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Doctoral Scholarships

Call for applications: phd scholarships for international candidates.

The Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” at CSMC invites applications for doctoral scholarships within the Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for a 3-year period of doctoral studies starting from 1 April 2024 onwards .

Awardees will receive a full scholarship (1200 EUR/month) plus health insurance and additional allowances (for details, see the GSSP Guideline for Applicants below).

Who can apply?

• highly qualified, very motivated English-speaking international candidates (non-German citizens), in particular from developing and emerging countries
• candidates holding a Master’s or equivalent degree in any discipline concerned with the study of manuscript cultures or written artefacts , regardless of region (for an exemplary list of disciplines, please click here) .

Who cannot apply?

• Researchers who have already obtained a PhD degree or have completed substantial parts of their doctoral studies at another institution
• Persons who have taken their Master’s degree more than 6 years ago
• Persons who have been living in Germany for 15 months or longer at the time of nomination (November 2023)

Language requirements

The working language at the CSMC is English and the doctoral dissertation (Dr. phil., Dr. rer. nat.) is written in either English or German. Therefore, candidates must demonstrate proficiency in English on at least level B1  (certified).

Knowledge of the German language is not required.

Selection and nomination

The application follows two steps: In a first step, a committee of PIs reviews all applications and makes a selection of promising candidates. The main criteria are the quality and innovative potential of the candidate’s research proposal , and its contribution to and compatibility with the Cluster’s existing research objectives .

In a second step, the selected candidates are nominated by the CSMC and submit their final application through a portal to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), who makes the final decision. More information on the process can be found in the GSSP Guideline for Applicants .

What we offer

Doctoral researchers will be integrated into a vibrant interdisciplinary research environment of more than 40 academic disciplines at two faculties (humanities, natural sciences) studying manuscripts and inscriptions. At Universität Hamburg, the option of co-tutelle (bi-nationally supervised doctoral degrees) exists.

Doctoral researchers present and discuss their research in colloquia, are closely guided by a supervising professor from their field and are encouraged to attend summer schools, workshops and talks offered at CSMC. They have access to facilities such as the artefact profiling lab and the library . Furthermore, doctoral researchers benefit from a workshop programme aimed at strengthening their soft skills. Their enrolment as doctoral students guarantees full access to all facilities and services of Universität Hamburg.

Required application documents and deadline

The following documents have to be submitted by e-mail as one PDF file by  31 October 2023  to the Coordinator of the Graduate School (contact: see below):

• Abstract of the proposal
• Research proposal
• Work schedule outlined for 3 years, including research phases abroad (i.e. outside of Germany), if applicable.
• A CV including personal information (first name, last name, date of birth, country of birth), the educational and professional background, any relevant publications, and language skills
• A letter of motivation explaining the candidate’s academic and professional interests, and how the doctoral programme would in their opinion contribute to achieving their personal career goals (1 page)
• Copies of B.A./B.Sc., M.A./M.Sc. and other relevant certificates .
• One letter of recommendation from a professor of the candidate’s home university. They may use the DAAD template (PDF) .
• Proof of English language proficiency at least at level B1 .

Dr. Merryl Rebello

Coordinator of the Graduate School

[email protected] ( merryl.rebello "AT" uni-hamburg.de )

Finding Scholarships

Welcome to our scholarship database! Here you will find information about our DAAD scholarship programmes for international students and researchers as well as offers from other selected funding organisations .

Universität Hamburg: Merit Scholarships for International Students

Universität Hamburg Abteilung Internationales Mittelweg 177 20148 Hamburg Germany

Contact Dominik Meckel Tel.: +49 40/42838-3311 E-Mail: [email protected] Weblink

Application requirements

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A print version of this announcement (PDF) is available in the further tabs (e.g. “Application requirements”).

Programme Description

The merit-based programme gives international students and doctoral candidates the opportunity to study at Universität Hamburg. In addition to showing academic excellence candidates contribute to society or are committed to intercultural dialogue. There are no restrictions on the subject area or type of degree. The award of merit scholarships should enable the students to concentrate fully on their studies and give them the opportunity to develop their skills.

Target Group

international students and doctoral candidates who have been enrolled in their course of study for a minimum of 2 semesters at Universität Hamburg and who do not qualify for assistance under the German Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG)

Academic Requirements

international students who have been enrolled in their subject at Universität Hamburg for at least 2 semesters and are aiming for a degree. Students from 2-year Master’s courses and doctoral candidates can apply after 1 semester has already been completed.

2 semesters (12 months in total) An application renewal after receiving the scholarship is possible. The maximum funding period in justified exceptional cases is 3 years.

Scholarship Value

usually a maximum of 850 EUR per month; depending on the availability of funds about 2 to 3 doctoral candidates per application round may be awarded a merit-based scholarship of 1,000 EUR per month.

Application Papers

Please find further information on the programme as well as the application forms for the online application procedure here .

Application Deadline

15 April and 15 October of each year

Application Requirements

• good to excellent academic achievement
• Candidates contribute to society and/or are committed to intercultural dialogue.

Please select your status and your country to enable you to submit an application

„Country“ is the country in which you are living and from which you are applying. If you come from another country, please contact us to find out whether you are eligible for the programme of your choice. More Information

Graduates are people who already have at least one first academic degree, e.g. Bachelor.

Your status and/or country is not in the list? If your status and/or country is not included in the list, you cannot apply for this scholarship programme. To ensure that only scholarship programmes for which you are eligible to apply are shown, please select your status and your country in the results list (left-hand column).

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Requirements

Important prerequisites for doctoral studies, formal requirements.

• Successful completion of a degree program from a higher education institution: The key prerequisite is a completed university degree in a subject relevant to the doctoral dissertation project ( Diplom , Magister , or master’s degree; first Staatsexamen (state examination)) or a comparable degree from a university of applied sciences (see admission requirements in Section 4 of the Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2018) ).
• Supervision: Students interested in completing a doctorate in the MIN Faculty will first need to find a supervisor and identify a suitable research topic (see Section 7 subsection 3 of the Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2018) for the groups of persons who may be appointed as supervisors in the MIN Faculty).
• Successful application for admission to doctoral procedures: See Section Admission for more details.

Please note: An application for admission to the doctoral procedure must be submitted to the responsible subject doctoral committee before work on the doctoral dissertation project commences (Section 4 subsection 1 of the Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2018) ). Prospective doctoral researchers must thus apply for admission to doctoral procedures at the latest at the start of their doctoral work (generally at the start of the scholarship or employment).

Language requirements

• Many research groups use English and German to communicate.
• The doctoral dissertation can usually be written in English or German (see Section 8 subsection 2 of the Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2018) ).
• Forms and important information (e.g. the doctoral degree regulations) are available in both English and German.
• A language test or proof of language proficiency is not required for admission to doctoral procedures.

Advices on obtaining a visa

Prospective international doctoral researchers  can apply for admission to the doctoral procedure at an early stage and use the acceptance letter and enrollment at Universität Hamburg to apply for an entry visa.

Further information on applying for a visa is available from the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). Many graduate schools also support the doctoral researchers in the visa application process.

Do you have any questions?

Our academic tutors and the Buddy program for doctoral researchers offer individual advice for your first steps in Hamburg.

The graduate schools at the MIN Faculty can also answer further questions and support you in planning your doctoral studies. Please contact your coordinator accordingly.

The possibility of funding, if not secured in advance, will usually be clarified together with the supervisor.

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Doctoral Students

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Reem Ahmed completed her Masters in International Security at the University of Groningen in 2015. Prior to that, she studied Politics at the University of Leeds and spent one year at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as part of the Erasmus Programme. Since 2015, she has been working as a Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg within the framework of the EU FP-7 funded VOX-Pol Network of Excellence. In between her studies, she interned at Transparency International in Berlin and volunteered for two international charities in London.

Reem joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in November 2017. Her dissertation explores state responses to online extremism and the implications of pre-emptive measures in this regard. She has previously published in the area of radicalisation, with a particular focus on right wing and jihadi extremism.

Henrike Althoff

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Henrike Althoff was born in 1994 and grew up in Münster, Germany. In 2013, she began her studies in law at the University of Hamburg and studied abroad at the Aix-Marseille University in France in 2015. She completed the first state examination at the University of Hamburg in 2019. Upon graduation, she was hired by a district court in Hamburg and went on taking a position as a research assistant by an international law firm to work on investigations and white collar crime. She also joined several projects at the University of Hamburg teaching in the fields of legal methodology and mediation, and helping students prepare for exams.

Since November 2020, she is a PhD candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. She is supported by her supervisors Prof. Dr. Dr. Milan Kuhli and Prof. Dr. Florian Jeßberger as she focuses on principals of national and international criminal law. In her PhD thesis, she is investigating involvement models on collective crime.  

