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Project Management for Scientists

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This course will provide you with an opportunity to build your understanding, skills, and confidence in project management in academia.
This highly interactive workshop trains you to

• consider alternative perspectives (from your supervisor, coworkers, etc.),
• understand system dynamics and the complexity of issues and actors, and
• work toward constructive outcomes through collaborative processes in science.

Intended Learning Outcomes

• You will be able to apply project management tools, such as PISPAR, and define SMART goals.
• You will be able to plan one of the most important projects: your career!
• You will be familiar with techniques in self- and time management.
• You will understand roles, functions, and responsibilities in teams.
• You will know how to integrate an intercultural dimension into your interdisciplinary research and work.
• You will be able to communicate effectively in your management processes (e.g., by giving feedback, engaging in active listening).

Didactic Methods

Interactive lectures, Q&A sessions, single and group work on your actual projects, simulations, activities, and games

Requirements

Please not that this is not an English language course. Proficiency in English at the B2 level of competency is required.

Dates

December 17, 2018, 9 am–5 pm, and
December 18, 2018, 9 am–5 pm

Target group

Doctoral candidates and postdocs from all disciplines

Modalities

Maximum number of 15 participants
Internal 50 EUR
External 150 EUR

Registration

At mara.lnw@uni-marburg.de, deadline December 3, 2018
We kindly ask you to confirm your registration to make it binding. You may cancel your registration up to twelve days before the beginning of the course without providing specific reasons. Thereafter, you will be required to pay the attendance fee even if you do not attend the course.