Postdoc-Workshop: Career Paths for International Postdocs in German Academia – Module 1: The German Academic System

Details

Time: Fri, 21 February 2025, 09:30–12:30 h
Location: online via Zoom
Target group: International Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities (max. 12 participants)
Trainer: Dr. Linda Jauch
Registration deadline: 7 February 2025
Contact for organizational questions: graduiertenzentrum@tu-dortmund.de

Description

This workshop offers international postdocs detailed insight into the German academic system. The German system is coined, on the one hand, by an unparalleled level of freedom at professorial level, safeguarded by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. On the other hand, we have very few permanent positions for postdocs and a special act on fixed-term employment only for academia.
Module 1 will focus on the German academic system, its structure, the politics behind it and how they impact every single postdoc position.
Contents:

• How is the system organized, who finances it, who are the key players?
• “German specifics”
• General conditions

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Trainer

Dr. Linda Jauch is the head of Academic and Research Career Paths for the Executive Board of Universität Hamburg. She has worked in early career researcher development for more than 12 years and is also a member of the advisory board of the German University Association of Advanced Graduate Training (GUAT / UniWiND).

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