Career Development Through Research Funding
Rationale and Objectives
Researchers are increasingly faced with expectations to raise third-party funds if they want to pursue a successful research career. Yet, applying for third-party funds is not an end in itself and could even be detrimental to research careers, if disconnected from own scientific or life plans or scientific goals. This workshop, thus, aims to clarify which kinds of funding opportunities are suitable for the participants’ respective purposes. In addition, it offers insights into the objectives and practices of research funding institutions and peer review procedures.During the afternoon and second day, individual short coaching sessions will help the participants to pave their way towards successful applications in view of their needs and ambitions.
Methods
- Lectures
- Individual and group work
- Presentation of results
- Change of perspective
Dates
- Compact workshop on May 27, 2026, 9:30 am to 1 pm
- Individual coaching sessions (á 30 minutes) either on May 27, 2026 (2:10 to 6:40 pm) or May 28, 2026 (9 am to 3 pm); participants will receive the times for the coaching sessions in good time before the workshop.
Details
Date:
Wed, 27 May 2026, 09:30 AM - 01:00 PM, face-to-face event
Location:
Hamburg Research Academy, Gorch-Fock-Wall 7, 20354 Hamburg
Career Stage:
Postdoctoral Phase, Junior Research Group Leaders, W1 Professorship
Language:
English
Organizer:
Hamburg Research Academy
Trainer:
Dr Beate Scholz is founder and director of Scholz CTC GmbH. As strategy consultant, trainer, coach, reviewer and researcher, she focuses on researchers’ career development with special attention to doctoral education and equal opportunities. She works internationally with individual researchers and research policy makers as well as with universities, research funders and research performing institutions. Scholz CTC GmbH was a partner of the Inspireurope project funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, with Dr Scholz also being a member of the Advisory Board of the successor project Inspireurope+ until its end in August 2025.
Maximum number of participants:
15