Emmanouil Amanios

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Emmanouil Amanios was born in Thessaloniki. He studied law at Aristotle University Thessaloniki and specialized in public international law and law of the sea at Democritus University of Thrace. He then graduated from Democritus University of Thrace in 2020 with a master’s thesis on the legal regime of the Arctic Ocean.

He is an EU – qualified lawyer and since 2018 he has been working as a freelance attorney and translator in Thessaloniki focusing on national and international civil law (property, inheritance, family and cadastral law).

During 2020 and 2021, Emmanouil served as an academic researcher at “Krateros Ioannou Research Institute for International Law and Relations” at Democritus University of Thrace. He has previously participated in Telders International Law Moot Court Competition as a member of the Board of Review and a judge.

Emmanouil joined Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in October 2021. His research focuses on the dependent archipelagoes in the Law of the Sea. Over the past few years, he has published several articles on law of the sea issues in Greek and English. Among other publications, he belongs to the authors of a law of the sea book on the Greek – Turkish dispute. His mother tongue is Greek and he also speaks English, German, and Spanish. His current academic supervisors are Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß and Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter.

Research interests: international law of the sea, public international law, European human rights law, civil law.

Lucas Bento

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Lucas received his Law Degree from the University of São Paulo (2015), with a sandwich period as Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013/2014), awarded to the Scholarship for Academic Merit by the President’s Office of the University of São Paulo.

He then completed the Economic Analysis of Corporate Law & Commercial Contracts program at Coase Sandor Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Chicago (2015) and developed his graduate studies, masters level, in Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts at the University of São Paulo (2016/2017).

Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hamburg, granted to scholarship from the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law.

Lucas worked as legal assistant at Ribeirão Preto Bank (2014-2015), associate lawyer at Guedes Nunes, Oliveira & Roquim Law Firm (2015-2016) and associate lawyer at Perlman Vidigal Godoy Law Firm (2017), all in M&A transaction, post M&A arbitration, financial contracts, commercial contracts, commercial litigation, banking and administrative procedures at the Brazilian Securities Exchange Commission.

During 2016 and 2017, Lucas served as Teaching Fellow at the University of São Paulo, Visiting Lecturer at CEDIN – Center of Studies of Law and Business, and Arbitrator at FDI and Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration moots, both in Brazil and abroad.

Among another publications, Lucas coordinates the book “Estudos sobre Negócios e Contratos: uma perspective internacional a partir da análise econômica do direito” (Studies on Business and Contracts: an international approach from economic analysis of law), published by Almedina.

Khashayar Biria

Khashayar Biria was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Hamburg to study law with a specialization in European and International Law, for which he received the University’s Merit Scholarship. Graduated in 2020 by completing the First State Exam, he started to work in an international law firm on competition matters while developing his dissertation thesis. Later in October 2021, he joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, where he was awarded a doctoral scholarship and is being supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter and Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken. His dissertation project deals with the effects and legality of certain sanctions as encountered at the intersection of international law and European (private) law.

Giuseppe Bitti

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Studied law at LUISS University in Rome and at the University of Zurich, focusing on Public and Administrative law.

Graduated from LUISS University with a master’s thesis on Public economic law and regulation (2015).

Worked at the Faculty Office of LUISS (2015) and at the Directorate General Legal Services of the European Central Bank (2016).

Joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in 2016.

Currently working in the field of European economic and financial law, on the topic of regulation of financial services and services of general economic interest.

Research interests: European law; Administrative law; Banking and financial law; Competition law; Public procurement law; Consumer law; Law & Economics.

Fabrizio De Gregorio

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Fabrizio De Gregorio was born in 1994 in Pescara, Italy. He studied law at the Universitá degli Studi di Siena (Italy) and, as Erasmus Student, he specialized in European Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium) and Information Technology Law at the Leiden Law School (Netherlands). He then graduated in February 2019 with top marks, defending a thesis on the secondary liability of Internet Service Providers. 

Since February 2019 to October 2020, Fabrizio matured professional experience as trainee lawyer in Milan where he worked for a Magic Circle law firm on many cross border M&A transactions, counseling clients in corporate and contract law, as well on the development of Legal Technology solutions implementing Artificial Intelligence in contract review. In the first trimester of 2021, he enhanced his knowledge of Legal Technology by attending the vocational master "Coding for Lawyers" provided by the Universitá degli Studi di Milano (Italy).

Since October 2020, he has been Research Associate at the Center for Law in the Digital Transformation (Zentrum für Recht in der digitalen Transformation) of the University of Hamburg and a PhD candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. His supervisors are  Prof. Dr. Robert Koch LL.M. (McGill) and Prof. Dr. Mareike Schmidt, LL.M. (Tsinghua, Cina) as his research focuses on producer's liability for harms caused by Artificial Intelligence. More generally, his research interests are centered on the civil law aspects of digitalisation.

Kelly Amal Dhru

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Kelly Amal Dhru is a law graduate from India, and has completed the degrees of Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) and Master of Philosophy of Law from University College, University of Oxford.  In India, Kelly was a founding member of Research Foundation for Governance in India, a think-tank focusing on legal awareness and legislative drafting, and a co-founder of Lawtoons, a comic book series to educate children about laws and rights. In 2016-17, She was a Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow in Public Health Law and Bioethics, as a part of which she completed the LLM from Harvard Law School. She is a research assistant to Professor Marion Albers, and her PhD focuses on the topic ‘Emerging Neurotechnologies, Personhood, and Legal and Human Rights.’

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Rawan Diab (was born in Latakia, Syria in 1990), after graduation from high school 2007, She held an undergraduate degree from the faculty of law at Tishreen University in latakia in 2012. Then received a scholarship from the University of Algiers where she obtained her Master’s degree in public law (department of Environment and Urbanization) in 2015. After that she joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Gratuate School of Law in November 2016, and is currently working on her doctoral thesis at the University of Hamburg, (Faculty of law, Prof. Dr. Jochen Bung, Professorship for criminal law and legal philosophy).

Her Doctoral thesis focuses on the right to immigrate in international law, there is only a right to leave, not a right to enter the state of asylum. Philosophically, there are different positions on this. In addition to some issues related to this topic such as open borders and universal citizenship.

Martin Fertmann

Martin Fertmann is a doctoral candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law and the Centre for Law in Digital Transformation (ZeRdiT). After completing his law studies in Hamburg and Beijing, majoring in media law, he worked as a research associate at various corporate law firms and participated in providing pro bono legal advice at the Cyber Law Clinic of the University of Hamburg for several years. His doctoral thesis and main research interest focuses on institutional and procedural requirements for large internet companies engaging in content moderation under international human rights standards.

Maral Javidbakht

Maral was born in 1994 in Iran. She completed her bachelor’s in Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University, Iran, in 2016. Having achieved practical legal experience by working as a judicial intern at the regional courts, and as an administrative/legal staff at a private regional legal firm, Maral went back to the same faculty in 2018 to pursue her master’s in Public International Law. Simultaneously, she worked as a research assistant to the chair of Public and Public International Law at the Law Faculty of Shiraz university from 2019 to 2021.

She graduated in 2021 with the Summa cum laude honor for being ranked the top student of her class and defending her Master’s thesis on legal mechanisms for countering maritime terrorism in International Law with an excellent grade.

Her research interest lies in International Law of the Sea, on which she has published academic articles.

Maral has joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate school of law as of November 2022. As a scholarship holder of the AMBSL, she is working on her doctoral thesis which concerns legal challenges that arise from using emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, in the shipping sector, and the capacity of classic Law of the Sea regulations in response. Her doctoral thesis is supervised by Professor Dr. Alexander Proelß and Professor Dr. Markus Kotzur.

Verena Kahl

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Verena Kahl studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and received her law degree (First State Examination) in 2011. Afterwards she completed a Masters degree in International Law and Human Rights at the United Nations mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. During her studies, she held a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. In 2013 Verena started her legal clerkship and completed stations at the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Civil Court, the German Embassy in San José, Costa Rica, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, among others, receiving her Second State Examination in 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she held the position of junior lawyer and integrated expert at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. Since April 2018 she is research assistant and lecturer at the Chair for Public Law, European and Public International Law of Prof. Markus Kotzur, with whom she has taught several seminars in the field of public international law.

Verena joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in October 2020. Her PhD project is dedicated at a human right to climate protection. She has previously published articles in the areas of human rights, international environmental law and climate change in German and Spanish.

