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Trainings

ALPAKA offers two central, free formats at the HKA to support your personal and professional development: compact workshops and individual coaching sessions.

In addition to our own formats, we also recommend selected further training courses from external providers that are specially tailored to the needs of doctoral candidates and academic staff.

Select the area that is right for you:

Workshops

Individual coaching at the HKA

External offers

Workshops to promote scientific skills

In cooperation with the Institute for Scientific Continuing Education (IWW), we offer future-oriented, free continuing education courses for academic staff, doctoral students and lecturers.

For approval , simply speak to your supervisor about this. If necessary, you can apply for up to 5 days of educational leave per year for further training.

The following short links will take you directly to our current offers:

Science in transition: Positioning for the future with Future Skills

When: Thursday, November 13, 2025 | 08:30 - 16:00

Where: Wilhelm-Schickard-Straße 9 (Technology Park), Building E, 2nd floor, 76131 Karlsruhe

The world of work is changing rapidly - technological innovations, digital transformation and social upheaval are presenting us with new challenges. Future skills are crucial for actively shaping this change.

Workshop content:

  • Change competence - embracing and actively shaping change
  • Innovation skills - promoting creativity and developing new solutions
  • Collaboration - Successful teamwork and interdisciplinary cooperation
  • Resilience - Mental strength for challenges and uncertainties

The workshop combines theoretical impulses with practical exercises and offers space for exchanging experiences. The aim is to strengthen your own future fitness and to take away concrete tools for everyday university life.

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Work efficiently with Chat GPT and AI tools

When: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 08:30 - 16:00

Where: Online

Learn how to use AI tools for text creation, data processing and presentation, what opportunities and challenges they bring - and how they fit productively into your everyday life.

Workshop content:

  • Possible uses of Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI's GPT-4, other AI tools
  • AI as a research tool
  • Creating texts with AI: blog posts, social media posts, workshop concepts, etc.
  • Programming with AI: creating presentations, solving Excel problems, etc.
  • Tips and tricks for working with artificial intelligence
  • Integration of AI tools into everyday working life
  • Outlook Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
  • Limits and challenges of AI

Registration

In principle, the workshop can be recognized as part of the Baden-Württemberg Certificate for University Diactics at the GHD. If you have any questions, please contact the ALPAKA project team at any time.

More visibility for your research: making contacts that will further your work

When: Thursday, November 27, 2025 | 08:30 - 16:00

Where: Wilhelm-Schickard-Straße 9 (Technology Park), Building E, 2nd floor, 76131 Karlsruhe

Get your research talked about - the workshop will show you how to achieve visibility and networking in an authentic way.

Workshop content:

  • What networking means and what it can do for you as a young academic for professional success at universities
  • Crystallizing personal unique selling points
  • Overcoming potential obstacles in self-marketing
  • The best strategies for professional networking and maintaining contacts
  • Inventory: overview of your own networks and outlook
  • Measuring networking success

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Getting Papers Published in an English Language Journal | English

When: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 08:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Where: Online

Boost your chances of publication with practical strategies for writing, editing, and submitting your paper to English-language journals.

You will learn:

  • How to address multiple audiences
  • Writing a powerful introduction
  • Conventions of writing
  • Editors and reviewers
  • Writing results and discussion sections
  • Publication process
  • Typical sentence-level defects and mistakes
  • Online editing tools
  • Writing a successful abstract

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Developing creative solutions for complex challenges with design thinking

When: Thursday, December 11, 2025 | 08:30 - 16:00

Where: Wilhelm-Schickard-Straße 9 (Technology Park), 76131 Karlsruhe

Design thinking is more than just a method - it is a way of thinking and working that supports teams in developing innovative solutions to real problems. The focus is on users, creative collaboration and iterative work with prototypes.

Workshop content:

  • Hands-on experience of the complete design thinking process
  • User-centered problem definition and creative brainstorming
  • Prototyping, testing and validating solutions
  • Promoting teamwork and an innovative work culture
  • Reflection on the application in everyday working life

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IWW

Workshop registration

The workshops will take place in the rooms of the IWW:
Wilhelm-Schickard-Straße 9 (Technologiepark)
Building E, second floor
76131 Karlsruhe

For questions and further information about the workshops please contact:
Malwina Polanin | +49 721 925 2815 | iwwspam prevention@h-ka.de

Further training offers

Interested?

Then feel free to contact the ALPAKA team for more information.