Academic Career
Development Programme
Advance your skills and shape your research career – You are pursuing an academic career and want to advance your skills to meet the challenges of your everyday research environment? You want to further develop your role as a (prospective) research group leader, acquire progressive leadership and management skills and benefit from direct exchange with your peers?
Then take part in the "Academic Career Development Programme” - a joint programme of Heine Research Academies. The interdisciplinary program supports your personal career in academia and facilitates training in a small, set peer group. A certificate confirms the successful participation in the programme.
Target group:
The academic career development programme is a training and continuing education programme for research group leaders seeking an academic career. The participants are members of HHU have an own research project and are
junior research group leaders and/ or
Junior Professors
Objectives of the programme
The Academic Career Development Programme aims to further professionalize the management of your everyday research environment and prepares you for (future) management tasks in research. During the programme you will reflect on your personal capacity as a leader in research and actively extend your skills.
The programme is designed for a limited group of likeminded professionals that are or soon will be on their way to full research independency. You connect with your peers and discuss with each other on equal footing. The workshops and networking sessions are set up to further enhance your understanding of the research system in order to make use of it for your personal career. This leaves you well prepared for upcoming challenges and allows more time for your actual research.
Content of the programme
- Workshop: Good Research Practice
(obligatory for all programme participants who have not yet attended a GRP course)
- ACDP-Workshop 1: Strategic planning of research careers
- ACDP-Workshop 2: Intermediate Leadership
- ACDP-Workshop 3: Healthy self-management
(in collaboration with the Section Health (HCSD))
- ACDP-Workshop 4: How to start your group
ACDP-Seminar: The German Research System
- optional Workshop: Basics of Science Communication
- optional Workshop: Elective workshop
- Networking with fellow group leaders and junior professors is possible through the jungle_net events.
Peer Coaching: coaching in small peer groups concering individually choosen topics, 4-6 peers in one group, 5-6 sessions throughout the entire programme, each session is about 3-4 hours
Scope of the programme: 80-100 working units à 45 min
Application
The Academic Career Development Programme (ACDP) is a set programme for a maximum of 10-12 participants that runs regularly. The programme lasts for about 1 year (depending on the individualized schedule for workshop 4) and is held in English. Participation is voluntary and free of charge for HHU members. If you have signed up for the programme we expect you to take part for the entire length of the programme.
Please sign the letter of commitment and submit it to the address below.
The application deadline is 31 January 2025. The programme will start in March 2025.
Dr. Uta Brunner
Junior Scientist and International Researcher Center (JUNO)
Heinrich Heine University
Universitätsstr. 1. Geb. 16.11 00.48
D – 40225 Düsseldorf
Tel. +49 (0)211-81 13564
uta.brunner(at)hhu.de