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Anmeldehinweise für Kurse von GAUSS / GGNB

GAUSS and GGNB offer a wide range of courses, seminars, workshops and other activities training you in scientific methods and techniques or in professional (transferable) skills. These courses are offered throughout the year and are supplemented by industry excursions (company visits) and additional career-related events. The current course program is listed separately for Methods Courses and Skills Courses.

An overview of all courses can be accessed as pdf (Overview Methods Courses winter semester 2025/26, Overview Skills Courses winter semester 2025/26). The professional skills courses and industry excursions are featuring a “traffic light” system indicating for which stage of your PhD we deem the course to be especially suitable (green: early; yellow: middle; red: late). These are recommendations only except for the industry excursions and the application skills courses; for those preference will be given to participants in the late-stage of their PhD. Courses organized by GAUSS and its partners are regularly announced in the monthly GAUSS Newsletter.

Registration for all courses held in one month will open two months before (i.e. registration 1-20 September for courses in November). Each registration is open for three weeks and can be accessed via the individual course pages in Stud.IP (see detailed instructions how to register here). Non-GAUSS members can apply for free places in courses after the registration deadline by sending an email to office@gauss.uni-goettingen.de or ggnb@gwdg.de.
The allocation of courses is usually taking place around the 25th of each month. Once this is completed you will receive a confirmation email for the courses in which you can take part or where you hold a position on the waiting list. Once you have received this confirmation, please verify if you are able to take all courses you have been assigned to and check carefully for overlaps. In case you need to cancel your participation, please do so immediately in your Stud.IP account but latest by the last day of that month. This enables us to offer the next person on the waiting list to take your slot.
On the 1st of the next month, participation becomes binding for all courses taking place in the following month (e.g. 1st October for courses taking place in November.
Planning and realizing the courses implies a great financial but also organizational effort. We can only maintain our course program if we are able to rely on that the registered participants are showing up. Therefore, later cancellations are only accepted on the grounds of illness or other severe reasons and a doctor’s attestation or written statement by your supervisor has to be submitted. Unsubstantiated cancellations will result in exclusion from all courses for one year!