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  • WissZeitVG – Experts criticize draft law

    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…

  • Newsletter October 2024

    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…

  • Our Strategies – a new working group!

    Our Strategies – a new working group!

    Last year, we founded this federal association and dedicated ourselves to promoting science in Germany by supporting its most valuable resource: researchers. Our focus is particularly on doctoral students at public research institutions. Our initial projects include fundraising, building a network, and participating in the reform of the WissZeitVG. Our new working group Strategy will…