Thursday, 6. March 2025

Design your life can support you in your vocational wayfinding. The workshop offers processes and techniques that help you to find out which career you want and how you can plan your career coherent with your life plans. 

The workshop uses the design thinking process to help you to develop a constructive and effective approach to designing your career by bringing together workview and lifeview and to align your career planning with your values and personal aims.

Target group: Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities

Monday, 10. March 2025

The workshop provides basic knowledge about appointment procedures and the requirements for applying for Junior-, Tenure Track- or lifetime professorships.

Target group: Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities

Wednesday, 12. March 2025

The most difficult long texts for a written application for a professorship are probably the cover letter and the research statement. 

In this workshop, you will get strategic input on how to develop both texts, what structure they can have and what should be included. 

Additionally, we will disucss which strategies you can pursue if only a part of the profile required in the advertisement fits to you.

Target group: Junior Faculty of the UA Ruhr universities (Habilitation Candidates, Junior Research Group Leaders, Junior Professors)

Tuesday, 18. March 2025 — Thursday, 20. March 2025

If you are interested in pursuing a doctorate after graduation or have recently started your doctoral project, the three-day Frühjahrsakademie will provide you with valuable support: experts from the graduate institutions of the UA Ruhr universities and experienced trainers will help you find your bearings and make informed decisions.

Target group: Advanced Master's students interested in a doctorate at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University and/or the University of Duisburg-Essen as well as early doctoral researchers of all subject fields of the UA Ruhr universities.

Thursday, 20. March 2025

The workshop provides basic knowledge about the different parts of a written application for a Junior-, Tenure Track- or lifetime professorship.

Target group: Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities

Wednesday, 26. March 2025

The Karriereforum demonstrates individual career planning options after the doctorate in a very concentrated and efficient way. Small discussion groups offer you the opportunity to exchange intensively with renowned experts about career relevant and higher education policy topics.

In individual or group consultations, you can get advice on your very individual career questions and strategies.

Target group: Postdoctoral researchers and advanced doctoral researchers of the UA Ruhr universities.

Wednesday, 26. March 2025

Discuss with Katja van Doren, Chief Human Resources Officer, RWE AG. Further information on program and registration will be published soon!

Target group: Doctoral researchers from all subject groups of the UA Ruhr universities

Wednesday, 26. March 2025

In the oral part of the appointment procedure, the interview with the appointment committee is the biggest challenge for most applicants. 

In the workshop you will get input on the following topics:
•    What does the appointment committee expect?
•    Which questions are typically asked?
•    How to prepare for the interview? 
•    What other challenges should be expected and how to deal with them?

Target group: Junior Faculty of the UA Ruhr universities (Habilitation Candidates, Junior Research Group Leaders, Junior Professors)

Thursday, 27. March 2025

The workshop provides basic knowledge about the two presentations in the context of oral appointment procedures.

Target group: Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities

Friday, 28. March 2025

The workshop provides basic knowledge for discussions with an appointment committee and appointment negotiations.

Target group: Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities