[Prorat] ProRat Newsletter May 2014

[Tatsiana Piliptsevich <Tatsiana.Piliptsevich AT prorat.tu-freiberg.de>]

Dear all.

Please find bellow the new newsletter of ProRat. If you have any  
questions don't hesitate to contact us.


Elections of the Saxon State Parliament

ProRat is hosting a panel discussion with different politicians from  
two different parties related to the politics concerned with the Saxon  
universities and universities of applied science on the 12th of June  
from 16.30 to 18.30. Our goal is to allow people to make informed  
decisions, at least in regard of university politics, on the 31st of  
August. This includes a variety of topics that we would like to cover  
such as short term contracts, PhD positions in basic research, Postdoc  
prospects, family and the job of a reseacher, ...

Due to regulations of the ministry for research and art we can not use  
any room of the university for this and we are currently searching for  
alternatives.
If you would like to help with the organization please contact  
Christian Jäh (christian.jaeh AT prorat.tu-freiberg.de)


ProRat Elections

Since the new constitution (Grundordnung) of the university is enacted  
yet we have decided to postpone the elections until summer since we  
hope that the ministry will have approved the new constitution by then.
The meeting of the extended senate (Erweiterter Senat) has taken place  
on the 5th of May and there were no changes made in the new  
constitution related to the ProRat. Which means right after the  
Ministry accepts the new constitution ProRat can organise the next  
elections.

For a more "Foreigner Friendly Freiberg"

The Prorektor Strukurentwicklung opened a new position to identify and  
subsequently eliminate main obstacles that foreign students and also  
Germans, who come from different states of Germany, face upon their  
arrival in Freiberg. We are working on a concept including, but not  
limited to, better information material (health insurance, labor law,  
bank accounts, ...) that the student should get even prior arrival.  
There should also be an office of the Foreigners office  
(Ausländerbehörde) in the university that might have office hours once  
a week.
If you are interested in helping out in this working group please  
contact Tatsiana Piliptsevich  
(tatsiana.piliptsevich AT prorat.tu-freiberg.de).

Chancelor's note on short term contracts
(Kanzlerrundschreiben zur Befristung)

ProRat will evaluate the results of the chancellor-note in May. We  
will keep you informed.

ProRat BBQ

We are happy to inform you that ProRat again is organising a barbecue  
for all PhD students of TU Freiberg. It will take place on the last  
week of June (about exact date we will inform you later). If you have  
any questions, ideas or would like to help organising it, please  
contact Alireza Arab (Alireza.Arab AT prorat.tu-freiberg.de)

New Letter of Intent to do PhD from GraFA

GraFA made a new form for the Letter of Intent to do a PhD in  
Freiberg. There are couple of unclear formulations which made some PhD  
candidates confused. We will contact GraFA for clarifying this  
question and inform you later about the outcome.

Sincerely yours,



ProRat