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Offers for all phases of the doctorate

From getting started to submitting the dissertation

Offers for a good start

Doctorate course: The doctoral course is not only aimed at doctoral students who are at the beginning of a doctorate or are looking for a topic for their dissertation or term paper. Advanced doctoral candidates can also structure their project once again and receive advice on how to write their thesis.

Introduction to Project Management for Universities and the Scientific Community: This workshop explores how to break down the enormous task of a doctoral project into manageable pieces. Through interactive activities with peers, participants will learn how to use project management strategies to achieve their goals while staying motivated and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Start your Doctorate Prepared: Mindsetsm Tools and Processes: This workshop focuses on three areas: Organizing tasks and notes efficiently, communicating productively with supervisors and the research community, and reading and writing scientific papers in a structured manner.

Starting your procect with success: Project management for doctoral researchers: Participants will explore project planning and how to break down the enormous task of a PhD project into manageable parts. In interactive activities with colleagues, they will discover how to use project management strategies to achieve goals while maintaining motivation and a healthy work-life balance.

Stress management - doctoral studies with calm, clarity and strength: In diesem Workshop lernen Teilnehmende durch ein achtsames Stressmanagement die Promotionszeit zu einer wertvollen und lebensbejahenden Phase Ihres Lebens zu machen.

The Dahlem Research School Podcast: Navigating the Doctorate: The Dahlem Research School podcast for prospective and current doctoral researchers was created to help support individuals who are considering a doctorate or who are already working on a doctorate. Across various seasons of the podcast, you’ll hear from former and current researchers talking about their experiences with the doctorate and in their transition to the job market after completing their doctorate as well as from various experts at the Freie Universität and beyond.

Freie Universität Berlin - Dahlem Research School: Dahlem Research School (DRS) is the central institution for young researchers at Freie Universität Berlin. It coordinates a broad range of doctoral programs, advises on all issues related to structured and individual doctoral studies, and offers an inspiring qualification program.

Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin - Humboldt Graduate School: The Humboldt Graduate School is the central institution for the strategic promotion of scientists and scholars in the early career phase at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Technische Universität Berlin - Center for Junior Scholars: The Center for Junior Scholars acts as a kind of pilot for all questions concerning young scientists from the doctoral and postdoc phases to junior professorships or junior research group leadership.

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - Doctoral College: The Doctoral College of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin offers students and doctoral candidates of Charité an extensive and free range of student tutorials on basic skills of scientific work.

Berlin University Alliance - Graduate Studies Support Program: The Alliance of Excellence offers a comprehensive qualification program reflecting the different phases of a doctorate. The offerings are free of charge and open to all BUA doctoral students.

Offers for the middle phase of the doctorate

Crisis management - resilience and inner stability during the doctorate: The Corona crisis required various changes and adjustments to the doctoral work. In order to optimize the change processes, the Humboldt Graduate School offers a workshop on resilience and crisis management followed by group coaching, where the workshop topics can be deepened with the trainer.

How to give a talk: In this interactive workshop, participants practice presenting in a small group. In addition, this course offers the opportunity for interactive reflection and peer exchange. The language of instruction and presentation is English.

Introduction and conclusion in academic texts: In this workshop, participants will learn the basic functions of introduction and conclusion in academic writing. They will also develop criteria for a good introduction and conclusion and try them out in a creative writing exercise.

Managing the doctoral project: Participants learn the basics of project management with a focus on planning a doctorate. The techniques covered will be practiced on the participants' individual PhD cases. As a result, participants create a plan for their (remaining) doctoral time and learn how to use it. Instead of presenting golden rules, the advantages and disadvantages of different project management techniques are explained.

Self-Marketing (online): This course is designed to teach the basics of self-marketing and allow participants to develop their own strategies and priorities.

Statistics with SPSS: Sooner or later, (almost) every doctoral thesis involves statistics. In the course, participants review the most important statistical basics as well as the execution and interpretation of the most important statistical tests in SPSS.

Women among themselves: Self-confident and visible as a doctoral student: In this interactive two-part online training, female doctoral students strengthen their self-confidence and visibility. To achieve sustainable results and changes, they work on three levels in the training: the mental, the emotional and the action level. The goal is also to proactively strengthen the relationship with the doctoral supervisor. Participants learn to take themselves seriously and to actively shape the time of their doctorate.

Freie Universität Berlin - Dahlem Research School: Dahlem Research School (DRS) is the central institution for young researchers at Freie Universität Berlin. It coordinates a broad range of doctoral programs, advises on all issues related to structured and individual doctoral studies, and offers an inspiring qualification program.

Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin - Humboldt Graduate School: The Humboldt Graduate School is the central institution for the strategic promotion of scientists and scholars in the early career phase at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Technische Universität Berlin - Center for Junior Scholars: The Center for Junior Scholars acts as a kind of pilot for all questions concerning young scientists from the doctoral and postdoc phases to junior professorships or junior research group leadership.

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - Doctoral College: The Doctoral College of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin offers students and doctoral candidates of Charité an extensive and free range of student tutorials on basic skills of scientific work.

Berlin University Alliance - Graduate Studies Support Program: The Alliance of Excellence offers a comprehensive qualification program reflecting the different phases of a doctorate. The offerings are free of charge and open to all BUA doctoral students.

Offers for the final phase of the doctorate and for transition to postdoc

Efficient and (plagiarism-)safe handling of academic literature: Good scientific practice does not start with checking a manuscript for problematic passages, but already with reading and editing other people's texts. In this workshop, you can therefore check your handling of technical literature from the very beginning and expand your strategies for efficiently reading and editing research texts and using them (plagiarism-) safely for your own texts.

Guide to industry and business - two important steps towards a mature application: Anyone embarking on a new career path needs guidance in order to achieve their own goals in a way that conserves resources. In this training course, participants receive relevant information for their next application and individual tips for personal implementation.

How to write a paper: In this tutorial, participants will learn how best to write a paper, what things are important to keep in mind, and how to stay as motivated as possible.

Optimize your writing productivity: The course teaches techniques that make it possible to write efficiently and with ease. Participants learn to dissolve writing blocks. They develop individual action plans to sustainably improve self-management and writing productivity.