Center for Graduate Studies

Courses offers by the Center for Graduate Studies

Courses and events coming up next

Please note that the CGS courses are normally held in German. In some cases it is possible to use English as a language of instruction in order to accommodate participants who speak only English. Please contact us for further information.

Tip: Subscribers to the CGS mailinglist are regularly informed about imminent courses with free spaces available.

 

Course programme for the summer term 2025

Information Session: Get to know the CGS
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 4.15 – 5.45 pm

Wege zur Promotion, Teil A – Promovieren, ja oder nein?
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 4.15 – 5.45 pm

Wege zur Promotion, Teil B – Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 4.15 – 5.45 pm

Wege zur Promotion, Teil C – Exposé
Monday, 5 May 2025, 3.15 – 5.45 pm

Erfolgreich Promovieren – Steuerungsgrößen im Promotionsprozess
Friday, 19 May 2025, 10 am – 5 pm

Wissenschaftliches Schreiben: Themenfindung, Konzeption und Einstieg
with Dr. Julian Hanebeck and Dr. Antonius Weixler
Friday, 6 June 2025, 10.15 am – 1:45 pm

Stressmanagement, Resilienz und Motivation
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 10 am – 5 pm

Moderne Wissenschaftskommunikation – Chancen, Grenzen, Strategien
with Ellen Winter and Robert Kötter (zweirat)
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 10 am – 5 pm

Individual Job Application Coaching for PhD Students
14 – 18 July 2025, individual dates by arrangement

Extracurricular activities and excursions in the summer term 2025

Gläseranstoßen über einem gedeckten Tisch

The Pina Bausch dance theatre performs Boris Charmatz: 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more
with Julian Hanebeck
Friday, 25 April 2025, 7 pm
Opernhaus Wuppertal (Barmen)

A Visit to the Sculpture Park Waldfrieden
with Stefanie Jansen
Saturday, 10 May 2025, 12:45 pm
Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden (Barmen/Hesselnberg)

A Visit to the cinema (movie screening in English)
with Saskia Neugebauer
Sunday, 1 June 2025, evening
Rex (Elberfeld) or Cinema (Barmen)

A Visit to the Visiodrom, exhibition: Vincent van Gogh – Longing
with Noam Lutgen
Saturday, 21 June 2025, 2 pm
Gaskessel (Oberbarmen)

CGS Summer Festival
Wednesday, 2 July 2025, from 6 pm
Utopiastadt/Mirker Bahnhof, Wartesaal 3 (Elberfeld/Nordstadt)

Registration

Please register by the indicated deadline.

If you are a doctoral student of the University of Wuppertal (the key criterion is that your PhD supervisor is here and that it is the UW that will eventually award your doctoral degree), please use this form:

Registration PhD students of UW

Even if you are not a doctoral student yet but interested in pursuing a PhD at the University of Wuppertal, or if you are so not (yet) a member of the UW, you can attend selected CGS courses under certain circumstances. Please use the following form for your request. We will get back to you as soon as possible to let you know whether your participation in the desired course(s) is possible:

Registration prospective PhD students and non-UW