Together with our partner institutions, we offer you a broad qualification program. This is divided into ten areas that cover the central skills and topics of scientific qualification.
You can find an overview of all our and our partners’ events at a glance in our discipline-specific calendars and newsletters.
In our event calendars, you can filter directly for the areas of qualification relevant to you via the “Keywords” menu.
Our areas of qualification bundle thematically related services and highlight key aspects of academic qualification.
Select the areas that are relevant to your current career phase – and find suitable events from us and our partners at a glance.
You will also find the areas of qualification in our event calendars in the form of the“Keyword” filter.
At the beginning of your academic career, it is important to establish a foundation of interdisciplinary (and possibly subject-specific) basic skills. These are generally relevant for all ECRs from the doctoral phase onwards, regardless of your future career goal.
These include the following topics:
- Scientific reading, writing and publishing
- Good scientific practice (GSP)
- Research Data Management (RDM)
- Open Science
- Basics of AI
- Preparation of the doctoral disputation
- Scientific systems
More information at our partner institutions:
Building on basic scientific skills, it is essential for successful research to deepen your discipline-specific knowledge and strengthen your methodological skills in line with your discipline and research question.
These include the following topics:
- Quantitative and qualitative methods, specific software, programming
- Current topics and developments in research
- My research strategy
- Research ethics
- History and reflection of science
- Handling and use of AI
More information at our partner institutions:
Successful research requires sufficient funding and support. There is a wide range of application strategies and funding programs for each qualification phase. Together with our partner institutions, we support you from the initial idea through the proposal and application process to approval.
These include the following topics:
- Doctoral funding
- Acquisition of third-party funding
- Inspection training
- Budgeting and finances in a scientific context
More information at our partner institutions:
Regardless of your discipline, your qualification phase and future plans: the next career step is coming.
These services provide support in clarifying your career goals, whether for the academic or non-academic sector.
These include the following topics:
- Career paths and goals
- Professional fields and job profiles
- Career orientation and planning
- Job application training
More information at our partner institutions:
Whether for your own qualification project, for a future appointment within or outside academia, as a future manager or for teamwork: events on management and leadership skills are the key to productive work.
These include the following topics:
- Time, self- and project management
- Supervision relationship
- Leadership and teamwork
- Reflecting on my own role
- Conversations, discussions and moderation
- Conviction and negotiation
- How do the other people deal with situations? Peer counselling
More information at our partner institutions:
Stress management, resilience, work-life balance – keep an eye on your well-being. The services in this area serve to raise awareness, prevent and support your mental health, as well as to support you with your individual challenges, e.g. in the area of care work.
These include the following topics:
- Resilience
- Work-life balance
- Conflict resolution and mediation skills
- Preventing and dealing with abuse of power
- Dealing with writing/work blocks, procrastination
- Focus on special target groups (people with care responsibilities, first-time graduates, chronic illness/disability…) and their supervisors
More information at our partner institutions:
Share your knowledge with the world!
As a researcher, you have the task of shaping the transfer of scientific results into politics, business and society. This is the so-called “third mission”. Learn how to communicate your research in an understandable and convincing way, effectively even beyond your discipline-specific world.
These include the following topics:
- Presenting
- Body language, voice, rhetoric
- Visualization (graphics, media, presentations and posters)
- Science communication, e.g. science slams
- Interdisciplinary cooperation
- Research information systems
- Entrepreneurship
- Patents
More information at our partner institutions:
Cultural skills, international cooperation and mobility – gain global perspectives and overcome borders as a “Bildungsinländer:innen” as well as an international incoming student.
These include the following topics:
- Intercultural communication and cooperation
- Onboarding for internationals
- Stays abroad for incomings and outgoings
- Language courses and academic German/English
More information at our partner institutions:
Learning to teach: with didactic strategies, feedback methods and digital tools – for your successful teaching at higher education institutions.
These include the following topics:
- Higher education didactics
- Teaching in English
- Digital teaching
More information at our partner institutions:
New here? Wondering what the experiences of other doctoral candidates are with their supervisors? Do you know other postdocs in your faculty? And do you wonder what paths others have taken in their careers?
