Funding and Financial Support

One important concern of the graduate school is to support our students actively in raising their own funding, which will be done by the following means:

• regular classes on "how to write an application or funding", "planning a carreer", "time management", that are part of the ordinary curriculum
• guidance and supervision in writing your exposé for potential donor agencies
• subject-specific and formal guidance and support by your PhD supervisor as well as other researchers at BIGS-OAS

Through the self-employed fundraising and the experience of passing the application process PhD students are supposed to gain first competences to later acquire funding for post-doc projects. Our students are highly encouraged to develope follow-up projects before the end of their PhD.