Hamburg

19th - 21st November 2025

The Young Researchers Symposium (YRS) is an international conference for early career researchers (master students, PhDs, PostDocs in their first years) in the field of animal navigation and magnetoreception. Its aim is to provide a space to network and discuss these fascinating topics in a welcoming atmosphere.

Trainer: Nadine Lux (sciencehoch3)

Location: Oldenburg

Date: 6th and 7th November 2024

The workshop is aimed at scientists who want to communicate their research topics in a structured way, both in written form such as on websites, in social media or in press releases, but also verbally on site or in digital media through moving image formats.

Trainer: Sybil Schädeli

Location: online

Date: 20th & 22nd August 2024

The workshop „Create your network and sell your skills!” includes how to strategically build your personal network and how to self-market (even when you are an introvert!). 

Trainer: Dr. Mariam Fishere

Location: Spiekeroog

Date: 24th - 26th April 2024

The overarching goal of this workshop is to offer doctoral candidates the opportunity to explore their expectations for the coming years, prepare themselves for the process of getting their PhD, and to provide them with practical tools to achieve their goals.

Johannes Vosskuhl

Location: Uni Oldenburg

Date: 23rd & 30th January 2024

The course will deepen your knowledge about research data management, including parts about basic concepts, the RDM landscape at our university, etc. in a workshop character.

Especially on day two you will learn about data publication, Open Science, data repositories in general and the institutional repository “Dare” by the UOL (https://dare.uol.de) and how we want to integrate it into the RDM-concept of our SFB.

Trainer: Rick Desaever & Gesa Gerding

Location: Hof Oberlethe, Wardenburg

Date: 20th & 21st November 2023

Studies have shown that doctoral researchers are a group of people who are especially vulnerable to psychological stress. To prepare the doctoral researchers for this difficult phase, in the workshop they will learn techniques and methods to take good care of their mental health, and how to complete their doctorate without major mental difficulties.

Trainer: Andrea Kliewer

Location: online

Date: 16th & 17th October 2023

This workshop is essential to understand the basic rules and values of the responsible conduct of research in all its stages. In this workshop, you will explore the differences and grey areas between good scientific practice, questionable research practice and scientific miscunduct. Further, you will learn how to recognize and prevent scientific miscunduct, develop appropriate solutions for difficult situations and receive advice on how to protect your scientific work.

Trainer: Philipp Jordan

Location: Uni Oldenburg

Date: 19th & 20th September 2023

This workshop will guide you from your raw data to a finalised poster telling your own story. Starting with the differences between a poster, a talk, and a paper, you will learn how a poster is structured, which stories science can tell (fairy tale, criminal writing, etc.), what the pros and cons of each story type are, which story type matches your data best. And how illustrations, colours, and arrangement help you to communicate your story.

Trainer: Annika Peter

Location: Vogelwarte Helgoland

Date: 4th August 2023

Visit of research projects on the island Helgoland to connect to researchers there and learn about their experiments and work

Trainer: Tina Patel

Location: Uni Oldenburg

Date: 6th July 2023

In this workshop, you will:

-reflect on your own cultural preferences to be able to classify external perception better and to obtain a change of perspective,

-acquire confidence in dealing with the relevant cultural differences by interpreting concrete situations and reflecting on one's own alternative courses of action,

-learn techniques in dealing with potential misunderstandings and conflicts with international people to recognize and defuse in time, and

-develop a feeling on how to implement these different cultural expectations within cooperations on a daily working basis

Trainer: Tabea Hildebrand

Location: Wattenmeerzentrum Wilhelmshaven

Date: 5th July 2023

Learn about administrative processes and tasks and strengthen your collaborations with your peers. We will further visit the museum to learn about the Waddensea and visit the birds colony at Banter See to see the projects of Nav07