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Dialog forum „Diversity“ in the BMBF – kick-off event
On November 12, 2024, the kick-off event of the dialog forum “Diversity creates knowledge: Every voice counts” took place at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin. Maren Weissig, Equal Opportunities Officer, took part on our behalf. The opening dialog and the subsequent workshops brought together experts from research, political decision-makers, managers…
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WissZeitVG – Experts criticize draft law
The „Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz“ (WissZeitVG) regulates how doctoral candidates, post-docs and other academic staff may be employed. An amendment to the law has been in the works for two years. We, the Federal Association of Doctoral Candidates, have repeatedly voiced our criticism of the problematic WissZeitVG and have been trying to bring the position of doctoral candidates…
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Newsletter October 2024
– Nobel Prizes – The nobel prices are out with a high focus on computational analysis of protein and RNA structures. The Nobel Prize in Physic went to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries which used tools from physics to work on machine learning helping to build artificial neural networks. The Nobel Prize in…