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RMU events for Early Career Researchers: Find out about events offered for Early Career Researchers by the Rhine-Main Universities Alliance (RMU).
GA Connect PopUp on June 23, 2026: The Gutenberg Academy's PopUp information event provides information about contact points and opportunities for Early Career Researchers at JGU. The event will be held in English.
Stay informed: Gutenberg Academy provides information about events and offers for Early Career Researchers at JGU in its discipline specific newsletters.

ACADEMIC CAREER

An academic career consists of different qualification phases and may follow different paths. Often, at least twelve years pass between the beginning of a doctoral project and an appointment to a professorship.

CAREER OPTIONS

Graduates holding a doctoral degree are qualified to assume responsibility in research and development, administration and management or business and politics.

LEGAL PROVISIONS

Besides statutory provisions at state or university level, the academic workplace is also shaped by university statutes, regulations, recommendations and guidelines.

RESEARCHING AT JGU

JGU has succeeded in developing a distinctive research portfolio with focuses on natural sciences, medicine as well as the humanities and social sciences.

JGU PROMOTION OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS AND ARTISTS

Promoting young researchers and artists is one of JGU’s main concerns. The group’s heterogeneity is given special consideration.

UNIVERSITY STRATEGY

As one of Germany’s leading universities, JGU considers successful HR development as well as targeted promotion of young research talents to be part of its core responsibilities.

DOCTORATE

Information on doctoral formats, enrollment, supervision and costs provide guidance in the first scientific qualification phase.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

In order to pursue a doctoral degree at JGU, formal and professional requirements have to be fulfilled. Graduate schools, research training groups or doctoral programs have additional requirements.

INFORMATION & ADVICE

Central departments and institutions at JGU as well as contact points of the different disciplines inform doctoral candidates about enrollment, training and educational opportunities and promotion and funding options.

FUNDING

Doctoral candidates can cover their research and living costs with, among other possibilities, scholarships, funding for travel expenses to attend conferences, publication grants or prizes.

CONTINUING EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION

JGU offers various training and educational opportunities and courses to acquire qualifications beyond individual fields of study tailored specifically to the needs of doctoral candidates.

MENTORING, COACHING & NETWORKING

Individual coaching and a wide range of mentoring programs support young researchers and artists at JGU.

POSTDOCTORAL PHASE

During the postdoc phase, researchers make major decisions regarding their professional futures and set the course for a successful academic career.

TEACHING

Research & teaching are equally important core responsibilities of JGU. In its mission statement, JGU has set itself the goal to excel in both areas.

INFORMATION & ADVICE

Central departments and institutions at JGU as well as contact points of the different disciplines inform and advise postdoctoral researchers on professional issues and issues beyond their fields.

FUNDING

With its own funding line, JGU maintains special funding for young researchers, for instance to support their first independent projects or setting up their own junior research groups.

CONTINUING EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION

Different training and educational opportunities promote the development of skills that go beyond individual research fields to prepare for a career in academia or elsewhere.

MENTORING, COACHING & NETWORKING

Postdocs are individually promoted and supported with respect to their professional development and building their own networks.

JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP

The introduction of junior professorships has created another path to attain the qualifications for a professorship at an early stage enabling postdoctoral researchers to carry out independent research and teaching.

TEACHING

Research & teaching are equally important core responsibilities of JGU. JGU offers a vast variety of academic disciplines to junior professors.

INFORMATION & ADVICE

Central departments and institutions at JGU as well as contact points of the different disciplines inform and advise junior professors on professional issues and issues beyond their fields.

FUNDING

JGU’s Internal University Research Funding, national as well as European and international funding programs offer possibilities to finance projects.

CONTINUING EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION

Continuing education courses on teaching-related subjects and the staff training program of JGU’s HR development prepare junior professors for the professional requirements of their positions as academic leaders.

MENTORING, COACHING & NETWORKING

During this qualification phase, targeted support is just as important as building own networks and representation of interests.

JUNIOR RESEARCH GROUP LEADERSHIP

This qualification possibility on the road to a professorship promotes autonomous research with high financial independency at an early stage in the academic career.

TEACHING

Being the leader of a junior research group is marked by a high degree of autonomy in shaping and carrying out one’s own research and teaching.

INFORMATION & ADVICE

Central departments and institutions at JGU inform and advise leaders of junior research groups on professional questions, but also personal concerns.

FUNDING

Different fields within JGU offer several possibilities to promote these qualification positions which are exclusively funded by third party research funding.

CONTINUING EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION

JGU’s various training and educational possibilities prepare young leaders for the requirements and tasks posed by assuming responsibility for their own working group.

MENTORING, COACHING & NETWORKING

JGU supports leaders of junior research groups regarding their personal development, career planning and network building through individualized measures.

YOUNG ARTISTS

The academic career of an artist requires outstanding achievements. Cultivating contacts and networks are just as important as receiving awards and prizes.

MASTER STUDENT CLASSES & CONCERT EXAM

JGU’s schools of art and music offer postgraduate Master Student Classes and Concert Exam programs to specialize and continue education.

INFORMATION & ADVICE

In addition to the art and music schools’ offers, JGU has created auxiliary programs and structures in order to systematically inform and give advice to young artists.

SCHOLARSHIPS, COMPETITIONS & PRIZES

Participating in competitions and applying for scholarships are essential so as to document the artist’s talent and receive funding.

CONTINUING EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION

The art and music schools as well as several JGU institutions offer training and educational opportunities and qualification courses to promote skills beyond individual disciplines.

MENTORING & COACHING

In addition to independent network building, mentoring as well as goal-oriented individual coaching supplement the young artists’ professional careers.

STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

JGU’s HR development comprises a system of coordinated measures for employees and to support supervisors. Moreover, JGU currently participates in the European Human Resources Strategy for Researchers.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

JGU considers quality assurance and development as strategic and sustainable tasks which keep the entirety of JGU’s responsibilities in mind. JGU has a uniquely institutionalized and renowned system to ensure quality.

DIVERSITY

JGU is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. In the course of currently conducted auditing, a diversity strategy will be developed which will take into account all employees of JGU as well as all aspects of diversity in the long run.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

At JGU, women have been systematically promoted for over two decades. In this context, the scientific qualification phase is a crucial field of action for strategic, operational and advisory gender equality activities.

INTERNATIONALIZATION

As an international place of research and teaching, JGU is particularly devoted to crossing borders between nations and cultures. This is set out in JGU’s mission statement and reflected by its strong international relations.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

The maxim of academic integrity enshrined in JGU’s mission statement is supported by measures developed and evaluated to promote and anchor good academic practice in research and teaching.

Young Researchers and Artists at JGU

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