Academic Skills Training

The offer of the University of Erfurt related to academic skills and key competences aime at all scientists, thus at employees, university lecturers and scholarship holders or at doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers or professors.
The programme contains three fields for the acquisition of competences:

We want to support academics of all career stages in the further development of their competences as well as with their cereer strategies in the best possible way. All offers are free of charge, but only members and affiliates of the University of Erfurt can take part in the programme.

You can find more information on the current programme as well as detailed information and the possibility to register by clicking on the respective offer below.

You can also discover the university didactics programmes.

Key Competences
Key Competences Development of interdisciplinary key competences
Career
Career planning and development Career coaching and events
gear wheel mentoring
Mentoring Mentoring for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers and career track professors

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Offers from other departments and providers

Internal offers from other departments

Workshop: Gute Betreuung – konstruktive Gestaltung von Betreuungs- und Machtbeziehungen

The Staff Unit Research and Graduate Services at the University of Erfurt is inviting doctoral candidates to a full-day face-to-face workshop on 21 October 2026 on the topic of ‘Gute Betreuung – konstruktive Gestaltung von Betreuungs- und Machtbeziehungen’.
The workshop will be held in German.

Further information can be found here.

Offers from external providers

Listed below are external, free opportunities that may be of particular interest to doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers.

Writing Friday for doctoral candidates

The Schreibzentrum Berlin usually organises ‘Writing Friday’ for doctoral candidates on the first Friday of each month.
The sessions takes place online.
Further information can be found here.

Young Entrepreneurs in Science events

Young Entrepreneurs in Science offers workshops and events for Master’s students, doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers to promote entrepreneurial thinking and action.
You can find the upcoming events here.

Online Talk Series on DFG funding opportunities for Research Careers

As part of the “Prospects” talk series, the DFG presents its funding portfolio for early-career researchers throughout the year.
Further information can be found here.

Contact

Franziska Frank
Franziska Frank
Competence-Oriented Personnel Development for Academics
(President's Office)
C02 – administration building / C02.01.59
+49 361 737-5008
akademische-qualifizierung@uni-erfurt.de