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Events
- Workshop on Horizon Europe
On 23 February, the Service
Centre Research and Transfer is organising a
workshop on "How to Write a Competitive Proposal for
Horizon Europe" in English. Everyone is invited who
is interested in the Horizon Europe Programme and is
currently (or prospectively) planning to submit a
proposal for it (see symbolic photo above:
istockphoto.com). You can register until 18 February
2022 (sft@uni-jena.de).
- DFG information sessions on funding
opportunties
The German Research Foundation regularly offers
nationwide information sessions on its funding
programmes: On 01 March, for example, it will inform
about the Walter Benjamin Programme, which offers
funding following for the early postdoc phase. On 15
March a session on the Emmy Noether programme which
funds leading of a junior research group. A general
presentation of the funding programmes will take
place on 05 April. These sessions are held in
German, English ones take place in May. Further
information can be found here.
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Get
involved
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena supports its postdocs
who plan to organise scientific events.
Funding for material costs of up to 1,500€ per event
is possible. The application deadline is 15 March
2022. Applications can be made via the application
portal of the University of Jena. The details
and funding conditions can be found in the call
for applications.
- Are you enthusiastic about teaching and are full
of new ideas? Currently, new and innovative
teaching concepts are being sought everywhere!
The Academy
for Teaching Development at the University of Jena,
for example, supports innovative teaching concepts
and the improvement of one's own teaching (Photo:
Jens Meyer). On a nationwide level, the "Foundation
for Innovation in University Teaching" awards
prizes to experimental teaching concepts.
Furthermore, the Central Office for Teaching
Evaluation at Jena University is conducting a
(German) survey
to investigate how teaching has changed due to
switching to online formats and which digital tools
should also be used in teaching after the pandemic.
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Announcements
- The Starting Grants of the European Research
Council have been awarded: 72 grants went to
Germany, one of them also to Jena: the newly
appointed Professor
Martin Oschatz receives the funding endowed
with 1.5 million euros. Currently, the call for the
Advanced
Grants is open which supports established
researchers seven to ten years after the doctorate
(deadline: 28 April 2022). If you also want to write
a proposal, you can receive staff or material
funding for this via the Research
and Transfer Service Centre (deadline: 15
February 2022).
- Currently, the 10th call for applications for the
mentoring programme for female postdocs of
the university association "Halle – Jena – Leipzig"
is open. The programme
aims at advanced female postdocs, habilitation
candidates, junior research group leaders and junior
professors. It offers individual mentoring by
experienced professors from the three universities
as well as top-class training courses on key
career-relevant qualifications. The University of
Jena can award eight places in the programme.
- Five postdoc positions are currently being
advertised as part of the "Balance of the
Microverse" cluster. Further information on
the positions can be found here.
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Qualification
offers (currently only German ones)
- Konferenzen erfolgreich durchführen (04.
März)
Dieses Online-Seminar befasst sich damit, wie Sie am
Veranstaltungstag alle organisatorisch beteiligten
Personen koordinieren und welche Aspekte zu
berücksichtigen sind. Zur
Anmeldung
- Workshop Design Thinking (09. März)
Design Thinking ist ein menschenzentrierter
Innovationsansatz, der die Bedürfnisse der
Nutzerinnen und Nutzer in den Mittelpunkt stellt und
innovative Lösungen für verschiedenste
Herausforderungen ermöglicht. Zur
Anmeldung
- Lehrkonzept und Lehrprobe für
Berufungsverfahren (20. April)
In Berufungsverfahren wird neben den
wissenschaftlichen Qualifikationen auch die
pädagogisch-didaktische Eignung für die Lehre
geprüft. Dabei werden von den Bewerberinnen und
Bewerbern häufig sowohl die Einreichung eines
Lehrkonzepts als auch eine Lehrprobe erwartet. Im
Workshop lernen Sie die wichtigsten Bausteine eines
Lehrkonzeptes kennen. Zur
Anmeldung
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This
may be of interest to you
- Supposedly inspired by the "I am Hanna"
discussion, the state of Berlin has modified
its Higher Education Act in September and decided
therein that postdocs should be given a
permanent employment contract after they
successfully completed an academic postdoctoral
qualification (habilitation or similar). Berlin's
universities were outraged and stopped all
new hires and follow-up contracts. The
president of Humboldt University resigned
in protest and filed a constitutional
complaint as a last official act. At the
national level, the German Rectors' Conference
has set up a working
group to discuss changes to career paths in
the postdoc phase. Nevertheless, they want to wait
for the evaluation of the Academic Employment Law
("Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz"), which is to be
published this spring.
- The German Association of Universities has examined
the effective salaries of professors in Germany.
The study took into account not only the basic
salaries regulated by collective agreements, but
also various performance-related salaries and
bonuses. The result: the differences between the
federal states and gender are widening. Female and
male W3 professors in Bavaria received an average of
9,570 euros, while in Thuringia they earned about
1,000 euros less. Women in W3 professorships
received on average 720 euros less than their male
colleagues in 2019.
- What are the long-term structural effects of
the pandemic on academia? On this topic, the
Coimbra Group published the position paper
"Universities' response to the covid-19 crisis: What
have we learned so far?" in mid-December. The
chapter on the doctoral training phase was compiled
by the Executive Director of the Graduate Academy,
Dr Gunda Huskobla, who chairs a working group on
Doctoral Studies. The paper can be found here.
The practical impact of the pandemic on individual
researchers is described in this
study.
- What does the public imagine science to be?
A little insight into these ideas is provided by
stock photos that are supposed to represent
"science". On Twitter you can find such weird images
in a thread.
Searching the major providers Shutterstock
or Istockphotos
also brings up intriguing ideas (see picture above):
"science" obviously means wearing a lab coat and
looking through a microscope or holding a pipette in
one's hand.
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Latest
news from Jena
- Every Monday, demonstrations are
currently taking place in Jena's city centre: Critics
of the Corona measures meet for unannounced
demonstrations, which they call "walks". Against
this, the newly founded alliance "Jena
Solidarisch" is demonstrating, as it sees
these "walks" as infiltrated by right-wing
extremists. To support the alliance and to speak out
against conspiracy myths, the Senate of the
University of Jena passed a resolution
on 01 February. The resolution was presented on
Monday at the demonstration of the alliance "Jena
Solidarisch".
- The University of Jena is looking into the colonial
legacy of its collections: a working
group is investigating the origin of
collection items from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Illegally acquired collection items, especially
human remains such as skulls, are to be returned to
the countries of origin. In addition, the
universities of Jena and Erfurt are jointly setting
up a "cross-university
coordination office for dealing with colonial
heritage in Thuringia".
- The city of Jena no longer wants to provide any
space for sexist advertising. This was decided
by the city council in November at the request of
the Green Party. What exactly is considered sexist
advertising will first be defined in cooperation
with academia. It is already possible to report
advertising that is perceived as sexist via the
city's complaint
reporting system.
- Jena has adopted a qualified
rent index last year. Tenants can use it
to assess whether their rent is appropriate for the
state of renovation and the residential location.
From the landlords' point of view, the rent can be
increased based on this. Some critics are worried
that this will lead to even higher rents in Jena.
Let's hope that the housing situation will not
become as dramatic as in California: There, a
billionaire wants to house up to 4,500 students in
largely windowless micro-rooms in a single
giant building.
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