Conferences and symposiums WISE retreat 2025: Building your academic future
28-11-2025 1:30 pm Add to iCal
Are you ready to create the next chapter of your career?
The WISE Retreat 2025 welcomes you to an interdisciplinary networking and skill-building event which brings together women academics from all-over KI, including professors.
Highlights include effective communication skills, speed-dating, new funding opportunities and a joint 3-course dinner. This is an opportunity for you to find new and interesting connections, upskill for international grants and make novel joint proposals possible.
The event is free of charge, but attendance is limited. Are you in a position where you would really benefit from this event? Let us know in your application!
Who can participate?
Target audience is women researchers; Assistant/Associate Lecturer (Bit. Lektor/Lektor), Assistant Senior Lecturer (Assisterande Lektor), Research Specialist (forsknings specialist), Researcher (Forskare).
The retreat is free of charge but has limited seats.
Program
- Bus pick-up from Flemingsberg, place TBA
- Bus pick-up from Solna, place TBA
- Informal mingling to start building connections.
- Professors sit separately for one-to-one time.
- Welcome by WISE coordinators with retreat overview, purpose and structure
- Professors: Setting Intentions, IP & Regulatory
Guided activity: participants write down personal goals for the retreat.
Presentation: IP & Regulatory Essentials + Q&A
- Non-professors: Setting Intentions & vision work
Guided activity: participants write down personal goals for the retreat.
Workshop: Effective vision & communication of own research line/group
Groups rejoin and exchange informally.
Rotating 1-to-1 conversations between retreat participants.
Opportunity to ask career-related questions, pitch a project idea, or explore collaborations.
Rotating 1-to-1 conversations between retreat participants.
Opportunity to ask career-related questions, pitch a project idea, or explore collaborations.
Dinner with mixed seating to foster cross-level conversations.
- Interactive recap of key insights from Day 1.
- Linking personal intentions with today’s focus on collaboration and communication.
- Tools for articulating and consolidating a research niche.
- Individual reflections and peer feedback to refine research statements.
- Practical tools for designing compelling figures and presentations.
- Communicating research effectively across disciplines and platforms (papers, conferences, social media).
- Storytelling techniques for impact.
Guided individual planning:
- Next steps for strengthening research collaborations.
- Specific communication goals.
- How to integrate KI support into their plans.
Peer coaching to refine action points.
- Circle sharing: biggest takeaway and one concrete commitment.
- Short visualization: “The next chapter in your research journey.”