Seminars and workshops
The University of Cologne offers its researchers a series of seminars and workshops on the following overarching topics:
- Good scientific practice
- Scientific writing
- Scientific presentation
- Statistics and bioinformatics
- Ethics
- Project / data management
- Research funding
- Didactics
- Career planning and orientation
- Leadership and Management
- Seminar series
- Scientific Career Day
- Life Sciences Lectures
- ZKS Akademie - Qualifying for clinical research
- Further offers
Doctoral students in the Interdisciplinary Program Health Sciences (IPHS) and Molecular Medicine (IPMM) as well as Clinician Scientists in the Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP) will find a selection of courses for their mandatory modules here.
Please refer to the respective provider's website for information on the conditions of participation, the language of the course and the specific target group.
The events listed here do not claim to be exhaustive. If you are missing something, please send us an e-mail.
Good scientific practice
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
Workshop Good Scientific Practice (Prof. Dr. Nicole Skoetz - Institute of Public Health) | Jun 17 - 18, 2025 | 09:15 - 11:15 | IPHS |
Workshop Good Research Practice (Prof. Dr. Martin C. Michel - Institute for Pharmacology | University Mainz) | May 12, 2025 Sept 22, 2025 | 13:00 | IPMM/ZMMK |
Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis – Grundlagenwissen für Doktorand*innen (online) (Dr. Julia Verse) | Jun 23 - 24, 2025 Sep 11 - 12, 2025 | 9:30 - 16:15 | AMC |
Good Scientific Practice – Basic principles for Doctoral Candidates (online) (Dr. Julia Verse) | Jun 26 - 27, 2025 Sep 16 - 17, 2025 | 9:30 - 16:15 | AMC |
Scientific writing
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
Workshop Advanced Scientific Writing (Dr. Ruth Willmott (Bioscript, Vienna)) | Jul 16 -18, 2025 | 2,5 days | IPMM/ZMMK |
Academic Writing in English for Doctoral Candidates in the Life and Natural Sciences (Lesley-Anne Weiling) | Apr 8 - 9, 2025 Oct 7 - 8, 2025 | 9:00 - 15:30 | AMC |
Academic Writing in English for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Lesley-Anne Weiling) | Feb 19 - 20, 2025 | 9:00 - 15:30 | AMC |
(Lesley-Anne Weiling) | May, 6, 2025 | 9:00 - 13:00 | AMC |
Scientific presentation
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
Workshop Power Point Presentation (Dr. Ruth Willmott (Bioscript, Vienna)) | April 14 - 16, 2025 | 3 days | IPMM/ZMMK |
Workshop Poster Design and Presentation (Dr. Ruth Willmott (Bioscript, Vienna)) | Aug 7 - 8, 2025 | 2 days | IPMM/ZMMK |
Confident performance – presentation skills for female researchers (Dr. Saskia Schottelius) | Oct 30 - 31, 2025
| 9:30 - 16:00 | AMC |
(Thorsten Rother) | Mar 10 - 11, 2025 Sep 29 - 30, 2025 | 9:00 - 16:00 | AMC |
Getting it Right: Scientific Presentation for Doctoral Candidates (John Kluempers) | Feb 25 - 26, 2025 | 9:00 - 17:00 | AMC |
Wissenschaftliche Präsentation in der Promotionsphase – souverän vortragen und diskutieren (Sabine Scheerer) | Nov 3 - 4, 2025 | 9:00 - 17:00 | AMC |
Statistics and bioinformatics
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
Statistics with the Software "R" (Prof. Dr. Achim Tresch - Institute for Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics) | each Thursday, 07.11.24 - 12.12.24 | 10:00 - 15:00 | IPHS/IMSB |
Grundlagen der medizinischen Statistik (Prof. Dr. Martin Hellmich - Institute of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics) | Block course: 17.-21.03.2025 | 9:15 - 13:00 | IMSB |
Statistics for the Life Science (with GraphPad Prism) (Prof. Dr. Martin C. Michel - Institute for Pharmacology | University Mainz) | Sept 23 - 24, 2025 | 2 days | IPMM/ZMMK |
Ethics
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
Research Ethics and Theory of Science (Dr. Christian Hick - Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine) | tba | tba | IPHS |
