CLIFOOD:

Soft skills seminar - Scientific working

Improvement of methodological skills and soft skills is an important component of the CLIFOOD qualification program.

The first soft skills seminar Methods of Scientific Working was conducted at the University of Hohenheim from January 22 to January 25, 2018. CLIFOOD scholars from Hawassa University and University of Hohenheim, FSC-scholars as well as PhD students at the University of Hohenheim attended the seminar.

After introduction to the library and literature databases at the University of Hohenheim an intensive three-days training was offered to the partcipants by experienced trainer Dr. Philipp Mayer*.

The main parts of the program included:
Writing efficiency
-    stages of the writing process
-    productive writing habits
-    accelerating writing processes
Conducting literature searches
-    reference management with software tools
Writing research articles: types, text structures, strategies
-    structuring research articles (structure of introduction, material and methods, results, discussion)
-    creating figures and tables: design tips and software tools

   Dr. Philipp Mayer*

	Since 2007	Independent trainer and consultant
	2006	Training as a consultant for academic writing, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
	2002	Doktorate, Dr.rer.silv., Technical University of Munich
	1999	Geoecology-Diploma, University of Bayreuth
	www.science-textflow.ch