Graduate academy
A graduate academy offers interdisciplinary advice, further training and funding for doctoral candidates and postdocs.
organization
The Graduate Academy is an institution of universities to enable targeted offers for interdisciplinary advice, further education and support for doctoral students and postdocs . This is intended to support the young scientists in preparing their dissertation and in planning individual careers. Aspects of team development, networking and family are also taken into account.
A graduate academy is aimed at individual doctoral candidates and postdocs at the respective university. The offer can take various forms such as information events, seminars , workshops and summer schools and the content focuses on strengthening key skills, teamwork and support in career development.
Graduate academies of this type are financed by universities, foundations or funds from the Excellence Initiative . Often it is mixed financing that is fed from the above facilities.
Services
The seminars and workshops offered as part of the Graduate Academy impart knowledge on the following topics, which are tailored to the needs of doctoral students.
- Language offers
- Team development
- Time management
- Scientific writing
- Project management
- Social competence
- Personality development
- Presentation (representation, voice, spoken expression)
- Acquiring third-party funding
- Press and public relations for science