Project/data management
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
(Dr. Christine Kohistani) | May 6, 2025 | 09:00 - 16:30 | PE |
Projektmanagement Basisschulung (Rainer Klein, Abteilung 15 - Organisationsentwicklung) | Oct 8 - 9, 2025 | 09:00 - 13:30 | PE |
Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM/RDM): Eine praxisbezogene Einführung (Andreas Mühlichen und Denis Arnold) | Jul 2, 2025 | 09:00 - 16:00 | C³RDM |
Research Data Management (RDM/FDM): A Practice-Oriented Introduction (Denis Arnold und Andreas Mühlichen) | Oct 8, 2025 | 09:00 - 16:00 | C³RDM |
Aufbaukurs Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM/RDM): Wie schreibe ich einen Datenmanagementplan (DMP)? (Jasmin Schenk und Andreas Mühlichen) | Nov 19, 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 | C³RDM |
Advanced Course on Research Data Management (RDM/FDM): How to Write a Data Management Plan (DMP) (Jasmin Schenk und Andreas Mühlichen) | May 7, 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 | C³RDM |
Research funding
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
Workshop: Funding Opportunities for Postdocs and Clinician Scientists (Dr. Simona Walker (Research Funding Support Medicine)) | on request | on request | Dean's Office |
Individual funding advice for all scientists at the Faculty of Medicine (Dr. Simona Walker (Research Funding Support Medicine)) | on request | on request | Dean's Office |
Workshop Getting funded: Writing an individual fellowship (Dr. Ruth Willmott (Bioscript, Vienna)) | Jun 12, 2025 follow-up: Jun 16 or 17 | 1,5 days | IPMM/ZMMK |
Proposal Writing Workshop (for (Ad)CCSP Fellows only) (Priv. Doz. Melanie Conrad, PhD) | Jan 27, 2025 | 09:00 - 16:00 | CCSP/AdCCSP |
(Dr. Simona Walker (Forschungsförderberatung Medizin)) | Feb 11, 2025 | 16:30 - 17:30 | CCSP/AdCCSP |
Funding Opportunities for PostDocs (for late-stage PhD students) (Dr. Simona Walker (Forschungsförderberatung Medizin)) | Feb 4, 2025 | 14:30 - 15:30 | Dean's Office/IPHS/IPMM |
Funding Pioneering Research - ERC Synergy Grants (D7) | May 15, 2025 | 10:00 - 12:30 | D7 |
Funding Pioneering Research - ERC Starting & Consolidator Grants (D7) | Jul 9, 2025 | 10:00 - 13:00 | D7 |
Fit for Research Funding: Equal opportunity measures in DFG’s funding procedures (D7) | June 5, 2025 | 12:00 - 13:00 | D7 |
(D7) | Oct 30, 2025 | 12:00 - 13:00 | D7 |
Fit for Research Funding: Fit for Open Science and Research Data Management (D7) | Dec 4, 2025 | 12:00 - 13:00 | D7 |
Didactics
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
12.01 Medizindidaktik: Curriculum Development (Dr. Dino Carl Novak, Heike Zims) | May 9 - 10, 2025 Dec 12 - 13, 2025 | May 9: 10:00 - 19:00 May 10: 10:00 - 14:00 | UKK |
12.02 Medizindidaktik: Plenardidaktik (Jürgen-Christoph von Kleist-Retzow, Claus Reinhardt) | Jul 4 - 5 | Jul 4: 10:00 - 19:00 Jul 5 10: 10:00 - 14:00 | UKK |
12.03 Medizindidaktik: Interaktiver Kleingruppenunterricht (Prof. Dr. Jan Matthes, Dr. Christoph Stosch) | Sept 26 - 27 | Sept 26: 10:00 - 19:00 Sept 27: 10:00 - 14:00 | UKK |
12.04 Medizindidaktik: Unterricht am Krankenbett (Dr. Eva Schönefeld, Dr. Helmut Ahrens) | Aug 29 - 30 | Aug 29: 09:00 - 18:00 Aug 30: 09:00 - 17:00 | UKK |
12.05 Medizindidaktik: E-Learning (Dr. Dino Carl Novak, Birger Reiß) | Sept 26 | Sept 26: 10:00 - 19:00 | UKK |
12.06 Medizindidaktik: Richtig (?!) Prüfen (Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jan Matthes, Dr. Christoph Stosch) | Oct 10 - 11 | Oct 10: 10:00 - 19:00 Oct 11: 10:00 - 14:00 | UKK |
12.07 Medizindidaktik: Forschung und Medizinstudium (Priv.-Doz. Dr. Jan Matthes, Dr. Sören Moritz, Dr. Christoph Stosch) | Sept 19 - 20 | Sept 19: 10:00 - 19:00 Sept 20: 10:00 - 14:00 | UKK |
12.08 Medizindidaktik: Diversity in der medizinischen Lehre (Dr. Houda Hallal, Dr. Vanessa Romotzky, Prof. Dr. Jan Matthes) | Nov 7 - 8 | Nov 7: 10:00 - 19:00 Nov 8: 10:00 - 14:00 | UKK |
