F³G consortium

May 14, 15, 16 and 17, from 9.00 am to 11.00 am each day

Online via Zoom

Your coach is Dr. Karin Bodewits

Deadline for registration with your research consortium is April 10, 2024

Why does it matter?

Whether you already hold your science degree or are currently working on it, taking steps to proactively prepare your further career matters.

Contents:

You will learn about:

• Yourself: Your interests, values and skills
• Career options: There are many more options than you think and you will be able to change between them
• Should I do a postdoc or not?
• Skills development: Which (hidden) skills do you already have, which can you develop during your time in academia?

June 11 and 12 from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm each day

Online

Your coach is Dr. Isabel Werle

Deadline for registrations via the link below is May 7, 2024. If you are unsure about the identification of your research consortium, please contact your coordinator.

Why does it matter?

The ability to deal with conflict is a key factor for personal and professional success.

• You will learn how to resolve conflicts effectively and confidently.
• You will learn to distinguish between constructive and destructive conflicts
• You will learn how to prevent a disagreement from becoming a conflict and how to de-escalate conflicts.
• You will learn to understand the great potential conflicts have.

Contents

• Analyzing your own behavior and how you communicate in a conflict situation
• Recognizing and understanding conflict dynamics & the nine levels of conflict escalation
• Constructive communication: Helpful conversation techniques during conflicts
• The impact of personality on dealing with conflict
• Solution-oriented approaches in conflict
• Strategies for constructive conflict resolutions

July 5 and 12 from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm each day

Online

Your coach is Jennifer J* Moos

Deadline for registrations via the link below is June 4, 2024. If you are unsure about the identification of your research consortium, please contact your coordinator.

Why does it matter?

Creating research environments sensitive to gender and diversity is a joint objective. But what does it mean, how does it work and how might it impact our research projects and careers?

Attending this workshop will help you to prepare and

• learn about key concepts and measures of gender equality, diversity and inclusion in academia
• reflect on gender and diversity inequalities in and outside of academia
• build an awareness of the effects of unconscious biases, e.g. in recruitment procedures or funding
• explore gendered innovation projects in STEM and medicine
• develop first ideas on how to contribute to and benefit from gender and diversity initiatives on individual, team, and organizational levels

Contents:

In this workshop, we will discuss key concepts and vocabulary as well as phenomena such as the leaky

pipeline. Special emphasis will be given to raising awareness of unconscious biases: What are biases?

When do they appear? What are their effects? And why is this important in STEM and medicine? You will be encouraged to reflect on your own

attitudes and approaches to gender, diversity, and inclusion in academia and beyond, to check your own unconscious biases (because we all have them), and to develop first ideas on how to contribute to creating inclusive research environments.

September 26 and 27 from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm each day

Online via Zoom

Your coach is Matthias Merkelbach

Coach certified by the Coaching Academy Stuttgart, since 2009 coach and seminar leader for Impulsplus on topics of career planning, job

application, leadership, team building and communication, among others at FZ Jülich, RWTH Aachen, ETH Zürich, OVGU Magdeburg, KIT Karlsruhe, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Deadline for registrations via the link below is September 3, 2024. If you are unsure about the identification of your research consortium, please contact your coordinator.

Why does it matter?

As a postdoctoral researcher and a group project leader you will supervise doctoral candidates, students and technical staff. In order to master the leadership role while keeping track of your creative research projects, basic tasks and tools of management and leadership in a scientific surrounding will be of utmost importance.

The workshop will help you

• to handle responsibilities
• by reflecting on your own experience of leadership and
• to broaden your knowledge of useful management and leadership tools.

Contents:

• Leadership and management in a scientific surrounding
• Leadership tools and activities
• Organizing the supervision of doctoral candidates
• Common conflicts arising during supervision
• Communication: difficult conversations
• Conditions for a motivational environment
• Opportunities for participants to share ideas for good practice

October 8th from 9.00 am to 3.30 pm
Online via Zoom
Your trainer is Juliane Handschuh

Deadline for registrations via the link below is September 25th 2024. In case you are not sure about the identification of your research cooperation, please contact your coordinator.

Who should join and why?

Early career researchers from diverse backgrounds benefit from connecting with peers, sharing experiences, and developing strategies for success in their academic journeys. We welcome participants from all dimensions of diversity, including but not limited to: women* and gender minorities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, researchers from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds, international scholars, first-generation academics, individuals with disabilities. They will empower themselves and contribute to a more inclusive academic community.

The workshop will help to

• Define diversity and its dimensions in the research context
• Build a network of like-minded researchers
• Identify common challenges and hurdles in academia
• Develop practical strategies for navigating these hurdles in the context of your research teams
• Learn from expert insights on resilience and success in research
• Create a personalized support web for your academic journey

Key activities

• “Mapping the Academic Landscape”: Collaborative identification of challenges
• “Strategy Exchange”: Peer-to-peer sharing of success tactics
• “Creating Your Academic Support Web”: Building a strong professional network

November 13 and 14 from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm each day

Online via Zoom

Your coach is Dr. Daniel Friedrich

Deadline for registrations via the link below is October 15, 2024. If you are unsure about the identification of your research consortium, please contact your coordinator.

Why does it matter?

Doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers need to advance their research while also managing many other tasks, like teaching, supervising, or doing admin work. Project management skills and competencies in time management are indispensable for productive progress.

This workshop helps you to build the required skills

• to make optimal use of your available time
• and to make efficient progress towards your goals.

You will

• learn key project planning techniques and apply them to your research project.
• You will understand
• how to stick to your priorities in the face of conflicting demands
• how to set up routines for highly focused work
• and how to become less of a perfectionist and more pragmatic.

Selecting methods that work well for you will be a focus as well as discussing how to sustainably transfer them to your work context.

Contents:

• Project management
• Goal setting
• Milestone planning & progress monitoring
• Agile planning
• Time management
• Saying no and defending boundaries
• Routines for highly focused work
• Pragmatism & perfectionism