Get to know new people in your field – from academia, industry and beyond – make personal contacts and build a targeted network for your career.
These include the following topics:
- Networking for internationals (e.g. RMU Social Welcoming Events)
- Postdoc get-togethers (e.g. lunch hours)
- PhD Meet Ups (organized by the PhD Representatives)
More information at our partner institutions:
Our event calendars and newsletters will take you to the respective event pages.
Events of the Gutenberg Academy are offered via our GA Webshop.
Here you can register to our events and find all dates and other organizational details.
If you do not yet have one, you must first create an account in our webshop. The mandatory fields to be filled in are marked with “*“.
We recommend that you use your JGU login details – this saves you having to remember another password.
When you have entered all the data, click on the red “Register” button at the bottom right.
Select event
The event overview and details of all events in the GA webshop are publicly available; you do not need to log in to view them.
Book an event
Log in to the GA webshop and proceed as you would for classic online shopping.
Click on “Shopping cart” for the event you wish to register for and continue until the red button “Verbindlich buchen | Register” appears. The registration process is final only after this step.
If your registration is successful, you will receive a confirmation via e-mail. If you have not received a confirmation, the registration process has not been fully completed and has not been entered into our system. In this case, please book again.
Approximately one week before the event, you will receive another e-mail (final confirmation) with all relevant event details (location, time, preparation material, etc.).
If all spots are already taken, you will automatically be placed on a waiting list. In this case, you will also receive a corresponding notification by e-mail.
If you are unable to attend, please cancel your registration for the relevant events in good time via the GA Webshop so that people from the waiting list can move up.
To do this, log in to the GA Webshop and select the “Log out | sign off” option under “My participations”.
After successful participation you will receive a certificate of attendance by e-mail.
If you have any difficulties logging in or have any questions about our events, please send an e-mail to ga@uni-mainz.de – we will be happy to help you!
Our university’s alliances give you access to further (qualification) services for Early Career Researchers (ECRs).
Together with Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt, JGU has formed the strategic alliance of Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) in 2015.
In the RMU Hub for ECRs, we bundle a wide range of RMU offers for the support of ECRs, which you can also use for your career development. As an ECR at RMU, you can participate in selected offers from the three locations.
We focus on:
Each university has an extensive range of workshops to enhance relevant skills for academic and non-academic careers. On the corresponding websites of GRADE, Ingenium and the Gutenberg Academy you can find out which offers are open for members of the RMU at the respective location:
We support you in your career decisions and in building a professional network with various formats:
- annual RMU Postdoc Career Week
- Field trips to employers
- Conference “change of course”, especially for female ECRs
- Info event and discussion “Appointment procedures – learning from experience”
RMU Social Welcoming Events – get to know your peers, RMU locations and the Rhine-Main region. For new, especially international, researchers at the RMU.
RMU R3 exchange platform (under construction) – to facilitate the formation of research collaborations and the support of interdisciplinary cooperation and to make offers for this career phase more easily accessible.
“Early Career Researchers” funding line: RMU supports the initiation of cross-university RMU projects by ECRs.
- Funding amount per project: max. 30,000 euros
- Duration: max. 2 years
- Eligible to apply: R2 and R3 scientists at the RMU.
Johanna Quandt Young Academy (JQYA) at Goethe University
- for R3 scientists at the RMU
- Interdisciplinary and cross-generational discourse
- Needs-oriented, financial support
FORTHEM is a European university alliance. Nine universities, including JGU, cooperate in academic education, research and interaction with society. In the FORTHEM Academy for Early-Stage Researchers, the alliance offers ECRs a wide range of trainings and workshops as well as networking opportunities across national borders.
The AG Junge Wissenschaft (Task Force Young Science) is an association of employees from member institutions of the Mainz Science Alliance who are responsible for promoting scientists in the early stages of their careers. The task force provides a forum for collegial exchange and organizes joint events for young researchers.