Career planning and orientation
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
Workshop Career Mentoring and Management (Dr. Ruth Willmott (Bioscript, Vienna) | Aug 8, 2025 follow-up: Aug 11 or 12 | 1,5 days | IPMM/ZMMK |
Workshop Career Orientation for Junior PhDs career development (Dr. Ruth Willmott (Bioscript, Vienna) | Jul 15, 2025 | 1 day | IPMM/ZMMK |
AMC Career Compass: lecture series about career development and applications (verschiedene Referent*innen) | Feb 5, 2025 Mar 18, 2025 Jun 24, 2025 Nov 6, 2025 | 12:00 - 13:30 | AMC |
Bewerbungstraining (außeruniversitär) für Berufseinsteigerinnen (Diana Ochs) | Jun 25, 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 | AMC |
Career perspectives after PhD in Natural and Life Science (Dr. Gaby Schilling) | Sep 17, 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 | AMC |
Was hat meine Promotion mit meiner Herkunft zu tun? (Dr. Ann-Kristin Kolwes) | Mar 19, 2025 | 12:00 - 16:00 | AMC |
Wie finde ich heraus, was ich (beruflich) wirklich will? Potentialanalyse für Frauen (Dr. Sarah Kersten) | Mar 25 & Apr 1, 2025 | 09:00 - 15:00 | AMC |
How to become a professor in Germany (Katharina Lemke, Dr. Vanessa Adam) | tba | tba | AMC |
Professor wanted! Planning and optimising your academic career (Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrandt) | Oct 28, 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 | AMC |
Wissenschaftlerinnen auf dem Weg zur Professur (RA Dr. Ulrike Preißler, RA Katharina Helmig) | May, 8, 2025 | 09:00 - 13:30 | AMC |
Starting a career in the non-academic sector (Dr. Anne Wolfes, Prosciencia) | Apr 2 - 3, 2025 | Apr 2: 09:00 - 17:00 Apr 3: 08:45 - 17:00 | AMC |
Leadership and Management
| Title (Lecturer) | date | Time | Provider* |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Prof. Dr. Uta Bronner) | Feb 21, 2025 Apr 4, 2025 Nov 13, 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 | PE |
| (Matthias Merkelbach / Dr. Anja Frohnen, Impulsplus) | Nov 19, 2024 Jun 12, 2025 Nov 21, 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 | PE |
Fachlich führen - Erfolgreich steuern ohne Weisungsbefugnis (Hubert Sonntag, Hattinger Büro GmbH) | Mar 25 - 26, 2025 Sep 17 - 18, 2025
| 09:00 - 17:00 | PE |
Team motivation & dynamics for research groups in development - working together for joint success (Dr. Nils Kasties) | Dec 3, 2024 | 09:30 - 13:30 | PE |
In Führung gehen – Promovierende erfolgreich betreuen (Dr. Matthias Scholz) | Jan 30, 2025 | 09:30 - 17:00 | PE |
| (Astrid Linder, relation~s GmbH) | Apr 29 - 30 | 09:00 - 17:00 | PE |
| (Hubert Sonntag, Hattinger Büro GmbH) | Sep 30, 2025 | 09:00 - 17:00 | PE |
Overview of management training courses at the university hospital (various speakers) | see Bildungsportal | see Bildungsportal | UKK |
Seminar series
Scientific Career Day
Life Science Lectures
ZKS Akademie - Qualifying for clinical research
Further offers
You can find further interesting training opportunities here:
- Continuing education program of the University of Cologne
- Albertus Magnus Center (AMC)
- Education portal of the University Hospital Cologne
- Events of the Faculty of Medicine
- SchreibArt courses of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Courses offered by the University and City Library (USB)
- Courses offered by ZB MED
*Legend
AMC - Albertus Magnus Center
C³RDM - Cologne Competence Center for Research Data Management
D7 - Department 7 "Research Management" of the University of Cologne
IMSB - Institute for Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics
IPHS - Interdisciplinary Program Health Sciences
IPMM - Interdisciplinary Program Molecular Medicine
PE - Human Resources Development at the University of Cologne
UKK - University Hospital Cologne (Education Portal)
ZMMK - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne