KHYS Infomail August 2025

  • Next edition:September 18, 2025

News from KHYS

▶ Your Path to a Doctorate: Reflecting Diversity and Individual Requirements
Every path to a doctorate is unique —whether you´re first-generation academics, balancing family responsibilities, or navigating other personal challenges such as health impairments

▶ Reminder: Individual Career Coaching with External Coaches
Deadline: September 8

▶ Reminder: Welcome Event for Doctoral Researchers
September 15

▶ Postdoc Appreciation Week
September 15 – 19

▶ Workshop: How to Shape Your Future. Career Planning for Postdocs
September 25 and 26

▶ Workshop: Getting Started. Die Promotion als Projekt (Online)
October 8 and 9

▶ Call for Applications: KIT Doctoral Award 2024/25
Deadline: October 13

▶ Workshop: From Self-Doubt to Self-Efficacy. Tackling Impostor Syndrome in Academia
October 9

▶ Workshop: Good Research Practice (incl. Generative AI, Online)
October 23 and 24

▶ E-Learning Courses
“Short-Cuts to Industry”, “Getting Published”, “Basics of Science Communication”, “Conferences, Presenting and Networking”

News from KIT

▶ International Scholars & Welcome Office (IScO): International BBQ
Registration: Until Monday, August 25. Further acitivities, events and calls: ▶ IScO Newsletter July

▶ Helmholtz Information and Data Science – School for Health: Apply for a Fully-Funded Doctoral Position
Deadline: August 25

▶ Reminder: KIT Graduate School Computational and Data Science Hackathon 2025
Deadline: August 31, Event: September 16 – 19

▶ Offenes Netzwerktreffen: Digitale Didaktik (Online)
September 2

▶ 3-Day Block Course: Topological Data Analysis and Manifold Learning using Ultrametrics
Deadline: September 15, Event: October 8 – 10

▶ Workshop: Age Diversity – Aspekte fruchtbarer Zusammenarbeit in intergenerationalen Teams
October 1

▶ Workshop: Neurodiversität verstehen  Grundlagen für Lehrende (Online)
October 6 

▶ Workshop: Making Research as Inclusive as Possible – How to Avoid Biased Results? (Online)
October 9

External Events and Calls for Applications

New funding programs by the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy (HIDA). Open to all KIT employees and associates. You can apply anytime.
▶ Call for Applications: HIDA Course Funding
▶ Call for Applications: Helmholtz Internal Mobility Program
▶ Call for Applications: Norway Mobility Program
Your contact person at KIT: ▶ Andreas Hahmann

▶ Klaus Tschira Stiftung: Innovative Science Communication Funding Programme
Deadline: August 28

▶ Fellowship Program Zia: Visible Women in Science
Deadline: August 31

▶ Call for Nominations: Academics Nachwuchspreis
Deadline: August 31

▶ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Priority Programme – Unconventional Magnetism
Deadline: August 31

▶ Eucor – The European Campus: Seed Money
Deadline: September 8

▶ Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) Fellowship Programmes
Deadline: September 12

▶ Online Talk: DFG Funding Opportunities for Postdocs
September 15

▶ Female Excellence Award – Ethics of Digitization
Deadline: September 15

▶ Early Career Fellowships in the Life and Natural Sciences
Deadline: November 1

▶ Wissenschaftlerinnen in den Medien (WIM): Crashkurs Wissenschaftskommunikation
freely available on social media channels

Explore More

▶ Podcast zu Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) in der Forschung

▶ Research Office (FOR): Latest Newsletter

▶ KIT-Gründerschmiede: Latest Newsletter

▶ ResearchConnect: KIT's Funding Database

▶ HIDA Course Catalog: Data Science Related Trainings Throughout the Helmholtz Association