Summer Academy
What we provide
We organize the annual RIGeL-BioMediGS Summer Schools where PhD students from all RIGeL Sections and the BioMediGS graduate school of the University Hospital are participating.
This entails:
choice of venue,
elaboration of the scientific program (poster sessions, talk sessions),
search for sponsorship,
invitation of external speakers,
choice and booking of team events,
support the implementation on site.
As a member of our group you get experience in
event organization,
drafting sponsorship contracts,
teamwork,
participants management,
creation of evaluations etc.
Would you like to help organize the largest annual event of RIGeL and be part of a motivated and committed group of PhD students?
Then join the Summer School group!
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Group members
Lena Aschenbrenner - Section CBB (since September 2023)
Fabian Hölzl - Section CBB (since December 2024)
Kira-Julia Stanzick - BIOMEDIGS (since February 2022)
Contact us
If interested come and join us!
Contact: rigel.summerschool@ur.de or rigel.school@ur.de
RIGeL Summer Schools 2025:
Dates
26.-27.06.2025 | Monastery of Ensdorf
11.-12.09.2025 | Monastery of Ensdorf
The registration period is over. We still have places available in both Summer Schools. If you are interested in joining please send us an email to rigel.summerschool@ur.de.
Further information:
This year's RIGeL-BioMediGS Summer Schools will take place on Thursday and Friday 26-27 June 2025 and 11-12 September 2025 in the monastery of Ensdorf (https://www.kloster-ensdorf.de/).
Like in the last years all RIGeL sections will have joint Summer Schools, including PhD students of BioMediGS (Biomedical International Graduate School of the University Hospital). These should increase the interaction between the sections and both graduate schools and will help you to meet new people as well as get insight to new scientific areas. Since there will be participants from all different sections of RIGeL, please try to keep your talks and posters as general and easy to understand as possible!
Please send your abstract (max. 1500 characters in a Word file!) for poster and talk (10 min + 5 min discussion) until 27 May 2025 for the June Summer School and until 15 August 2025 for the September Summer School to Rigel.Summerschool@ur.de.
In the Summer Schools you will have the opportunity to get an overview of the different groups of the CBB, Biomedicine, Neurobiology and MEE sections of RIGeL as well as the BioMediGS graduate school of the Medical Faculty, exchange data and get new inputs and ideas for your projects. In both Summer Schools we will have guest speakers who will give an insight in their career path and job experience after their PhD or give a talk on a topic of general interest. Moreover, in a relaxed environment you can practice to present your data, to review others and to chair a scientific session. Thus, besides the presentation of your projects you will be given the opportunity to be chairpersons of scientific sessions. The chairpersons will be drawn by lot among all participants. In addition to the scientific exchange, the participants will also get to know each other personally.
On the first day of the first Summer School a team event will be offered. We will have a canoe tour on the Vils. During the summer school in September, we will be offering various team games throughout the summer school.
Please remember that every PhD student has to participate actively in two RIGeL Summer Schools (1x poster, 1x talk or 2x talk) during her/his PhD in order to get the required RIGeL credit points.
A bus transfer will be organized for both Summer Schools. Please note that even participants of the Summer Schools who do not want to attend the team event in June have to arrive at the Summer School venue at latest in the afternoon on the first day. A travel by private car cannot be reimbursed!
We are looking forward to seeing you in one of our Summer Schools!
RIGeL Summer Schools 2026:
Dates
25.-26.06.2026 | Regensburg, Haus der Begegnung, Hinter der Grieb 8
17.-18.09.2026 | Regensburg, Haus der Begegnung, Hinter der Grieb 8