Online Event

10.00 - 11.30 CEST

How to Rock Your First DFG Proposal: Grant-Writing Do’s and Don’ts For ECRs

In today's competitive research landscape, securing external funding is paramount. With numerous funding agencies offering a diverse range of grants, navigating this complex terrain can be challenging for newcomers to grant-writing. As the German Research Foundation (DFG) offers a great portfolio of different types of grants specifically geared towards Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and also provides numerous valuable resources for first-time applicants, exploring the DFG individual grants portfolio is very valuable to get started on a successful third-party funding career. 

The workshop is designed to provide ECRs with an overview of the essentials of proposal-writing as they pertain to DFG grants. Participants are presented with an overview of the DFG ECR funding portfolio and get to learn about the DFG review process for applications as well as basic eligibility requirements for various programmes. They learn about the most important aspects to consider when putting together a DFG application. Specifically, the workshop covers basic strategies of dealing with the DFG CV template, some do’s and don’ts of budgeting for DFG proposals, and how to tackle topics such as research data management, ethics, and gender and diversity in a DFG individual grant.

Speaker: 

• Dr. Bettina Heiss, Research Support, Team German Research Funding, GU Frankfurt

Online Event

12.00 - 13.45 CEST

RMU-Benefits for Early Career Researchers

Since 2015, the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Mainz and Darmstadt form the Strategic Rhine-Main Universities Alliance (RMU) to jointly enhance their performance. With around 98,000 students and over 1,500 professorships, they cooperate closely in research, studies and teaching, the promotion of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and the transfer of knowledge to business and society.

In this event, representatives from the RMU Alliance will present funding and support measures that are relevant for ECRs. These measures include the different RMU funding lines for ERCs support structures of each of the participating universities that are available to Early Career Researchers for their career development.

If you would like to learn more about the benefits of RMU regarding the qualification, funding, and networking for you as an Early Career Researcher, you are welcome to attend this session. You will also get an overview of the specific support structures and services for ECRs offered by each of the participating universities – and of course, you are invited to ask your own questions!

Participants:

• Dr. Sybille Küster, Managing Director of GRADE, GU Frankfurt
• Dr. Bettina Wagner, Managing Director of Ingenium, TU Darmstadt
• Dr. Angela Müller, Career Counsellor at Ingenium, TU Darmstadt
• Dr. Yvonne Bachmann, Career Counsellor at Ingenium, TU Darmstadt
• Julia Häuser-Huth, Officer for Early Career Researchers, JGU Mainz
• Andreas Karg, Cooperation Manager RMU Alliance, GU Frankfurt

Online Event

14.00 - 15.00 CEST

Johanna Quandt Young Academy @Goethe (JQYA): Supporting your Pathway to Professorship

The Johanna Quandt Young Academy @Goethe (JQYA) provides a platform for intellectual and interdisciplinary exchange and self-guided professional development for R3 researchers at Goethe University. Our versatile and individually tailored funding lines aim to strengthen the scientific independence of early career researchers and enhance their scientific freedom to pursue a successful academic career, e.g. through direct science funding, release from teaching obligations, or support of international exchange. Discuss with our JQYA Fellow Rikki Dean the advantages that come with joining the Academy, and learn from JQYA Managing Director Katharina Welling about eligibility, support options, and joining opportunities.  

Participants:

• Dr. Rikki Dean, JQYA Fellow and Deputy Director of the Democratic Innovations Research Unit at the Faculty of Social Sciences, GU Frankfurt
• Katharina Welling, JQYA Managing Director

Präsenzveranstaltung an der GU Frankfurt

17.00 - 20.00 CEST

Wissenschaft kommunizieren. Ein Podiumsgespräch mit Prof. Sandra Ciesek und anschließender Vernetzungsveranstaltung für fortgeschrittenen Promovierende und Postdocs

Wissenschaftliche Forschung ist komplex, nicht selten widersprüchlich und manchmal – zumindest für Außenstehende – auch nicht besonders aufregend. Wie kann man das, was man als Wissenschaftler*in tut, trotzdem einem breiten Publikum vermitteln? 

Wissenschaftskommunikation ist in den vergangenen Jahren zu einem wichtigen Thema geworden –  gerade auch für die Wissenschaftler*innen selbst. Prof. Sandra Ciesek wird in diesem Podiumsgespräch von ihren eigenen Erfahrungen als Wissenschaftskommunikatorin berichten. Wir werden mit ihr darüber sprechen, wie man es z.B. schafft, die hohe Komplexität der Forschung soweit zu reduzieren, dass sie „allgemeinverständlich“ wird – und inwiefern das überhaupt möglich ist. Wir werden thematisieren, wie man mit Widerspruch und schwierigen Gesprächssituationen umgeht und wie man am besten mit seiner Forschung mit der Welt „draußen“ in Kontakt tritt. 

Dies sind nur einige der Fragen, die wir gemeinsam mit Prof. Sandra Ciesek diskutieren möchten – Fragen aus dem Publikum sind ausdrücklich erwünscht! 

Im Anschluss an das Podiumsgespräch sind alle Teilnehmer*innen herzlich eingeladen, bei einem Buffet und Getränken miteinander ins Gespräch zu kommen. Den Abend möchten wir in einer einladenden Atmosphäre mit gezielten Vernetzungsmöglichkeiten für Wissenschaftler*innen in der (frühen) Qualifikationsphase verbinden. 

Die Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz auf dem Campus Westend der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt statt (Raum: Casino 823, EG).