BIOME - Soft Skills
Soft Skill Workshop Attendance Sheet
Candidates at the Faculty of Biology (Dr. rer. nat.) have to attend a minimum of 3 workshops in 3 years. Candidates at the Faculty of Medicine should attend a minimum of 2 workshops during the BIOME year.
Workshops organised by BIOME have an attendance list which should be signed and then the participation is noted in the BIOME data bank. Attendance at non-BIOME workshops can be noted on and countersigned by the trainer on the Workshop Attendance Sheet which can be downloaded below or can be proved by the submission of a certificate issued by the hosting organisation.
The soft skill requirement is waivered for ELAN candidates (who receive similar training in modules 1, 3 and 4 of the ELAN programme). Similarly, participation in the intensive one-year DiMento programme fulfils the BIOME soft skill requirement entirely. Nevertheless, these members are welcome to register for any workshops of interest they may wish to attend.
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Soft Skill Programmes - Overview
Ongoing Graduate Center Plus
The soft skill programme at the University of Duisburg-Essen is provided by the Graduate Center Plus. For regular feeds about soft skill courses, please subscribe to the GC Plus mailing list!
Ongoing Research Academy Ruhr
The Research Academy Ruhr pools and develops qualification and support offers for advanced master students, doctoral researchers and postdoctoral researchers within the University Alliance Ruhr.
Ongoing RUB Research School
Further courses of interest may also be found in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum. To register for RUB workshops, please contact Dr. Ursula Justus.
06.02.2020 and 13.02.2020 BIOME Statistics Workshop
Themes covered during the two-day course:
- Principles of descriptive and inferential statistics
- Definition of the p-value
- Fisher’s significance testing and Neyman-Pearson null hypothesis testing
Host: BIOME
Trainers: Andreas Stang and Anna-Therese Lehnich, Zentrum für Klinische Epidemiologie, Essen
Target audience: All BIOME doctoral students
Time: 16:00–18:30
Venue: 06.02.2020: Hörsaal Verwaltung, 2nd Floor, 13.02.2020: Hörsaal 1 der Institutsgruppe I, Universitätsklinikum Essen
Language: English
Registration: biome@uni-due.de
13-14.02.2020 Academic Writing – Strategy and Practice
Trainer: Jan Schilling
Target audience: All doctoral students (less experienced writers)
Time: 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: Innovationsfabrik des SSC, Campus Essen (V15 S01 C97)
Language: English
Participants: 12
Registration: Opens 23.01.2020
10-11.03.2020 Speech and Presentation Training
Trainer: Sarah Giese
Target audience: All doctoral students
Time: 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: Campus Essen
Language: German (and English)
Participants: 12
Registration: Opens 18.02.2020
19-20.03.2020 Presenting (in) Science: How to Own the Stage
Trainers: Knut and Regina Hannemann
Target audience: All BIOME doctoral students
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Venue: Lehr- und Lernzentrum, Universitätsklinikum Essen
Language: English
Participants: 12
Registration: biome@uni-due.de
24-26.03.2020Spring Academy
Venue: University of Duisburg-Essen
Language: German (and English)
03.04.2020 Good Scientific Practice
Trainer: Valentina Vasilov
Target audience: All BIOME doctoral students
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Venue: Institute for Cell Biology, Virchowstr. 173, 1st Floor, Seminar Room 117
Language: English
Participants: 16
Registration: Closed. The workshop is already FULL.
Other Recommended Training Programmes
01-12.2020 DiMento for BIOME Doctorates
This collaboration project with UDE’s Career Service (ABZ) is aimed at all doctorates who wish to pursue a career in the German industry after their PhD. The one-year programme is open to both genders, with a focus on candidates with a diversity background.
Language: German (C1 or higher)
Venue: Universitätscampus Duisburg
Registration deadline: 31.10.2019
Contact: mechthild.budde@uni-due.de
2020 UKE's Training Programme
Seminars within the categories 1, 3, 4 and 5 (specifically management and communication skills) of the further training programme at the Universitätsklinikum Essen are considered to be equivalent to other soft-skill workshops.
Ongoing UDE's Career Service (ABZ)
Some of the wide-ranging workshops offered by UDE's Career Service may be of great interest and use to BIOME members. For regular feeds about these workshops, please subscribe to the Career Service's mailing list!
Ongoing Recommended Online Tutorials
The following online courses have been recommended by fellow BIOME members:
Biostatistics/Data Analysis
Scientific Writing
Writing in the Sciences
Survival Language Courses
Ongoing German for Guest Scientists/Visiting Researchers
German language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache) courses at different levels are offered to guest scientists and visiting researchers by the University of Duisburg-Essen's Institute for Optional Studies.
Contact and Registration: sprachkurse@uni-due.de
Ongoing German for International Medical Doctors
The Universitätsklinikum Essen offers a German course tailored to meet the needs of local international medical doctors. Aspects covered in this language course include:
- Conversations with patients
- Medical German for doctors
- Themes and contents considered relevant by the participants in their professional day-to-day lives.
Ongoing University-Level English
The UDE PE programme provides university employees with the opportunity of attending English language courses to apply and improve their existing English language skills. The aim here is to acquire the foreign language at a higher level. The three levels of the individual courses (A2 to C1) correlate to those of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).
Contact: claudia.hobe@uni-due.de