GRANAT Advanced Training Courses

The advanced training courses offered by the GRANAT graduate school are intended to support junior researchers in the natural sciences. They are especially tailored towards the doctoral students and postdocs at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Hannover Medical School, but are often also open to students.

The courses give particular consideration to the specialist backgrounds and professional requirements of this group and impart transferable skills and additional professional and research-related competences as required by natural scientists. Doctoral students and junior scientists can thus supplement their actual research work with certified, structured advanced training courses which focus on customised, additional skills and enable them to explore future professional fields - including in the area of startups and entrepreneurship. GRANAT thus supplements the interdisciplinary advanced training programme offered by the Graduate Academy of Leibniz University Hannover.

Location

Since May 2025, the GRANAT office is located in building 4105 room B023, Herrenhäuser Straße 2, 30419 Hannover.

Current training courses – registration now being accepted for:

Click the title of the course that interests you to see the description of that particular course and to register for the course.

Title Date Registration deadline
Patent Law in the Natural Sciences
English, OnCampus seminar (Level B2/C1; 4 four half days each afternoon +  online exam on a 5th date)
17 Mar. - 20 Mar. 2026 + 27 Mar. 2026 02 Feb. 2026
Meine Zukunft Existenzgründung?! 
German, OnCampus seminar  (2 dates: twice half day, starting in the afternoon each)
09 Jun. + 10 Jun. 2026

29 Apr. 2026

School Entrepreneurship:  Unternehmerisches Denken und Handeln - Wege in die Selbstständigkeit
GERMAN, summer school (40h total presence time, survey about the business idea, binding preliminary meeting plus 5 dates from morning to afternoon)
21 Sep.- 25 Sep. 2026,
preparatory meeting:
17 Sep. 2026,
survey submission:
03 Sep. 2026

30 Jun. 2026

Erfolgsmodell DU - Traumjobs werden häufiger geschaffen als gefunden!
German, OnCampus-Workshop (12 hours, 2 dates)
20 Nov. + 21 Nov. 2026 09 Oct. 2026


Registration now closed for:

Title Last date Comments

GMP-Kurs: Good Manufacturing Practice 
German, online course (5 days plus final test for certificate). 

Until further notice, this German-language GMP course will be suspended in 2026. Until now, it has been held annually, alternating with the English-language GMP course (No. 80019). 

26 Feb. - 01 Mar. + 06 Mar. 2024 If demand remains strong, the resumption of this offer will be reviewed for 2028.

GMP Basic Course (EN): Good Manufacturing Practise
English, online course (5 days plus final test for certificate).
Until now, this English-language GMP course has been held annually, alternating with the German-language GMP course (No. 80015), and is under review for 2027.

17 Feb. - 21 Feb. + 26 Feb. 2025 If demand remains strong, the resumption of this offer will be reviewed for 2027
GLP-Intensivtraining: Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
German, Online-course (2 days and one online exam)
Until now, this German-language GLP course has been offered every two years through GRANAT and is under review for 2027.
10/11 May 2025 + 14 May 2025 If demand remains strong, the resumption of this offer will be reviewed for 2027. 
Editing, Processing and Analysis of Scientific Images - for Academic Publications 
English, online workinar (3.5 days, including a Call4Help Session on day 4 in order to solve participant specific challenges in image analysis)
04 Jul. - 07 Jul. 2023 If demand is strong, the resumption of this offer will be reviewed for 2027.