Training

This training module takes a practical approach to teaching young researchers how to apply for third-party funding and principles in proposal writing. The participants get a primer on the perspective of funders and expert reviewers and learn how to use the different perspectives to optimize their proposal concept addressing the three aspects of Excellence, Impact and Implementation. This training series is based on the funding instruments of Horizon Europe. Its contents are transferable to most national funding instruments, but only to a limited extent to DFG funding instruments. If you would like to write a DFG proposal, you are welcome to attend our courses on DFG funding.

Develop your own career plan and identify the steps that you need to take to aquire your perfect future position. During our training course we will raise the participants awarenes for the broad spectrum of potential employment sectors inside and outside the academic setting. With the help of real world job offers and the participants will learn to read and understand the employers’ requirements. Special exercises will help participants to reflect on which professions they are already well positioned for and where they need to improve their skill portfolio for successful application.

The key to sustainable personal and professional success is how well we can understand ourselves and others. Every person is influenced by their empirical knowledge, which they have experienced in certain situations. This creates patterns that settle in the subconscious. Usually these patterns are so strongly internalized that they are not perceived consciously. Even as adults, we behave true to our learned patterns. In a moderate form, their influence on us either can motivate us, or, in the extreme, burden us, constrict or block.
Which preferences we develop, the patterns we follow, is the key to sustained success both personally and professionally, or the cause of misunderstandings and / or failure.
We can help to improve your self-knowledge and identify your development talents and potential to help you assessing your personality and your personal and professional potential.
Our analysis, is based on different questions, is neutral and puts people in the foreground with their unique dispositions and possibilities, not their classification in "good" or "bad".
The analysis is based on two online questionnaires on personality and activity traits. It consists questions and determines your individual personality structure, i. e. your strengths, abilities and talents in your current state of development and your already completed development steps.
We analyse your answers and give individual feedback in written and personal conversation.

An Innovation Boot Camp (IBC) offers participants the opportunity to expand their soft skills portfolio in terms of entrepreneurial skills and knowledge and thus also in terms of their career opportunities on the non-academic labour market. During an IBC, participants are accompanied in a moderated process from the development of ideas to the first draft of a business plan. Working in small teams, participants are given the opportunity to select real challenges and develop creative solutions.To this end, the training provides participants with information on basic methods and processes of business development as well as creativity techniques and engagement in customer contact. The IBC ends with a pitch and feedback session.