Conference Agenda

9:00 to 10:30

- Registration of participants
- Networking with exhibitors
- Get-together with coffee and music

10:30 to 12:30

- Opening
Speaker: Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Dr. Helge Braun

- 1 year KISSWIN - What happened?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University

- Quo vadis German research? What about the future of German universities?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kreckel, HoF Wittenberg

-  Presentation of KISSWIN-Award 2010

12:30 to 14:00

- Lunch break
- Networking with exhibitors
- Get-together with snacks and music

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14:00 to 15:30 Parallel Fora

- Forum I - Career paths at the university and perspectives for the academic staff
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert, Deutsche Gesellschaft Juniorprofessur e.V.

- Forum II - How to become a professor - training for the appointment procedure
Moderator: Dr. Hubert Detmer, Deutscher Hochschulverband

- Forum III - National research promotion and funding: non-university research institutions
Moderator: Dr. Beate Scholz, SCHOLZ - consulting training coaching

- Forum IV - Overview of international research promotion and funding
Moderator: Patricia Fuchs, Koordinierungsstelle EG der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (KoWi)

- Forum V - Different phases of the promotion procedure
Moderator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Henning, RWTH Aachen University

- Forum VI - Research, private sector and industry
Moderator: Dr. Christoph Jansen, Siemens AG

- Forum VII - Overviews of surveys concerning the situation of young researchers
Moderator: Kolja Briedis, Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH
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15:30 to 16:00

- Networking with exhibitors
- Get-together with coffee and music

16:00 to 17:30

- Tops and flops in the daily routine of a young researcher
Speaker: Karoline Holländer, Research Assistant TUM Graduate School

- Research with and in the industrial sector - developments for future researchers
Speaker: Franz Haberhauer, Chief Technologist & Technical Director Sun Microsystems GmbH

- Science as a profession - Germany in the international contest
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Teichler, University of Kassel, International Centre for Higher Education Research