Important Dates

Time: 09:00 am - 05:00 pm

Trainer: Prof. Dr. Annette Kolb
Language: English
Qualification Area: Science- and Project management
Registration: 16 October until 09 November 2022
Deregistration: until 09 November 2022

for members of the University of Bayreuth Graduate School via BayDOC 
for Postdocs+ (= postdocs, habilitation candidates and junior professors (with and without Tenure Track) & Junior research group leaders between habilitation and junior professorship) via WiN-UBT portal

Description
Scientific projects today are characterised by a high degree of complexity and planning uncertainty. Scientists are often confronted with seemingly insurmountable hurdles at the beginning of a project, and it is not uncommon for questions to arise such as:

• How do I find the right topic?
• How do I work on the topic as efficiently as possible?
• How much innovation do I need to work on the topic competitively?
• How much risk is allowed?
• How do I structure my daily work?
• When can I say my project goal has been achieved?
• What rules do I have to follow when working on and documenting my project?
• Are their further projects in my group I have to supervise? What would be my strategy with regards to supervision?

The workshop is aimed at academics who are planning their own and possibly others project work and would like to plan it stringently. It teaches the basics of project management and offers methods for initiating, planning and structuring project work, also for a group of people (team). Time- and self-management with regards to the different task needed to be fulfilled will be discussed.

Qualification Goals
The participants learn:

• basics of project management in science
• to reflect upon their personal goals with regards to their scientific work
• to develop a project management plan for their own project(s)

Trainer

• Prof. Dr. Annette Kolb works nationally as a freelance trainer, advisor and coach for academics. 
• Her activities focus on strategic topics in order to be successful in academia. Before starting her freelancing work in 2014, she was a professor in the Department of Biosciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. 
• From 2015-2020 Prof. Kolb was working as a research associate in the science coordination staff of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. 

*Creditability within the kick-off seminar

For reasons of respect and fairness towards all participants and the workshop leaders, participants who miss more than 10% of the workshop are considered not to be present. You will therefore not receive a certificate and you will not be able to use the workshop in question to unlock funds or acquire further qualifications.