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Events
- In 2021, the University Senate approved "Guidelines
for the doctoral phase". These guidelines are
intended to serve doctoral researchers and their
supervisors as a stimulus to make the best of the
doctoral phase. To introduce and discuss these
guidelines there will be an online panel discussion
titled "Good
Doctoral Supervision - A Question of
Perspective?" on 14 June at 17:00h. The
discussion will be simultaneously translated into
English on a second audio channel.
- The Thuringian University and State Library has a
new online event series in the summer semester – the
"Coffee
Lectures". From 12:30h to 13:00h, you
will receive information on electronic publishing,
open access, and much more.
- If you are interested to know how to offer good
digital teaching, you will get a lot of information
and suggestions at the eighth E-Learning
Day of the University of Jena. The day
will take place on June 27, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. in the Rose Rooms of the University of
Jena.
- During industrialization, owning things became
established as the most common way of dealing with
resources. But in light of current global
challenges, the question emerges whether sharing is
better than having? This question is explored in the
new event series "Diskursᶟ" by Nucleus Jena. On June
30, the kick-off
event on the topic of "Carsharing" will
take place at 4 p.m. in the large Rosensaal.
(Picture: Adobestock/naum)
- At the innovation
day "Set Up : Jena" exciting new ideas
will be presented and issues relevant for the
transfer of research will be discussed. The day
takes place on 5 July at 16:00h at Trafo Jena
(Nollendorfer Straße 30).
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Get
involved
- On May 31, the kick-off
event for developing a university
sustainability strategy took place. In order
to increase sustainability in the individual areas,
four working groups were established: Research,
Teaching, Transfer and Operations. You can now register
and get involved in these working groups. In
addition, you can still contribute ideas on the digital
idea wall. (Picture: Adobestock/howtogoto)
- On September 30, the first Science Battle
will take place at the University of Jena.
Researchers from four European universities will
compete against each other in teams. The aim is to
find the cleverest and most entertaining answers to
audience questions. The Jena team is currently still
looking
for researchers.
- The Doctoral Council would like to establish a network
for refugee doctoral candidates, postdocs and
researchers from Ukraine. Those who are interested
can send an email in English (dr.fsu@uni-jena.de) or
in Russian (olga.gildeeva@uni-jena.de).
- From June 14 to 27, the representation of doctoral
candidates, the DR.FSU, will be elected at
the university. An overview of the candidates
running for office can be found here.
You will also receive an email with further
information about the election soon.
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Qualification
offers
There are still vacancies in the following online and
on-site workshops:
- Graduate Academy:
- Lehre Lernen:
- Competence Center Digital Research (zedif)
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Announcements
- The new Siegfried
Czapski Publication Prize honours
contributions by doctoral researchers or postdocs
with an interdisciplinary focus in the university
profile lines LIGHT and LIFE and that have been
accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal
of international quality. The Prize is endowed with
2,000 EUR of prize money. Supervisors who are in one
of the Jena
Alliance Graduate Schools can nominate
publications by early-career researchers until July
15.
- With its programme „Funding
of Interdisciplinary Networking Events“,
the Jena Alliance encourages doctoral candidates to
design and organise their own academic events with a
financial support of up to EUR 1,000 per event.
Eligible to apply for the funding programme are
doctoral researchers within the Jena
Alliance and its affiliated graduate schools.
- The interdisciplinary Rowena
Morse Mentoring programme supports
female doctoral candidates (in the final phase of
their doctorate) and postdocs (in the orientation
phase) in planning their career path. During the
12-month programme, mentees network with each other,
attend workshops for further training and receive
individual advice from experienced professors at
Thuringian universities in group mentoring sessions.
Application deadline for the programme is 14 August.
- The "Diversity
meets Science" award is open to
graduates of Thuringian universities who have
submitted their master's or doctoral thesis on a
gender or diversity topic within the past two years
(since 01.08.2020). The prize is endowed with 2,000
euros. The application deadline is 21 August.
