Career Development: Writing a great cover letter. In this workshop, participants will talk about the whys and hows of the cover letter. They will learn how to use simple tools to create a cover letter – or letter of interest – that stands out and helps to get an interview.

Career option university of applied sciences professorship: Strategic planning of the postdoc phase: The disproportionate increase in student numbers at universities of applied sciences (HAWs) in recent years requires an increase in the number of HAW professorships. Since the mid-2000s, however, there have been increasing bottlenecks in filling vacant professorships promptly and adequately. A central obstacle is the required triple qualification of research, teaching and professional experience outside of higher education. The associated dual intersectoral mobility makes it difficult to attract professionally successful specialists from the field and thwarts the establishment of systematic career paths to a HAW professorship.

Deep science future. An entry-level workshop for producing a better tomorrow with artificial intelligence: Participants will explore how AI can be used beneficially for society and individuals. The course will provide entry-level methods for evaluating machine learning use cases and guide participants through their first "no-code" implementation.

Intuitive Decision Making: Concepts - Tools - Opportunities for Postdocs: Being aware of your intuition is likely to help you in taking good private and professional decisions. Taking good decisions will save you energy, get you where you want to be and boost your motivation. During your work as a Postdoc, you may need to make difficult life choices, decide on a career path, and re-think the modes of your collegial interactions. Do you sometimes struggle with taking decisions or with finding the right mode of interaction? Would you like to change something, but you do not know how? Then this course is for you. Join the course to learn about the latest scientific insights, from the practical experience of other professionals and colleagues, and explore your individual best way of how to combine your analytic competence with your intuition.

Make Contacts that Count: Live, Virtual and Online Networking and Personal Branding: Learn how to build a well-functioning network without stress. identify your personal networking priority. Understand how to target your personal offer for the individual needs of funding bodies, backers, potential employers or academic partners. Develop your 'thirty-minutes-per-week' future career building strategy. Have a clear check-list of networking activities. Learn the essentials of networking best practice.

Freie Universität Berlin - Dahlem Research School: Dahlem Research School (DRS) is the central institution for young researchers at Freie Universität Berlin. It coordinates a broad range of doctoral programs, advises on all issues related to structured and individual doctoral studies, and offers an inspiring qualification program.

Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin - Humboldt Graduate School: The Humboldt Graduate School is the central institution for the strategic promotion of scientists and scholars in the early career phase at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Technische Universität Berlin - Center for Junior Scholars: The Center for Junior Scholars acts as a kind of pilot for all questions concerning young scientists from the doctoral and postdoc phases to junior professorships or junior research group leadership.

BUA Postdoc Academy: Benefit from a course program specifically tailored to the needs of postdocs. The BUA Postdoc Academy offers courses in the areas of research management, career counselling, self-management, science communication snd much more. Take advantage!