Call for Papers: HGGS Summer Forum 2026 | ImA(I)gining the Future: How Digital Technologies Rewrite Our World
Call for Papers: HGGS Summer Forum 2026 | ImA(I)gining the Future: How Digital Technologies Rewrite Our World
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.
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Course programme for the summer term 2026
Information Session: Get to know the CGS
Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 4.15 – 5.45 pm
Wege zur Promotion, Teil 1: Promovieren an der Bergischen Universität. Rahmenbedingungen, Promotionskultur(en) und Anbahnung
Tuesday, 30 April 2026, 4.15 – 5.45 pm
Wege zur Promotion, Teil 2: Promovieren, ja oder nein? Entscheidungsfindungsworkshop
Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 4.15 – 5.45 pm
Wissenschaftliches Schreiben: Das Exposé
Friday, 8 May 2026, 2.15 – 4.45 pm
Wissenschaftliches Schreiben: Themenfindung, Konzeption und Einstieg
with Dr. Julian Hanebeck and Dr. Antonius Weixler
Monday, 18 May 2026, 10.15 am – 1.45 pm
Erfolgreich Promovieren – Steuerungsgrößen im Promotionsprozess
Monday, 8 June 2026, 10 am – 5 pm
Motivation and Stress Management
(in English)
Friday, 19 June 2026, 10 am – 6 pm
Individual Job Application Coaching for PhD Students
22 – 26 June 2026, individual dates by arrangement
Blockaden und Selbstsabotage in der Promotion
with Saskia Neugebauer
Friday, 26 June 2026, 10.15 am – 12.45 pm
Führen im KI-Zeitalter - Orientierung und Leadership in unsicheren und dynamischen Zeiten
with Ellen Winter and Robert Kötter (zweirat)
Monday, 29 June 2026, 10 am – 5 pm
KI-Talks für Promovierende
with KI4BUW
to be announced
ZGS-Forum
ZGS-Forum zur aktuellen hochschulpolitischen Diskussion um Promotionen
Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 5 - 7 pm (sharp)
K5 (K.11.20)
Extracurricular activities and excursions in the summer term 2026
Networking Event: Pursuing a PhD With Child(ren)
Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 12 – 1 pm
K.12.27 (right next to the Family Office)
A Visit to the Theatre: Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann
with Stefanie Jansen
Sunday, 17 May 2026, 15.30 pm
Opernhaus Wuppertal (Barmen)
Gamification! Games Night at the CGS
with Julian Hanebeck & Noam Lutgen
Thursday, 11 June 2026, 6 pm
to be announced
A Visit to the cinema (movie screening in English)
with Saskia Neugebauer
Sunday, 14 June 2026, time tba
Rex (Elberfeld) or Cinema (Barmen)
A Visit to the Pina Bausch Dance Theatre: Sweet Mambo
with Julian Hanebeck
Sunday, 28 June 2026, 5.30 pm
Opernhaus Wuppertal (Barmen)
CGS Summer Festival
Wednesday, 8 July 2026, from 6 pm
place tba
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:
