Support Measures
The Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences provides funding and scholarships for PhD students of social sciences. In 2018 you can e.g. apply for the TeamTeaching program, for an emergency grant and for support concerning a PhD students’ forum.
Further up-to-date information can be found on the GGG homepage at: www.ggg.uni-goettingen.de/GGG-sponsorship
More detailed information will be presented online. The following funding options are available in the upcoming months:
Funding measure |
Duration |
Application deadline |
Funding amount |
Target group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team-Teaching | 1 semester | Feb 16, 2018 | tandem and qualification | PhD students who plan to start their teaching experience together with a colleague and seek to develop their teaching competencies in a group of teaching newcomers simultaneously |
| Family oriented finishing Grant |
4 – 6 months | June 30, 2018 | €1,200 / month plus child benefit | PhD students caring for children or relatives in need of care and thus needing more time to complete their PhD thesis |
| Finishing grant for international PhD students | 3 – 6 months | 30.06.2018 | €1.000 / months plus child benefit, if confirm to scholarship regulations | international PhD students who are completing the thesis |
| Research Assistantships | 3 months à 20 h | June 30, 2018 | €308 pre-tax x 3 months academic assistant | international PhD students who carry out a three-monthly research project durchführen |
| Emergency grant | 4 – 6 months | flexible | €1,200 / month plus child benefit | PhD students who get in unpredictable financial need they are not responsible for and need support to continue their PhD thesis |
| PhD forum | flexible | flexible | depends on the expenses | PhD students wishing to network professionally |
| PraxisForscher | max. 6 months | flexible | max. 50 % TV-L E13 | PhD students who want to conduct practical research in a regional enterprise in Southern Lower Saxony (via SNIC) |
| Forum Praxismodule | Feb 2018 – Dec 2019 | flexible | networking and qualification | PhD students wishing to exchange views on the topic of connection of science and professional practice |
| Alumni-group ”Science and Practice” | starting Feb 2018 | flexible | networking and extertise | PhD students wishing to exchange views on the topic of career paths outside academia with other PhD students and alumni |