PhD General Assembly

1. feedback on PhD Day

2. Website:

Who is who ?

Method/ knowledge sharing

Statistics: financial status of PhD students

Supervision of PhD students, relation PhD students/ supervisors

3. Soft Skill Courses:

External (speaker invited): time/project management, rhetorics

Internal (speakers from GFZ): presentations, publications, funding

4. Social events

5. Helmholtz-Juniors

PhD General Assembly

Soft skill coursesWhat do we want / need?

Internal activities I GFZLast year: Work-Life-Balance, Time managementThis year: ?

Internal activities II PhDGFZ scientists introduce their strategies concerning:

Presentations Proposals/funding Paper External consultant

Our suggestions: Rhetorics, Project management, Time management

Your suggestions ? (www.hu-berlin.de)

PhD General Assembly

Helmholz Juniors Meeting18-20/01/06, Leipzig

• Helmholtz Homepage: http://www.helmholtznet.de• Wiki: http://helmholtz-juniors.de/vernetzungswiki• Forum: http://helmholtz-juniors.de/forum/index.php

Meeting the new HGF president Prof. Mlynek

Topics discussed promotion/support of PhD students within the HGF

• supervising PhD students through a scientific commitee

• imarting soft skills in graduate schools

PhD General Assembly

Helmholz Juniors Meeting18-20/01/06, Leipzig

Topics discussed in open space rounds were

• Career perspectives• Goals of the HGFJ• Networking• International students• Questionary• Soft skills

Next meeting of the Helmholz Juniors at the

DKFZ in Heidelberg (expected in early 2007)