Konstantin Knobloch

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Konstantin Knobloch was born in Cologne in 1994. He began his law studies at the University of Hamburg in 2014, which he completed in 2019 with his first state examination. During his studies, he set his focus on national and international civil law and civil procedural law as well as the history of private law. Furthermore, he worked as a student assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, History of German Law, Private Law in Modernity of Prof. Dr Tilman Repgen. Here he already had his first contact with the history of law, which would later shape the topic of his doctoral thesis.  Since autumn 2020, Konstantin Knobloch is a scholarship student at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law. His doctoral thesis deals with liberty and the system of the estates of the realm as well as the methodology of the Usus Modernus in the 18th century. The supervisors of his dissertation are Prof. Dr. Tilman Repgen and Prof. Dr. Dr. Milan Kuhli. Before starting his doctoral thesis, he worked for one and a half years in two international law firms in the fields of real estate law and capital market law. 

He is currently working as an academic research assistant at the Chair for Civil Procedure Law and General Procedural Law of Prof. Dr Reinhard Bork.

Valerie Kühn

Valerie Kühn grew up in Cologne, Germany. She began her law studies at the University of Hamburg in 2014. In 2016, she studied at the Aix-Marseille University in France as part of the Erasmus Exchange Program. After receiving her First State Examination in 2020, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg at the Chair of Civil Law, Labour Law, Corporate Law and Comparative Law of Prof. Dr. Claudia Schubert. Since then, she has also regulary participated in research meetings and colloquiums of the Franco-German research group GEFACT.

In October 2021 Valerie Kühn joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law as a scholarship student. Her PhD project focuses on comparative labour law studying the regulations for home office work in the German und French legal systems. Her supervisors are Prof. Dr. Claudia Schubert and Prof. Dr. Judith Brockmann.

Currently, she combines her research on French law at the Comparative Law Center (COMPTRASEC) in Bordeaux with a Master’s programme in Comparative Labour Law at the University of Bordeaux.

Svenja Langenhagen

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While passing her first state exam, Svenja Langenhagen worked in a law firm (insolvency law) and coached the Vis Moot Team of the University of Hamburg for the 26th Willem C. Vis Moot Court (2018/2019). Concerning the Vis Moot she is now a vice chair of the ‘Vis Moot Court Alumni Universität Hamburg e.V.’ and again a mentor for the this season’s coaches.

Since June 2019 Svenja Langenhagen is working as a Research Associate for Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski at the University of Hamburg in the field of private international law and international procedural law. Simultaneously, she started with her PhD thesis in the field of “Human Rights and Environmental Protection in International Sales Law” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski and Prof. Dr. Mareike Schmidt (LLM, Tsinghua). Since October 2019 Svenja Langenhagen is a member of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law and holds a scholarship for her PhD.

Serhii Lashyn

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Serhii began his legal education at International Law Faculty of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Ukraine. In recognition of his excellent academic performance and research accomplishments, he was awarded the Academic Scholarship of the President of Ukraine. Having received a bachelor’s diploma with distinction, Serhii went to Central European University where he obtained an LLM degree (also with distinction). After his master’s studies, Serhii worked at a law firm. In 2017, as one of the winners of a global essay competition, Serhii gave a speech at the podium of United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York on one of the Sustainable Development Goals. Since 2016, Serhii is a Young European Ambassador within EU OPEN Neighbourhood Programme. At Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, Serhii is writing a doctoral dissertation in the field of EU law. Specifically, his research project investigates the autonomisation of EU citizenship.

Francesco Moresco

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Born in 1995 in Genova, Italy, Francesco Moresco has received his Master Degree (Laura Magistrale in Giurisprudenza) from Università di Pisa summa cum laude in October 2019. Francesco has been since September 2014 an Honor Student at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa), where he was awarded after a strictly selective test of a full five-years scholarship including an accomodation in the Scuola's college and the provision of a complementary education consistent with the institution's excellency program. During the University years, Francesco followed repeatedly his interdisciplinary interests, attending a high number of extra-juridical courses (political economy, political philosophy, contemporary history, international geopolitics). He spent two funded research periods abroad, first in 2017 when he worked on his annual dissertation on International Terrorism at Friedrich Schiller  Universitaet, Jena; further, in 2019, Francesco was admitted as a visiting student at the Department of Sociology of University of  Oxford, where he broadened his knowledge on the criminological substrate of the transnational crime of Human Trafficking under the supervision of Professor Federico Varese. The evidences collected were then included in his Master Dissertation, a study of the  organisational features of transnational human trafficking to Europe with both a criminological and comparative (Italy-UK) focus. Apart from his academic interests, Francesco was involved in different experiences in no-profit organisations: first, in 2014, he founded a junior group of Amnesty International in Genova; further, in 2017-2018, he took part to an activity of extra-forensic support to detainees provided by Associazione L'Altro Diritto.

Francesco is since November 2019 a funded PhD student of AMBSL, where he's been admitted with a project on the juridical relevance of the concept of vulnerability in the supranational immigration policy, with both a focus on Transnational Criminal Law and European Public Law. His current academic supervisors are Prof. Dr. Florian Jessberger and Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur.

Erion Murati

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Born in 1994 in Librazhd, Albania. He achieved his LL.M (single-cycle, five years) in criminal law at University of Udine in Italy with 110 up to 110 in February 2018. Joined the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduated School of Law in July 2018. His Ph.D topic is focused in the EU regulatory challenges arising from online transport platforms. In specific, subject of his studies is a new transport paradigm named ‘Mobility-as-a-Service’ (MaaS).  Since March 2020 he is a Lecturer of the foreign language course ‘EU GDPR and Online Platforms’ at Uni-Hamburg, Law Faculty. His mother language is Albanian, he also speaks Italian, English and German.

Franziska Niehaus

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Franziska Niehaus studied law at the University of Hamburg, completing her first State exam in 2018. Subsequently, she started to work as a research and teaching assistant in the team of Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter at the Institute for International Affairs at the University of Hamburg. In this position, she organised the German National Rounds of the ‚Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition‘ of 2019 as the National Administrator.

Already during her studies, her main focus was on international law and in 2016, she participated in the Jessup Moot Court Competition herself. Furthermore, she functioned as chairwoman of the board of the HanseMUN e.V., which organises Model United Nations Sessions and Conferences at the University of Hamburg. During her studies, she held a scholarship at the ‚Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung‘.

Since November 2019, Franziska is a member of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law and holds a scholarship for her PhD in international law. Her research focuses on UN peacekeeping missions and their mandates to protect civilians.

Adriana Pereira Arteaga, M.A.

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Adriana Pereira Arteaga wurde 1985 in Trinidad, Bolivien, geboren. 2005 begann sie ihr Studium in der juristischen Fakultät der Katholischen Bolivianischen Universität „San Pablo“ in La Paz. Während ihres Studiums, im Mai 2009 nahm sie teil an der Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition der American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C., und im September desselben Jahres an der Human Rights Moot Court Competition der Päpstlichen Katholischen Universität von Peru, in Lima und im Oktober 2009 schloss sie ihr Studium. Sie erhielt von Oktober 2011 bis September 2013 ein DAAD-Stipendium an der Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg und hat einen Masterabschluss in Friedens- und Konfliktforschung bekommen.

Seit November 2013 ist sie Doktorandin bei der Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law und forscht zu dem Thema: „ Rechtspluralismus in Bolivien “. Ihre Muttersprache ist Spanisch und spricht auch Englisch, Deutsch und Französisch, sowie hat Grundkenntnisse in Italienisch.

Bojan Perovic

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Bojan Perovic received his LL.B. from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law and obtained his Master's degree in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the University of Belgrade. Prior to joining AMBSL, he spent two years as a research assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences, Center for Legal Research in Belgrade. 

Perovic gained an extensive non-formal education and practice in fields closely related to human rights and international humanitarian law through participation in numerous prestigious non-degree schools and voluntary work in various human rights and humanitarian non-governmental organisations (Royal Holloway, University of London; Lund University; Regional Academy on the United Nations; University of Groningen; International School for Holocaust; Duke University, etc.). 

His latest academic conferences were at Columbia University/NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, Lund University, University College London, ACUNS-Vienna; his latest articles were published by Peter Lang and Neofelis Verlag Berlin.

Perovic is a co-author of Oxford Public International Law debate maps (Oxford University Press) and in 2017 was named Youth Ambassador for European Code against Cancer by Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL). Among other honours (including awards/fellowships/grants by George Mason University, UCL, RHUL/Northwestern University, University of Groningen etc.), Mr. Perovic has been awarded 2017/2018 Marshall T. Meyer Research Award from Duke University.

