Uni-Tübingen

DocDays 2025

Explore Your PhD Journey!

The DocDays 2025 take place 18th-20th February 

The DocDays are aimed at anyone who is doing a doctorate at the University of Tübingen or is thinking about doing so. In order to provide relevant information for the phase during or before the doctorate, the Graduate Academy, the Faculties and other services of the University have put together a varied workshop program. All workshops take place online. Registration is required (see below).

Take the opportunity to refresh and expand your knowledge in a condensed form!

If you have any questions, please contact m.brossspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de. 

Registration for the DocDays 2025 is now open. Registration closes 30 minutes prior to each event (unless stated otherwise below). Please register for each workshop separately. Some of the workshops are held in English and some in German. Please check the workshop title to see which language the workshop is in (EN = English, DE = German).

WORKSHOPS

Online-Workshops

All of the information events and workshops take place online. The Zoom link for each workshop is included in the automatic confirmation email.

Registration

Registration for the events takes place via Eveeno. Please register for all workshops you wish to attend in order to receive the Zoom link for it. You will find the respective registration link in the program overview below.

Please note: It is NOT necessary to create an Eveeno account to register. Follow the link in the respective event description and then fill out the Eveeno form. You will receive a confirmation by e-mail.

PROGRAMM

Below, you can see the program for the DocDays 2025. A separate registration is required for each workshop. To regsiter, please follow the link below each workshop in the program overview further down the page.
If you have any questions regarding the DocDays, please contact m.brossspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de.

 

Grundlagen / Basics

Das Promotionsverfahren an der Medizinischen Fakultät (DE)

Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 09:00-10:00 Uhr, online

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referentin: Dr. Inka Montero (Promotionsbüro Medizinische Fakultät)
Inhalt: Ablauf der verschiedenen Promotionsverfahren (Dr.med./Dr.med.dent./Dr.sc.hum./PhD)

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LEAD: Doing a PhD in Education Sciences! (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 9:00-10:00 am, online
Presentation + Q&A Session
Presenters: Dr. Simone Oechslen, Sophie Freitag (LEAD Graduate School & Research Network)
Registration 

Das Promotionsverfahren an der Philosophischen Fakultät: Die Annahme als DoktorandIn (DE)

Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 09:00-10:00 Uhr, online

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referentinnen: Barbara Jaeger, Anna Katharina Echtner (Promotionsbüro der Philosophischen Fakultät)
In dieser Veranstaltung werden prozedurale Fragen zur Promotion an der Philosophischen Fakultät erörtert.
 

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The Doctoral Process at the Medical Faculty (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 10:00-11:00 am, online

Please note that this session covers the same topics as the "Das Promotionsverfahren an der Medizinischen Fakultät"-session earlier in the day.

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenter: Dr. Inka Montero (Office of Doctoral Affairs Medical Faculty)
Content: The different doctoral degrees are explained, including pre-requisites, important steps and things to consider (Dr. med./Dr. med. dent./Dr. sc. hum/PhD)

Registration 

Das Promotionsverfahren an der Philosophischen Fakultät: Von der Abgabe der Arbeit bis zur Urkunde (DE)

Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 10:15-11:15 Uhr, online

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referentinnen: Barbara Jaeger, Anna Katharina Echtner (Promotionsbüro der Philosophischen Fakultät)
In dieser Veranstaltung werden prozedurale Fragen zur Promotion an der Philosophischen Fakultät erörtert.

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Das Promotionsverfahren an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät (DE)

Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 11:00-12:00 Uhr, online

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referent: Dr. Florian Zacher (Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät)

In dieser Veranstaltung werden prozedurale Fragen zur Promotion an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät erörtert.

