Graduate school

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A graduate school is an institution in the higher education sector that is intended to promote young scientists . The institutions linked to university operations often offer financial support and their own lectures and seminars. Such measures can be created and designed by the universities themselves or they can be financed through research funding.

Graduate schools in Germany

Excellence Initiative

As part of the excellence agreement between the federal government and the federal states of July 18, 2005, the project-related funding of graduate schools to promote young scientists was decided. In total, the German Research Foundation (DFG) was to fund around 40 graduate schools with one million euros per year as part of special federal and state funding. It was stipulated that the first funding period will last until December 31, 2011; successfully evaluated measures can be continued upon application. Out of a total of 253 draft proposals submitted in 2006 and 2007, 39 were selected after review. In April 2008, a total of 648 people in graduate schools were funded by the Excellence Initiative, including 29 professors and junior professors , 50 postdocs and 486 doctoral students . The proportion of researchers from abroad was around a quarter.

At the time of the first evaluation in 2008, as expected, a specific effect of the funding program on the scientific community could not yet be determined.

The result of the final evaluation of the Excellence Initiative in January 2016 provides for the discontinuation of funding for graduate schools. The international commission of experts entrusted with the evaluation came to the conclusion that structured doctoral programs are now established in most disciplines. Further support for graduate schools as part of an independent funding line should therefore not be continued. In this context, reference was made to the possibility of funding as a thematically focused doctoral program of the DFG.

Since the excellence initiative was founded, 45 graduate schools have emerged in Germany. Each of them received around one million euros a year for their teaching. As a result of the experts' recommendation from 2016, the federal government decided to grant the graduate schools only 30 percent of the original amount from January 2019 and to stop funding them entirely from October 2019. Since graduate schools have now become standard at most German universities, they no longer need separate funding.

Other initiatives

University of Art in Berlin

In 2006, the President of the UdK Berlin, Martin Rennert , initiated the development of a graduate school at the Berlin University of the Arts . In contrast to the German graduate schools, which emerged from the excellence initiative of the federal and state governments, the graduate school of the UdK Berlin should not only be open to academic, but also to artistic and design disciplines.

A pilot phase began at the end of 2008, which was subsequently funded by the Berlin Senate for Education, Science and Research through start-up funding. With the event high in the sky. Pilot phase In April 2009 the Graduate School presented results from the pilot phase. In autumn 2009, an international call for 6 scholarships followed .

See also

• Research Training Group
• Graduate school

Web links

Wiktionary: Graduate School  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• DFG German Research Foundation | List of graduate schools in Germany (as of November 8, 2017) ( Memento from November 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Homepage of the graduate school at the Berlin University of the Arts
• DAAD German Academic Exchange Service | List of graduate schools in Germany for foreigners (as of September 20, 2012) ( Memento from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bund-Länder agreement in accordance with Article 91 b of the Basic Law (research funding) on ​​the excellence initiative of the Federation and the Länder for the promotion of science and research at German universities. Excellence Agreement (ExV) of July 18, 2005. In: BAnz p. 13347. gwk-bonn.de (PDF; 20 kB).
2. ^ Michael Sondermann, Dagmar Simon, Anne-Marie Scholz, Stefan Hornbostel : The Excellence Initiative: Observations from the Implementation Phase. iFQ Working Paper No. 5, December 2008 dfg.de (PDF; 1.8 MB).
3. ↑ International Expert Commission for the Evaluation of the Excellence Initiative: Evaluation of the Excellence Initiative - Final Report of the International Expert Commission . Ed .: IEKE - International Expert Commission on Excellence Initiative. Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit), Berlin January 29, 2016, p. 39 ( archive.org [PDF]).
4. ^ Leon Kirschgens: PhD students on the defensive. faz.net, December 7, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ What happened so far. (No longer available online.) Udk-berlin.de, archived from the original on June 8, 2009 ; accessed on March 30, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Pilot phase of the graduate school 2008/2009. (No longer available online.) Udk-berlin.de, archived from the original on October 29, 2010 ; accessed on March 30, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Scholarship holders 2010. (No longer available online.) Udk-berlin.de, archived from the original on October 28, 2010 ; accessed on March 30, 2019 .