International Scholarships

The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its Ph.D. and Post-doc program. The program is funded by the German Excellence Initiative and will commence in September 2008. BIGSSS is an inter-university institute of the University of Bremen (UB) and Jacobs University. BIGSSS builds on the experience and institutional structure of … [More Info]

The Graduate School offers a high-level PhD programme with research opportunities in cellular, molecular, developmental, physiological, neuro-and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Plant, animal and microbial systems are equally well represented. The three-year programme starts with a six-month rotation and course period, followed by a PhD project in one of the participating groups. Seminars and training … [More Info]

The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. It conceptionally combines different research areas (microbial communities, interactions with plant, animal and human hosts and environmental interactions) to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication (www.jsmc.uni-jena.de). JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School prospectively comprising 150 PhD students who will be educated … [More Info]

The DFG Research Center / Excellence Cluster “The Ocean in the Earth System” (MARUM) at the University of Bremen, Germany, has established a competitive and highly selective program for MARUM Fellowship awards.Up to two fellowships will be awarded in this round in the general areas of marine geology, paleoceanography, marine biogeochemistry, marine geophysics and marine … [More Info]

Doctoral Program in Economics, Law and Psychology Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena (Germany) The International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (Uncertainty-School) combines approaches from Economics, Law and Psychology to explain human decisions under uncertainty more effectively and to better design institutional responses. The Uncertainty-School is jointly hosted … [More Info]

IMPRS-ESM PhD Program: Call for 2008 now open The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), located in Hamburg, Germany, offers fellowships to outstanding students interested in Earth system research. Doctoral students of the IMPRS-ESM contribute to the development, application, and evaluation of a spectrum of Earth system models at different temporal … [More Info]

Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES) offers 20 doctoral stipends in a new Ph.D. program under the auspices of the Excellence Initiative of the German state and federal governments. Background Since 2002, RWTH Aachen University -one of the leading technical universities in Europe- has been establishing educational structures to meet the … [More Info]