After successfully completing your doctorate, it is now time to set the course for your future career – as a researcher or even outside academia. Expand your (academic) profile with our workshops as well as career and networking events.
Work out strategies for dealing with the challenges of your further research activities with the support of professional trainers.
The current workshop dates for the summer semester 2025 are online. Register now!
connecting.ruhr connects postdocs from the UA Ruhr with business representatives from the region. Together, the Research Academy Ruhr and the Junge Initiativkreis Ruhr invite postdocs to discuss their career prospects in the industry. In addition to keynote speeches on the career requirements and skills of postdocs and a panel discussion on switching to the industry, the interactive format also offers the opportunity for networking and 1:1 discussions with the participating companies.
The next event will take place in fall 2025. Further information will follow in due time.
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.
Next date: 26 March 2025
Where do we go from here after the doctorate? Ask your questions about your career and discuss with representatives from the private sector, industry, public service, foundations, and non-profit organizations in a casual atmosphere during this annual exchange.
Next date: 03 November 2025
We are bringing together early career researchers from all research fields and different career levels. No matter if local, international, guest, or fellow – join this special event!
Discuss the importance of international research experience, meet peers, and broaden your network.
Next date: 30 June 2025
Benefit from the close exchange with experienced professors, from a customized seminar program and from networking with other female postdoctoral researchers during this two-year program. You will broaden your understanding of the academic world and your ability to act accordingly. A tailored and subject-specific program for female postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering starts every two years.
start of the next program line for female postdoctoral researchers: october 2025 (application period: 16 July - 29 August)
Inspired by the celebration of the Postdoc Appreciation Week in the USA and the UK, the PAW Germany coordination team once again invited researchers and research institutions, postdoc coordinators and research administrators all over Germany to join them in creating a special program and events to honor the incredible work of postdocs! You can find the complete nation wide program here.
As part of the Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany 2024, we are offering additional workshops, some of which are also open to postdocs outside the UA Ruhr. You can find the events offered under the umbrella of the Research Academy Ruhr on the websites of the local graduate institutions and can register there:
The individual graduate institutions of the three UA Ruhr universities offer a versatile workshop and event program for their early career researchers on-site beyond the joint offers on RAR level.
They are also your central point of contact for advice on individual career planning and advancement:
Research Academy Ruhr (RAR) is the cross-university platform of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the University of Duisburg-Essen for promoting early career researchers in the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr).
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