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In April, GOPHER celebrates its first lustrum which is the 5th year anniversary of the organization. Therefore, we packed the month with a lot of awesome events! Make SURE that you do not miss out our Gala; the biggest event of the year!
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Saturday, April 23th - Lustrum Gala
Gopher is turning five!
Join the Lustrum Gala to celebrate the fifth birthday of Gopher! Take out your prettiest dresses and sharpest suits and enjoy with us this very special event. For the whole gala experience you can register for the dinner and the party. The spots for the dinner are limited.
Tentative starting times:
Dinner: 19:00 hours
Party: 21:00 hours
Price:
Dinner + Party (PhD): 30 € (incl. 2 drinks)
Dinner + Party (non-PhD): 34 € (incl. 2 drinks)
Party (PhD): 13 € (incl. 2 drinks)
Party (non-PhD): 17 € (incl. 2 drinks)
Sign up HERE
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Friday, April 1st - Pubcrawl
We will kick off this Lustrum month on Friday April 1st (not a joke) with a pub crawl! The crawl will start at a meeting point (TBA) at 20:45 and will end at another meeting point (TBA) at midnight. We specifically selected some bars that are not that familiar, so that you will expand your range of bars to visit at those times that you need to drown all your PhD sorrows.
You will crawl to these 4 pubs in groups which will be made before the crawl, so signing up individually is not a problem, but also friends can stick together. The groups will compete against each other, because in each pub there will be an assignment to do. The group with the most points at the end of the crawl wins an alcohol-related prize.
DATE: Friday April 1st
TIME: 20:45 - 00:00
FEE: 10 euros for PhDs / 13 euros for non-PhDs (includes 4 specialty beers, normal beers, wines or sodas)
LOCATION: meeting point will be communicated to you (somewhere in the city centre)
Please register HERE
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Sunday, April 10th - Sunday Board Games Afternoon
Instead of the first Sunday of the month, we moved our sunday board games afternoon to the second one. Despite the busy Lustrum Month, there has to be still some free space in your agenda on the 10th of April!
Bring your board/card games and defeat your PhD colleagues!
Location: TBC
Time: 16:00-19:00 hours
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Thursday, April 7th - Stress Management Workshop (FULL)
Doing a PhD puts high professional and personal demands on you. How do you cope with this?
On Thursday 7th of April the Health, Safety and Environment Service (AMD) will organize a short introduction course for PhD students about stress management / reduction and work-life balance.
Topics of this workshop:
- Knowledge about stress factors
- How to communicate with your supervisors
- Planning your PhD
- Tools and tricks for stress reduction
- What has the RuG to offer you (programmes)
Date: Thursday 7th of April
Time: walk in at 19:30, start at 19:45 (until 21:30)
Location: AMD, Visserstraat 49, 9712CT Groningen
Price: FREE
You cannot sign up anymore, because we are fully booked and the waiting list is already long. However, if this workshop is successful, we will try to arrange a second workshop, so stay tuned for updates.
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Wednesday, April 13th - Beginner's Guide to Grant Proposal Writing
Are you considering to continue your career in academia? Have you heard about grants and why you need them to continue with your research? Do you know what you need for a grant proposal and how to prepare it?
In this 1.5 hour lecture, Prof. Ingrid Molema will deal with the career ladder in academia, what grants and granting agencies are about, what a strong CV for your personal grant entails, and when to start with what – among other things.
There will be ample time for you to ask those questions you always wanted to ask but just didn’t do… until now!!!
Please register HERE
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Wednesday, April 13th - Filing your Taxes
Your taxes should be filed by the 1st of May. However, the Dutch tax system is a maze for both the Dutch and foreigners. If you are an expat, then different tax rules may apply to you, and you might even be able to get some of the taxes you paid in your wage returned to you. So join us in this evening programme where we will go deeper into the question what filing taxes is all about and give you tips and pointer on how to file them and hopefully get some of that well-earned money returned to you!
Location: TBC
Time: 19:00 hours
Fee: FREE
Please register HERE
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Monday, April 18th - Pre-Gala Latin Dance Workshop
Gopher's Lustrum Gala is coming closer and you are still missing the right moves? Don't worry we have the perfect workshop to prepare you for the dance floor. The one hour lesson will be given by a dancing teacher at Plaza Danza and will cover the basic steps of salsa, merengue and bachata. You can sign up with or without partner.
Price: €5 (€8 for non-PhDs)
Sign up HERE
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Saturday, April 30th - Groningen Day
There are plenty of interesting places in Groningen and some of them you probably haven't seen before. On this short outing we will show you a few things that our town has to offer. We will start the day with an organized bike tour, where you will see some alternative and non-touristic sides of Groningen, followed by a visit to the Hooghoudt distillery, a pride of Groningen and after that we will give you an impression of the Martini Tower that you definitely didn't have before.
The lunch will be probably a Dutch one (sandwiches) which will be made as Gronings as possible. We will take lunch after the biking tour on our way to the Hooghoudt factory.
Make sure you have a proper bike for the day!
Prices:
Complete day PhD's 27.50€ (incl. lunch), non-PhD's 32.50€ (incl. lunch). Prices might change a bit depending on the number of people.
Sign up HERE
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March 9th - How to write a good application letter and CV for an academic career
A lot of PhD students were interested in improving their application letter and CV. Liesbeth Volbeda (HR Experts) en Hoang Nguyen (Next) informed us about the do’s and don’ts when writing an application letter and CV.
March 11th - Martinus Beer Brewery Tour
PhD students like beer and learning things, so what’s better than learning about the process of brewing beer? During a tour through this young local brewery we gained knowledge about what beer brewing - both an art and a science! - is all about. Also, we got to taste 3 of Martinus’ own beers, which were very nice. It was a very successful event. If you were not present, you should definitely check out this brewery!
Find the pictures HERE
March 18th - Printing your Thesis workshop by Ridderprint
In this workshop Ben Riezouw from Ridderprint talked about the ins and outs of printing your thesis. We got a lot of information about the many factors that you have to consider when preparing your thesis to be printed. Also, many questions by the attending PhD students were answered and we got to see some examples of dissertations. Note: the workshop was fully booked quite fast, so if you want to attend the next PYT workshop (probably in June), register as soon as we put the event on Facebook and Calendar!
March 23rd - Improv Comedy Workshop with STHH
A selected group of PhD students learned the basics about Improv Comedy by members of the group Stranger Things Have Happened. They were taught basic techniques to make you aware of the people around you and to listen well to each other to keep the scene running. Through these exercises people got more comfortable on stage which will help them too if they have to present themselves at conferences. Everyone enjoyed the workshop a lot and are looking for more Improv Comedy now!
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If you have any questions regarding your PhD or you would like to get involved in GOPHER, contact us at gopher@rug.nl.
More information can be found on our website www.gophergroningen.com.
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