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Events
- Spending time abroad is becoming an increasingly
important part of an academic career. But how can
you get funding to go abroad during your
postdoc phase? In an online
workshop on 03 July, the Service Centre
Research and Transfer will give you an overview of
the different types of funding available. The
workshop will be held in German. (Illustration
above: istockphoto.com)
- There has been a "Postdoc Appreciation Week"
in the USA and Great Britain for several years now.
The week is intended to draw attention to the
enormous importance of postdocs for the academic
system. For the second time, such a week is also
planned in Germany and will take place from 18 to 22
September. Currently, we are still planning the
different activities that will take place at the
University of Jena. We will inform you about the
activities as soon as possible.
- The E-learning
Day of the University of Jena will take
place on 05 June. This year, the focus will be on
how teaching in presence has changed as a result of
the many new digital opportunities. The day will be
followed by an e-learning week to try out the newly
acquired knowledge. For example, there will be
workshops on digital tools or on didactic
qualification, lectures, MMZ studio tours, live
experiments and much more. Unfortunately, all events
will be in German.
- On 20 and 21 June, the Thuringian
Research Data Management Days will take
place for the fifth time. There will be online
workshops on the general benefits of research data
management, on specialized information services, on
copyright and personal rights in research data, and
on support tools for data protection.
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Get
involved
- On 18 October, another Science Battle will
take place. Interdisciplinary teams compete to find
the cleverest and most entertaining answer to
questions from the audience. The Jena team had
won the Science Battle against three other
universities in 2022 (Photo above: FSU/Jens Meyer).
Therefore, this year the University of Jena is
competing against the winner from 2021, the
University of Pavia (ITA). The Science Battle is
organised by the EC2U
alliance and will take place in Poitiers (FR).
The team of the University of Jena is still looking
for researchers. Suggestions can be submitted until
30 June (ec2u@uni-jena.de).
- The "Network for Decent Labour in Academia"
organises a nationwide
meeting in Berlin on 16 and 17 June. In
the days leading up to it (12 to 16 June), the
network will organise a nationwide
action week. Within this context, a discussion
(in German) on the financing of Thuringian
universities will take place in Jena on 14 June
(17.00 h in seminar room 309, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3).
To date, there is no new draft for the
Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (Academic employment
law). To see the Ministry's discussion on the
maximum duration limit for postdocs, click here
(in German).
- The Photo Competition "Spotlight Diversity"
searches for your very personal view on
diversity at our university. A jury will select the
best three pictures for an award (200€; 100€; 50€).
Each photograph submitted will be showcased in an
exhibition at the beginning of the winter semester
2023/24. The closing date for submission is 31
August 2023.
- Which is the most beautiful doctor's hat
in Jena? Now you can vote for the submitted doctor's
hats in our digital photo competition "Hats off!"
All photos and descriptions as well as the link to
the voting page can be found here.
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Announcements
- 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 13 August.
- The Graduate Academy offers four
certificate programmes for which you can
apply now. The following programmes are offered: Leadership
in Academia, Leadership
in Industry and Society, Science
Management and Start-up
Management. They are made up of workshops from
the qualification programme of which six courses can
be chosen. Participants will be given preference in
enrolling in the courses. Applications are possible
until 20 June.
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Qualification
offers
There are still vacancies in the following online and
on-site workshops:
- Graduate Academy:
- Lehre Lernen (in German):
- Service Centre for
Research and Transfer (in German):
- Competence Center Digital Research (zedif):
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This
may be of interest to you
- In 2022, the number of articles published by chinese
scientists in 82 highly cited scientific
journals was higher than that of the USA for
the first time. This was the result of an analysis
of the so-called Nature
Index. Since the index was introduced in
2014, China has now overtaken the USA in most
scientific disciplines (the last exception being
life sciences). In third place for the most
citations, by the way, is
Germany, albeit by a considerable margin. Only
in publications in the two journals "Nature" and
"Science" does the USA continue to have a
significantly higher share than China. (Illustration
above: Nature, istockphoto)
- The entire editorial board of the journal
NeuroImage has
resigned. This was triggered by the fact
that the publisher Elsevier had raised the
fees for publications "unethically
high", as the board described it. The members
of the board want to start a new journal.
Yet most universities in Germany do not have access
to Elsevier's journals at all. This is due to the
fact that an alliance
of German science organisations had tried to
establish nationwide licences with Elsevier. An
agreement was reached with the other two major
publishers (Wiley and Springer Nature), but
negotiations with Elsevier ceased in 2018 in a
dispute. Elsevier then blocked the universities'
access to its journals. Since last year,
negotiations are
taking place again – but so far without any
noticeable results.
- Universities are usually located in large cities
and often have little contact with rural areas. The
new
project "Heimspiel Wissenschaft" („Home
game for science“) wants to change that: Researchers
are asked to go back to their rural hometowns and
talk about their research there: What are they
researching and what does it have to do with all our
lives? Academics who have a doctorate or are about
to finish their doctorate can take part. The project
is part of the Year of Science 2023.
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News
from University of Jena
- Prof. Walter
Rosenthal, President of University of Jena, was
elected as the new President of the German
Rectors' Conference (HRK) on 09 May. The HRK
is one of the most important organisations
representing the interests of higher education
institutions in Germany. Rosenthal will initially
only hold the new office on a part-time basis and
will continue to serve as President of the
University of Jena until his succession in Jena is
arranged.
- For 16
years now, the so-called "Thuringia
Monitor" is being conducted, a
representative survey of Thuringian citizens on
their political attitudes. A key finding this year:
Satisfaction with democracy and trust in state
institutions fell
to their lowest level in 16 years. The survey
is carried out by the Jena Institute for Political
Science. In a pilot phase, it is currently being
assessed how such a survey could also be implemented
at the federal level as a "Germany Monitor".
- Two news for healthier working at the
university of Jena: 1. In the library, you can now borrow
foldable and portable table tops which allow
you to work in a standing position, so-called
"Standys" (Photo above: Aleksandra Mincheva). The
"Standys" are an alternative to the "Walkolutions"
set up last year. 2. At Campus Ernst-Abbe-Platz, a drinking
water fountain was officially opened at the
end of May. Opposite the university shop, there is
now the possibility to fill your own drinking
bottles with water. If the fountain is popular, more
locations will be added.
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Latest
news from Jena
- From 31 May to 04 June, a mobile 360-degree
planetarium show will stop at the theatre
square. During the day, there will be insights into
the latest astronomical findings from the region
every half hour. If the weather is good, sunspots
can be observed. In the evening, various
lectures (in German) will take place. After
that, the show will tour 15 more cities. (Photo:
Christina Czybik/BMBF)
- On 1 June, the "CityLab" will open its
doors at Löbdergraben 6. The "Lab"
will offer to companies, individuals and
associations a space to test innovative business
concepts for a limited period of time. The
project is funded by the federal programme
"Sustainable Inner Cities and Centres". The opening
on 1 June will include an "open day" with
music and a children's programme.
- The
book "Der Osten: Eine westdeutsche Erfindung" (The
East: A West German Invention) has caused a stir in
the feuilletons
during the last weeks. In it, literature
professor Dirk Oschmann explains that East
Germany is a West German projection screen for
everything that they themselves do not want to be.
East Germany was also treated like a colony and had
no say in the public discourse about itself. The
book is currently number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller
list. Oschmann will be giving
a reading at the Volksbad on 26 June.
- If you already want to get a bit of summer
feeling, you now can buy tickets for the Kulturarena.
The Kulturarena Jena is a six-week
festival that takes place annually in July and
August and offers a mix of concerts, theatre, cinema
and children's events.
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