During the current period of the national excellence initiative (2018-2025), all courses and services offered by the Berlin member universities of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) will be open to all membes of these institutions.

Please note:
(1) Many courses will be free for you and at no cost to M&B. You can go ahead an book them.

(2) Some courses, though free for you, will have to be paid for by M&B and thus need to be approved beforehand by M&B. Please check with the course organizers whether costs will be incurred for M&B before booking your courses. For these courses you will have to get our go-ahead.

Direct links to the course offers of the BUA graduate centers (BUA also has a newsletter with events which we will forward to you):
Dahlem Research School, FU
Charité
TU Center for Junior Scholars
Humboldt Graduate School, HU, News and online offers
Humboldt Graduate School, HU, Transferable skills courses
Berlin University Alliance - Graduate Studies Support Prgram
Berlin University Alliance - Career

General list of career-related courses (not all of them will be available at any one time):

• Annual career days
• Mentoring programs: one-on-one and peer mentoring
• Career development courses / opportunities
• Career coaching
• Plan B courses (careers outside the Academy)
• Career networking events
• Getting started on your PhD events / courses
• Transition funding
• University departments dedicated to professional continuing education (Berufliche Weiterbildung)

Upcoming career events

Career Day for Doctoral Researchers 2025
Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 9.00 - 17.00
The Career Day 2025 will be held in person at Humboldt Graduate School. Graduate researchers of Berlin University Alliance are welcome to join us for a day full of stories from PhD holders about their career paths, input on the labor market, CV work, and networking with fellow graduate researchers.
Humboldt Graduate School, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin
In-person event. Selected parts of the program will be streamed on Zoom.
A detailed program will be available in November.
The booking period will open in December.
We welcome doctoral students from all research fields. You must be affiliated to Berlin University Alliance (FU, HU, TU, Charité).

Past career events?

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