Impulse – Getting started and connected
Welcome event for doctoral candidates at TU
Impulse – Getting started and connected is an event especially for new doctoral candidates at TU Darmstadt.
With this event we aim to:
- connect doctoral candidates of the university with each other across disciplines,
- introduce important topics and actors for a doctorate at TU Darmstadt,
- provide helpful impulses for a good start into the doctoral phase.
The next Impulse will take place in April 2026!
Target group: All doctoral candidates of TU Darmstadt, who started their doctorate on or after 1 January 2025
Language: English
Registration: Registration is possible from January 2026 via this website
Programme Impulse 2025
| Monday | April 28th, 2025 |
|---|---|
| 09:30 am | Registration |
| 10:00 am | Welcoming |
| 10:30 am |
Getting connected (Part I) – Group activity |
| 11:30 am | Break |
| 12:00 pm |
Getting Connected (Part II) – Group activity |
| 01:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 02:15 pm | Getting support: TU services for doctoral candidates (poster session) |
| 03:30 pm | Moving break |
| 04:15 pm | Getting Connected (Part III) – Group activity |
| 05:15 pm | Break & Check-in |
| 06:00 pm |
Getting inspired – Invited talk Our guest: Dr. Ottmar Georg Edenhofer Professor for the Economics of Climate Change at TU Berlin and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). After studying economics and philosophy in Munich, he received his doctorate in economics from TU Darmstadt. He has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2018 and chairman of the steering committee of the German government's Science Platform for Climate Protection since 2019. In 2020, he received the German Environmental Award. He was ranked among the most cited researchers in the world by Clarivate Analytics in 2018. |
| 07:30 pm | Dinner |
| Tuesday | April 29th, 2025 |
| Breakfast & check-out | |
| 09:30 am | Getting on (Part I) – TU offers for doctoral candidates |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | Getting on (Part II) – TU offers for doctoral candidates |
| 11:30 am | Bucket list – Individual and group exercise |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 01:30 pm |
Getting it done – Talk with former doctoral candidates |
| 02:30 | Break |
| 03:00 pm |
Getting inspired – Talk on career opportunities with a doctorate |
| 04:00 pm | Farewell coffee & career networking |
| 05:00 pm | End |