Since November 2015, Bojan Perovic is a Ph.D. researcher at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, University of Hamburg. His thesis is titled “The right to health of vulnerable groups during armed conflicts” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter and Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur.  His academic interests and research areas extend to international public law, especially human rights and international humanitarian law as well fields such as discrimination, nationalism, and transitional justice.

Malte Pickhardt

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Malte studied law in Hamburg and Stellenbosch (South Africa) and finished his studies in 2017 (first state examination) with a focus on Environmental Law. Before joining the chair for Public Law, Environmental Law and Legal Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Ivo Appel) at the Hamburg University as a research associate in 2018, he worked in an international law firm’s department for antitrust, competition and economic regulation. He is part of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since 2020 and is working on his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ivo Appel and Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß. His dissertation project deals with the legal mechanisms of irrelevance in Environmental Law and beyond.

Marie Johanna Raben

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Marie Raben has been an AMBSL scholar since october 2018. Her field of research is energy law. At the same time she works as a research fellow for the University of Hamburg. After her studies in Hamburg and Strasbourg (URS) she successfully completed her German Referendariat in Hamburg. During her Referendariat she worked amongst others for the administrative court, the administration of city parliament and for a medium-sized law firm.

Douglas Carvalho Ribeiro

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Born in the city of Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil, in 1990. Graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2014.  Study semester abroad at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (SoSe 2012). Passed the bar examination of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) in 2014. Held a scholarship from DAAD in 2014. Defended the master’s thesis “Sergio Buarque de Holanda’s antiliberal roots: Carl Schmitt in ‘Raízes do Brasil’” (2017), further published as a book (2018). Granted the degree of Master of Laws (major Law and Justice) by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2018. Candidate to the degree of Doctor of Laws awarded with a scholarship from the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (AMBSL) since 2018. His dissertation focuses on the relation between constitutional courts and the different models of political party funding.

Kinan Sabbagh

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Kinan Sabbagh is a doctoral fellow at the "Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Graduate School of Law" and a fellow at the Research Training Group "Law and its Teaching in the Digital Transformation" of the Center for Law in the Digital Transformation (ZeRdiT). Following his law studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen / Nuremberg (FAU) with a focus on "State and Administration" and the Universidad Pablo-de-Olavide in Sevilla (UPO) with a focus on European Law, he is pursuing a PhD in Digitalization and Media Law. The goal of the dissertation project is to contextualize digital communication, user autonomy and digital sovereignty from a constitutional perspective.

Paulina Maria Schiefelbein

Paulina Maria Schiefelbein was born in 1995 and grew up in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein. During her school years, she spent an exchange year abroad in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and attended high school there. In 2014, she began her law studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany, graduating in 2019 with her first state exam. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in a law firm and later at the Chair of European and International Law.

After graduation, she remained at the chair and coordinated the interdisciplinary master programme European and European Legal Studies before joining an international law firm as a research assistant. There she works on corporate law as well as in the area of shipping. Since September 2022, she is a doctoral grant holder of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

In winter 2020, she attended the winter courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. In the summer of 2021, she gave a lecture on gender equality in the context of the World Trade Organization at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law in Kiel. This lecture was published on the Völkerrechtsblog. Most recently, she co-authored a commentary on European Union law.

As a doctoral candidate at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law (since November 2022), she is supported in her research on international trade law by her supervisors Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, LL.M. (Duke Univ.) and Prof. Dr. Armin Hatje. In her Ph.D. thesis project, she is researching gender-related provisions in regional economic integration agreements. She focuses on the participation of civil society in drafting and implementing such provisions.

Ina Schimmeroth

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Ina Schimmeroth (LL.M.) is a member and scholarship holder of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since October 2021. Her PhD thesis focuses on Corporate Responsibility for employee-related matters and employee participation in the supply chain supervised by Prof. Claudia Schubert (Universität Hamburg).

After graduating from high-school and spending one year with the German Development Service in the Philippines, she studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (i.Br.), Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Istanbul and the Free University Berlin specialising in labour law. After successfully completing her first state examination in 2015, she obtained an LL.M. at King’s College London in Transnational Law with a special focus on European and international labour law in 2016. Ina conducted her legal clerkship in Berlin between 2017 and 2019 with stations among others at the foreign affairs committee of the German Bundestag, the Consulate General of Germany in San Francisco and a medium-sized law firm in Berlin.

During her studies she worked as a student assistant at the chairs of Prof. Lena Rudkowski at FU Berlin and Prof. Peer Zumbansen at King’s College London as well as for Dr. Einat Albin at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After her graduation she worked as a research assistant at the chairs of Prof. Gralf-Peter Calliess at the University of Bremen and Prof. Claudia Schubert at the University of Hamburg.

Falk Sturma

After growing up in Westphalia, Falk Sturma returned to his birthplace of Hamburg to study law in 2014. He became interested in the international and philosophical aspects of law at an early stage. This was reflected in a semester abroad at Charles University in Prague in 2016 and in his participation in the first-ever "International Law Plus" cooperation with Macquarie University in Sydney in 2018. He also worked in the department of "International Affairs" at the University of Hamburg. After completing his studies, he initially worked in leading international litigation firms before pursuing his interest in legal philosophy topics in greater depth. Under the title „Moralität im Recht – Ronald Dworkins Theorie der einzig richtigen Entscheidung und das Selbstverständnis des Bundesgerichtshofs bei normativen Herausforderungen der Lebenswissenschaften", his dissertation takes a new look at the normative approach of the American legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin from a contemporary German perspective. The project poses the question whether Dworkin's theses have been too hastily dismissed by German-speaking legal philosophers and argues for a reconsideration.

Falk Sturma is a fellow and scholarship holder at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law since the winter semester of 2021. His dissertation is under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bung and Prof. Dr. Dr. Milan Kuhli.

Natalie Wangen

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Born in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in 1993, Nathalie Wangen began her studies in Law at the University of Luxembourg in 2012. This offered her the opportunity to study at the University of Montpellier (France) for one year as part of the Erasmus Exchange Program.

 At the University of Strasbourg Nathalie graduated with a master’s thesis in European Comparative Law (L’accès à l’avortement en Droit comparé France - Irlande, 2017). She pursued her studies with her LL.M. degree in Civil Procedure Law at the University of Hamburg before joining the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law in November 2018. Under the supervision of Mr. Professor Dr. Tilman Repgen, her dissertation explores child custody trough a comparative legal approach of both German and French legislations since the 20th century including supranational impulses.

 Besides her academic studies, Nathalie was able to gain work experiences in the field of Private Law with a special focus on Family Law in a Luxembourgish Law firm. She is fluent in Luxemburgish, German, English and French.

Maximilian Waßmuth

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Maximilian finished his law studies at University of Hamburg with a specialisation in European and International Law in 2017 (first state examination). During his studies he worked as a student assistant for Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, LL.M. (Duke), founded the first Jessup Moot Court Team of the faculty, coached several subsequent mootcourt - teams and spent one semester at Université Paul Cezanne in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Maximilian then completed his professional legal clerkship including placements with the Federal Chancellery, the lawfirm Redeker Sellner Dahs and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, served as president of the staff council and passed the german bar exam (second state examination) in 2019. Beside his clerkship he published articles on Public International Law and European Union Law.

Since November 2019 Maximilian is a member of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law and holds a scholarship for his PhD. His dissertation has an interdisciplinary approach and draws mainly from Public International Law, Political and Social Science. It is supervised by Prof. Dr. Kotzur and Prof. Dr. Alexander Proelß and explores the role of normative expectations and narratives for the rules basedness of the international order. The german working title is „Die Rolle normativer Erwartungen im Kontext der Multilateralismuskrise und ihre Bedeutung für Zukunftsmodelle einer regelbasierten internationalen Ordnung“.

Maximilian also is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the chair of Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter and lecturer at Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. He teaches European Union Law and Criminal Law.

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Fast-Track Program

Master’s and doctorate in just 4 years—including funding.

Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence established its Fast-Track Program to give outstanding students an opportunity to complete their master’s degree and doctoral studies simultaneously and within a 4-year period. This enables participants to shorten their qualification phase by one year and to fast-track their pursuit of an academic career.

The program is divided into 2 phases: Successful applicants receive a scholarship of €1,468 per month for the first 2 years. For the following 2 years, participants are able to apply for a position as a research associate at Universität Hamburg.

The calls for applications are issued annually. The Hamburg Research Academy coordinates the program and supports participants with high quality training and networking opportunities. The Fast-Track Program is part of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskarriere (Hanseatic academic career) at Universität Hamburg, which is aimed at recognizing talented academics early in their development. The program is funded by the Excellence Strategy, a funding program financed by the federal and state governments.

