Events
Workshops and Events
As an early-career researcher, you can choose from our wide range of free BYRD workshops. On our web pages, we have also bundled the offers of other university-wide providers.
For questions regarding course registration, cancellation of participation, and other organisational matters, please see our General information about BYRD events and workshops.
Next BYRD Mixer/ International PhD Students' Meeting: 26 March 2025, 18:00, Heldenbar
BYRD @ Social Media
Follow us on LinkedIn! We will keep you updated about upcoming BYRD workshops and will share news and calls that are of relevance to early-career researchers or concern funding options.
For Postdocs and Advanced Researchers
In order to support you on your way to a professorship or a position in business and civil society, we offer you training measures and events explicitly aimed at postdoctoral researchers. The focus is on career orientation, academic career development and personal development.
You will also find selected offers from other institutions in the overview below.
For questions regarding course registration, cancellation of participation, and other organisational matters, please see our General information about BYRD events and workshops.
If you have any suggestions, questions, or special wishes concerning our training program, please contact the BYRD team.
Please note: Only workshops in English language are listed on this page. For the complete list of all workshops of our qualification program for postdoctoral researchers please refer to the German version of this site.
Accessibility: If you have special needs, please feel free to contact us. We will do our best to support you accordingly.
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title | date | venue | offered by | no. |
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March 2025 | ||||
Developing your "research profile" | 10. + 11.03.2025 | online | BYRD | 2025-09 |
Voice & Body Coaching - Communicating with confidence and accuracy | 26. + 27.03.2025 | Campus | BYRD | 2025-11 |
Empowering Team Success: Crafting Effective Collaboration | 31.03. + 01.04.2025 | Campus | BYRD | 2025-12 |
April 2025 | ||||
Paid to Research: how to prepare successful funding application | 07. + 08.04.2025 | online | Graduiertenakademie Universit?t Oldenburg | |
My Visibility as a Scientific Expert on LinkedIn & ResearchGate | 08.04.2025 | online | BYRD | 2025-14 |
Funding Programs for Postdocs | 23.04.2025 | Campus | BYRD | 2025-15 |
May 2025 | ||||
Writing Articles for International Publication in Peer-reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences | 06. + 07.05.2025 | Campus | BYRD | 2025-16 |
Academic Publishing with Open Access | 12.05.2025 | online | BYRD/SuUB | 2025-17 |
Efficiency Skills for Scientists | 19. + 20.05.2025 | Campus | BYRD | 2025-19 |
How to become a professor: Academic Career Planning and Optimizing | 22.05.2025 | online | BYRD | 2025-20 |
International researchers may also be interested in the events organized by the Welcome Center.
The Data Science Center offers a diverse program of courses on research data management, data science, data analysis and artificial intelligence.
The Language Centre organizes special English courses and coaching and the Writer's Help Desk for the needs of academics, for example for teaching and publications.

YUFE Staff Portal
The University of Bremen is a member of YUFE - Young Universities for the Future of Europe. Researchers are welcome to participate in the online courses offered on the YUFE Staff portal.

For Parents
If you face difficulties to attend a workshop due to the lack of childcare, the Family Care Office can help, for example with the emergency childcare program "Notfallmamas".
Please feel free to get in touch!
For Doctoral Researchers
We organize a varied program to support you throughout the process towards the doctoral degree, which we have bundled under the mottos “networking”, “independent research” and “personality development”. Our qualification program also comprises measures offered by our cooperation partners which are especially suitable for doctoral researchers.
For questions regarding course registration, cancellation of participation, and other organisational matters, please see our General information about BYRD events and workshops.
If you have any suggestions, questions, or special wishes concerning our training program, please contact the BYRD team.
Please note: Only workshops in English language are listed on this page. For the complete list of all workshops of our qualification program for doctoral researchers please refer to the German version of this site.
Accessibility: If you have special needs, please feel free to contact us. We will do our best to support you accordingly.

Write in a group!
Join our bi-weekly "Shut Up and Write!" sessions or one of the writing groups supported by BYRD and simply turn writing into a social experience! Online via Zoom.

Next BYRD Mixer/ International PhD Students' Meeting: 26 March 2025, 18:00, Heldenbar
University of Bremen and University of Oldenburg have concluded an agreement to open the workshops of BYRD and the Graduate Academy for the doctoral researchers of the other university. Please refer to this website for information on the workshop offers of the Graduate Academy in Oldenburg.

For Parents
If you face difficulties to attend a workshop due to the lack of childcare, the Family Care Office can help, for example with the emergency childcare program "Notfallmamas".
Please feel free to get in touch!