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DAAD: How to gain a doctorate
http://www.daad.de/deutschland/forschung/04667.en.html
Description: The DAAD website provides an overview of the various paths to gaining a doctorate in Germany, with a focus on "Structured Programmes”. These programmes offer scientifically excellent, well structured and transparent international programmes that lead to a doctorate.
Languages: German, English and Spanish
Wiki-Portal Careers in Higher Education
www.hochschulkarriere.de
Provider: Centre for Higher Education Development (Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung – CHE), German Association of Higher Education Teachers (Deutscher Hochschulverband), the Association to Promote the Junior Professorship (Verein zur Förderung der Juniorprofessur) and THESIS e.V., funded by the Mercator Foundation (Stiftung Mercator)
Description: This web portal on careers in higher education is an open information and communication platform for young and early-stage researchers. It compiles basic information, news, background reports, tips, information and diary dates relating to doctorates, habilitations and junior professorships, and illuminates the occasionally unfathomable structures and frameworks found in academia and research.
Language: German
DFG: List of Research Training Groups
http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/list/index.jsp?id=GRK
Provider: The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) is the central public funding organisation for academic research (universities and publicly-funded research institutes) in Germany.
Description: The DFG website contains a list of the DFG-funded Research Training Groups (Graduiertenkollegs), arranged by research areas and Federal States. The lists include the name of and contact for a Research Training Group plus (where available) a link to further information.
Languages: German and English
DFG: List of Collaborative Research Centres
http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/list/index.jsp?id=SFB
Description: The DFG website also contains a list of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centres (Sonderforschungsbereiche), arranged by research areas and locations. The lists include the start date and the name of the Collaborative Research Centre plus (where available) a link to further information
Languages: German and English
Doctoral Students Forum
www.doktorandenforum.de
Provider: Privately run, non-commercial website
Description: Information on preparing, producing, financing and successfully completing a doctoral thesis or dissertation, complemented by a list of FAQs and an active forum.
Language: German
THESIS: Interdisciplinary Network forDoctoral Students and Postdocs
www.thesis.de
Provider: THESIS e.V. is a Germany-wide, non-profit network for doctoral students and postdocs.
Description: The website provides information on events organised by the network and on current higher education and research policy topics. It also offers access to various email lists and forums in which doctoral students can exchange information and views.
Language: German
KoWi: Information Portal "Young Scientists”
www.kowi.de
Provider: European Liaison Office of German Research Organisations (KoWi)
Description: KoWi provides information and advice on doctoral and postdoctoral funding programmes and organises information events on national and European sources of funding. The website lists the dates of these events.
Language: German and English
Portal academics.com
http://www.academics.com/
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Description: In addition to a wide selection of academic jobs in Germany, academics.com features insights into the fields of activity of German academics in the form of first-hand reports. It also offers a personalised newsletter with matching job offers.
Languages: English and German (www.academics.de)
TIP
Search for doctoral theses and positions for doctoral students
Detailed description of more than 150 International Doctoral Programmes (in English only).
Job exchange with more than 200 offers of positions for students seeking a position to write their doctoral thesis or dissertation in the natural sciences and medicine (in German only).
Offers more than 500 positions at all times for doctoral students of all disciplines with focuses in medicine, natural sciences, and engineering, plus experience reports and tips on writing a doctoral thesis/ dissertation (in German only).
Job exchange specially for academics, including positions for doctoral students; plus further information, such as a glossary, career tips, higher education news, and more (in German only).
Job offers by researchers for researchers, just around 800 offers online at all times, and it’s also possible to have information on new offers sent by email; plus a collection of links to 50 other general and subjectspecific academic online job exchanges (in German and English).
© 2012 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst e.V. (DAAD), Kennedyallee 50, D-53175 Bonn
Source: http://www.daad.de/deutschland/service/links/05739.en.html
Date: 2012-02-11