Information event for interested students: Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 11:45 am - 12:45 pm, online, registration

Apply now: Fast-Track 2024

You can now apply for the program. The current application phase runs until 31 August 2024.

Overview of the Fast-Track Program

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Advantages:

• You will complete your master’s degree and doctorate in just 4 years.
• You can get started with your academic career earlier.
• 2-year scholarship (€1,468 per month and €500 yearly for travel expenses)
• 2-year employment as research associate (E13 position with at least 50 percent of the regular weekly working hours)
• exclusive qualification and networking opportunities for participants

The Fast-Track Program targets outstanding students who are interested in an academic career.

Conditions:

• You have completed your bachelor’s degree with outstanding results. Your degree certificate must be received by the end of the application period.
• You have a place in a master’s degree program in the participating faculties for the start of Winter Semester 2023/24 or receive confirmation thereof before the application deadline. In some faculties, it is possible to start at a later date during the first year of the master’s degree program. Find information on this in the respective call for applications.
• The master’s degree program must be in a degree program relevant to your doctoral dissertation project.

Participating faculties:

• Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine (only for Research Training Group 2771: Humans and Microbes)
• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science

What do you need to take care of before applying?

Preparation:

• Carefully read your faculty’s call for applications . Sometimes, the requirements differ between the faculties and departments. The following points will provide you with initial orientation.

Supervision:

• Contact potential supervisors in good time and discuss your intention to apply. Confirmation of supervision is required.
• Ask a member of the supervisory commission for the funding guarantee in writing so that an E13 position can be created to fund the last 2 years of the fast-track doctoral studies (with at least 50 percent of the regular weekly hours) for which you can apply after successfully finishing the first 2 years of study. We are happy to answer any questions on this.

Dissertation project:

• Create a persuasive research proposal .
• Apply for admission to the doctoral procedure .

Advising at the Hamburg Research Academy:

Dr. Lea Eileen Pöhls coordinates the program at the Hamburg Research Academy and is happy to answer your questions. Please also take part in the information event for interested students on 7 May 2024.

Contacts at the faculties:

• Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences Dr. Ulf Beckmann
• Faculty of Medicine (only for Research Training Group 2771: Humans and Microbes): Dr. rer. nat. Katja Giersch  
• Faculty of Humanities: Prof. Dr. Martina Seifert
• Faculty of Education: Dr. Marcus Friederici
• Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences: Academic and doctoral office of the departments
• Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Melanie Weßlau

FAQs for students

Do i need confirmation of a place in a master’s degree program to apply.

Yes, you need confirmation of a place in a master’s degree program to be able to apply. Thus, you should apply for a master’s degree program at Universität Hamburg from the upcoming winter semester before the Fast-Track Program application deadline. You will receive notification about your place on the master’s degree program before the Fast-Track Program application deadline passes. However, you should take care of the rest of your application documents whilst waiting for a reply on your place in the master’s degree program.

I have already started my master’s studies. Can I still apply?

In some faculties, it is possible to start at a later date during the first year of the master’s degree program. Find information on this in the respective call for applications .

In the faculties where a later start is possible, you can apply within the first year of the master’s degree program. In concrete terms, this means that students can apply in the first or second semester of the master’s degree program. They would then start the Fast-Track Program in either the second or third master’s semester. If they start in the third master’s semester, the scholarship funding period is shortened by one year. Contact us is you have any questions.

What does “outstanding” mean exactly? What grades are required for an application?

Please refer directly to the call for applications from your faculty to understand what is meant by an "outstanding" completion of the bachelor's degree. Sometimes, the requirements differ between the faculties and departments.

How do I find a supervisor?

When looking for a suitable supervisor for your proposed doctoral project, you should take various criteria into consideration. First and foremost, they should have the relevant expertise in the subject. Moreover, during your search, you should consider questions regarding funding opportunities (second phase of the Fast-Track Program), supervision and support services, career prospects, and a personal wavelength connection. To find a suitable supervisor, you can research the Universität Hamburg website. It makes sense to ask previous and current doctoral researchers about their experiences with potential supervisors.

When contacting a suitable potential supervisor, you should briefly summarize your career path, including your academic performance (bachelor’s thesis and other studies-related activities) up to that point and your research ideas. Furthermore, it is also worth explaining your interest in the potential supervisor— that is, why this professor at precisely this institution is interesting for you.

How do I get written confirmation of funding for the second phase of the Fast-Track Program?

You will receive written confirmation of funding from your supervisor or another member of your supervisory commission. Tell your supervisor about this necessity in good time during discussions about your intention to apply.

My potential supervisor says they want to support me but cannot guarantee me a position at the moment. Can I still apply?

Written confirmation by a member of the supervisory commission that an E13 position can be created to fund the last 2 years of the Fast-Track Program doctorate is a requirement for a successful application.

What does the Fast-Track Program scholarship amount consist of?

Successful applicants receive €1,468 per month for the first 2 years of the program. The Fast-Track Program scholarship is financed through Excellence Strategy funds and consists of a monthly scholarship sum of €1,365 plus a monthly materials allowance of €103.

I would like to travel to conferences. Who covers the travel expenses?

During your scholarship phase, the HRA provides you with a travel expense allowance of €500 per year for participation in conferences and other relevant travel within the scope of your doctoral studies.

Who can help me with further questions about the application process?

Contact Dr. Lea Eileen Pöhls , coordinator of the HRA’s Fast-Track Program.

Contact your faculty if you have any questions about the doctoral procedure. Find the relevant contact in the “Support” information box.

FAQs for supervisors

Why should my students take part in the fast-track program.

The Fast-Track Program is part of the Excellence Strategy of Universität Hamburg and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskarriere (Hanseatic academic career). The program enables you provide targeted support early on for talented students in your research field. Students profit from a shortened qualification phase, an earlier start of an academic career, and financial and other support (e.g., workshops) in the program.

How is the program financed? What do I or my faculty have to contribute?

The Fast-Track Program consists of 2 phases:

Successful applicants receive a scholarship of €1,468 per month for the first 2 years—which is financed through Excellence Strategy funds—and, in addition, an annual €500 travel expense allowance.

For years 3 and 4, the faculty’s staffing plan must ensure that an E13 position (with at least 50 percent of the regular weekly working hours) is available and can be advertised for the relevant period. The candidate can apply for this position after successfully completing the first 2 years of the fast-track doctorate. All questions regarding the availability of such a position during the relevant period should be clarified with the responsible department head and the office of the dean in your faculty before the candidate submits an application.

During the application procedure, the candidate is to be issued a funding guarantee in writing for the second phase of the program. This will be provided to you or the supervisory committee by the department (head or spokesperson) to which the doctoral subject is assigned or by the office of the dean in the faculty.

If you have any questions, contact the responsible person in your faculty. Find links to their contact details under “Support” in the information box.

Whom can I contact if I have further questions about the program?

Contact Dr. Lea Eileen Pöhls , coordinator of the Hamburg Research Academy’s Fast-Track Program.

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University Of Hamburg - Doctoral Scholarships in Germany, 2022

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Are you seeking doctoral funding? The University of Hamburg offers doctoral scholarships and grants of up to € 1.200  to (prospective) doctoral candidates studying at the University of Hamburg.

We are happy to assist you with any questions regarding our scholarship!

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• The monthly fellowship amount is EUR 1200. Parenting fellows may be eligible for an additional EUR 154 for childcare. 
• For basic scholarship, applicants' university graduation should not be more than a year. 
• Only on rare occasions, the university will accept candidates who graduated three years back, on the grounds of health or family-related issues.
• The applicants for the University Of Hamburg - Doctoral Scholarships in Germany, 2022 must have above-average grades in their graduate degree.
• Hamburg students who meet the criteria are eligible.
• For completion scholarship: In case if the applicant is a research associate at a university or research institute, then his/her employment must not be more than four years.
• Students of medicine at the UKE must write a course-related doctoral thesis.
• Applicants for University Of Hamburg - Doctoral Scholarships in Germany, 2022 should intend to pursue your doctoral project at the University of Hamburg.
• Students of medicine (UKE) can only apply if their main topic for the doctoral program lies mainly within another faculty, such as pharmacy, biology, medical psychology, chemistry, or physics.
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• A tabular CV should include important areas within your field or major.
• Graded documents of completed examinations and coursework and final transcript.
• A research proposal with the project plan and timetable.
• Evaluation of the applicant by a faculty member. 
• Assessment by a dissertation supervisor.

Please use the forms under "Downloads" to apply; it is very important that you follow the above instructions on application procedure specifics.

You can only apply for extensions of stipends during the application period . Your application must comprise a research report and two expert reviews.

