Kick Off Your Docterate: Retreat for new doctoral students (EN - organized by the HU)

The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) is an alliance of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Together, they are pursuing the goal of creating and shaping an integrated research space in Berlin. This alliance aims to establish Berlin as a leading international science location. All workshops and events offered by the Graduate Studies Support Program are funded by the BUA and therefore free of charge.   

+++++++++  Registration for the Englisch Kick Off Your Doctorate - Retreat in Person: March 26-28,2025  is on the website from HU:  https://hu.opencampus.com/de/node/6357   +++++++++ 

Participation

Doctoral researchers (all disciplines) of the Berlin University Alliance in the first six months of their doctorate. If you have already been doing your doctorate for longer than 1 year and have participated in a BUA Kick-Off Retreat before, this kick-off event is not suitable for you.

Objectives

Two and a half days in a seminar hotel in Brandenburg, with 60 early career researchers who are in the starting phase of their doctorate projects, just like you. You can expect a lot of information, workshops on project management and self-organization, coaching sessions, and many networking opportunities. 

It is a long way from the decision to do a doctorate to the moment when the doctoral certificate is handed over.Exchanging ideas and networking with peers is very valuable for starting a doctorate. The focus of this kick-off event is to help early career researchers get started and to introduce them to contact persons at the four institutions in addition to helpful information on the content. Accompanied by trainers, a selection of important tools will be tested in small exercises and opportunities will be shown to deepen these across institutions in further follow-up workshops. Short presentations, (group) coaching sessions, joint active breaks and a networking evening will round off the event.

Content

• Your doctorate and the German science sytem
• Motivation & goal clarification 
• Actively shaping the relation to you supervisor 
• Science communication: pitching your project 
• Future me: What will I take with me?
• Networking and exchange 
• Offers of Berlin University Alliance

We recommend  

Submit a business trip request to your institution in a timely manner. This way, your supervisor knows that you will not be working on those days and you will NOT be able to participate in (online) meetings during the event.

Code of conduct

We are against discrimination on the grounds of racism, ethnic origin, gender, religion or world view, disability, sexual identity or age. We are committed to treating everyone with respect! We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Those who violate these rules may be excluded from our offers at the discretion of the team.