Category: Workshop

Franco-German dialogue: Is Artificial Intelligence Gender Biased? How Women Reshape AI
The French Embassy in Germany is organising a Franco-German dialogue on gender bias in AI with other partners such as bidt.

From Awareness to Action: Addressing Discrimination and Power in Academia
Academia is deeply intertwined with power structures and discrimination, shaping not only institutional cultures and career trajectories but also research theory and methodologies. This interactive workshop will critically…

The interdisciplinary advantage: Rules for Team and Career Growth
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn practical strategies for interdisciplinary research (IDR) and team collaboration to foster professional growth in interdisciplinary fields. Through real-world examples and hands-on…

Social Science and Language Models – Methods and theory to responsible research on and with Language Technologies
As methodology utilizing language models is increasingly applied to a variety of contexts from social science, health-care settings to computer software development, research suggests a growing need to monitor potential biased…

Workshop Application Writing – DFG and BMBF
Get to know the funding opportunities offered by the DFG and the federal government. Get important background information on the respective review processes and criteria and understand the differences between the funding organizations.

Workshop Application Writing, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships & ERC Grants
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships support postdocs with their own research projects. The workshop offers space for advice on individual applications.

Thinking like a …
Content: Interdisciplinary work is hard: scientists from other disciplines have different problems, use different terminology, pursue different pathways to a solution and have different criteria for what makes a good solution.
Interdisciplinarity in Action: Methods for fruitful Teamwork
Content: “Digitalization can only be best investigated with an interdisciplinary approach” says a recurrent statement that can be adopted for a number of complex research themes. But how can collaboration across disciplinary…
Data visualisation: How to design scientific figures
Content: What is the first thing we scientists look at in scientific articles or on posters? The figures! But they are not only meant to be eye-catching. They also convey information with a density that words can never attain.

Introduction to Online Surveys
Content: Online surveys have become a standard tool in social science research. They are inexpensive to administer and provide insights that require people to report on concepts such as attitudes or perceptions that are difficult…