Autor: Jakob Gabriel

We warmly invite you to join us next week at Kanapee (Neue Straße 50, Erlangen, see on facebook) starting at 7 PM for a doctoral candidates get-together. You will enjoy a cool drink and delicious food in the company of fellow young researchers of all disciplines. Come and spend a lovely evening with the FAU family!

A new call for applications for the young researchers‘ programme Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) has just started – the deadline is 8 March 2020. The programme offers excellent young FAU researchers support to apply to an external funding provider within the funding period (12 months), for example the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) or the European Research Council (ERC). The maximum amount of funding is 15,000 euros. Within this budget, postdoctoral researchers may apply for any measures required to prepare their application for third-party funding, such as staff costs, consumables or travel expenses. Additionally, the programme includes courses of the Graduate Centre (e.g. on applying for third-party funding), a network of young researchers and advice from an experienced mentor.

The programme targets postdoctoral researchers at the beginning of their career whose experience and research profile show potential for a career in research. “Emerging talents” can apply up to six years after completing their doctoral degree. Applicants should neither have completed their habilitation nor their intermediary evaluation for junior professorship. During the ETI funding period they must be employed at FAU. We particularly welcome applications from female researchers and “first-time applicants”. Young researchers from the Faculty of Medicine are not eligible to apply as the Faculty offers its own corresponding programmes (e.g. ELAN/IZKF-first-time applicant programme).

All information and application documents can be found on the ETI homepage. Please contact F 3 with any questions (contact: Dr. Anne Buhmann, 09131-85-26344).

Am 11. Oktober 2019 fand zum zweiten Mal ein Essen zu Ehren der Promotions-Jubiläumsjahrgänge 1969, 1994 und 2004 statt. Die große Resonanz, die die Einladung zu dieser Feier ausgelöst hat, überraschte das Veranstaltungsteam und führte dazu, dass der Veranstaltungsort mehrfach geändert werden musste. Die Heinrich-Lades Halle, in der sich am Freitagabend dann aber die rund 500 Gäste einfanden, erwies sich als ein von allen positiv bewertetes und sehr angemessenes Ambiente. Die stilvolle Atmosphäre lieferte einerseits den passenden Rahmen für die Würdigung der Jubilare und deren Promotionsleistung vor 15, 25 oder 50 Jahren. Andererseits hat es die die Gäste angeregt, von der „guten alten Zeit“ an der FAU zu erzählen und sich mit Fachkolleg*innen über ihre Lebenswege nach der an unserer Universität abgeschlossenen Promotion auszutauschen. Dazu haben auch die nach Fakultäten geordneten Tische bzw. die Sitzordnung beigetragen: Es wurden Generationen übergreifende Gemeinsamkeiten und verwandte Themen entdeckt, die intensive Gespräche gefördert und das Zugehörigkeitsgefühl zur großen FAU-Familie bestärkt haben. Unterstützt wurde diese aufgefrischte Nähe selbst für externe Gäste sicherlich durch das kurze Gespräch mit dem Präsidenten, das dieser mit viel Ausdauer im Laufe des Abends mit jedem einzelnen der Jubilare im Rahmen der Übergabe einer Ehrenurkunde geführt hat.

Und diese am Freitagabend geknüpften oder wiederbelebten Kontakte waren auch am nächsten Tag noch zu spüren. Denn am Samstagmorgen ging es festlich weiter. Im mittlerweile umdekorierten Festsaal fand sich nun jedoch ein altersgemischteres Publikum ein. An diesem Tag fand die Ehrung der aktuell Promovierten statt. Nach einem feierlichen Einzug der Jubilare, eröffnete der Präsident die Veranstaltung mit einem Blick auf die Festivitäten im letzten Jahr. Angesichts des regen Zuspruchs und der fast schon euphorischen Rückmeldungen sah er darin die Grundsteine für eine neue Universitätstradition – und von Seiten einer aktiven Teilnehmerin, die an diesem Tag gehrt wurde kann ich das nur unterstützen: Auch künftige Generationen von Promovierten sollten die Chance bekommen – und diese wahrnehmen –, dass ihre Leistung des Promovierens in einem so festlichen Rahmen gewürdigt wird und sie mit anderen Promovierten und den Jubilaren im Beisein ihrer Familien ihren Abschluss feiern können.

