+++Cancelled+++ Starting your Academic Career in Germany: What to Expect? - (hybrid)

Cancelled!!!

Participation

For doctoral researchers of all disciplines. The workshop will take place at DRS, Hittorfstraße 16, 14195 Berlin.
However, online participation is also possible: In this case please register here, and send an additional email to skills@drs.fu-berlin.de. We will then send you the video link.

Objectives

• Explaining the academic labor market situation, the academic career advancement model, and the current higher education reforms in Germany in a way that is accessible to outsiders

• Providing international early-career researchers with a chance to realistically assess their career chances in German academia and within the European Higher Education Area

• Offering a critical view on contemporary qualification and employment practices in the academic sector

• Introducing the existing venues of solidarity and resistance in German academia

Content

• European academic labor markets in comparative perspective

• The academic qualification model in Germany

• Idiosyncrasies of the German academic system

• The Fixed-Term Academic Employment Law (WissZeitVG) and its implications for international and domestic early-career researchers

• Contemporary debates and fault lines in German academia

• How to apply for academic jobs in Germany

• Researcher communities, solidarity networks, and anti-precarity initiatives