Autor: Matthias Lexow

Bis 30. September 2019 haben herausragende Promovierende (max. im 2. Jahr der Promotion) oder besonders qualifizierte Promotionsinteressierte die Möglichkeit, sich für eine finanzielle Förderung zu bewerben. Es sollen Promotionsvorhaben gefördert werden, die einen für die Digitalisierung bedeutenden technisch, wirtschaftlich oder gesellschaftlich relevanten Fokus haben.
Ein Fellowship umfasst eine volle Stelle nach TV-L E13 für 3 Jahre zur Bearbeitung eines Promotionsprojekts an einer staatlichen bayerischen Hochschule.
Alle Informationen zur Ausschreibung und zum Bewerbungsprozess sind hier zu finden: https://zentrum-digitalisierung.bayern/fellowships2020

Until 15 August 2019 you can apply for a Oskar-Karl-Forster Grant to cover the costs of publishing your dissertation.

To apply, fill out this form (link) and send it to Referat L4 (address below).

Further infos:
— online (link) —

and offline:

Referat L4
Zulassung und Stipendien (Zimmer 00.033)
Halbmondstraße 6 – 8
91054 Erlangen
Tel. 09131 85-24087
E-Mail: support-stipendien@fau.de

It’s time for another Brown Bag Break at FAU! A great opportunity for networking beyond your current research project, to get in touch with young researchers from other disciplines and to share ideas.

This time it is once more up to the Faculty of Sciences to host the event. The key part will be a presentation by Dr. Luca Caracciolo (Chair for Geology) about his career in Science and Industry: „From Academia to Industry and back”.

When: Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 5 p.m. (17 Uhr)

Where: H2, Egerlandstraße 3, 91058 Erlangen

Register for this event by writing an email to Patrik Stoer (patrik.stoer@fau.de). You are also welcome to join without having registered in advance, but registering helps the organizers to provide brown bags with tasty snacks as well as non-alcoholic drinks and beer for every participant.

All further information can be found here.

Last week we sat together and discussed some topics that are currently being debated at our university. Among these were:

• Changes in the FAU’s General Doctoral Regulations (Rahmenpromotionsordnung)
• Possible (dis-)advantages of W1 Junior Professor positions
• The amendment of the Universities bylaws (Novellierung der Grundordnung)

We also talked about upcoming and planned social events. There will be a Get Together (Kneipenabend) on the night of the Kick-Off Event for the Academic Year 2018/19 (Auftaktveranstaltung für Promovierende) directly after the event. We will soon inform you about the time and place.

We will also consider other events in the near future like a group hike, brewery visit or guided city tour. If you have any thoughts and suggestions on this (or any other topic) we are happy to hear from you!

It’s time for another Brown Bag Break at FAU! A great opportunity for networking beyond your current research project, to get in touch with young researchers from other disciplines and to share ideas.

This time it is once more up to the Faculty of Sciences to host the event. The key part will be a presentation by DAAD Visiting Professor Francisco Zaragoza (Chair for Economy, Discrete Optimization, Mathematics) about his career in Science: „There is no Shorter Path – An Academic Career in Optimization”.

In addition, Referat F2 will quickly introduce us to FAU’S new Digital Tech Academy. All presentations will be given in English.

When: Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 5 p.m. (17 Uhr)

Where: H2, Egerlandstraße 3, 91058 Erlangen

All further information can be found here.

… and for the good discussions! It was a great evening!

We would like to invite you to a Get Together of all graduate students on Tuesday, 2nd of October, starting from 19:30 in the bar Palais Schaumburg (Kernstraße 46, 90429 Nürnberg, near S-Bahn station Rothenburgerstraße).

It’s the perfect opportunity to meet your fellow doctoral candidates from other disciplines and spend a wonderful evening. No registration needed.
If you have any questions concerning the Get Together or about your doctoral process in general, we look forward to helping you:
Mail: promovierendenkonvent@fau.de
Blog: blogs.fau.de/proko

We hope to see you there!

Thank you for coming! It was a very fun and interesting evening!

Once again we invite all doctoral candidates to spend an evening with interesting discussions and some drinks. We reserved tables in the well-known pub Star Club (Stubenlohstr. 25, 91052 Erlangen) for tonight (Wednesday, 18 April) at 20:00 h and look forward to meet you there!

This invitation goes out especially to those of you who would like to run for the ProKo in the upcoming elections. 😉