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Events
- Online PhD Day
On 4 February, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
will host its popular PhD Day again – this time as
an online event. The lecture programme offers a
diverse range of topics, and there will be an online
information fair with experts of several FSU
facilities. On the evening of the PhD Day, the
doctoral council of Jena University (DR.FSU) is
organizing an online game night. Find more
information about the lectures and the fair here.
- International Conference on Microbial
Communication for Young Scientists
The doctoral candidates and postdocs of the Jena
School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) organise
once again an international conference for young
researchers on the subject of microbial
communications. This year’s “MiCom”
will take place from 29 March until 31 March as an
online conference. It comprises five core themes
that capture key aspects of microbial communication.
You can submit your talk abstract until February
22nd, 2021.
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Get
involved
- In the Three Minute Thesis® Competition,
doctoral researchers from all disciplines present
their dissertation topics in English – on one slide
only and with no more than three minutes time! The
winner takes home € 100, and the chance to travel to
the European 3MT Finals of Coimbra Group. This
year’s competition will take place on 02 March 2021
at the recording studio of the university's
multimedia centre at 15:00h. You can register here
until 9 February 2021.
- If you want to get involved in helping others
during Corona time, you can find projects
where support is needed right now with the help of
the Jena
Civic Foundation's Engagement Finder. The
Engagement Finder emerged from the Jena-vs-Virus
Camp, which took place last spring.
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Qualification
offers
There are still vacancies in the following online
workshops:
- Graduate Academy:
- Lehre Lernen:
- Service center for research and transfer (all in
German):
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This
may be of interest to you
- Finally, the "Doctorate" section of the Graduate
Academy's homepage has moved to the new layout of
the University. There you will find all the
information from the old site, but also new
information pages such as how
to start your doctorate or an overview
page about the different funding programmes of
the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
- Last November, the University of Jena organised an
online science policy conference on "Tenure Track".
The videos of this conference are now online. Anyone
who wants to find out how the German academic system
might be restructured in future can watch these
videos here.
For a general overview of the topic and the
conference, see a conference summary on Alma
Meta. The videos and the summary are in
German.
- What is the pandemic's impact on the science
system? At the moment, new statements are
coming in almost daily from science policy
organisations: First came the OECD, which noted
that a lot of funding went into Corona research,
leaving much less for other important areas of
research. Next came the German Science Council,
which sees 10
challenges for the science system and wants to
strengthen the resilience of the system in view of
the pandemic. They were joined by the German
Rectors' Conference, which sees the careers
of young researchers threatened due to the
fact that they are in qualification phases for
longer periods of time, and pleads for a fairer
performance evaluation in future recruitment
decisions.
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Latest
News from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Since January, there has been a Mental Health
First Aid Team at Friedrich Schiller
University Jena. The team offers first aid for
mental health problems and is approachable for all
members of the university. The counsellors do not
make diagnoses, but can listen and offer you
uncomplicated help. The team will then refer you to
people who can help you further. The counselling
service is strictly confidential. Please find
further information here
and on this
website soon.
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena is being
supported by the EU to create a „European Campus“.
Within the new project "European
Campus of City-Universities", the
University of Jena is linked to six other European
universities with long traditions: Coimbra
(Portugal), Iași (Romania), Pavia (Italy), Poitiers
(France), Salamanca (Spain) und Turku (Finland). The
aim of the alliance is to create an innovative space
that enables free mobility between the seven
universities and their cities.
- In the portrait series "Women
in Science", 72 female professors from
Jena present their scientific career paths in short
interviews (in German). The series was created as
part of the "Women in Science" project launched in
2011 to provide young female scientists with highly
visible and approachable role models. The portraits
show that the path to professorship can be mastered
with passion, self-confidence and determination –
but also that there is not one single path, but a
great variety of career paths and detours to
professorship.
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