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Doctoral Degree at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 13:00-14:00, online 

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenter: Christina Karsch (Doctoral Office, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Registration 

The Doctoral Process at the Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 13:00-14:00, online

Presentation and Q&A Session

Presenters: PD Dr. Marc Himmelbach & Dr. Monika Lam (Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience)

Content: admission to the doctoral program, Advisory Boards, submission of the thesis, admission to the doctorate process and defense

Registration

The Doctoral Process at the Faculty of Science (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 14:00-15:00, online

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenters: Dr. Elaine Huggenberger, Dr. Sarah Müller (Office of Doctoral Affairs Faculty of Science)
Content: acceptance process regulations submission and defense

Registration 

How to Do a Doctorate in Tübingen (EN)

Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 09:00-10:00 am, online

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenter: Dr. Martina Bross (Graduate Academy)

Content: You are an (international) Master student and are thinking about doing a doctorate? You want to learn more about the admission process, requirements, funding options, how to find a topic and supervisor? Then this is your one stop shop to getting all the information you need!

Registration 

Counseling "Doing a doctorate with children / with family obligations"

Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 10:00-12:00 am, online

Individual Counseling (20 minute slots). The session can take place in English or German (please select the language in the registration form).

Couselor: Gabi Efferenn (Team Equity - Care)

Please register by February 12th 2025. There is a limited number of slots available. You can select your time slot in the registration form.

Registration 

The Doctoral Procedure at the Faculty of Humanities: Acceptance as a Doctoral Candidate (EN)

Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 10:00-11:00 am, online

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenter: Barbara Jaeger, Anna Katharina Echtner (Doctoral Office Faculty of Humanities)
In this event, procedural questions concerning a doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities are discussed.

Registration 

Promovieren im Bereich der Lehrkräftebildung (DE)

Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2025, 11:00-12:00 Uhr, online 

Referent: Dr. Sebastian Koch

Dieser Workshop wird von der Tübingen School of Education (TüSE) ausgerichtet.

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Doctoral Procedure at the Faculty of Humanities: From the Submission of the Thesis to the Certificate (EN)

Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 11:15-12:15, online

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenter: Barbara Jaeger, Anna Katharina Echtner (Doctoral Office Faculty of Humanities)
In this event, procedural questions concerning a doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities are discussed.

Registration 

Introduction to the Science System in Germany (EN)

Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 16:00-17:00, online

Presenter: Dr. Britta Hoyer (Graduate Academy)

Registration

Das Promotionsverfahren an der Juristischen Fakultät (DE)

Dienstag, 25. (!) Februar 2025, 11:00-12:00 Uhr, online

Bitte beachten Sie: diese Veranstaltung findet in der Woche nach den Doktorandentagen statt.

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referent: Oliver Richter, Ass. jur. (Juristische Fakultät)
In dieser Veranstaltung werden prozedurale Fragen zur Promotion an der Juristischen Fakultät erörtert. 

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Forschen, Schreiben und Publizieren / Research, Writing and Publishing

F.A.I.R. data management using Github (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 11:00-11:45 am, online

Workshop

Availability and management of data during research projects and for subsequent publication is key to successful academic work. Therefore, an early implementation of respective workflows and tools helps to reduce workload and to enhance productivity.

Within this workshop, the widely used file versioning tool git is introduced, which allows for a fine grained tracking of changes in files and projects. To simplify its usage and to enable various features for project management and beyond, cloud services for git are available. A major such platform is Github.

The main focus of this workshop is to discuss how the usage of git with a cloud service like Github can improve your scientific workflows and help to maintain, share and publish research data and material in line with the F.A.I.R. principles for scientific data management.

Speaker: Dr. Martin Raden (Dr. Eberle-Center für digitale Kompetenzen)

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Registration

Angebote der Universitätsbibliothek (DE)

Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2025, 10:00-11:00 Uhr, online

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referentinnen: Inka Rihm, Ulrike Röhrig (Universitätsbibliothek)
In einem kurzen Überblick stellen wir die Services der UB sowie verschiedene Literaturverwaltungsprogramme vor:

  • Wie nutze ich den Katalog am effektivsten?
  • Wie kann ich die E-Ressourcen der UB abrufen?
  • Ansprechpartner finden: An wen kann ich mich wenden, wenn ich Fragen zu Literaturverwaltungsprogrammen, zum Publizieren oder zum Urheberrecht habe?
  • Welche Literaturverwaltungsprogramme gibt es? Was sind Vor- und Nachteile verschiedener Programme?

