Subject area of the doctoral project corresponding with the announced topic and with an distinguishable transdisciplinary approach
University degree with distinction in the corresponding subject
At least one of the research directors willing to be mentoring the doctoral project
(please select the relevant director as your mentoring choice in the application form, the final mentoring agreements of the supervising Professors of our Institute will be given to the doctoral candidates after the selection process)
At least one of the further research directors/ post-docs must be willing to be mentoring the doctoral project
Sufficient German language skills must be proven after a period of 6 months at the doctoral programme
Enrolment at one of the co-operating universities within the first 6 months, unless an enrolement at another university took place prior to the application
Integration within the research work and duty of an active participation
Direct co-work within one of the research teams of the Institute for Internet and Society
Compliance of designated core times at the institute
Agreement and compliance on all mentoring agreements especially concerning:
Mandatory participation at two colloquia and the
Obligation of presenting a research report at these events
Mandatory consultations with the directors
Mandatory participation at a weekly HIIG-Meeting
Qualifying and promotional programme
Active participation (giving a talk ) at one academic conference per year
Publication of a reviewed academic paper within the first two years of the scholarship, further publications welcome (It is planned to provide all the results under a Creative Commons license.)
Mandatory participation at three events of the soft skills programme per year
Commitment to present the progress of the academic work at the public blog of the HIIG regularly (one per every second month)