Before applying, please read the  act  und die  bylaws (pdf, in German only) . In special cases, do not hesitate to ask us!

Applicants  should not apply without having taken all their exams . One working day before the awarding conference of ZANF (central commission for the promotion of young scientists-usually in January and Juni/July) all grades have to be handed in  latest  for being considered for the scholarships.

Applicants are responsible for the timely and complete submission of all requested documents! For formal reasons late applications will not be accepted.  The date of online submission applies.  Certificates and diplomas may be submitted within a one-week extended deadline - please enquire after the exact date! 

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PhD scholarship

14 June 2021

The project Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung) at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies at Universität Hamburg invites applications for a  PhD Scholarship  beginning on 1 October 2021.

Download the call file here.

 The scholarship shall be allocated for three years.

The scholarship amounts to the net sum of € 1,250 per month. 

It is mandatory that the proposed research topic is consistent with the project goals. For more details on the project visit https://www.betamasaheft.uni-hamburg.de/

The second project phase places special attention on codicology and manuscript production in Ethiopia and Eritrea, with a particular focus on layout, text arrangement, and text decoration, and the PhD projects are expected to contribute to research in this field.

Requirements

A degree in Ethiopian studies, Semitic studies, African studies, Theology, Art history, or other related discipline is a necessary requirement. The knowledge of English and of Gəʿəz is expected. The knowledge of Amharic and other Ethiopian, Eritrean and European languages, as well as experience in manuscript cataloguing and digital humanities are an advantage.

The University aims to increase the number of women in research and teaching and explicitly encourages women to apply. Equally qualified female applicants will receive preference in accordance with the Hamburg act on gender equality.

Research is conducted primarily in English, PhD dissertations may be written in English or in German. For any further detail refer to the rules of the doctoral degree regulations for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg: https://www.gwiss.uni-hamburg.de/studium/promotion.html .

Application deadline

The deadline for submitting applications is 14 June 2021 .

Application file

We accept applications in German and English. Please send a single PDF document containing:

• Cover letter
• Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages)
• Copies of degree certificates
• Letter of motivation (max. 1 page)
• Research topic and outline (max. 2 pages)
• Letter of reference (from your degree supervisor, not older than 6 months)

Please send your application file via E-Mail to: alessandro.bausi "AT" uni-hamburg.de

Scientific Director

Alessandro Bausi

Administrative Director

Eugenia Sokolinski

[email protected] ( aethiopistik "AT" uni-hamburg.de. )

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The Doctoral Degree Regulations (Promotionsordnung) describe in detail the requirements and the application procedure to study for a doctorate at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

The TUHH awards the following doctoral degrees:

• Dr. rer. pol.

• Dr. rer. nat.

Section 3 of the Doctoral Degree Regulations lists the special academic requirements for completing a doctoral degree.

You must first find a supervisor to supervise your dissertation. Then contact the person of your choice directly. A listing of the deaneries can be found here .

The next step is to send the application for admission to the doctoral program to the doctoral committee of the TUHH (the form can be found on the " applications and instructions " page). If you intend to submit a cumulative dissertation, please note that only publications in which all co-authors have confirmed their predominant collaboration in writing on the form provided can be considered. A predominant contribution is deemed to exist if more than 50% of the scientific contribution can be attributed to you. We recommend obtaining confirmation from the co-authors at an early stage, preferably when the publication is accepted.

After the presentation in the office of the Dean of Studies you submit the dissertation along with the Application to Inaugurate Doctoral Degree Proceedings (the form can be found on the " applications and instructions " page).

An overview of all instructions, applications and cover sheets, the affidavit, the model resumé for your dissertation and other documents can be found under the menu item " applications and instructions ".

For information about the application procedure for admission to study for a doctorate see Section 4 of the Doctoral Degree Regulations and the Application Procedure to Inaugurate Doctoral Degree Proceedings in Section 5 of the Doctoral Degree Regulations .

The doctoral committee has passed a resolution on the recognition of digital documents in the doctoral process. In the resolution you will find a list of documents that can be submitted digitally to Examination Office - Doctoral Affairs and will be sent digitally by the doctoral committee.   (Download resolution PromA digital documents)

The Technical University of Hamburg has adopted an agreement for the supervision of doctoral students of the TUHH in February 2022. The supervision agreement can be found here: Supervision Agreement

Examination Office - Doctoral Affairs (open consultation hours from 15.05.2024 Wednesdays 9:30h to 11:30h) !! No consultation hours on 29.05.24 and 11.06.2024 !!!

Contact person: Friederike Freund - Responsible for doctoral procedures last name A-K ( Availability from Tuesday to Thursday ) Britta Thies - Responsible for doctoral procedures last name L-Z ( Availability from Monday to Wednesday ) Contact details via the menu item Contact: https://www.tuhh.de/tuhh/nach-dem-studium/promotion-und-habilitation/kontakt.html

For the submission of documents, dissertation, advice etc. we offer open consultation hours from 15.05.2024 on Wednesdays from 9:30h to 11:30h.  !! No consultation hours on 29.05.24 and 11.06.2024 !!!

The final submission date for the next meetings of the doctoral degree committee:, wednesday may 22, 2024 12.00 uhr, wednesday june 05, 2024 12.00 uhr.

Procedure for Prospective Doctoral Degree Students with a Foreign Degree

Prior to admission to study for a doctorate, the foreign degree must first be deemed equivalent to a German university degree.

Please contact the Examination Office - Doctoral Affairs, bringing with you your application documents and copies of your master’s and bachelor’s degree certificates in the original language along with any other appropriate certificates.

Enrollment to study for a doctorate

It is possible to obtain a certificate of enrollment, if admission to the doctoral program has been granted , from the Examination Office - Doctoral Affairs via the office. If needed, please write an email to promo(at)tuhh(dot)de .

In the interim prior to admission you may enroll to study for the purpose of academic further education. This enrollment category is limited to two semesters. For both categories there is an upper income limit based on the fellowship allowance of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for doctoral fellowships. Please contact study(at)tuhh(dot)de in this matter.

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Scholarships at HAW Hamburg

Scholarships are a particularly good way of financing your studies. They generally don't need to be paid back and often provide a suitable amount of funding.

• Additional funding organisations

Several HAW Hamburg foundations and donor organisations offer scholarships and funding.

Where can you find more information about scholarships?

• e-fellows  – This comprehensive scholarship databank allows you to search for scholarships from businesses (in German only). 
• Stiftungssuche (Foundation search)  – The Federal Association of German Foundations has compiled a list of foundations that offer scholarships (in German only).
• Scholarship information from Studierendenwerk Hamburg (in German only)  
• StipendiumPlus  – Thirteen organisations for the promotion of young talent which have come together under the umbrella of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to provide support to students and young researchers with special talents (some information available in English). 
• The German Academic Scholarship Foundation  – Germany's oldest and largest scholarship foundation
• Professional advancement scholarship  – This scholarship is intended for skilled workers who have completed vocational training and have at least two years of professional experience (in German only).

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Companies, associations, charitable foundations, and private individuals now have the opportunity to support high-achieving and committed students at Universität Hamburg with scholarships. The Germany Scholarship is worth €300 per month and is funded in equal part by the German federal government and private sponsors, with the goal of working together to support clever minds and talented young students. In addition, you will receive a donation receipt.

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Germany Scholarships for refugees from Ukraine

UHH would also like to help the people who currently have to flee Ukraine. Immediate aid is important, but war also destroys biographies in the long term if no support is available. Young people, for example, cannot complete their education or study. Even if the war could be ended again in the foreseeable future, the study conditions in Ukraine have deteriorated extremely for years to come.

The Universität Hamburg therefore offers refugee students a variety of support services. Above all, of course, the opportunity to take up or complete studies at the University of Hamburg and to finance them. We would therefore like to be able to provide scholarships to students from Ukraine.

As of now, you can specifically sponsor Deutschlandstipendien for students from Ukraine! The Germany Scholarships are financed by non-governmental donations. However, every euro donated by companies, foundations, associations or private individuals is doubled by the Federal Government. Such help goes beyond urgent emergency aid and has a lasting effect - for the individuals and for democracy in Ukraine.

Please tranfer your donation with the earmarking "Deutschlandstipendium Ukraine" to the following account:

Universität Hamburg Deutsche Bundesbank IBAN: DE 84 2000 0000 0020 1015 34 BIC: MARKDEF1200 (Intended purpose: Deutschlandstipendium Ukraine)

In order to support a student with a Germany Scholarship, a donation of 150 euros/month is required. But every donation, even small ones, counts and will be used for the scholarships without deductions! For donations of 100 euros or more, you will receive a donation receipt if you send us an email with your address to [email protected] .

