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Berlin – Uppsala Summer School

learn about:

the variety of research fields in physics
the contexts of physics research
the opportunities for a career in physics

Diversity in the Cultures of Physics

Dates: August 6 – 31, 2012

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The Summer School

Are you a woman physics student at a German or Swedish university? Are you enrolled in a master's program or at the beginning of a PhD program?

Then you can profit from attending the Berlin-Uppsala Summer School. It is primarily addressed at young women physicists during the crucial transition phase from master to doctoral studies and the accompanying career and life planning.

The Summer School was launched by the Department of Physics at the Free University Berlin. The German-Swedish exchange program for 2012 will be realized in co-operation with the Physics Department at Uppsala University.

Additional summer schools with physics research institutions in other European countries are planned for the coming years.

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Application & Grants

Successful applicants will receive a grant of 1200,-- EUR.

Application deadline: February 29, 2012

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Aims of the Summer School:

• gain an insight into the variety of physics research in Europe

• establish contacts which may result in future collaborations and stays abroad while pursuing their graduate work

• get to know women researchers in physics and professional networks of women scientists

• learn about national and international advancement programs for women scientists

• become familiar with work place cultures of physics in actual cultural, political and everyday context

• learn about equality politics at European universities and research institutions

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Program of the Summer School

The students from Germany and Sweden will spend 4 weeks together in Berlin (2 weeks) and Uppsala (2 weeks). They will visit university physics laboratories and other research facilities. They will join research groups for 1 week in each country in order to get hands on experience in a variety of work and research environments.

In the afternoons the group will have an opportunity to contact institutions in science policy, funding agencies and professional organizations. The experiences and insights resulting therefrom will constitute an important input in the summer school seminar on gender and its role in science, culture and politics.