10th PhDnet General Meeting

26 Oct 2011, 08:00 → 28 Oct 2011, 20:00 Europe/Berlin

Forschungszentrum caesar

Jan Jikeli (Forschungszentrum Caesar), Luam Mengler (Max-Planck- Institut für neurologische Forschung)

The 10th PhDnet meeting will focus on the topic Work-Life Balance in Science?! and will be hosted by the Forschungszentrum Caesar in Bonn from October 26th - 28th 2011. We want to give you a forum for fruitful discussions, discovering scientific overlaps, to inform you about the achievements of the year and then send you back home with the same enthusiasm that's driving us. About this meeting The annual General Meeting is meant to exchange experiences, scientific and non-scientific, to learn about the situation of PhD students at other institutes and to discuss and agree on necessary changes. This year's agenda includes a moderated plenary discussion with representatives of institutes and societies that influence our work and working conditions as Max-Planck PhD students. This discussion is thought of as a platform to discuss positive developments and shortcomings and to develop a guideline for a healthy Work-Life balance, good working conditions and job prospects for PhD students: a Best Practice Guide. We want to discuss the draft from last year's spokesperson Daniel Kalthoff with you and work in groups on an official version. At the end we'll all return with a finalized Best Practice Guide to our institutes! About the location Caesar has been a member of the Max Planck family since 2006 and is located close to the Rhine, the Rheinauen park and the former government district, and we will make sure that you get a glimpse of all of that!

Wednesday, 26 October

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome

10:15 → 12:00 Presentation of work groups

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Buffet

13:30 → 16:00 Infotalks on working conditions of PhDstudents

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 Infotalks

18:30 → 21:00 Dinner with Postersession

Thursday, 27 October

09:00 → 10:00 Discussion of "Best Practice Guide"

10:00 → 13:00 Plenary discussion

The plenary discussion will focus on three topics:
- Work Life Balance in science
- framework for PhD stundents
- future prospects

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch buffet

14:00 → 16:30 New work groups

14:00 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:00 Presentation of work groups 2012

18:00 → 19:00 Scientific talk

Friday, 28 October

09:30 → 10:30 Vote on PhDnet statutes

10:30 → 11:30 Election of steering committee 2012

11:30 → 12:30 Presentation of "Best Practice Guide"

13:00 → 14:30 Guided tour through former governmental district