Author Archives: Johannes Lemme

PT-DLR: Good English for Successful Proposals – Tipps für eine erfolgreiche Antragstellung in englischer Sprache

Beschreibung des Seminars des DLR:

In diesem Seminar lernen die Teilnehmer/innen Texte in englischer Sprache für Anträge im 7. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramm oder dem Folgeprogramm Horizont 2020 zu verfassen. Die Seminarsprache ist englisch. Für das Seminar wird eine Teilnahmegebühr erhoben.

Nähere Informationen zum Seminar finden sie unter folgendem Link:

http://www.dlr.de/pt/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-8205/14064_read-35673/

GESIS Workshops im Sommer 2013

Upcoming GESIS workshops in 2013

GESIS Workshops are short courses of one to three days, providing training relevant to all phases of the research data cycle and more. GESIS is continuously working on an interesting compilation of training courses, and added some new workshops to our program since our last newsletter. By the way, their website http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/ gets updated on a regular basis. So it is worth having a look from time to time. The full list of workshops (including the ones held in German) is available at www.gesis.org/workshops.

4th Summer School of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)

The ESSA Summer Schoolwill take place at Hamburg University of Technology from July 15-19, 2013.

It aims at giving an introduction to agent-based modeling and simulation in the social sciences. Therefore, helpful tools and standards for the modeling process should be presented.

To guide the students through the summer school, the lectures will be organized along the research process of social simulation. Starting with a general introduction, the summer school proceeds with modeling issues and documentation. Afterwards, the design of simulation experiments as well as simulation data analysis and validation are addressed. Also issues ‘outside the box’ are discussed, such as the application of ABM in industry. Methods and helpful tools for the application of ABM are mentioned and introduced along the week..

In the morning, an overview of the day and a short classification of the planned lectures and tutorials into the research process are given.  This should make the stage of research addressed that day explicit.

Afterwards, lectures and tutorials will go into the subjects.

In the later afternoon, the participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics and questions in small group discussions. Here, moderated discussions take place. The lectures of the day will be invited to take part. This format should activate the students to debate about the presented content of the day and support the knowledge transfer. By this, discussions between participants and lecturers will be promoted. Furthermore, concrete support for own simulation projects may be provided.

To ensure the effectiveness of discussions, the participants will be asked to send out a document before the summer school. In this document, they should give an overview about their research and aimed simulation projects, as well as concrete (methodological) questions they would like to discuss within the summer school. These questions will be the basis for the group organization and help the moderator to guide the discussion. (The moderators may be recruited locally)

In the evening, all come back together to summarize the day and the key elements of the group discussions. Central insights and important progress may be written down on moderation cards and hang out on a white board in the seminar room.

In the end of the week, on Friday, the students present a short progress report. Here, the students should summarize their personal insights and describe the progress they have gained over the week (> “answers to the questions they came with”) on one slide.

For further information see the following link: The ESSA Summer School at Hamburg University of Technology from July 15-19, 2013

Workshop: Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung

Das 9. Berliner Methodentreffen (BMT) findet vom 12. – 13. Juli 2013 an der Freien Universität Berlin statt.

Das Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung ist mit insgesamt knapp 500 Beteiligten die größte Jahresveranstaltung zu qualitativen Forschungsmethoden im deutschsprachigen Raum. Erstmals 2005 ausgerichtet, hat sich das Berliner Methodentreffen schnell im Spektrum der Angebote zu qualitativer Forschung etabliert. Das Berliner Methodentreffen wendet sich an alle, die in ihren Qualifikationsarbeiten (Diplom, Dissertation, Habilitation usw.) oder in ihren Forschungsarbeiten mit qualitativen Methoden arbeiten und an alle, die generell an qualitativer Forschung interessiert sind.

Ziel des Berliner Methodentreffens ist es, mit einer möglichst breiten Palette von aufeinander abgestimmten Events und Angeboten (Vorträgen, Forschungswerkstätten, Postersessions, Workshops und informellen Meetings) eine Form von Beratung, Diskussion und Information zu bieten, mit der möglichst schnell, effizient, qualitativ hochwertig und nahe am Bedarf der jeweiligen Gruppen/Personen die Arbeit mit qualitativen Methoden unterstützt wird, insbesondere auch durch den Einbezug der von den Teilnehmenden eingebrachten Forschungsdaten/Materialien.

Informationen finden Sie unter folgendem Link: 9. Berliner Methodentreffen qualitative Forschung