EPS postdoc day 2008

‘How to get a sustainable career in Science’

Date: 18 September 2008
Place: Forum Building, Wageningen
Free of charge

Postdocs of EPS-groups participating in another Graduate School are also invited.

Registration is closed

Tentative Program:
09:30 Welcome with coffee and tea
10:00 Opening of the day
10:05 A career in Academic.
Lecture 1: How to be successful in getting a Veni, Vidi or ERC grant (Ingrid Vleghels).
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Lecture 2: Will there be a tenure track system in the Netherlands in the near future (Martien Cohen Stuart)?
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11:00 A career in Industry/Business
Lecture 3: Possibilities, difficulties and specific requirements to get a permanent scientific job in industry (Arjen van Tunen).
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11:30 Plenary Workshop
Techniques for Networking (Rosemarie Smit-Bertens)
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12:30 Lunch
At Grand Cafe (Forum building)

13:30 Workshop/Group discussion 1
Their will be discussions about 5 topics:
1. Career tracks: which possibilities are there and what do you want.
2. Networking: different “styles” and how to improve.
3. Role of postdocs in the institutions, the value of postdocs for universities.
4. Training of postdocs: role for EPS? CANCELLED
5. Opportunities that you get and should get from your groupleader/department to develop yourself.
You can participate in 2 discussions.

14:45 Coffee and tea

15:00 Workshop/Group discussion 2

16:15 Forum discussion: The Future of the dutch postdoc system.
With a panel consisting of Raoul Bino (director of PSG,WUR), Ton Peeters (member Education committee of EPS), Wies Leer (head of P&O department of WU) and others.

17:00 Drinks and dinner

Organizers:
Ana Assuncao (postdoc at WU Genetics)
Si-Jun Zheng (postdoc at WU Entomology)
Wilco Ligterink (postdoc at WU Plant Physiology)
Ton Peeters (staff member at UU Ecophysiology)