As a PhD fellow or Postdoc at AAU, you can receive individual career consultance and participate in workshops focusing specifically on employment outside academia. This is through the EU Interreg project Science for Society.
For PhDs and Postdocs
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28.03.2018
Industrial Postdoc
Many PhDs and companies are not aware of the possibility of applying for funding from Innovation Fund Denmark for an industrial Postdoc project. Innovation Fund Denmark invests in new knowledge and technology creating growth and employment in Denmark. Find more information below about what an industrial postdoc is, how it can be benificial for everyone involved, and how AAU can help you in the application process.
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22.03.2018
COMPANY VISITS WITH SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY: INDUSTRY TALKS BETWEEN TRACKUNIT AND AALBORG PORTLAND AND AAU PHDs
If I might not continue in academia or if I am actually sure I will not pursue an academic career which other career paths would be interesting for me? Which companies would be relevant and would my competences be relevant for them? These are some of the questions that many PhDs and Postdocs are asking themselves and these questions are the reason for Science for Society and its activities.
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15.03.2018
Science for Society event: Meet and greet with the cofounder and CEO of CanopyLAB
AAU Students and PhDs end up in many interesting and exiting positions in the public sector and in private companies. However, some of them also end up making it as entrepreneurs. The Science for Society project aims to create more awareness among PhDs and Postdocs about the possibility of pursuing a career within entrepreneurship and hence tries to create interesting events focusing on exactly this topic.
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14.03.2018
Open Entrepreneurship
Are YOU an ambitious researcher with a brillant idea? Do you have the desire and drive to turn your research into value for society? Are your curious on how entrepreneurship can improve your research? At the open entrepreneurship (OE) we aim to boost the commercialization of the ongoing research at the University. We want to turn world class research into world class spin out.
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14.03.2018
PAND - a national PhD network
PAND is a national network of local associations who represent PhD students at a university level. It was established in January 2017 and is devoted to facilitating collaboration among the network’s member associations and providing a common voice for PhD students in Denmark, both nationally and internationally.
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14.03.2018
Forskere blir sjelden gründere: Men noen kan gjøre business av å redde liv med bananfluer
Science for Society invited Norwegian SHIFTER, an online publisher of innovation and technology news, to write about our Impact on Society Conference in Oslo in November 2017. And here it is, with the heading: “Researchers seldom become entrepreneurs: but someone does business from saving lives with banana flies!”