Career Day 2025In-Person Event

Wednesday 1 Oct 2025, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

KUBUS (UFZ Leipzig)

Career Center (UFZ) ((UFZ)), Matthias Schwarzkopf, Matthias Zach

Curious about where your career in or outside academia could take you?
Join us for a full day of insights, inspiration, and interaction!

Meet UFZ alumni and experts working in various future-oriented fields, explore emerging career paths in and beyond academia, and discover the skills you need to thrive.

Please note: Photos will be taken at this event. They will be used for public relations and also serve to permanently document the Career Day 2025. You have the right to contest the processing in justified cases. Furthermore, you have a right to be informed free of charge about your stored data as well as, under certain circumstances, a right to correction, deletion and restriction of the processing of the data. If necessary, please contact us for this purpose.

Welcome & Introduction

by the Promoting Talent team

Moderated Expert Panel

Get to know the experts. The moderator will guide the session with targeted questions to highlight each expert’s career path, current position, and key insights.

More information will follow soon.

10:00 Coffee Break

Career Talks - Meet the Experts (World Café Format)

Engage in small group conversations with experts and ask your questions directly. Participants switch tables in several rounds to meet a variety of experts.

12:00 Lunch Break

4 Parallel Workshops

Choose one of the following interactive sessions:

Skills of Tomorrow: How an Interdisciplinary Mindset May Help You Advance Your Career

CV-Check

Using AI Effectively: Tools, Prompts, and Practical Use Cases

Bringing Science to Market

More information will follow soon.

16:00 Coffee Break

Check-Out Session

Final reflections and takeaways