BUA Postdoc Academy: Benefit from a course program specifically tailored to the needs of postdocs. The BUA Postdoc Academy offers courses in the areas of research management, career counselling, self-management, science communication snd much more. Take advantage!

Deep science future. An entry-level workshop for producing a better tomorrow with artificial intelligence: Participants will explore how AI can be used beneficially for society and individuals. The course will provide entry-level methods for evaluating machine learning use cases and guide participants through their first "no-code" implementation.

Grant application writing: Successful grant proposal writing is a fundamental basis to fund a career in research. There are plenty of national and international funding programmes with different funding schemes. Each scheme has its individual context and thematic focus, eligibility and funding rules, submission and evaluation process, and evaluation criteria. Thus, the detailed features and aspects of a successful proposal in one funding scheme are naturally differing from those of a successful proposal in another funding scheme. However, the process of how to work out these details is a common denominator to the different funding schemes. It requires skills way beyond the ability to work out a research idea in detail. The aim of this course is to familiarize participants with the strategies for designing and writing successful grant/fellowship applications to various funding bodies. It consists of lecture-style sequences with active participation by the audience dealing with extracting the nature of a successful project from official call documents, developing a new idea for a research project into a first work plan, visualising the structure of the project, matching the project to what the reviewers will expect, formulation of objectives, innovative aspects and impact, and budget calculation. Additional information about funding programmes, reviewing processes and funding of academic career will deepen the insights in research project design and writing of grant proposals.

How to get into the German (non-academic) job market! A workshop for international doctoral candidates and postdocs: For early career scholars with an international background, it can be a real challenge to get into the non-academic German job market following an academic position. The entry routes into jobs are not always transparent, candidates are often not well-informed about what to expect in the application process and not everyone can offer German language skills. Where and how you can look for a job outside classic academia depends on your qualifications and skills set, on your individual life situation as well as on knowing about possible entry paths and strategies, the (unwritten) rules of the game and other parameters. This workshop offers assistance with this – tailored specifically for the needs of international scholars – and will encourage participants not just to prepare for this transition in a focused way but to create an action plan which they can start to implement.

Make Contacts that Count: Live, Virtual and Online Networking and Personal Branding: Learn how to build a well-functioning network without stress. identify your personal networking priority. Understand how to target your personal offer for the individual needs of funding bodies, backers, potential employers or academic partners. Develop your 'thirty-minutes-per-week' future career building strategy. Have a clear check-list of networking activities. Learn the essentials of networking best practice.

Professional research design for project proposals and dissertations: Operationalization and methods of empirical social research: Scientific statements, forecasts, and recommendations must always be empirically substantiated. This can only be achieved by applying rule-based scientific methods. This approach is addressed in “Methods of Empirical Social Research.” This allows the research design to be structured, i.e., the formulation of the research question, case selection (e.g., deliberate case selection, random sampling), data collection (e.g., open observation, standardized survey), and data selection (e.g., qualitative content analysis, statistical analysis) can be coordinated. Participants will be familiar with the questions to be clarified and the necessary decisions to be made in advance of conceptualizing a research design. They will be familiar with the most important research designs (experiment, case study, longitudinal and cross-sectional studies). Participants will understand the implications of research designs on research processes and will be able to apply this knowledge to their own questions.
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Public Engagement: This event is organised in cooperation with the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik and the Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science. In this workshop, we will explore the basics of public engagement (PE) and its value for research and practice. Participants will be guided through a combination of theoretical inputs and practical exercises that will help them integrate PE into their work. The first part of the day will focus on the building blocks of PE and identifying the participants' individual purpose for working with different target groups. In the afternoon, the workshop will delve deeper into the practical aspects of designing PE interactions, including planning and tracking their impact.

Teaching Espresso - 30 minutes of tips, tricks, and exchange for effective (online) teaching: How can we as teachers better support our students in their learning process and motivate them with small, inexpensive formats? The weekly “Teaching Espresso” offers the opportunity to learn about and try out new teaching/learning methods in 30-minute sessions and to discuss them with colleagues. It demonstrates how small changes can have a big impact.

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.