Useful information for applicants of Doctoral programmes
Information on the topics of doctoral studies, funding opportunities for structured doctoral programmes and quality assurance during the doctoral phase is provided below.
Quality assurance for the doctorate
Good scientific pratices
- Good scientific practice for writing scientific qualification theses:
Joint position paper of the 'Allgemeiner Fakultätentag' (AFT) of the Faculty Associations and the 'Deutscher Hochschulverband' (DHV) of July 9, 2012
- Guidelines of Leibniz Universität for ensuring good scientific practice of 23.05.2011; including the persons of trust appointed by the senate of Leibniz Universität along with their deputies
Supervision agreements
- Recommendation by the DFG
Notes on Research Training Groups by the German Research Foundation
The German Research Foundation (DFG) accepts applications for Research Training Groups (RTGs) and International Research Training Groups (IRTGs).
Advice for job and scholarship announcements
For your national and international job advertisements for vacancies and scholarships for doctoral students and postdocs, you will find a list of links below with references to some online databases and from the Leibniz Universität Hannover intranet:
- Information on job advertisements at Leibniz Universität Hannover
- KoWi (AiD-Newsletter of the "Cooperation Centre EU of the Science Organisations")
- PhD Germany, the DAAD doctoral database
- EURAXESS, the European platform for tenders
- academics, the international career portal in cooperation with "ZEIT" and partners of universities
- Academicpositions.de, for the nationwide placement of job advertisements in science and research
- Academicpositions.eu, one of the largest pan-European career networks for academic and research job opportunities with a special focus on Northern Europe (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom and Germany)
