Events
April 2026
E-Learning: Starting Your PhD or Postdoc in Hamburg Successfully
Beginning a doctoral or postdoctoral journey often involves a lot to manage. Beyond organizing your research tasks, it is important to also keep an eye on other relevant aspects that arise during this crucial phase of your career.
In collaboration with TwentyOne Skills, we provide support to facilitate your onboarding and help you start your research journey in Hamburg effectively. Our goal is...
May 2026
Career Development Through Research Funding
Rationale and Objectives
Researchers are increasingly faced with expectations to raise third-party funds if they want to pursue a successful research career. Yet, applying for third-party funds is not an end in itself and could even be detrimental to research careers, if disconnected from own scientific or life plans or scientific goals. This workshop, thus, aims to clarify which kinds of funding...
MINGZ GSP: Good Scientific Practice – May
The MIN Graduate Center recommends all doctoral researchers to participate in a seminar on Good Scientific Practice (Gute Wissenschaftliche Praxis). We will discuss important issues around a smooth and successful completion of your doctorate:
Introduction to the Bylaws of Good Scientific Practice
Misconduct in Research
Handling Data
Publication Process and Authorship
Responsibility of Supervisors and...
June 2026
Wissen vom Fass
Most of the lectures will be given in German, but some will also be in English. Please refer to the program to see which ones.
Fortbildung: Antisemitismus erkennen und handeln
This event takes place in German.
Research Data Management for Doctoral Researchers
For you as doctoral researchers it is vital to organise and secure your data right from the start of your research project until you archive it at the end.
You need to make sure your data is preserved so that other scholars can reuse it without compromising the legal or ethical rights of others or the purpose of your research.
In this introductory workshop on research data management (RDM), you...
Fortbildung: Antimuslimischen Rassismus erkennen und handeln
This event takes place in German.
PIER Startup Workshop: Business Modeling & Pitching
Learn how to create a business model based on your research and improve your pitching skills at our next PIER Startup Workshop “Business Modeling and Pitching” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 12 June 2026.
Writing Outside the Box: Techniques, Formats & Practice
Writing for a non-scientific audience has you breaking out into sweat? Don’t worry, you are not alone. The good news: while talent plays a role as it does in any skill, so do method, technique and practice. Engaging writing is a skill that you can learn. This course will focus on the basics:
1. Mind the gap: how to write for target audiences beyond academia
2. Dealer's choice: an introduction to...
HRA Spotlight – Nationale Forschungsförderung für Postdocs
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
September 2026
PIER Startup Bootcamp Workshop III: Starting a Business in Germany as a non-EU Citizen
Find out what you need to establish your own company in Germany in our next PIER Startup Workshop “Starting a Startup in Germany as a non-EU Citizen” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 18 September 2026.
Selbstbewusst den eigenen Weg gehen: Ein Workshop für Frauen* in der Wissenschaft
This event takes place in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.