DFG – Postgraduate programmes and Graduate Schools

DFG – Postgraduate programmes

Postgraduate programmes are institutions of higher education for supporting the next generation of scientists. The focus here is on the qualification of doctoral students within the framework of a thematically focused and largely interdisciplinary research programme, as well as a structured qualification concept. The maximum duration of the German Research Foundation’s postgraduate programmes is nine years (comprising two funding periods of four-and-a-half years each).

International postgraduate programmes represent a special type of programme, which offer joint doctoral training between a group at a German university and a partner group abroad

DFG postgraduate programmes at the UDE

Acronym	Title \| Spokesperson I Faculty	Approved duration
GRK 2167	User-Centred Social Media Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr, Faculty of Engineering Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer, Faculty of Engineering	2015
GRK 2098	Biomedicine of the acid sphingomyelin/acid ceramide system Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erich Gulbins, Faculty of Medicine Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wiebke Hansen, Faculty of Medicine	2015
GRK 1949/1	Immune Response in Infectious Diseases – Regulation between Innate and Adaptive Immunity Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Astrid Westendorf, Faculty of Medicine, Essen Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jörg Timm, HHU Düsseldorf und Prof. Dr. Mirko Trilling, Faculty of Medicine, Essen Cooperations: mit Bochum, Düsseldorf	2014-2018
GRK 1919/1	Precaution, foresight, prediction: Contingency management through future action Spokesperson Prof. Dr. Stefan Brakensiek, Faculty of Humanities Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Scheller, Faculty of Humanities	2013-2018
GRK 1739/1	Molecular determinants of the cellular radiation response and their potential for response modulation Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Verena Jendrossek, Faculty of Medicine Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. George Iliakis, Faculty of Medicine	2012-2021
GRK 1613/2	Risk and East Asia Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Flemming Christiansen, Faculty of Social Sciences Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Markus Taube, Faculty of Business Administration – Mercator School of Management Prof. Karen Shire PhD., Faculty of Social Sciences	2009-2018

UDE involvement in DFG postgraduate programmes

Acronym	Title \| Spokesperson I Faculty	Approved duration
GRK 2131/1	High-dimensional phenomena in probability - Fluctuations and discontinuity Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Peter Eichelsbacher, RUB, Mathematik Cooperation UDE: Prof. Dr. Anita Winter, Prof. Martin Hutzenthaler	ab 2015

DFG postgraduate programmes being discontinued / receiving completion fundingiving completion funding

Acronym	Title \| Spokesperson I Faculty
GRK 1431/2	Transcription, Chromatin Structure and DNA Repair in Development and Differentiation (bis 2015) Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hemmo Meyer, Faculty of Biology Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralf Küppers, Faculty of Medicine
GRK 1240	Nanotronics (bis 2010) Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Winterer, Faculty of Engineering
GRK 1045	Modulation von Wirtszellenfunktionen zur Behandlung viraler und bakterieller Infektionen (bis 2013) Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ulf Dittmer, Faculty of Medicine
GRK 902	Teaching and learning of science (until 2012) Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Elke Sumfleth, Faculty of Chemistry

Structured education and training: Graduate Schools

	Graduate School of Biomedical Science (BIOME)

	IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies (funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research)

	NRW FUTURE WATER