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Strategic Career Planning in Academia
Target Group:
Doctoral Researchers & Postdocs
On the path to a professorship—or another permanent position in academia—researchers face important decisions: How can you successfully shape your personal qualification pathway?
Planning the next steps can be challenging, particularly when aiming to increase your chances for a permanent position. Key factors such as securing funding for your position and/or research, choosing the right location or research group, and building sustainable networks are crucial and should be considered early on.
Workshop Contents:
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Employment and funding options
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Clarifying personal framework conditions
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Criteria for a professorship or permanent academic position
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Professorship as a profession: advantages and disadvantages
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Risks and challenges during the qualification phase
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Strategic considerations and planning, including self-assessment
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Outlook: applying for professorships and other permanent academic positions
Discover Your Strengths and Potential
Target Group:
Doctoral Researchers & Postdocs
Your personality, including your strengths, values, and experiences, is a crucial factor for career success—especially in academia.
This workshop provides space to reflect on your professional skills, methodological abilities, and transferable competencies. Through a structured potential analysis, new perspectives emerge—both for an academic career and for alternative career paths.
The goal is to make individual resources visible and to derive concrete next steps for professional development—practical, strength-oriented, and future-focused.
Workshop Contents:
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Reflecting on your career goals and existing skills
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Analyzing current abilities and identifying skill gaps
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Using personal strengths and values as a foundation for your career
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Recognizing individual development opportunities and potential
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Developing strategies for skill enhancement and concrete action steps
Developing a Successful Grant Strategy
Target Group:
Postdocs
During the postdoctoral phase, it is crucial to strategically align your research career in order to succeed in the highly competitive academic system.
In addition to completing a habilitation or an equivalent qualification and producing excellent publications, securing research funding is a key criterion for eligibility for professorships or other permanent academic positions. Funding also enables independent and continuous development of your own research projects.
This workshop supports participants in assessing their current career stage and provides guidance through the “funding jungle.” The goal is to identify and strategically utilize suitable funding opportunities—tailored to individual goals and long-term career planning.
Workshop Contents:
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Overview of national and European funding landscape
– Key funding agencies and relevant programs -
Requirements for successful grant applications within existing funding programs
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Assessment of your current funding eligibility and strategic alignment
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Development of an individual track record through targeted grant acquisition
– Matching funding formats to current and future research projects
Writing a Successful Research Grant Application
Target Group:
Postdocs
Research at universities in Germany has been largely funded through third-party grants for decades. Accordingly, successfully securing your own funding is a key criterion when applying for professorships or other permanent academic positions.
This workshop provides in-depth knowledge for developing a successful research grant application with a funding agency of your choice. Participants will learn how to strategically advance their research ideas and actively pursue funding opportunities.
The focus will also be on presenting your research competencies effectively to meet the positive evaluation criteria of funding organizations and to secure long-term research independence.
Workshop Contents:
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Structure and format of a successful research grant application
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Detailed explanation of each section of the application and its specific requirements
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Emphasis on the most critical aspects within each section
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Practical tips and tricks for the application process, including dos and don’ts
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Insights into the work of DFG review panels and their evaluation criteria