If you have any questions, please also contact Dr. Andrea Schultze at this email.

We thank you very much for your support!

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Dear visitors of our website,

Order/give away the cookbook "Studentenfutter 2.0 - fast & delicious & various" , which was created by Germany scholarship holders, alumni and supporters of the Germany Scholarships at the Universität Hamburg in December 2021. It contains 44 diverse recipes from all over the world that are suitable for everyday use.

You can obtain the cookbook for a prior (minimum) donation of 15 euros/book plus 2 euros for postage . The minimum order value is therefore 17 euros. For orders of 100 Euros or more, we will issue a donation receipt upon request. Click here to order.

Get a sneak preview (PDF) of the recipes.

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The university of hamburg thanks the federal ministry of education and research, the state of hamburg and the following sponsors:.

ADventas Consulting GmbH, Allen & Overy LLP, ALTANA AG, Annie und Walter Robinsohn-Stiftung, BDÜ Nord e.V., Berufsgenossenschaft für Gesundheitsdienst und Wohlfahrtspflege (BGW), British American Tobacco GmbH, Ehepaar Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska und Eveline von Hoffmann, Censea Consulting GmbH, Christiane und Dirk Reichow Stiftung zur Förderung der bildenden Kunst, Däke-Stiftung, Dorothea und Martha Sprenger Stiftung, Dr. Bernadette Schubert-Stiftung, Dr. Walter Kapaun-Stiftung, Dürr-Stiftung Hamburg, Edmund Siemers Stiftung, Förderverein des Instituts für Friedens- und Sicherheitsforschung/UHH, Freundes- und Förderkreis des Universitätsklinikums Eppendorf e.V., Freundes- und Förderverein Chemie der UHH e.V., Gerd und Gisela Wäger-Stiftung, Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Fachbereichs Sozialökonomie an der Universität Hamburg, Hamburger Informatik Forum, Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, Hans-Otto und Engelke Schümann Stiftung, Herr Heinz Holert, Institut für Lebensmittelchemie der UHH, intersoft consulting services AG, IT.UV, Jung Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Katharina und Gerhard Hoffmann-Stiftung, Klaus-Rosenberg-Stiftung, Ehepaar Susanne und Michael Krause, Lagemann Beteiligungs GmbH, Lothar und Ingrid Hemshorn-Stiftung, Magrit & Nicolay Ketelsen-Stiftung, Mathias-Tantau-Stiftung, MLP Finanzberatung SE, Momeni Group Foundation, Neurochirurgische Praxis Wirbelwerk, Novatec Consulting GmbH, Otto Brenner Stiftung, Petra Wohlfarth Stiftung, Prof. Dr. Hans Steinhart, Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Moritz, Prof. Carl Langhein Stiftung, Rechtsanwalt Christian Putschäw, Rievers-Stiftung, Rotary Club Hamburg Altona, Rotary Club Hamburg Blankenese, Rotary Club Hamburg International, Rudolph Lohff-Stiftung, Schill und Seilacher Stiftung, Ehepaar Ute und Günter Schimscha, SeaRenergy Offshore Holding GmbH, Der Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein, Ehepaar Manuela und Jan Boje Steffens, Stiftung Arnd Wolters und Jürgen Peter, Stiftung Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, Stiftung Wissen Weltethos Weltzukunft, Ulrich und Beate Schumacher Stiftung, TXS GmbH, Uniberry GmbH, UKE Alumni Eppendorf e.V., Universitäts-Gesellschaft Hamburg, Zonta-Club Hamburg

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Unlocking Achievements from Horticulture Research Institute Scholarships

Three students from the Department of Horticultural Science have pursued their plant science passions, each with their unique path and achievements. Debasish Paul is a doctoral student who is focused on the sustainability of annual bedding plant supply chains, and he has received three prestigious scholarships at North Carolina State University. Ramsey Arram is a master’s post-graduate who was inspired to further develop his ornamental plant breeding expertise after earning a biology degree from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Lauren Staley, an undergraduate student, shares her experience receiving a Horticultural Research Institute scholarship and discusses how mentorship has been pivotal in her academic journey in horticulture.

Debasish Paul, a doctoral student

How did you find out about the scholarship?

I discovered this scholarship through Rachel McLaughlin’s (Graduate Services Coordinator) departmental emails, which she generously shared with all the Department of Horticultural Science students. After reviewing the requirements on the Horticultural Research Institute’ s (HRI) website, I decided to apply. This scholarship has been key to my academic journey, providing the necessary support for me to continue my research and contribute to the field of horticulture.

What inspired you to pursue your horticulture degree?

I was born and raised in Bangladesh, a country with excellent climatic conditions for crop production. Despite the favorable conditions, growers are often short-changed when it comes to selling their crops for an appropriate price. I was determined to find a solution to this problem. This passion led me to pursue a Master’s in Agricultural Production Chain Management, specializing in horticultural chains at the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. During my studies, I developed a deeper knowledge of supply chain sustainability by assessing the Litchi supply chain. I discovered a significant demand for Litchi in the chain but that no postharvest management practice or food processing was involved. Stakeholders expressed a need for more Litchi production in the chain to meet the market demand. This research experience ignited my desire to extend my skillset in further supply chain research. I decided to pursue my doctorate in horticultural science at North Carolina State University to work on the sustainability of the floriculture supply chain, hoping to make a significant difference in the field.

Tell us about your current research.

My current research focuses on the supply chain of annual bedding plants in America. This unique study involves a nationwide survey to identify the roles and connections of stakeholders in the chain, as well as the factors that influence its sustainability. The outcomes of this research will be instrumental in guiding stakeholders to enhance their business-to-business collaboration and meet consumer demand sustainably.

In addition, I am conducting a study to measure consumer preferences and willingness to pay for sustainability attributes such as production method, origin of production, and certifications for bedding plants. The findings of this research will help stakeholders in the bedding plant supply chain measure consumer preferences and willingness to pay for different sustainability attributes. This, in turn, will help the stakeholders adopt the necessary practices to make their business sustainable and meet consumer demand.

Has there been an enduring impactful moment from your horticulture studies?

I am deeply humbled and overjoyed to share that I have been honored with three prestigious scholarships for my academic achievements at NC State’s Department of Horticultural Science. The HRI Mugget Scholarship (2023), The Randolph G. Gardner Graduate Fund for Excellence (2023), and the University Graduate Fellowship (2022-23) have recognized my dedication and commitment to horticulture. Additionally, I have been selected to participate in the Building Future Faculty Program (2023) at NC State. I am deeply grateful to all the organizations that have acknowledged my efforts and rewarded me with these esteemed awards.

Do you have any advice for others seeking scholarships?

As a crucial first step, I urge all students to regularly check for scholarship opportunities shared by our department and posted on the HRI website. It’s vital to initiate the application process as early as possible to give yourself ample time for preparation. Before applying, carefully read the scholarship description to ensure you meet all the eligibility criteria. Take the time to review your application thoroughly before submitting it. Remember, every application is unique, so you should present your story clearly and effectively to the scholarship committee. Lastly, ensure you submit your application well before the deadline. Avoid waiting until the last moment to submit your application. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me via email at [email protected] or LinkedIn .

Ramsey Arram, a master’s post-graduate student

I found the HRI scholarships on their scholarships webpage . They responded quickly to my submitted application. Then I was contacted by Dale Deppe, the owner of Spring Meadows. We had a good conversation about how he started the company. It’s important to write a short biography about your inspiration and academic path. Jennifer Gray, with HRI, instructed me on the details for the biography and the addresses to send ‘thank you’ letters.

I earned a biology degree with concentrations in botany and environmental science at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 2004. I have worked on several farms, homesteads and nurseries in North Carolina and California. I also have created extensive ethnobotanical guides for wild plants for three regions within both of these states. In total for all three guides, I have approximately 1,330 entries for wild plants with ethnobotanical plants, though many species occur in more than one region. Throughout my career, I fell in love with being a lead grower and also the resilience of wild plants. These two passions were hybridized when Assistant Professor Hsuan Chen agreed to be my advisor for my Master of Horticultural Science degree. Some of the breeding projects I work on are to bring the resilience of wild plants into our ornamental crops and domesticated food crops. Other projects include traditional breeding methods to create cultivars such as Hibiscus. We often implement polyploidy induction which can overcome fertilization barriers, induce sterility, or result in interesting and favorable characteristics.

The acceleration in my horticultural career would have been unfathomable before acceptance into the master’s program.I have had the great honor of managing the greenhouses and growing spaces for Chen. I have implemented polyploidy induction on five species and carried out most of the tasks involved in two extensive interspecies breeding programs. It is a high-energy program with an array of goals and species. 