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Academic Writing for Doctoral Candidates: Assembling Your Writer’s Toolbox (EN)

Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 14:00-15:00, online

Please note: there is a limited number of 100 places available in this workshop

Short workshop: writing exercises, presentation, discussion/Q&A

Presenter: Tanja Budde (Diversity-Oriented Writing Center)
Content: In this short writing workshop, you will

  • try out short exercises,
  • learn about and discuss productive strategies for managing a complex writing project, and
  • reflect on which type of writer you might be and why this might be worth thinking about

For more workshops and writing support please visit the Diversity-Oriented Writing Center

Registration 

Zotero: Beyond the Basics (EN)

Wednesday, 19th February 2025, 15:00-15:45 pm, online

Speaker: Markus Wust (Dr. Eberle-Center für digitale Kompetenzen)

This session demonstrates some advanced Zotero techniques for those who are already familiar with Zotero's basic citation management functions. We will cover customizing existing citation styles, batch editing of collections using Zotero's Javascript console, and integration with writing tools such as Obsidian or Overleaf, an onlie LaTeX editor. Please note that one could spend many hours diving into each of these topics. This workshop just touches on each topic to give you an idea of what you could do and how you could further integrate Zotero into your workflow.

Registration

Bewegte Lern- und Arbeitskultur beim Promovieren und Lehren - gesund zum PhD (DE)

Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2025, 12:00-13:00 Uhr, online

Workshop

Referentin: Juliane Kloos und Hannah Besel (SGM BeTaBalance)
Inhalt: Tipps und Tricks, um auch während längerer Schreibphasen fit zu bleiben.

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Ihre Dissertation im Open-Access-Universitätsverlag (DE)

Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2025, 13:00-14:00 Uhr, online

Präsentation und Fragerunde

Referentin: Sandra Binder (Tübingen Library Publishing)

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Rights and obligations of authors: Design and publish your own work in a copyright-safe manner (EN)

Thursday, 20th February 2025, 14:00-15:00, online

Presentation + Q&A session

Presenter: Saskia Hallmann-Willner  (Stabstelle Urheberrecht, Universitätsbibliothek)
Content: The course provides basic knowledge of copyright handling, both of one's own scientific work and of third-party copyrighted content.

Main focus:

  •  Origin and effects of copyright law
  • Dealing with other people's intellectual property
  • Publication and subsequent use of research work

Registration

Literature Research with AI - Tips and Tools (EN)

Thursday, 20th February, 15:00-16:00, online 

Presenters: Dr. Miriam Lahrsow, Lelde Petrovska (Universitätsbibliothek)

Registration

Take Your Research Further!

Der Zauber des Anfangs: Lernatmosphäre gestalten, Lernen ermöglichen (DE)

Dienstag, 18. Februar 2025, 11:00-12:00 Uhr, online

Vortrag mit interaktiven Elementen

Referentin: Mihaela Pommerening (Arbeitsstelle Hochschuldidaktik)

Inhalt: Sie wollen ein Seminar oder eine andere Lehrveranstaltung anbieten? Der erste Eindruck, den Sie bei Studierenden hinterlassen, ist bedeutungs- und wirkungsvoll. In diesem Vortrag mit interaktiven Elementen erfahren Sie

  • wie der Anfang strukturiert werden kann
  • wie eine gute Lernatmosphäre entsteht und
  • was Sie in Ihrer Rolle als Lehrende*r in der Anfangssituation stärken kann.

Maximal 20 Teilnehmende.

