{"id":520,"date":"2017-02-23T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/?p=520"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:57:48","slug":"the-first-arctrain-retreat-of-the-second-cohort-an-arctic-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/fr\/the-first-arctrain-retreat-of-the-second-cohort-an-arctic-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"The first ArcTrain Retreat of the second Cohort \u2013 An \u201eArctic\u201c Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"
The group of ArcTrain PhDs, PIs and seminar lecturers.<\/p><\/div>\n
Only two weeks after the successful Kick-off Meeting<\/a>, we found ourselves on the way to the beautiful Harz Mountains for our first retreat. \u201cWe\u201d, that is the 12 new ArcTrain PhD students, four ArcTrain associated PhD students and two Canadian ArcTrain PhD students. In the following three years there will be at least three of those events and to start with an Arctic-themed seminar for Arctic-themed PhD students sounded quite obvious. Indeed, after passing the 500 m a.s.l. mark the world was suddenly covered in snow; snow that had already lasted some time, making it appear more like ice than snow, which really favoured the feeling of a real Arctic retreat.<\/p>\n After we arrived, lunch was served and we directly started into our first seminar day. As an opening we got a general introduction about ArcTrain and what will happen within the next three years. Following, we had the first of our interesting seminars: Good Scientific Practice<\/em>. Here we learned about scientific misconduct, as well as \u201cdo\u2019s\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t\u2019 s\u201d in sciences. This lecture was followed by a discussion about Becoming a Scientist<\/em> and the differences between being a good, a successful and a great scientist. In the evening there were no further seminars, but an ice-breaking event: We played a game of \u201cWerewolves\u201d<\/em> with our supervisors, a really nice and fun way of getting to know each other better and becoming a group.<\/p>\n After having survived the night with terrible creatures (the werewolves), we started freshly into a day of Time and Project Management<\/em>, one of the essentials for every project. Besides learning a variety of basic and really useful knowledge on the topic, we had the chance to work on our individual project plans to retrace the recently learnt theories. In the evening, there was time for some general organization topics, like electing our PhD representatives, and for a movie. It was, of course, a climate change-related documentary (Before the Flood<\/em>) with high potential of subsequent discussion.<\/p>\n Our way through the magical winter forest to the summit of the Brocken.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a>