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
Making Research Visible – Visual Thinking for Science Communication
Do you want to communicate your research clearly and sharpen your messages? Learn how to convey complex content using simple drawings – for other researchers, stakeholders, and the public.
Visualizations make research tangible and break down barriers. They facilitate collaboration across disciplines, reduce misunderstandings, and create transparency. They also help you structure your own thoughts...
Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 2: Lead
About the Series
Starting as a postdoc, junior group leader or junior professor, it is usually expected to supervise doctoral candidates. Supervision however is one of the tasks that are so "normal" in academia that we quite often neglect to further explain and prepare: "Everybody knows what supervision is so we don’t need to talk about it." – As a result of this mindset, researchers who start...
Mastering Grant Interviews and Presentations for Funding Panels
In this hands-on session, you will get an overview of some of the most essential techniques for delivering convincing and engaging science project presentations to external panels. Drawing on over ten years of experience with scientific grant coaching, especially ERC Interview Grant Training, this workshops offers practical tools for improving your presentation skills. You will learn how to...
Kurzfilmwanderung "A Wall is a Screen" in der Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld
This event takes place in German and Englisch (some movies are in English, some German, introduction in German).
Male Allyship, Caring Masculinities, and Institutional Change at Universities
From Good Intentions to Effective Practice: Male Allyship, Caring Masculinities, and Institutional Change at Universities
How can men in the university context become agents of change?
This presentation builds on current debates surrounding male allyship and demonstrates why good intentions alone are insufficient to advance gender equality at universities. Drawing on international studies and...
Ich werde Vater! – ein Vorbereitungskurs rund um Geburt und Elternzeit/Wiedereinstieg
This event takes place in German.
HRA Promovierendentag 2026 - "Your Career, Your Story - Karriereentwicklung für Promovierende"
This event takes place mainly in German. For more information, please visit the Hamburg Research Academy website.
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.