This training enables female scientists to set their topics with confidence, communicate their successes visibly, and bring their points across with clarity. The focus is on strengthening their own professional profile — both academically and personally. Beyond communication technique, it is about inner empowerment: the confidence to take up space, trust one's own voice, and stand behind one's position.

Content overview

• Setting topics with authority: Framing one's research effectively and positioning oneself as the expert one already is — without relativising or understatement.
• Communicating successes: Making one's achievements visible and speaking about them with ease — turning quiet competence into recognised impact.
• Getting to the point: Sharpening one's message so it lands — in talks, committees, and the conversations that shape careers.

Format:  The training is designed as an interactive workshop: hands-on, experience-based, and with a high level of participant involvement. The combination of practice, experimentation, and reflection ensures lasting impact — and makes the day an empowering, lively experience.

Trainer: Deborah Ruggieri

Participation
This workshop is primarily aimed towards female and TIN* doctoral candidates, postdocs, as well as mentees of the MINToring programme of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Depending on capacity, Master students of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar can also participate in this qualification course.
REGISTER HERE: https://veranstaltungen.uni-weimar.de/e/COMMUNICATION-TRAINING-2026
DATE: 13.09.2026