Ein Video und mehr Fotos sind hier auf der FAU-Homepage zu finden.

Since today, 1st of October, the recently elected Doctoral Candidates‘ Representatives are in charge. We are looking forward to improve the situation of doctoral candidates and PhD-students at the FAU during the next year!

 

A new call for applications for the young researchers‘ programme Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) has just started – the deadline is 11^th September 2019. The programme offers excellent young FAU researchers support to apply to an external funding provider within the funding period (12 months), for example the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) or the European Research Council (ERC). The maximum amount of funding is 15,000 euros. Within this budget, postdoctoral researchers may apply for any measures required to prepare their application for third-party funding, such as staff costs, consumables or travel expenses. Additionally, the programme includes courses of the Graduate Centre (e.g. on applying for third-party funding), a network of young researchers and advice from an experienced mentor.

The programme targets postdoctoral researchers at the beginning of their career whose experience and research profile show potential for a career in research. “Emerging talents” can apply up to six years after completing their doctoral degree. Applicants should neither have completed their habilitation nor their intermediary evaluation for junior professorship. During the ETI funding period they must be employed at FAU. We particularly welcome applications from female researchers and “first-time applicants”. Young researchers from the Faculty of Medicine are not eligible to apply as the Faculty offers its own corresponding programmes (e.g. ELAN/IZKF-first-time applicant programme).

All information and application documents can be found on the ETI homepage. Please contact F 3 with any questions (contact: Dr. Anne Buhmann, 09131-85-26344).

On 7th of July we invite you to cycle between various sites of our FAU to demonstrate the worrying situation of buildings at all our faculties. Our aim is to raise public awareness about the worrisome situation. If you are motivated for a long cycling tour, you can meet in Nuremberg, Campus Regensburger Straße at 3:30 pm, departure by bike at 4:15 pm. Alternatively, you can join at WiSo (Lange Gasse 20) at 4:30 pm or 6:00 pm at TechFak near Tentoria. There will be a break with drinks, snacks and live music. At 7:00 pm we will continue to PhilFak (Amphitheater), where we will find a wall for graffiti. Our last destination will be the Schloss Erlangen.

Secondly, if you want to contribute directly, there is a bank account for donations to install electrical power plugs in our central library and update our computer rooms. Bank transfers to Bayerische Landesbank München, IBAN: DE66 7005 0000 0301 2792 80, BIC: BYLADEMMXXX, reason for transfer: 0002.0175.5190.

Thank you to all doctoral candidates who participated in the elections. We are excited about the rising participation of voters. The results can be found here.

In Mai and June are the elections at our FAU. Students, employees, professors and doctoral candidates elect their representatives. Since we are your current elected doctoral candidates’ representatives, we wish to answer all your questions about how our universities‘ democracy works and how we all can participate. An overview about us is given here. For detailed information about our tasks, projects, committees, commissions, etc. contact us via mail or ask us directly at our Get-Together in the pub Pleitegeier (Hauptstraße 100, 91054 Erlangen), starting at 7 p.m. We are looking forward to discuss with you about your life at FAU in order to contribute to a supporting and pleasant environment for your reasearch.

P.S. Sorry for the mistake in our mail, the get-together is on Tuesday, 30th of April, not Wednesday!

We warmly invite you to a Get Together evening of all graduate students of the FAU on Monday, 11th of February 07:30 PM in the pub StarClub (Stubenlohstraße 25, 91052 Erlangen). It’s a good opportunity to meet fellow doctoral candidates from other disciplines and most importantly spend a wonderful evening. No registration needed.

If you have any questions concerning the Get Together or about your doctoral process in general, we are looking forward to help you. In case you have ideas or wishes for additional PhD Get Togethers we are looking forward to hear from you or just drop an e-mail directly with helena.muster@fau.de.

Doctoral Candidates at the FAU can enrol as students. This costs semester fees of 116 Euros, but we benefit from discounts in the universities canteens or the Semesterticket, for instance. More information about how to enrol, can be found here.
The re-registration starts on 1. of February, so don’t forget to transfer this sum in time, if you want to stay enrolled. Usually the enrolment for doctoral candidates is limited to 6 terms. However, if there any problems or if you reach the 6 semester limit, free to contact us – we will help you.