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Welcome to the Graduate Academy of TU Clausthal
The Graduate Academy of Clausthal University of Technology is a service facility for young academics at all qualification levels at Clausthal University of Technology. We understand this to include the group of doctoral candidates, postdocs (or PhDs) and newly appointed researchers. In a holistic approach, we would like to offer information, advice and further training for further qualification, interdisciplinary skills development and career advancement for all career phases. A wide variety of events also offer the opportunity to form networks, even beyond the boundaries of your own discipline, in order to think outside the box and benefit both professionally and personally.
We arethe central service and coordination office for the career advancement and skills development of early career researchers, including all doctoral candidates, postdocs, junior group leaders and junior professors at Clausthal University of Technology.
We offerQualification programs for the acquisition of interdisciplinary skills and career development, career and information events for the promotion of early career researchers, support in the quality assurance of doctoral procedures, advice and services for early career researchers.
We want tosupport early career researchers in pursuing their own suitable career path and provide them with the methodological tools to do so. It is important to us to draw attention to the acquisition of further interdisciplinary skills and to point out alternative career paths.
Goals and tasks
The aim of the Graduate Academy is the conceptually sound and institutionally integrated promotion of young academics. This includes
- the development of a university-wide coordinated personnel development concept for academic staff,
- a wide range of advisory and qualification services and
- promoting the quality of doctorates across disciplines and faculties.
The tasks of the Graduate Academy include in particular
- the development and coordination of an interdisciplinary qualification program with consideration of gender equality and compatibility in the context of promoting early career researchers
- promoting the internationalization of doctoral training
- supporting the faculties in the optimal supervision and qualification of doctoral candidates, taking into account the different subject cultures and defining guidelines
- supporting and advising faculties in the establishment of structured doctoral programs, graduate schools, research training groups and in the further development of framework conditions for individual doctorates
- Taking into account the interests of external doctoral candidates
Professional development for scientific personnel
Here you will find the personnel development concept (PEK) of the TU Clausthal for young scientists and the entire scientific staff.
Training & Career
A wide range of training opportunities in the field of scientific work and in interdepartment
Newsletter & further information
Here you will find the doctoral regulations, further information brochures on the subject of doctoral studies and the Graduate Academy newsletter.