Newsletter 22/2013

CfA LERU Doctoral Summer School 2013 “Development of leadership skills for employment in enterprise, government and academia”

Deadline: 5th April, 2013

Dear doctoral students,

We would like to draw your attention to the following call for applications: LERU Doctoral Summer School 2013 “Development of leadership skills for employment in enterprise, government and academia”.

This year’s Doctoral Summer School of the “League of European Research Universities” (LERU) will take place at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris from July 8 to 12, 2013. The summer school is aimed at outstanding doctoral students at an advanced stage of their training. Detailed information is available in the attached PDF .

As a member of LERU, Heidelberg University can send 1 or 2 doctoral students to the summer school. The Graduate Academy will select the final participants from the group of candidates recommended by their doctoral supervisors.

Supervisors and institutes should send their recommendations to the Graduate Academy (graduiertenakademie@zuv.uni-heidelberg.de) at the latest by April 5, 2013 with the following documents:

• Letter of recommendation from the doctoral supervisor
• Curriculum vitae and motivation letter from the doctoral student including a short description of the doctoral project.

The application should not be longer than 4 pages and should be in English.

Participation in the summer school will be supported by the Graduate Academy with a travel grant of 500 Euro.

I wish you every success!

Best regards

Dr. Heidrun Kugeler