Baden-Württemberg International
Gesellschaft für internationale wirtschaftliche und wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit
Willi-Bleicher-Str. 19
D-70174 Stuttgart
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E-Mail: info@bw-wfk.de
Graduate Schools of the German Excellence Initiative
Universität Freiburg
The objective of the Graduate School "Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM)" is to connect intellectual and technical expertise within and outside the University and to offer a dynamic interdisciplinary training programme that will prepare students for future scientific challenges.
Research areas: Developmental Biology, Neurosciences, Immunology and Virology, Molecular Medicine, Molecular Plant Sciences.
Deadline: to be announced; application form available online
Link: http://www.sgbm.uni-freiburg.de/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Christoph Borner (Director of SGBM), info@sgbm.uni-freiburg.de
Universität Heidelberg
The Heidelberg Graduate School provides an excellent and flexible education in the fields of fundamental interactions and cosmology, quantum dynamics and complex quantum systems as well as astrophysics and cosmic physics.
Three core fields or modern fundamental physics are addressed in the School: Particle Physics and Cosmology, Astronomy and Cosmic Physics, Quantum Dynamics and Complex Quantum Systems.
Deadline: December 13, 2008
Link: http://www.fundamental-physics.uni-hd.de/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter Schmelcher (Spokesperson), peter.schmelcher@pci.uni-heidelberg.de
► Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational
Methods for the Sciences
Scientific computing with its core components mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization has developed into a key technology for understanding and mastering challenges in science and engineering. Stemming from application problems as diverse as the design of fuel cells, the understanding of the dynamics of cancer or the risk analysis for historical monuments, the demand for young scientists who are well-trained in these methods and application fields is rising fast. The Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences intends to meet this demand.
Deadline: to be announced
Link: http://www.mathcomp.uni-heidelberg.de/
Contact: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Georg Bock (Coordinator), wissrech@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
► Hartmut-Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular
and Cell Biology (HBIGS)
The HBIGS Heidelberg offers training and excellent research opportunities for outstanding PhD and MD/PhD students from Germany and abroad in a vibrant and stimulating scientific environment.
The focus of the Graduate School on molecular and cellular biology takes into account that molecular and cellular biology provides the conceptual and technological foundation on which most other fields, sub-disciplines and specialized areas of life and biosciences rest - from structural biology to bioinformatics, from molecular medicine to biotechnology, and from immunology to systems biology. A higher qualification in molecular and cellular biology will, therefore, prepare graduates for leading positions in all areas where in-depth knowledge of biological processes is required - be it in academia, industry or the public sector.
Deadline: February 29, 2008
Link: http://www.hbigs-heidelberg.de/
Contact: contact@hbigs.uni-heidelberg.de
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
The “Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics” (KSOP) envisions a novel combined masters program and a Ph.D. program – both of which are new for the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) as well as for Germany in general. KSOP is supported by 12 professors from different departments of our university. Physics, chemistry, biology and mechanical as well as electrical engineers from our university and partner institutions will contribute in a multidisciplinary way to the new program.
Research areas: Photonic Materials & Devices, Advanced Spectroscopy, Biomedical Photonics und Optical Systems
Deadline (for scholarship): July 15th each year (2nd round if scholarships are still available: September 30th each year).
Link: http://www.ksop.de/
Contact: Dr. Judith Elsner elsner@ksop.de
Universität Konstanz
Graduates of Chemistry and Biology work - and will continue to work - in a wide range of institutions including universities, industrial and business establishments, and government institutions. They play important roles in shaping and evolving industrial strategies and enterprises. In these diverse professional environments, chemists and biologists are increasingly confronted with interdisciplinary topics. In fact, the foremost questions of basic and applied research can only be tackled and resolved by close collaborations of professionals with different but overlapping scientific backgrounds. Thus, the mission of the Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology - which has been approved and founded in fall 2007 within the framework of the German excellence initiative - is the creation of an academic environment that will foster top level interdisciplinary education and research, thereby dissolving the traditional, but obsolete boundaries between the different research disciplines.
Research groups: Synthetic Chemistry, Biomedicine, Biophysics and Computational Biology.
Deadline: February 17, 2008
Link: http://www.chembiol.uni-konstanz.de/
Contact: Ilonka Muench, chembiol@uni-konstanz.de
Universität Mannheim
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the "Excellence Initiative", the graduate school provides doctoral training in empirical and quantitative methods and their application to business, economics, and the social sciences. Its mission is to train young academics according to best international practice with a strong focus on excellence in research.
The graduate school is the first of its kind in Germany and is among very few in the world to integrate the disciplines of business, economics, and the social sciences into a coherent curriculum. It is one of only two graduate schools in the economic or social sciences to be funded by the "Excellence Initiative" of the German government in October 2006.
It is organized into three centers: Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB), Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics (CDSE), and Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS).
Deadline: April, 15, 2008
Contact: gess@uni-mannheim.de
Link: http://gess.uni-mannheim.de/
Universität Stuttgart
An excellent "Graduate School for advanced Manufacturing Engineering, GSaME" will be jointly created by 27 principal investigators from 17 institutes belonging to four faculties of the Universität Stuttgart. GSaME is a self-administrating central institution of the Universität Stuttgart with its own administrative regularity and performance structures. In the area of research this independence is represented by the right to award doctorates, the individual selection process and the graduate program especially developed for GSaME. Successful doctoral candidates will receive the degree of Dr.-Ing. or Dr. rer. pol. The promising aME paradigm for the "next generation factories" is supported by a collection of emerging technologies according to the following main interdisciplinary research fields (clusters). The research areas of the interdisciplinary clusters are Basics & Stuttgart Enterprise Model, digital and virtual engineering, ICT for manufacturing, networking in manufacturing, material and process engineering, intelligent productions systems and knowledge based management.
Main research fields (Cluster A-H) as described: A - Stuttgart Enterprise Model as the base, B - Digital and Virtual Engineering, C - Materials and Process, Engineering, D - Networking in Manufacturing, E - ICT for Manufacturing, F - Knowledge-based Management, G - Intelligent Production Systems, H - Life Cycle Sustainable Management.
Link: http://www.gsame.eu/
Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sylvia Rohr
Universität Ulm
The University of Ulm has established the " International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine Ulm". The graduate school's programme is set up on an interdisciplinary basis and complements the existing structures as well as the degree concentration in molecular medicine (BSc, MSc/PhD). Well-structured qualification programmes and a concept of selection and supervision are elements of the programme. As part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Excellence Initiative, an application for funding was submitted.The graduate school covers various areas of molecular medicine, such as signal recognition, signal networks, neural networks, endocrine systems and molecular oncology. These fields of research are strengthened by the excellent theoretical and practical training given to young scientists. The young scientists are then enabled to conduct independent, successful research.
Deadline: to be announced
Link: http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/home/forschung/international-graduate-school-in-molecular-medicine-ulm.html
Contact: Professor Michael Kühl, michael.kuehl@uni-ulm.de
International Max Planck Research Schools
Max-Planck-Institut for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg
Link: www.mpicc.de/ww/en/pub/research_schools/imprs_ccl.htm
► IMPRS on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment
Link: www.mpicc.de/ww/en/pub/research_schools/imprs_remep.htm
Max-Planck-Institut of Immunbiology, Freiburg
Link: www.imprs-mcb.mpg.de
Max-Planck-Institut for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
Max-Planck-Institut for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Link: www.imprs-am.mpg.de
International Max Planck Research School at the University of Tübingen
