The events of the Graduate Center are available for students and researchers of the TU Dortmund University, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen.

If you do not use an official e-mail account of one of the three universities, please indicate in the field "Interne Bemerkung" which connection (supervisor, department, etc.) you have to one of the universities.

Events for Postdocs

Information & Networking Events

Karriereforum Wissenschaft und Forschung - Wege zu Professuren

Das nächste Karriereforum Wissenschaft und Forschung findet am 18.03.2026 an der TU Dortmund statt.

Start: 03/18/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 03/18/2026, 3:30 PM

Erfolgreiche Young Academy Anträge – Einblicke und Tipps

Wie wird aus einer guten Idee ein erfolgreicher Antrag?

Start: 03/23/2026, 10:00 AM
End: 03/23/2026, 11:00 AM

GZ|info: Science Mapping: Visualizing Publication Networks, Research Trends, and Collaboration Potential

Science mapping allows you to visually represent conceptual connections.

Start: 06/02/2026, 10:00 AM
End: 07/02/2025, 11:30 AM

Karriereforum - Research careers outside of the university

The next Karriereforum on 18.03.2024 will provide comprehensive information about the HAW/FH professorship career path.

Career in Academia and Beyond

Der mündliche Teil des Berufungsverfahrens - Das Gespräch mit der Berufungskommission. Ausblick auf Berufungsverhandlungen

Der Workshop vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für das Gespräch mit einer Berufungskommssion und Berufungsverhandlungen.

Start: 03/25/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 03/25/2026, 12:00 PM

Bewerbung auf FH-Professuren – die wichtigsten Aspekte für eine Bewerbung

Stellenausschreibungen auf Professuren an Fachhochschulen sind in den letzten Jahren facettenreicher geworden

Start: 04/22/2026, 9:30 AM
End: 04/22/2026, 11:00 AM

Praxiswerkstatt Bewerbungsunterlagen für eine Professur

Die Praxiswerkstatt soll Sie dabei unterstützen, ihre Bewerbungsunterlagen für Professuren zu entwickeln und gut zu schreiben

19.05.2026, 09.30 – 12.30 Uhr & 11.06.2026, 13:00 –16:00 Uhr

Pursuing an academic career? Strategic career planning on the path to a professorship

This workshop is aimed at postdocs who consider an academic career a serious professional option.

Start: 06/10/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 06/17/2026, 1:00 PM

What qualities do I have and how do I sell them? Transferring academic soft skills to non-academic careers

Learn how to identify your competencies and effectively communicate them in job applications and interviews.

Start: 09/25/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 09/25/2026, 1:00 PM

Leadership, Supervision and Management Competencies

Communicating, Networking, Negotiating

Networking: Why and how to develop a personal network strategy

In this workshop, participants explore the fundamental principles of networking and learn how to create and implement a personal networking strategy

Start: 06/24/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 06/24/2026, 1:00 PM

Communicating Effectively in Teams and with Other Researchers

Clear, respectful communication is essential for collaboration within teams and in interactions with other researchers

Start: 07/07/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 07/07/2026, 1:00 PM

Negotiating, leading, and professional feedback

Successful negotiation, leadership communication, and feedback conversations are essential skills in academic and professional contexts

Start: 07/14/2026, 1:00 PM
End: 07/14/2026, 5:00 PM

Acquiring Third-Party Funds

Workshop: Successful Grant Writing in the Natural and Engineering Sciences - Module 3: How to Present Yourself

An executive summary succinctly encapsulates the research, emphasizing its importance and potential impact.

Start: 03/18/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 03/18/2026, 12:30 PM

Workshop: Successful Grant Writing in the Natural and Engineering Sciences - Module 4: Project Management and Research

In this module participants will discuss why and how to construct budgets backwards instead of forwards.

Start: 03/18/2026, 1:00 PM
End: 03/18/2026, 4:30 PM

Workshop: Drittmittelanträge in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften - Modul 4: Den Antrag feinschleifen

Der Workshop bietet die Möglichkeit, eigene Antragstexte weiterzuentwickeln.

Start: 03/24/2026, 10:00 AM
End: 03/24/2026, 1:00 PM

Strategic Third Party Funding Acquisition - Module 1: Project design and funding landscape - How do I ﬁnd the suitable funding program for my proposal?

Successful third party funding acquisition is one crucial performance indicator in science

Start: 09/11/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 09/11/2026, 1:00 PM

Strategic Third Party Funding Acquisition - Module 2: Becoming visible in science - Publication strategies - what, where, how and when?

Becoming visible in the scientiﬁc community is key for ongoing success also in third party funding

Start: 09/17/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 09/17/2026, 1:00 PM

Strategic Third Party Funding Acquisition - Module 3: Self eﬃcacy - how do I gain self conﬁdence and strengthen my competencies to become a responsible leader of my own scientific project?

In this workshop, Principal Investigators (PIs) learn about competencies for a responsible leadership

Start: 09/30/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 09/30/2026, 1:00 PM

Strategic Third Party Funding Acquisition - Module 4: The logic of a grant proposal - what goes where and how?

In this workshop, you can learn methods and instruments of writing proposals

Start: 10/07/2026, 9:00 AM
End: 10/07/2026, 1:00 PM

Antragswerkstatt: Grant writing workshop

The DFG research grant is the most popular funding format for independent research. Can you also imagine submitting a grant next semester? Then register for the next proposal workhop in the winter semester 2025/26!

Transfer & Entrepreneurship

5. Markenseminar "Vorsprung durch Markenschutz"

Das Seminar informiert über die grundlegenden Eigenschaften des Markenrechts - von der Namensfindung bis zur Markenanmeldung!

Start: 05/05/2026, 2:00 PM
End: 05/05/2026, 5:30 PM

Research Data Management (RDM)

Qualitative Daten FAIR gestalten

In diesem Workshop lernen Sie, wie Sie Ihre qualitativen Forschungsdaten entlang der FAIR Prinzipien gestalten

Start: 08/05/2026, 10:00 AM
End: 08/05/2026, 12:00 PM

Einführung in Python

Diese Veranstaltung gibt eine Einführung in die Programmiersprache Python und erste Anwendungen für Ihre Forschungsdaten

Start: 09/18/2026, 10:00 AM
End: 09/18/2026, 12:00 PM

Additional offers at TU Dortmund University

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