F³G consortium

January 28th., 29th., 30th and 31st 2025 (Tuesday to Friday) from 9.00 hrs to 12.15 hrs respectively
Online via Zoom
Your trainer is Deborah Bennett

Deadline for registrations via the link below is December 19th 2024. For registration, we need the identification of your research cooperation, normally a combination of letters and numbers. If you are not sure, please contact the coordinator of your research cooperation.

Why does it matter?

Clear and compelling research articles are essential for a career in science.

Contents

Successful science writing tells a story! You will learn about:

• basic elements of story structure and how to use them to construct the different article sections
• section structure: presenting issues, arguments and conclusions in a
  coherent way.
• Writing sentences with precision and clarity.

The insights and strategies you will gain from this workshop will provide you with the practical tools you need to develop and improve your scientific writing in the future.

February 21st 2025 (Friday) from 9.00 hrs to 17.00 hrs
In person, Erlangen
Your trainer is Francesca Carlin

Deadline for registrations via the link below is January 30th 2025. For registration, we need the identification of your research cooperation, normally a combination of letters and numbers. If you are not sure, please contact the coordinator of your research cooperation.

Why does it matter?

Resilience has been proven to help people not only succeed but also to thrive when facing obstacles and stress. Managing change, pressure and perceived failure is a challenge and can often leave us feeling low on emotional and mental resources, but thankfully resilience and grit are a set of skills and tools that can be learned and trained.

Contents and impact

This workshop focuses on identifying and building the elements that make us mentally and emotionally resistant to stress and pressure. Participants will learn skills for emotional regulation, sharpen their emotional awareness, gain techniques to reduce anxiety and stress, and understand how to use reframing strategies to turn threats into manageable challenges.

After the workshop, participants will…

• Understand the elements that make resilience.
• Be able to implement tools from cognitive behavioral coaching and positive psychology to manage stressful situations.
• Have techniques to regulate their emotions.
• Be able to utilize re-framing strategies in order to gain a new perspective and understanding of situations.
• Have tools to help them deal with perceived failure.

July 5th and 12th from 9.00 am to 12.00 am respectively
Online
Your trainer is Jennifer J* Moos

Deadline for registrations via the link below is June 4th 2024. In case you are not sure about the identification of your research cooperation, please contact your coordinator.

Why does it matter?

Creating gender- and diversity-sensitive research environments is a joint objective. But what does it mean, how does it work and how might it impact our research projects and careers?

You better get prepared and

• learn about key concepts and measures of gender equality, diversity and inclusion in academia
• reflect on gender and diversity inequalities in and outside of academia
• build an awareness of the effects of unconscious biases, e.g. in recruitment procedures, funding
• explore gendered innovations projects in STEM and medicine
• develop first ideas on how to contribute to and benefit from gender and diversity initiatives on individual, team, and organizational levels

Contents

In this workshop, we will discuss key concepts and vocabulary as well as phenomena such as the leaky
pipeline. Special emphasis will be given to raising awareness for unconscious biases: What are biases?
When do they appear? What are their effects? And why is this important in STEM and medicine? You will be encouraged to reflect your own
attitudes and approaches to gender, diversity, and inclusion in academia and beyond, to check your own unconscious biases (because we all have them), and to develop first ideas on how to contribute to creating inclusive research environments.

September 26th and 27th from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm respectively
Online via Zoom
Your trainer is Matthias Merkelbach

Coach certified by the Coaching Academy Stuttgart, since 2009 trainer and seminar leader for Impulsplus on topics of career planning, job
application, leadership, team building and communication, among others at FZ Jülich, RWTH Aachen, ETH Zürich, OVGU Magdeburg, KIT Karlsruhe, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Deadline for registrations via the link below is September 3rd 2024. In case you are not sure about the identification of your research cooperation, please contact your coordinator.

Why does it matter?

As a postdoc and a group project leader you will supervise PhD students, students and technical staff group. In order to master the leadership role while keeping track of your creative research projects, basic tasks and tools of management and leadership in a scientific surrounding will be of utmost importance.

The workshop will help you

• to handle responsibilities
• by reflecting on your own experience of leadership and
• to broaden your knowledge of useful management and leadership tools.

Contents

• Leadership and management in a scientific surrounding
• Leadership tools and activities
• Organizing the supervision of PhD candidates
• Common conflicts arising during supervision
• Communication: difficult conversations
• Conditions for a motivational environment
• Exchange of good practice among the participants

October 8th from 9.00 am to 3.30 pm
Online via Zoom
Your trainer is Juliane Handschuh

Deadline for registrations via the link below is September 25th 2024. In case you are not sure about the identification of your research cooperation, please contact your coordinator.

Who should join and why?

Early career researchers from diverse backgrounds benefit from connecting with peers, sharing experiences, and developing strategies for success in their academic journeys. We welcome participants from all dimensions of diversity, including but not limited to: women* and gender minorities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, researchers from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds, international scholars, first-generation academics, individuals with disabilities. They will empower themselves and contribute to a more inclusive academic community.

The workshop will help to

• Define diversity and its dimensions in the research context
• Build a network of like-minded researchers
• Identify common challenges and hurdles in academia
• Develop practical strategies for navigating these hurdles in the context of your research teams
• Learn from expert insights on resilience and success in research
• Create a personalized support web for your academic journey

Key activities

• “Mapping the Academic Landscape”: Collaborative identification of challenges
• “Strategy Exchange”: Peer-to-peer sharing of success tactics
• “Creating Your Academic Support Web”: Building a strong professional network

November 13th and 14th from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm respectively
Online via Zoom
Your trainer is Dr. Daniel Friedrich

Deadline for registrations via the link below is October 15th 2024. In case you are not sure about the identification of your research cooperation, please contact your coordinator.

Why does it matter?

Ph.D. students and Postdocs need to advance their research while also managing many other tasks, like teaching, supervising, or doing admin work. Project management skills and competencies in time management are indispensable for productive progress.

This workshop helps you to build the required skills

• to make optimal use of your available time
• and to make efficient progress towards your goals.

You will

• learn key project planning techniques and apply them to your research project.
• You will understand
• how to stick to your priorities in the face of conflicting demands
• how to set up routines for highly focused work
• and how to become less perfectionist and more pragmatic.

Selecting methods that work well for you will be a focus as well as discussing how to sustainably transfer them to your work context.

Contents

• Project management
• Goal setting
• Milestone planning & progress monitoring
• Agile planning
• Time management
• Saying no and defending boundaries
• Routines for highly focused work
• Pragmatism & perfectionism