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BCF Career Event The Netherlands 2017

Biggest career fair in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food & Pharma Are you orientating on the next steps in your career?  Join  BCF Career Event  on May 11th, 2017 in Jaarbeurs Utrecht. With 2000 visitors and 100 organisations participating annually, it is the largest career event in these sectors in Europe.  BCF Career Event is highly Read More …

Help improve your career development support on moving outside academia, fill in the survey

Euraxess, a European network focused on supporting and assisting mobility of researchers, is going to improve intersectoral mobility: employers from the academic world stepping into other sectors. This is not always an easy step to take, as institutes do generally not offer tailor-made support. Furthermore companies are not always aware of this large group of Read More …

Structure of PostdocNL

This Saturday the board of POSTDOCNL came together again for another fun and productive working day: sitting together with a cup of coffee and brownies to discuss the progress of our aims and work on specific documents. We welcomed two new board members: Dr. Marjoleine Sloos and Mariska van Lier!   Always wondered what the structure of POSTDOCNL is? We’ve made Read More …

Milestone reached

We have reached 500 LinkedIn members! Thank you for your support, we are the only national postdoc network in The Netherlands and we are proud to represent postdocs.   The past year we have been in contact with many organizations: Dutch Science Organization (NWO), Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), the association of universities Read More …

PostdocNL speaking at FEDERA day

Tomorrow, on Friday November 11th, PostdocNL is speaking at the FEDERA day ‘Health(y) science: Increasing value, reducing waste’. PostdocNL will emphasize the value of postdocs for the knowledge economy in The Netherlands and advocate for investing in postdocs and their career development because this will be a direct invesment in the Dutch knowledge economy.   Read More …

Workers union VAWO wants to hear your story

Do you have any bad experience with – (temporary) contracts – integrity issues – being treated unequal – a workload that is too high?   Have you felt mistreated as a scientist?   VAWO, the workers union for scientists, calls upon us to report our stories at their ‘meldpunt misstanden’: www.vawo.nl/meldpunt-misstanden Reporting can be done Read More …