1st SyMoCADS Retreat – July 2024
What a great start! Our first retreat took place on July 15th and 16th in Waischenfeld. The first day of the retreat was filled with talks introducing the Research Training Group 2950 and the individual projects. After the poster session, during which SyMoCADS associates presented their research, our young researchers elected their own speakers (Bastian Heinlein and Daniel Fleischhauer) and the gender representative (Silvana Zurmühl). Monday evening was full of nice and interesting conversations and the night was perhaps a bit too short for some of us. The second day of the retreat started with the outline of our research data management strategy, followed by some team building activities, which included a spaghetti bridge building competition. And because many of us are engineers and very good planners, most of the constructions held not just required one kilogram, but two, and only gave up only under five kilo heavy dumbbell. Fortunately, the weather was mild on the second day of the retreat and the hike in the beautiful landscape of Franconian Switzerland was very pleasant. I think I can say we are all really looking forward to the next SyMoCADS retreat.