Tell us about your research interests.

All of my classes were cultivation-focused, as I intend to work as a lead grower in research and breeding programs. The NC State graduate-level cultivation classes are as invigorating and enriching to my skills and abilities as the mass flow and diffusion of nutrition of the soil solution being carried into apical meristems and sinks. Every class has provided a rich bank of knowledge for me to employ in our greenhouses and growing spaces.The advice of Chen elevates my understanding of plant breeding and the importance in details of every task involved. Remarkable moments have been when I confirmed that polyploidy induction was successful for 16 plants of Lindera benzoin (northern spicebush), and also when Chen worked with me in publishing our paper: Genome Doubling of Northern Spicebush, Lindera benzoin L. !  I searched for polyploidy induction papers for the Lindera genus many times during my literature research. Now it is the first research paper available in the search results through Google Scholar!

Do you have any advice for others seeking scholarships?  

Passion, dedication, contribution and details were expressed with vitality in my HRI Spring Meadows scholarship application. The opportunity to manage greenhouses and implement tasks for our breeding projects has given me a rich array of horticultural research to write about. I know students from many paths in horticulture are awarded HRI scholarships. I would make sure to express your passions, the scientific details, and short-term and long-term goals. It is a great honor to receive the HRI Spring Meadows Scholarship. I will be flying out to their nursery for a tour this spring! I love the NC State Department of Horticultural Science as the passion for this walk in life attracts beautiful, kind, thoughtful and enriching souls. Our nerdy conversations can include subjects on carbon reductions in floriculture, pathogen resistance in tomato breeding, to the importance of permaculture on a global scale.

Lauren Staley, an undergraduate student

During my time at Alamance Community College (ACC), I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by exceptional people, particularly my advisors. Dean Elizabeth Riley , the head of the horticulture department at the time, shared a parallel educational path to mine and generously guided me through various ways to help finance my future studies. She presented me with numerous scholarship opportunities, one being the Horticultural Research Institute which offered multiple scholarship resources. This truly has helped me along my journey, not only through HRI but many others as well. 

As a transfer student to NC State University, my educational journey began at ACC, where I discovered my passion for horticulture. Throughout high school, I had been involved with the Future Farmers of America (FFA) program where my interest primarily centered around animal science until I enrolled in my first plant identification class my senior year. Transitioning to college, I was uncertain about which academic path I wanted to pursue. I had heard that ACC had an excellent horticulture program so I decided to take my prerequisites there along with a few classes. It didn’t take me long to realize that this field resonated with me on a profound level, igniting my undiscovered passion. I then planned my next steps which involved completing my associate’s degree in horticulture at ACC, setting the path for my pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University. 

  Has there been an enduring impactful moment from your horticulture studies?

Throughout my 2 years at ACC, I spent a lot of time working as a student worker with my position being the greenhouse manager. This opportunity led me to practice my skills through multiple hands-on experiences rather than just learning in the classroom setting. The role helped pave my career path and guide me to a more defined part of the green industry. Managing three on-campus greenhouses sparked my curiosity about larger-scale operations and motivated me to seek those opportunities. This also led me to participate in an internship at Plantworks Nursery where I got to experience large-scale greenhouse and nursery management. My times at both of these excelling environments most definitely made an impact during my horticulture studies. In May of 2024, I will have the opportunity to build upon my previous experiences as I complete my second internship at Greenleaf Nursery Company which will push me towards greater growth and success within the industry.

  Do you have any advice for others seeking scholarships?

Scholarships represent an invaluable opportunity for students at the college level. While the initial step of filling out the submission forms may seem daunting to some, it is crucial to recognize the great benefits they offer. A common misconception, one I used to face, is that with the application comes lengthy essays, deterring many from evening attempting to apply. However, it is important to note that not all scholarships require extensive writing. For instance, programs like HRI offer a process where a single general application form can potentially apply to numerous scholarships across various foundations. The financial support through these scholarships is undeniably beneficial in the long run. Even if one receives a scholarship for a modest amount, the overall impact of securing multiple awards can add up and contribute to one’s educational endeavors. Investing the time and effort for scholarships not only aids in relieving students’ financial burdens but also sets a positive motivation for one’s academic and professional journey. 

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Tech celebrates HOPE scholarship extension to five years, waives graduate school applications for May

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Recent changes from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission are putting postgraduate studies closer in reach for Tennessee Tech University students, and the university is celebrating with a free graduate school application month from May 1 – 31, 2024. Effective last fall, qualifying Tennessee students may now use their HOPE lottery scholarship for up to five years, equipping Golden Eagles with up to $5,700 in financial assistance toward the first year of graduate school or an additional year to complete their undergraduate degree. Julie Baker, interim associate provost and dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Tech, says the extended scholarship opportunity is a game changer for students. “For students who qualify, it provides them with an opportunity to essentially get up to half of their tuition and fees paid for in their first year of graduate school,” said Baker. “It could mean that, for students who didn’t see graduate school as an option, now it’s an option for them.” Baker adds that Tech’s College of Graduate Studies offers specific tools to help students maximize the impact of the five-year scholarship. For example, the university’s Master’s of Professional Studies (MPS) track allows students to take seven-week courses, potentially doubling the coursework they can complete in a single semester. Likewise, Tech’s Fast Track program, available in more than a dozen academic departments, allows students to begin earning graduate-level credit hours during their undergraduate studies. “Our Fast Track is something that is a great option for students to have. It’s a way to get ahead and get extra hours during their undergraduate program,” said Baker. “If students have Fast Tracked in and have a handful of graduate courses already under their belt then, after that fifth year, they could be finished or almost finished with their master’s program.” For students to retain HOPE scholarship eligibility, they must begin their graduate coursework immediately following the completion of their undergraduate degree. Additionally, to maintain the full scholarship amount, students must be enrolled in at least nine credit hours. Partial HOPE scholarships are available to students enrolled in fewer hours. As students consider what the extended HOPE scholarship means for them, Tech is making the decision to enroll in the College of Graduate Studies easier by waiving application fees throughout May. “That’s something we’re really excited about,” added Baker. “Domestic students will not pay a graduate application fee when they complete their application for graduate school.” Baker encourages prospective graduate students to connect with their advisor, the Office of Financial Aid and/or the College of Graduate Studies to discuss their options, including using the HOPE scholarship for a fifth year. The College of Graduate Studies’ application deadline for fall 2024 is July 1. Learn more and apply online at tntech.edu/graduatestudies/how-apply.php . 

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University of cagliari is offering 98 funded phd positions in 2024 (study in italy).

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Description for University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy):

The University of Cagliari in Italy announces   98 partially funded PhD positions for international students in 2024, spanning various fields including legal sciences, economics, cultural heritage, and more. With a deadline of April 30th, 2024, applicants are encouraged to utilize the simplified application process, which involves online registration, program selection, document preparation, and submission. This opportunity provides a gateway to pursue advanced research in Italy, fostering academic excellence and global collaboration. For more information read this article till the end.

Degree Level for University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy):

University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy) is available to undertake PhD level programs at University of Cagliari.

Available Subjects for University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy):

Following subject are available to study under this scholarship program.

• legal sciences
• economics and business
• cultural heritage
• International Studies
• Strategic Innovation Management
• Life Sciences
• Environmental Science
• Neuroscience
• Mathematics
• Industrial Engineering

And many more.

Benefits for University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy):

98 partially funded positions are available.

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Eligible Nationalities for University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy):

This scholarship is open to students of all nationalities.

Eligibility Criteria for University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy):

Students with Masters Degree are eligible to apply.

Application Procedure for University of Cagliari is Offering 98 Funded PhD Positions in 2024 (Study in Italy):

Ready to pursue your PhD at the University of Cagliari? Here's a simplified guide to navigate the application process:

•  Head to the University of Cagliari's online services platform . If you're new to the system, you'll need to register first.
• Once registered, log in to your personalized page. This grants you access to a reserved area with dedicated online services.
• Look for the "Admission Test Registration" section. Here, you can explore the available PhD programs and select the one that aligns with your research interests.
• Be sure to fill in all the necessary details regarding your academic qualifications during the application process.
• This step is crucial! Carefully review the program's specific requirements to ensure you have all the necessary documents . Double-check and upload them through the online system.
• Don't forget to pay the entrance exam fee of EUR 25.65. The University utilizes the PagoPA procedure for secure online payments.
• Applications for the 2024 PhD programs close on April 30th, 2024, at 11:59 PM local time. Make sure to submit your application along with the €25.65 fee before this deadline to be considered.

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