Artificial Intelligence Tools: Responsible Use and Applications in Research and Academia

This workshop provides a hands-on learning experience with a focus on a wider variety of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools, their ethical implications and their practical applications. The aim is to facilitate the responsible and efficient use of AI tools in research and academia.

Trainer: Dr. Andrea Sanchini

Time: 25th April 2025 , 9:00-16:00

Location: online

LaTeX is a writing program that helps you to get a professional layout of your scientific texts. Among others, it allows you to write and reference functions easily, place pictures exactly where you want them and cite literature correctly. 

Trainer: Julia (student council Physics)

Date: 5th June 2025

Location: W03 1-152 & online

Scientific Writing: Towards Organization and Motivation

With discipline and commitment, scientific writing is a skill that can be learned and mastered.

In this workshop, we will develop a set of "how-to" strategies for writing journal articles and theses and increase your writing productivity.

Trainer: Dr. Andrea Sanchini

Date: 27th & 28th May 2025, 9:00 - 17:00

Location: online

Hamburg

19th - 21st November 2025

The Young Researchers Symposium (YRS) is an international conference for early career researchers (Master's students, PhD students, 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.

Doctoral researchers in Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven can also take part in workshops offered by OLTECH Graduate School - Science, Medicine and Technology

The focus of the Graduate Academy's program is to offer need-based courses and workshops for all early career researchers of the university. In particular, the program encompasses transferable skills courses in the following four core areas:

Professional and Career Development

Management and Leadership

Communication and Presentation

English Language Courses

These workshops are also free to join for doctoral researchers of Uni Oldenburg

Trainer: Ulrike Völger

Location: Oldenburg

Date: 26th February 2025

Methodologically, the training consists mainly of practical exercises and personal, individual feedback for all participants, both from the group and from the trainer in a protected, empowering atmosphere. A smaller part of the seminar is dedicated to theoretical background information.

Participants receive a handout with important exercises and tips.

The aims of my seminars are

Better awareness of one's own voice and articulation.

Discovery and development of existing and often underutilised vocal potential.

Improvement of body awareness, posture and therefore also your charisma and overall appearance.

Greater awareness of one's own facial expressions, gestures and expansion of the personal spectrum.

Congruence of professional competence, personality and appearance of the participants in everyday life and in public (authenticity) through greater presence in body and voice.

Reflection on gender-specific ‘appearance behaviour’ and how to deal with female behaviour patterns in communication and presentation.

To achieve these goals, long-term work is of course required in some cases. The seminar is therefore primarily concerned with the individual clarification of the following questions:

Does the sound of your voice and the way you articulate yourself correspond to your personality?

How can you reduce the discrepancy between how others and self-perception and thus strengthen your ‘self-awareness’?

Are you able to make your expertise visible?

Do you have an awareness of your body? Does your non-verbal communication match your statements and comments?

How do you generate attention and persuasiveness?

How can you recognise dormant potential, train it and use it for your presentations? use for your presentations?

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