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This
may be of interest to you
- Are there more longer-term contracts in
academia in recent years? That is one of the
questions to be clarified by the evaluation of the
Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, which has now
been presented. The result: there has been
little change in fixed-term contracts and a slight
improvement in contract durations. There is some dispute
as to how this should be interpreted. On June 27,
the Federal Ministry of Education and Research will
hold a conference
to discuss the consequences with all parties
involved.
- Povilas Šimonis has won this year's Dance Your
PhD competition. The Lithuanian scientist made
a wonderfully
creative video about the electric stimulation
of yeast (Screenshot above: Science). The
competition has been held by Science magazine since
2008.
- The Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in
Görlitz has launched a "Landscape Photo Portal".
The idea is to use old private landscape photographs
to examine how our environment has changed, for
example how forests are receding or landscapes are
being cut up by roads. The museum invites you to submit
your own photos there – then they can be used
as sources for researching changes in our
environment.
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of open
access publications? This has now been
investigated by a meta-study
carried out on behalf of the German Federal Ministry
of Research and Education. The study provides an
overview of the state of research from 2010 to 2021
and is able to provide empirical evidence of the
advantages of open access. According to the study,
the often expected negative open access effects –
for example, a lower quality of publications – can
be considered refuted.
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News
from University of Jena
- The university has a new head
of administration (in German:
„Kanzler“): Thoralf Held, who holds a doctorate in
physics, will take over on September 01 and will be
responsible for the university's budget and
buildings. He is currently Head of Administration of
the Philipps University Marburg and was previously
in the same position at Ernst Abbe University in
Jena.
- There is various news from the library: In
a new
project, the ThULB Jena is researching the
origin and history of books from the Nazi era that
are included in its holdings. The aim is to return
illegally acquired books to their rightful owners.
The project was approved for two years and is funded
with 186,000 euros. Also, the ThULB now has two
so-called "Walkolutions"
– treadmills on which people can work while walking.
These treadmills were financed by the university's
health management team. However, they do not
generate electricity. If they had, the electricity
generated could have been used for other innovative
ideas, such as a book-searching
robot.
- A new digital exhibition allows insights
into the world behind research results and
publications. The online exhibition "Life:
Through the Looking Glass" features eight
stories from scientists working on the evolution of
animals (see screenshot above). Among them are two
scientists from the Institute of Zoology and
Evolutionary Research at Friedrich Schiller
University Jena.
- A new philosophical journal wants to open
the discourse within the humanities and social
sciences to non-academic ideas. The first issue of
the journal "Extra-university Action. Science and
Society in Conversation" focuses on theories outside
the university for which science seems to be
"blind." The journal is in German, but English
abstracts are included. It can be read here.
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Latest
News from Jena city
- The new 9-Euro-Ticket can be used
nationwide on regional and local urban transport in
the months of June, July and August. Enrolled
doctoral candidates do not need to buy a monthly
9-euro ticket: The
semester ticket is valid nationwide as a 9-euro
ticket. (Picture above: Adobestock &
Fotozentrum Uni Jena, Montage: GA)
- In its budget, the city of Jena has allocated a
so-called citizens' budget of 100,000 euros.
The citizens of Jena can decide how this money is to
be used. Ideas for improvements in the city area can
be submitted
until July 31. Up to 10,000 euros can be spent per
idea.
- Since end of May, 73 refugees from Ukraine
have been staying in the former
women's clinic in Bachstraße. The area had
been taken over by Jena University at the beginning
of the year and was intended to be used for
scientific purposes. Due to the war in Ukraine, a
building has now been converted into an
accommodation for refugees. Up to 150 refugees can
live there in the near future. In total, more than
1300 refugees have arrived in Jena so far.
- On the campus Ernst-Abbe-Platz four new
trees were planted. To withstand the adverse
conditions of the campus (no sun, a lot of wind, or
vandalism), so-called pioneer trees were planted
(e.g. Himalayan birch). Furthermore, the open-air
exhibition "In
action with Medecins Sans Frontières" will be
guesting on the square from June 16 to 21. It
provides a look behind the scenes of the
organization and shows, for example, how patients
are taken care of in crisis areas. The exhibition is
open daily from 10.00h to 20.00h. Admission is free.
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