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Civil Service & Science Management

There are also career prospects for postdocs in the administration or in the public sector in general. Examples are positions in a municipal, state or federal authority, such as ministries, or also at institutions or foundations.

Science management refers to jobs at universities, non-university research institutions, foundations or other scientific institutions that are located at the interface between research and administration. Jobs in science management can be found, for example, in third-party funding, science communication, presidential offices and human resources development at corresponding institutions - although this list is far from exhaustive.

In recent years, there has been a stronger professionalisation, but so far there is no clear common self-image of the professional group. One consequence of this is that there are many different career paths into science management.

Job exchanges for the field of public service and science management