Events and lecture series
Getting Started on Your Doctorate (for doctoral candidates)
How (and why) to become a doctoral candidate (for master's students)
Contributing To The World's To Do List
Primers for Predocs
Workshop 4EU + "Career Development & Leadership"
Getting Started on Your Doctorate – Reception and information session for doctoral candidates
New doctoral candidates generally begin their doctoral project with many questions about registering and enrolling, finding housing, obtaining health insurance, funding their doctoral studies, learning German and much more. The Graduate Academy would like to welcome you to Heidelberg and provide you with the information necessary especially for your first weeks and months at the university!
At our "Getting Started on Your Doctorate" event and reception we inform you about our own services as well as about other useful addresses at the university. You will have the opportunity to meet the Graduate Academy team, to ask questions and to get to know other doctoral candidates.
The next "Getting Started on Your Doctorate" event and reception will take place in October 2025!
More information:
► Invitation "Getting Started on your Doctorate" - 2024-10-23 (PDF) 
How (and why) to become a doctoral candidate – Reception and information session for master’s students
If you are approaching the end of your master’s studies and are considering pursuing a doctorate at Heidelberg University, this event is for you. New doctoral candidates generally begin their PhD with many questions about registering and enrolling, funding their doctoral studies and much more. The
Graduate Academy would like to provide you with the information necessary especially for your first steps toward a doctorate.
At our event How (and why) to become a doctoral candidate we will inform you about our own services as well as about other helpful contacts within the university. You will have the opportunity to meet the Graduate Academy team, to ask questions and to get to know other master’s students interested in pursuing a PhD.
How (and why) to become a doctoral candidate – Information sessions for master’s students
The next session will take place in 2025!
More information:
► PDF - How (and why) to become a doctoral candidate_July 3, 2024_web
Event series "Contributing To The World’s To Do List – Heidelberger Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden stellen sich vor"
How can we best meet the challenges of sustainable development? And how do young scientists contribute to this through their research? The event series "Contributing To The World's To Do List - Heidelberg Doctoral Students Introduce Themselves", financed by the Stadt-Heidelberg-Stiftung and organized by the Graduate Academy of Heidelberg University, is taking a closer look at these questions.
Twice a year, doctoral candidates at Heidelberg University are invited to present their research as it relates to one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Each event is dedicated to one specific SDG and doctoral candidates are given the opportunity to present their own scientific projects in relation to this SDG and thus contribute to the transfer of academic research into society.
"Contributing to the world's to do list" is a quote by António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, from the opening of the 77th UN General Assembly (UNGA77) in September 2022. This motto serves as a call for a wide variety of campaigns in support of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Spring 2025
Further information
Contributing To The World’s To Do List
UN's Agenda 2030: 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Primers for Predocs – Strategies for a successful doctorate
When you are doing your PhD you are managing a huge project – this means you don’t just need competences in your field of research but also other relevant skills. PhD candidates should manage their time, teach seminars, present their research, show intercultural sensitivity working in multinational teams, prepare themselves for a job after their PhD, maybe take care of an own family and much more.
In our new series "Primers for PreDocs" several speakers talk about these aspects in short lectures!
A short reception after the talks will give you the opportunity to discuss with the speakers.
Next events:
PROGRAM
We are currently taking a break and hope to be back with new topics as soon as possible.
Panel Discussion and Workshop 4EU + "Career Development & Leadership"
On November 16th, 2022, Heidelberg Graduate Academy in collaboration with the Heidelberg branch of the 4EU+ European University Alliance offered a training package on “Career Development & Leadership” for doctoral candidates from all 4EU+ partner universities with international speakers from academia and business. The training package consisted of three consecutive events and activities, among them a a panel discussion (also broadcast online) on "Career Development and Leadership" which took place on November 16th, 2022.
The initiative was financed through funds provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Ministry for Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
More information:
► Panel Discussion and Workshop 4EU + "Career Development & Leadership"
