book presents an initial assessment of the current
situation and provides a basis for discussion on the
further structure of the tenure-track professorship.
It summarises a conference
at which this new career path was discussed in
autumn 2020. You can download the book as a PDF here.
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Latest
news of University of Jena
- Since the summer, the University of Jena has a Green
Office. Its purpose is to further develop the
sustainability strategy of the University of Jena,
to provide innovative ideas and to network.
Initiated by the Green Office, the university
administration, for example, will use the search
engine Ecosia instead of Google in the future. If
you have ideas on how the university can become more
sustainable, you can contact the Green
Office.
- Not just Germany is saying goodbye to a
chancellor, the University of Jena has also said
goodbye to a chancellor: After 14 years as
Chancellor, Dr Klaus Bartholmé is retiring
at the end of September. As Chancellor, he managed
the finances and administration of the University of
Jena. On 21 September, the University bid him
farewell with a hybrid
ceremony. As a leaving present, he received a
SUP board, as this sport – like the job of a
chancellor – is also a balancing act (see picture
above of the University's Photo Centre).
- The university will open a new campus for life
sciences in the city centre. For this purpose,
it has obtained the rights of use of the so-called Bachstrasse
site from the state of Thuringia. The 39,000
square metre site was previously home to several
institutes of the university hospital. The
relocation of the hospital to Lobeda will free up
the entire area. The new campus will be used for
life science research, for example to develop new
drugs, biodiversity or healthy nutrition.
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena has adopted a new
guideline on how the university should
be named in scientific publications. This had become
necessary as the spelling of the university often
varies. The standardised university title is
now: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (German)
and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (English).
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