HeKKSaGOn Intensifies its Advancement of Young Researchers
The consortium universities in the German-Japanese University Network HeKKSaGOn intend to further intensify the exchange between students and young researchers and scientists. At the fifth HeKKSaGOn conference in Karlsruhe, the six rectors and presidents presented their concepts for the advancement of young researchers. The motto was “Increasing Student Mobility for the Scientists and Pioneers of Tomorrow“. Amongst other objectives, they aim to ramp up the joint doctoral programmes offered, increase the number of jointly supervised doctorates and further expand exchange programmes like regular summer and winter schools at the different locations.
Parallel to this event, some 120 researchers from the various consortium universities gathered in eight interdisciplinary working groups to collaborate on solving future societal challenges. The topics ranged from the life and physical sciences, chemistry and energy conversion, catalysis and nanotechnology, disaster risk and response to the social and human sciences, robotics, neuroscience and mathematics. In addition, a ninth working group on „data science”, which deals with the production, processing, structuring and cooperative use of scientific data at universities, was established at the conference.
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