Women in Sciene is co-hosting a seminar and a panel discussion with CHaSE with a special focus on entrepreneurship! CHaSE is a student-organised job fair at Karolinska Institutet. The fair includes multiple workshops and seminars, and companies will be at site and they are looking forward meeting you! Take this opportunity to network with company representatives and gain new knowledge at the CHaSE events. The fair and events are open for everybody. You can read more about the fair at their website and Facebook page, where you also sign up for their workshops and can upload your CV.

We are bringing our seminar series "What Does a Scientist Look Like" to CHaSE and you are all welcome. Our seminar aims to bring female scientists to the spotlight and challenge the traditional view of a scientist. For this event, we have two very special guests: Aline de Santo Izabel and Marina Nart. Aline is a Brazilian scientist and founder of Symbiotic Kitchen and is a researcher within Digital Health and Personalized Nutrition at the Swedish startup Lifesum. Marina is an Italian scientist and founder of Beyond2030 where she works as a process facilitator and sustainability scientist that consults companies on the UN Agenda 2030. Both women will have a short presentation and a panel discussion will follow where you can ask all of your entrepreneurial questions. 

No need to register for this event, come as you are! You will find the event information below and at the CHaSE website and Facebook page.

Event info

Date: Thursday 3rd of October

Time: 14:00-15:00

Place: Stockholm, Aula Medica, Nobels Väg 6

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Welcome to this seminar with Ulf Jakobsson from the Swedish National Data Service on how to write and make use of Data Management Plan in your research.The aim of a Data Management Plan (DMP) is to plan the life cycle of data in a research project. It is a tool that by outlining how data will be generated, collected, documented, shared and preserved supports the researcher in effective data handling.A number of research funding bodies already have recommendations and, in some cases (Swedish Research Council, Formas, Horizon2020 and ERC) also requirements, for DMPs.

https://libcal.ub.uu.se/event/3418980 <https://libcal.ub.uu.se/event/3418980>

Date: October 7 or October 8

Databases in Earth Sciences and Geology

https://libcal.ub.uu.se/event/3418980 <https://libcal.ub.uu.se/event/3418980>

A databse with content of a large amount of e-books and reference materials in engineering and chemical science and more

https://libcal.ub.uu.se/event/3418978 <https://libcal.ub.uu.se/event/3418978>

Dual Career program at Uppsala University

Uppsala University and IFSS (International Faculty and Staff Services) are happy to introduce our dual career program for international spouses.

 The program consists of four seminars during four weeks and aims to help spouses gain access to the Swedish labor market. The seminars are led by a professional career coach, Gunilla Wredenberg, with over 10 000 coaching hours and extensive experience in coaching academics and individuals with post-secondary education. Moreover, Gunilla has great experience in coaching individuals with a different cultural background from a large number of countries with other approaches to job search.

 The program is free of charge and you will also have the opportunity to meet other people in the same situation in Uppsala to create your own network, not only for job-searching but also for making friends.

 Please register via the link below. The Registration closes 2019-09-25.

The number of participants are limited, first come first serve.

 Link: http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt14595 

International faculty and staff services invites all international researchers, lecturers, doctoral students to a trip to Uppsala University’s campus on Gotland. This trip is a two day event and is mainly directed at our employees and not family and friends.

The aim with this trip is to show the beautiful little town of Visby and also get a glimpse of our activities on campus Gotland. We will meet our national and international employees working on Gotland with the hope to bring our two campuses even closer together.

 Program in overview

A more detailed program will be available later

Day 1

09:00 Departing from Segerstedt building Uppsala

- Guided tour in Visby by Mikael Norrby.

- Free time to explore Visby.

- Dinner.

Day 2

- Presentation of Campus Gotland, their international programme and their research project.

- A visit to the Department of Game Design.

- Visit the museum of Gotland.

21:00 Back in Uppsala

 The number of participants are limited, first come first serve.

The price for this event is 1400 Sek/person, in the price it’s included transportation to and from Gotland, hotel, dinner day one and breakfast and lunch day 2. What you need to pay yourself is lunch day one and dinner day 2. Information about payment will be sent out separately.

 Register here: http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt14602

Last day for registration: 2019-09-26

Price: 1400 sek

Departure: 09:00, October 3rd

Back in Uppsala: 21:00, October 4th

The aim of the seminar is to provide you with useful information about Uppsala University, working conditions and benefits and to give insights into different aspects of life in Sweden.

·         Uppsala University in brief

·         Working and living in Sweden

·         Working environment

·         Information from our legal department

·         Payroll information

·         Information from our Unions

·         Moving to Sweden – a guest researcher´s experience

Register here: http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt14520 

Last day for registration: 2019-09-18

Date: September 23rd

Time: 09:00 - 15:00

Location: Blåsenhus, Bertil Hammer 24:K104. Maze Map: http://bit.ly/30q494k 

The Unit for Professional English (UPE) is a unit within the Department of English at Uppsala University dedicated to helping university employees develop their English-language competence.

We are happy to announce the courses that we will offer in the autumn. These include a course which will help prepare staff who want to take the internationally recognised Cambridge First Certificate in English exam, as well as two new courses for administrative staff which build on our previous courses in writing and speech. We are also offering a variety of courses aimed towards researchers, teachers and doctoral students. To find out more about our courses, including what they cost and how to register, follow this link.

Getting an independent research position in Sweden.

Are you working towards an independent career in academia? Are you applying for faculty positions and start up grants or are you about to? Do you already hold an independent position in Academia and have some thoughts on how to improve the transition from postdoc to principal investigator?

If you replied yes to any of these questions, we kindly ask you to take 10-13 minutes of your time to answer this survey.

https://survey.ki.se/Survey/16403

Indeed, transitioning from a postdoctoral position to academic independence requires funds, institutional support, and equal opportunities. However, are these conditions and resources sufficiently available? Here, we aim to assemble your perspectives (if you are working towards independence) and experiences (if you have already reached independence) of what is needed to start an independent line of research in a Swedish academic setting. 

These data will be used to write a report to share with the researcher community, funders and stakeholders. The Swedish Research Council (VR, Vetenskapsrådet) has recently evaluated the call, as international postdocs and KIPA representatives have met with VR representatives to discuss how career support and pathways for postdocs could develop in the future. Thus, it is important that this survey leads to firm results.

We aim to collect the opinions of a broad and diverse range of national and international academics in all fields (e.g., life sciences, humanities, engineering) in their postdoc or faculty career stage from all Swedish academic institutions. All responders will remain anonymous.

This survey is prepared by the Karolinska Institutet Postdoc Association (KIPA. https://ki.se/en/staff/ki-postdoc-association) and distributed by SNPA (Swedish Network of Postdoc Associations).