Support Measures
The Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences provides support measures and scholarships for PhD students of social sciences. Right now you can apply for the mentoring program KaWirMento, in January for the language revision grant and the finishing grant in 2019, and at all times you can apply for funding measures with flexible application deadline such as PhD students’ forum and Forum Praxismodule.
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:
| support measure |
duration | deadline | Förderhöhe | Zielgruppe |
| KaWirMento | 1 year | Nov 15, 2018 | mentoring and peer group | PhD students and early postdocs aiming at a career in business |
| Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program | 1 year | Nov 30, 2018 | mentoring and peer group | female PhD students (second half of studies), female postdocs who want to stay in academia; whole program in English |
| inclusion of female PhD students | flexible | as of now |
„Biografiezirkel“ and expert talks | female PhD students with disabilities or chronic diseases, PhD supervisors, experts and multipliers improving inclusion (see GGG news) |
| language revision grant | in 2019 | Jan 15 & June 15, 2019 | max. 500 € (lector) | PhD students from abroad who completed their dissertation and need assistance with linguistic revision, or who are still in the writing process and need writing advisory sessions |
| finishing grant | max. 6 months in 2019 | Jan 15 & June 15, 2019 | 1.200 € / month | PhD students from abroad in need of financing in order to complete their PhD thesis |
| family oriented finishing grant | max. 6 months | Jan 15 & June 15, 2019 | 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 |
| TeamTeaching | 1 semester | Feb 16, 2019 | tandem and qualification | PhD students who start teaching in higher education (via Division for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education |
| emergency grant | max. 6 months | flexible | 1.200 € / month plus child benefit if needed | PhD students who get in unpredictable financial need they are not responsible for and need support to continue their PhD thesis |
| PhD students’ forum | flexible | flexible | max. 500 € / semester | PhD students wishing to network professionally |
| Forum Praxismodule | flexible | flexible | networking and qualification | PhD students wishing to exchange views on the topic of connection of science and professional practice |
| 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) |