Registrierung

 

The Magic of Beginning: Creating a Learning Environment, Enabling Learning (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 11:00-12:00, online 

Workshop with interactive elements

Presenter: Manuel Halseband (Center for Teaching and Learning)

Content: Do you want to offer a seminar or other course? The first impression you make on students is meaningful and effective. In this workshop with interactive elements, you will learn

  • how the beginning can be structured,
  • how to create a good learning atmosphere, and
  • what can strengthen you in your role as a teacher in the initial situation.

Maximum 20 participants

Registration

Graduate Academy Offers: How We Can Help You! (EN)

Tuesday,18th February 2025, 12:00-13:00, online

Presenter: Sara Rogalski (Graduate Academy)

Introduction to all the offers of the Graduate Academy for PhD students. 

Registration

 

How the Startup Center May Support You (EN)

Tuesday, 18th February 2025, 15:00-16:00, online

The Startup Center explains the services they offer, and they tell you about startup funding opportunities that some PhD researchers may be eligible to apply for.

Presenter: Sandra Gässler, Daniel Heblik (Startup Center)

Registration 

Hochschuldidaktik: Wege zu guter Lehre – unser Angebot für Sie (DE)

Mittwoch, 19. Februar, 13:00-14:00 Uhr, online

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referentin: Mihaela Pommerening (Arbeitsstelle Hochschuldidaktik)

Inhalt: Wir möchten Ihnen gern unser vielfältiges Angebot vorstellen: das Zertifikatsprogramm, Angebote für Workshops und kollegialen Austausch sowie Beratungen.

Registrierung

From Idea to Prototype and Product (EN)

Wednesday, 19th February, 14:00-15:00, online

A short one hour workshop on the topic “product development”. The workshop leader will contribute experiences from his own spin-off at the University of Tübingen. Some important background information will be included, e.g. on markets, innovation in small and large companies, processes, IP, quality. The equipment of the Innovation Lab and how we can support your prototype development will also be introduced.

Presenter: Dr. Andreas Krauss (Startup Center)

Registration 

Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten / Funding Options

Funding Opportunities after Your PhD (EN)

Thursday, 20th February 2025, 09:00-10:00 am, online

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenters: Dr. Marion Jäger, Dr. Nathalie Walker  (Research Support)


Content: After your PhD, you should gain scientific independence and establish your own research projects. To meet this challenge, a number of programs from different funding institutions are available. We will inform you about different national funding options and answer your questions regarding specific funding programs.

Registration 

10 steps to write a good proposal – Humanities (EN)

Thursday, 20th February 2025, 10:00-11:00 am, online

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenter: Dr. Heike Winhart (Dean's Office, Faculty of Humanities)
Content: From the idea to the proposal

  • What is feasible and meaningful for me at my current career level?
  • How much effort is it?
  • How do I proceed after I have chosen a funding format?
  • How do I structure a proposal?
  • What is best to avoid?

Registration 

EU-Funding: A round table for those who want to learn more about it for the Postdoc Phase (EN)

Thursday, 20th February 2025, 11:00-12:00am, online

Presentation + Q&A Session

Presenter: Elisabeth Baier (EU Office, University of Tübingen)

The talk informs about European funding opportunities, their chances and challenges, and gives hints with regard to possible implications for mid and long term career planning.
Characteristics of EU-programmes General requirements, qualification of the researcher: CV, standards, project implementation Excellent Research in HORIZON EUROPE Success factors for the mobility programme Marie S. Curie pioneer research - the European Research Council (ERC)

Registration 

Promotionsstipendien - Informationen zur Bewerbung: wer? wo? wie? (DE)

Donnerstag, 20. Februar, 16:15-17:15 Uhr, online

Informationsveranstaltung (Vortrag mit anschließender Fragerunde)

Referentin: Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker (Professorin für Englische Literatur und Dekanin der Philosophischen Fakultät)
Inhalt:

  • Informationen zu Fördermöglichkeiten
  • Hinweise zur Bewerbung für Stipendien (Exposé)

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