TAPPA is a grassroots initiative built by and for PhD students and Postdocs in the Tübingen AI research environment. As such, it serves as a platform to connect people who want to contribute to their community and address common concerns.

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What do we do at TAPPA?

  • join forces to push for common issues
    e.g. improved onboarding through a joint wiki, collecting arguments for higher salaries
  • co-organize events across different institutes or PhD programs
    e.g. pre-conference poster sessions, alumni talk series
  • provide information flow, in particular also between representatives and their communities
    e.g. latest developments in grad schools, updates from board meetings
  • include more people in organization and decision processes, for transparency and community building
    e.g. involvement in faculty recruiting, pushing for a community-wide support structure

Why should you join?

TAPPA is open to all PhDs and Postdocs in Tübingen doing research in AI! If you want to contribute to your community and get more involved in improving it, TAPPA is a great way to get to meet other motivated people, find like-minded collaborators and helpers and gain more insights into ongoing decision processes at the different institutes or grad schools.