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Universities of Applied Science and Research Training Groups
Allowances for Trips Abroad
If doctoral researchers participating in a Research Training Group travel abroad for a number of days, for example to attend a conference, they receive a daily allowance. If they travel abroad for longer than 30 days/weeks, they receive a fixed monthly allowance instead of the daily allowance in addition to their normal grant. The amount, paid as a lump sum, is based on the regulations for German civil servants working abroad and is therefore subject to constant fluctuations due to the constant adjustment of the cost-of-living allowance.
The RISE (Research Internship in Science and Engineering) Programme
Doctoral researchers participating in a Research Training Group or a Collaborative Research Centre in the natural sciences or engineering can invite and supervise their “own” research fellows from the USA.
Networking Meetings
Workshops to facilitate networking with other topically related groups, which are organised by the doctoral researchers themselves, are intended to support relevant discussion and promote the doctoral researchers’ independence. Discussion of ideas and experiences made in their own Research Training Group helps identify particularly beneficial structures within a given research area and thus increases the overall quality of structured doctoral programmes. Last, but not least, sharing the experience gained between different groups helps build networks, encouraging personal networking between the doctoral researchers that often leads to valuable long-term personal contacts.Doctoral researchers in the Research Training Group are responsible for organising these 2 to 3-day networking meetings themselves and need to submit an application to the DFG for the necessary funding.
Compatibility of Family & Career
Equal opportunities and the chance to combine an academic career with raising a family are not mere buzzwords for the DFG. The DFG promotes equal opportunities for women wishing to pursue a research career in a number of different ways.
German National Academic Foundation Doctoral Forums
Under an agreement between the DFG and the German National Academic Foundation, doctoral researchers in Research Training Groups are able to participate in the German National Academic Foundation doctoral forums in a variety of research areas (literature, history, society, nature and science).
