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2016/11/02
by Christin Schröter
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Workshop “Grant Writing for Natural and Life Scientists”, 1-2 December 2016

We are happy to invite you to the next workshop on “Grant Writing” with Dr. Christina Schütte. The aim of this course is to familiarize participants with the strategies for writing successful grant applications to various funding bodies (BMBF, DFG). The corresponding funding principles will be exemplified in exercises for preparing work plans and writing abstracts for grant applications.

Workshop dates: Thursday, 1 December (10-18h) – Friday, 2 December (9-17h)
Place: GZMB building, seminar room 0.232
Trainer: Dr. Christina Schütte
Duration: 2 days

Registration: To register, please write an email, including a short statement on your motivation to join the workshop (Why this workshop?) to ggnb-career@gwdg.de.

Contents:

  • General points to consider when writing a grant application
  • Structuring a story
  • General points on good scientific writing
  • The different parts of a grant application and their contents
  • Strategies for successful grant applications: What information is necessary, how and where should it be presented?
  • Differences between different funding bodies and funding principles (stress on DFG-, BMBF- and EU-funding)
  • Common mistakes in grant applications and how to avoid them
  • Analysis of grant abstracts provided by the participants (optional)
  • Exercises for writing a grant abstract and for structuring a work plan

Requirements for participation:

The course is aimed at postdocs and late-stage PhD students in the natural and life sciences who are currently preparing or will recently prepare a grant application.

Participants will be asked to prepare a short “mini-grant application” (4 pages + scientific CV) as pre-work for the course which has to be submitted about one week before the workshop – please take this into consideration when planning participation in this course.

These mini-grant applications will be evaluated by other participants individually before the course and in an evaluation session within the course. Each participant will also evaluate 3-4 proposals by others in the 4-5 days before course start. This will provide extensive feedback for all participants on their applications, but most importantly, will provide a clear impression of the situation and the view of potential evaluators.

After registration, you will get more detailed information about the “mini-grant application”.

2016/11/01
by Christin Schröter
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“For Women in Science” – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard stipends for female Postdocs and PhDs with kids

The Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission and L’Oréal Deutschland in cooperation with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard-Stiftung award stipends to female scientists with kids – also for Postdocs. Since being a mother in Germany often leads to the interruption or premature abandonment of promising scientific careers, the stipends offer support to dedicated female junior scientists with kids.

The program “For Women in Science” helps female scientists through individual counseling and financial support for child care services which gives them the chance to explore their full potential and have more time to focus on their scientific work.

Each year, three stipends are awarded for the duration of one year.

The financial support is limited to a maximum of 20.000€ for:

  1. monthly financial aid of up to 400€ for household help or additional child care services
  2. individual career development through coaching, mentoring and career seminars
  3. earmarked funding for the respective research institution

The deadline for the next application round is 30 November 2016.

For more information on the application procedure click here

2016/10/26
by Christin Schröter
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Recommended reading: Report on the variety of funding schemes available for postdocs in Europe

It can be a great challenge for postdocs to find the right source of funding. This article called “The many shades of European postdoc funding” covers different options to apply for grants or fellowships throughout Europe, that can easily get confusing.

A comprehensive report by Science Europe offers some advise about what to expect and look for in postdoctoral funding programs across the continent.

To download the full report click here.

2016/10/25
by Christin Schröter
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Election of 10 new members for “Die Junge Akademie”

Die Junge Akademie is looking for 10 news members from interdisciplinary fields of science throughout Germany.

Members are elected for a period of 5 years starting in 2017.

Every member receives a research budget of 30,000€ which can be spent on joint projects.

Requirements for a membership are:

  • Completion of PhD  studies with outstanding results (not longer than 7 years ago)
  • Representation of the respective field with innovation, passion and the ability for interdisciplinary discourse
  • at least 1 outstanding publication
  • available time for active participation in the next 5 years

The application deadline is 30 November 2016.

For more information on the program and the application process please check out the homepage.

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2016/10/21
by Christin Schröter
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Career Impulse Session with Tobias Lapp from the ERAS GmbH, 24 October 2016

We are happy to invite you to a Career Impulse Session titled “A scientist, from academia to industry” with Dr. Tobias Lapp  from the ERAS GmbH in Göttingen organized by PhDs and PostDocs of the MPI-ds/IMPRS-PCBS .

Date: Monday, 24 October 2016
Start: 10:00 o’clock
Location: Max-Plack-Institute for Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Straße 3, seminar room A1

Tobias Lapp is working at the ERAS GmbH, a company with about 15 staff members in Göttingen. The ERAS GmbH focuses on the analysis of vibrations in all kinds of technical applications and develops tailor made active systems in order to cancel vibrations by anti-vibrations. Tobias Lapp has been working on a number of projects with several fields of activity: planning, implementation and analysis of measurements in order to perform a system analysis, working on concepts and realization of active systems, documentation and presentations as well as project management. Illustrated by several projects Tobias Lapp will share his experiences of working as a physicist in a small innovative company and will relate it to his experiences on learning and working at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen.