This post was written by Dr. Marta Fereirra-Gomes (DRFZ) and Dr. Mine Altinli (BNITM), the current spokeswomen of the Leibniz PostDoc Network. As we reported previously (see here, here, and here), a reform of the WissZeitVG has been in the making for a while. Around a month ago the Federal Ministry of Education and ResearchContinue reading “Joint Statement of the German Postdoctoral Networks on the Draft Bill for the #WissZeitVG now published”
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#AktionswocheWissenschaft: Action Week around the proposed #WissZeitVG reform
After a few weeks of silence we are again drawing your attention to the proposed reform of the #WissZeitVG and the #IchBinHanna discussions in German politics and beyond. If you are new to these terms you can check out two of our earlier posts on the topic from a few weeks ago: Updates on theContinue reading “#AktionswocheWissenschaft: Action Week around the proposed #WissZeitVG reform”
Reflections on the BMBF panel discussion on future postdoc employment rules
For this short blog post we collected some of your reactions to the BMBF panel discussion on the WissZeitVG reform on March 30th 2023 (mainly from Twitter). If you need some background on the topic see our previous post. Not every opinion expressed here necessarily represents the views of the steering committee of the LeibnizContinue reading “Reflections on the BMBF panel discussion on future postdoc employment rules”
Updates on the proposed WissZeitVG reform
This blog post is intended to provide resources and information about recent developments regarding the proposed reform of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG). As the public and political debates around the topic are happening in German discussion panels and major German news outlets we provide the information here in English primarily for the community of non-German speakingContinue reading “Updates on the proposed WissZeitVG reform”