DION and NTNU LGBTQ+ staff network in the PRIDE parade

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DION and NTNU LGBTQ+ staff network invites all NTNU employees to walk with us in this year’s PRIDE parade.

PRIDE is festival held each year celebrating diversity, equality and LGBT rights. The parade will be held Saturday September 15th, and start from Trondheim Katedralskole. The parade starts moving at 12.30, but will start organizing from 11.30 and onwards. After the parade, there will be a paradeshow.

This year DION and NTNU LGBTQ+ will be will be placed together in the parade.

For more information about the festival and parade see:

https://www.trondheimpride.no/

Link to our Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/263398384492645/?active_tab=about

Family Picnic with DION!

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DION are happy to invite you to a family-friendly picnic at beautiful Korsvika. Bring your family – or the kid within you – to enjoy some food and games by the sea.

When and where: 26 August at 13:00–16:00, Korsvika, Trondheim

This is a great opportunity for you as a PhD, postdoc or temporary scientific employee to meet your colleagues across NTNU, and for your offspring have a fun day out! We will provide some hot and cold beverages and snacks. We will also bring some games that are easy to learn and fun regardless of age, such as the Viking game of “kubb” and the very Trondheimian “basse”. Please bring whatever you would like to eat and a blanket or something to sit on.

When you arrive Korsvika you will recognize us by the DION-shirts. We will also keep you posted where we set up base. Feel free to arrive and leave whenever suits you!

As August can bring both beautiful summer days as well as terrible rainy ones, the event is weather dependent, so please pay attention to possible rescheduling.

We hope you will come and enjoy some last bits of summer with us!

Follow up the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/306219273463195/

Debate «The postdoc dilemma – when to stay and when to leave academia?»

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The Young Academy of Norway arranges a debate «The postdoc dilemma – when to stay and when to leave academia?».

May 23 at 20:00 in Klubben, Samfundet.

The panel discussion will be held in English and will address different topics and challenges related to the “postdoc career path”. How can you best navigate in and out of academia? How are you to balance between expectations inside and outside academia and for how long? When is it time to let go?

The event is free of charge and useful not only for postdocs, but also for PhDs. The president of DION, Nina Røkkum, will moderate the debate. Read more about the program and register here: http://akademietforyngreforskere.no/welcome-to-debate-the-postdoc-dilemma/

Logo competition winner

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During our past AGM we revealed the winner of DION’s logo concept competition. Congratulations to Gabriel Ndlovu who’s submission received nearly 40% of the votes! DION would like to thank all the creative peeps who sent us a total of 46 submissions.
After the change to our statutes last night the new board can introduce the new logo as soon as it has been professionalised.