Good Scientific Practice for Natural and Life Sciences / 26-2-SPN-2

The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) is an alliance of the FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin and Charité with the aim of creating a joint research environment in Berlin. All workshops and events of the Graduate Studies Support Program are funded by the BUA and free of charge.

Participation

Doctoral researchers of the Berlin University Alliance and Potsdam Graduate School in the Natural and Life sciences.

Before booking a workshop, please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration to receive a certificate. Please check our terms and conditions.

 

Objectives

• Enhancing and supporting problem awareness in good scientific practice
• Obeying the rules of good scientific practice during daily research
• Problem identification, evasion and solving

 

Content

• DFG guidelines on Good Scientific Practice
• History, basic rules and recommendations
• Conflict in academia
• Ethical aspects of academic research
• Research involving humans and derived data
• Documentation
• Intellectual property: citing and using IP
• Creating new intellectual property

• Critically reflecting your steps
  

 

Methods

The workshop will pick up existing problems and work on solutions using a mixture of „ex-cathedra“ teaching, jointed and group phases. Results will be documented and circulated.

 

Please note

For updates and announcements register to our DRS Newsletter.

Also check out workshops at the BUA partner institutions that are available for you free of charge: Graduate Studies Support Program.

For workshops held online, participation is allowed under the following conditions: a working camera that is turned on and a microphone to allow active participation in discussions and group work. Headphones must also be used to protect other participants from office eavesdroppers. Regardless of on-site or online workshops, we would like to refer to the rules at Freie Universität Berlin, which can be found in the Code of Conduct.

 

Further Information

Postdocs are welcome to participate if spots are available.

Doctoral programs calculate credits based on the number of work units earned through workshop participation. Each work unit represents 45 minutes of workshop time, and 8 work units equal 0.5 credit points. For mini workshops (less than 8 work units), credits are calculated proportionally based on the work units. Please note: To be eligible for credit transfer, you must accumulate enough work units from short workshops. For example, attending two 3-hour workshops results in 8 work units (2 workshops x 4 work units each), which equals 0.5 credits.