Support Measures
The Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences provides support measures and scholarships for PhD students of social sciences. You can apply e.g. for the language revision grant, the completion grant for international PhD student and the family-oriented completion grant.
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 | funding amount | target group |
| language revision grant | in 2020 | Jan 15, 2020; June 15, 2020 | up to 500 € (lector) | International PhD students who completed their dissertation and need assistance with language revision, or who are still in the writing process and need writing advisory sessions |
| completion grant | max. 6 months in 2020 | Jan 15, 2020; June 15, 2020 | 1.200 € / month | International PhD students in need of financing in order to complete their PhD thesis |
| family oriented completion grant | max. 6 months | Jan 15, 2020; June 15, 2020 | 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, 2020 | tandem andqualification | PhD students who would like to do their first teaching in cooperation with an experienced lectuerer |
| emergency grant | max. 6 months | flexibble | 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 students’ forum | flexible | flexible | max. 500 € / semester | Networking and expertise for PhD students working on similar topics |
| PraxisForschung | max. 6 months | flexible | max. 50 % TV-L E13 | PhD Students, who would like to do research in close cooperation with an enterprise in southern Lower Saxony (via SNIC) |