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Events
- This years‘ Three Minute Thesis Competition
will take place on 01 March 2022. In this
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. If
you want to participate in the competition, you can
register here
until 8 February. On 01 March, you can watch the
competition as a livestream on our
website.
- 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 for the early postdoc phase. A
general presentation of the funding programmes will
take place on 05 April. Further information can be
found here.
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Get
involved
- 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 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 University of Jena 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.
- The German Academic Exchange Service has launched
a programme for students and young researchers
who are at risk in their home country. Under
the new Hilde
Domin Programme, funding can be provided for
studying (Bachelor/Master) or doing a doctorate in
Germany. The Hilde Domin Programme is complementary
to the Philipp
Schwartz Initiative, through which endangered
postdocs can be financed. Furthermore, the
Academics.com portal uses the hashtag
#researchersatrisk to mark job offers that are
particularly suitable for at-risk researchers.
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Qualification
offers
There are still vacancies in the following online
workshops:
- Graduate Academy:
- Lehre Lernen:
- Service Center
Research and Transfer
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This
may be of interest to you
- Last year, the Senate of the University of Jena
adopted "Guidelines for the doctoral phase".
The guidelines are recommendations and describe how
a doctoral relationship at the Friedrich Schiller
University should be structured, for instance the
supervision, the qualification or the integration
into the scientific community. They are intended to
provide orientation for both doctoral candidates and
supervisors. You can find the guidelines here.
- 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".
- 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 city
- 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 will be presented
next Monday at the demonstration of the alliance
"Jena Solidarisch".
- 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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