Career Development

The Research Day offers all researchers - especially doctoral students and postdocs - a platform to present research results and project ideas within the institute.

The one-week research retreat is a retreat for concentrated work on the dissertation, habilitation or joint projects and takes place once a year.

In addition to these formats, the Thursday Lunch Series is a regular short format in which researchers can meet regularly to discuss specific topics, receive short training sessions or obtain input from guests.

The biennial digitization research seminar (DigiSem) offers doctoral and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to work on a research topic in an interdisciplinary context with experienced experts from the three leading German Internet institutes (WI, bidt, CAIS).

The Digitalization Research and Network Meeting (DigiMeet) offers doctoral and postdoctoral researchers an English-language, international platform for presenting research results and networking.

The aim of the Weizenbaum Early Career Researcher Support is to give all young researchers the opportunity to come into contact with established and experienced researchers during their time at the WI and to learn from them.

Excellent research, interdisciplinarity, the promotion of young scientists and a focus on dialog and transfer - these guidelines translate our basic values for the work in the research groups.

In this mission statement, recommendations and proposals are formulated to link the doctoral phase with the fundamental values of openness, participation, transfer, diversity and internationality. In this way, an interdisciplinary and international Weizenbaum research culture is to be structurally strengthened.

The guidelines for doctoral student supervision are intended to present the cooperation between doctoral students and their supervisors in a practical and everyday manner. They address essential elements of the dissertation cycle from the start to the defense and publication.