We need your feedback on the Mental Health and Awareness Month 2022 events!

DION would like to thank you all for attending any of the events during DION’s Mental Health Awareness Month 2022. We hope you enjoyed the experience!

We would highly appreciate your feedback for the event(s) you attended. It would help us to better understand your expectations and forward them to the next board. The survey takes around 3 minutes to complete. Here is the link to the survey: https://forms.office.com/e/MxCiGUwCek

Everyone who fills out the form by Monday December 19th at 10am will get a chance to win 2 movie tickets!

We hope to see you again soon at future DION events.

Vision Engineering workshop and dinner in Kalvskinnet (Trondheim)

Stop hustling and bustling, press pause and use the darkest time of the year to look at your visions.

You can look at your PhD or postdoc visions but also on your personal life or other visions you might want to explore.

Together we will create a room where we can listen to our innermost voice to realise where we are at and where we want to go and most importantly how we want to walk there.

How will we do that?

We will use different tools to create a clear vision, such as writing, music, meditation and drawing.

At the end of this workshop you will have more clarity, be honest to what matters really to yourself and you will have a beautiful drawing of your visions.

Join our container of curious minds to unfold into the fullness of who you are, and learn how it is all connected towards the path of your vision.

The workshop will last 90 minutes and afterwards we will have a dinner together to reflect on our personal outcomes.

This workshop is organized by Ronja Lappe and Ursula Enzenhofer and sponsored by DION within the Winter Grants 2022.

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/…/1dQasgFO_WxB7Nt…/viewform…

When: December 7, 19:00 – 21:00

Where: Trondheim City Center – Campus Kalvskinnet Room: Akrinn: U202 // Mazemap Link: https://link.mazemap.com/UJcsbNm5

2nd NTNU Internationalization Conference

DION would like to invite you to the 2nd NTNU Internationalization Conference that will take place on 6 and 7 December at Gløshaugen campus. One parallel session will be held at NTNU in Ålesund and plenary sessions will be streamed to employees at NTNU in Gjøvik and NTNU in Ålesund.

The conference is for all NTNU employees, newcomers to international cooperation and experienced internationalists, younger and established researchers, leaders at all levels and administrative employees.

DION is co-organizing the plenary session 6: “International researcher careers – how and why to invest in mobility”

You can expect inspiring stories from internationally mobile researchers and practical advice on how to organize your stays abroad.

When: 7th of December at 10.45-12.15

Where: Natural Science Building or Old Electrical Engineering Building, Gløshaugen

Check out the full program here: https://www.ntnu.edu/internationalization-conference/internationalization-conference

Registration deadline: 28th of November

DION winter grants for educational or social activities

Do you have a great idea for an activity or event? 

DION is happy to announce a new round of support grants for educational or social activities for our members at NTNU!  

All PhD candidates, Postdocs and other temporary scientific employees at any NTNU campuses are eligible to apply for a grant?(up to 2000 NOK)?to cover expenses related to organizing activities that create opportunities for PhD students and post-docs to network, learn, and enrich their experience. Please note that Master degree students are NOT eligible. If there are applicants from Trondheim, Gjøvik and Ålesund, it will be prioritized to grant one to each of the three cities.

Since it is soon festive season, we also appreciate Christmas/ Hanukkah/Winter Solstice themed events! 

DION will give preference to applications which are targeted towards an open audience. Applications for the exclusive benefit of one department or faculty will still be accepted but applications that are accessible for all DION members will be prioritized. 

If interested,?you can apply by filling this form DION-Grant-Application-Form-Winter-2022.docx ?and sending it to?post@dion.ntnu.no.?Be sure to go through the rules in the application form. 

Deadline?for submissions is?15th November 2022. 

Contact the DION board if you have any questions: post@dion.ntnu.no 

Apply for a SiN position!

Would you like to promote the interests of PhDs and postdocs at the national level? Do you like the idea of working with a group of engaged early-career scholars from all over the country? Are you already part of an interest organization for PhDs at your institution, or would like to be? If yes, you should join SiN for their AGM on November 25-27

All the board positions are up for election. Do you want to be our new president, finance officer, our liason to the Council for Universities in Norway or Eurodoc? Maybe you want to work with communication or events? Then run for a position!

Any PhD or postdoc represented by a SiN-member organization can run.

Contact DION (post@dion.ntnu.no) and express your interest! 

(NB: Not able to join the AGM in person? You can still run for elections! All we need is a motivation statement via your local organization by November 12)

SiN’s 2022 AGM will be held this year by the University of Agder at their campus in Kristiansand.

The AGM is the highest decision making body of SiN, its responsibility is to approve changes to statutes, approve SiN’s financial report for 2022 and provisional budget for 2023, approve new members, as well as elect a new board who can take SiN into 2023 and set the organization on a strong path for the future.

Meeting Information:

The AGM is currently planned to be roughly 7 hours, from 10:00 to 17:00 on Saturday the 26th.

Description of the positions to run for: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tRNyej76ltZam3nckxX1kqOvL0qZmn1uSlOVZ1WQWq8/edit