In order to strengthen the cooperation with strategic partners in the US, in the European U4 network and in the German-Japanese network HeKKSaGOn, the University of Göttingen initiated a new series of summer schools. The “International Short Term Programmes Göttingen” offer academic short-term courses for international students and students from Göttingen during semester breaks. The intensive full-time courses deliver stimulating and innovative learning and provide the opportunity to gain international experience without missing lectures at home. … Weiterlesen
The EU-funded KITFEM-Project offers multiple scholarships for a research stay at partner universities in China, Mexico, or Vietnam. KITFEM stands for Knowledge and Innovation in, To and From Emerging Markets. Scholarship recipients are expected to be interested in research topics related to KITFEM, broadly conceived. Scholarships will entail a monthly allowance of 2.000 € per month to cover travel and living expenses. … Weiterlesen
On October 5, 2017, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) published new calls for 16 programmes. All calls’ texts as well as further information on the different programmes can be found in the DAAD’s project database (in German only). Short descriptions of the programmes can be found here (in German only). Contact:
Dr. … Weiterlesen
For several years, the University of Göttingen has been cooperating with universities in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq. The Ministry of Education has set up a liaison office at the Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research (KISSR) to coordinate the activities with Göttingen. The project “Transfer of Good Practices and Reinforcement of Internationalization Strategies in Kurdistan – … Weiterlesen
The 8th NEURIZONS Conference ‘fire, wire, inspire’ will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany from May 29 to June 1, 2018.
The NEURIZONS meeting is organised by graduate students of the International MSc/PhD/MD-PhD Programme & Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences in Göttingen. NEURIZONS aims at bringing together internationally acclaimed scientists with the PhD student community. … Weiterlesen
On September 13 and 14, 2017, a joint workshop between plant scientists, agronomists and agricultural modelers from the University of Göttingen and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem took place in Rehovot, Israel. At the workshop entitled “Linking Modelling and Experimentation”, researchers discussed food supply in the face of a growing world population and global warming. They focused on modelling systems to support the cultivation of crops. … Weiterlesen
PRoTECT (Plant Responses to Eliminate Critical threats) is a DFG-funded International Research Training Group (IRTG) in the field of molecular plant sciences, especially interested in plant-microbe and plant-insect interactions. The IRTG is a collaborative programme between research groups of the University Göttingen and research groups of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (UBC).
The group hold an annual retreat where the PhD students give talks about their research. … Weiterlesen
From September 25 to October 6, the University of Göttingen welcomed around 100 lawyers and attorneys from 14 Latin American countries. The guests participated at the fourth Summer School on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in Spanish and Portuguese languages.
This year, leading researchers from the Anglo-American region gave lectures and seminars as well. The Summer School is organised by the Research Department for Latin American Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure (“Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal Latinoamericano – … Weiterlesen
The Institute for Agricultural Law of the University of Göttingen organised the workshop “Territorial peace and property – a critical evaluation of the Havana agreement” from October 10 to 14, 2017 in Göttingen.
The event brought together 16 researchers from three Colombian universities (Universidad Santo Tomás, Universidad Nacional, Universidad de la Salle) and two German universities (Göttingen University und University of Konstanz). … Weiterlesen
In August 2017, a number of Chinese doctoral students visited the Faculty of Economic Sciences to learn about the research and teaching programmes, particularly those focused on Development Economics.
After a presentation of the faculty by the Dean, Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, the 15 doctoral students received more information about research and teaching activities, particularly in the area of development economics. … Weiterlesen
This year’s “Hadron Collider Physics Summer School – HASCO 2017” took place from July 16 to July 21, 2017 in Göttingen. Founded in 2012, this is the sixth consecutive year that this dynamic, international school, primarily aimed at Master’s students, has been offered.
This year, 60 undergraduate students from 28 different institutes in fifteen countries came together for a full week to learn about hadron collider physics. … Weiterlesen
With a child and a cone into a semester abroad? The portal Auslandsstudium mit Kind of the Best Practice-Club offers valuable information and tips on how a possible stay abroad during the study or PhD phase with family responsibilities is possible. In addition, a database can be used to call up experience reports from students who were already abroad with a child. … Weiterlesen
Prof. Vsevolod Belousov from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Russian Academy of Sciences) received a Mercator Fellowship and will be Guest Professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology (University Medical Center Göttingen) for the next 3 years.
Professor Belousov is an internationally well-recognised pioneer researcher in the field of synthetic biology. He has introduced the first genetically encoded biosensors in the field of redox signaling. … Weiterlesen
