In the doctoral programme, doctoral candidates are usually supervised by an interdisciplinary tandem. When putting together the tandems, care is taken to ensure that the content matches the topic of the doctoral project to be worked on as closely as possible.

In addition to this individual supervision, doctoral candidates are also embedded in an institutional support structure through their participation in the doctoral programme, which consists of a curriculum specially tailored to the programme (see below), which enables the deepening of specialist skills on the one hand and interdisciplinary dialogue on the other.

In addition, doctoral students at all participating locations have access to a range of graduate support programmes that serve to broaden specialist knowledge, further interdisciplinary networking and the expansion of interdisciplinary knowledge as well as the expansion and refinement of so-called soft skills (e.g. presentation techniques, teamwork, social and communication skills).

The programme-specific parts of the curriculum serve to further deepen subject-specific knowledge and, in particular, to establish an interdisciplinary exchange between the doctoral candidates and researchers involved in the doctoral programme. They consist of

• the inter-university research workshop "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen" (MiGG), which takes place three times a year and is mandatory for all scholarship holders once a year in Göttingen, Oldenburg and Osnabrück. It is jointly supervised and managed by the participating professors.
• Workshops, which are also organised once a semester at the participating locations and are usually offered by external internationally renowned academics (in cooperation with the university lecturers involved in the programme).
• Self-organised working groupsin which relevant topics are worked on depending on interests and research phases. It is possible for scholarship holders to invite external guests to the working group meetings; the team of speakers and the programme coordinator support the working groups in their search for external speakers.
• an International Summer School (year 1) and an international symposium (year 3). In the first year, a summer school on the topic of the programme will take place, placing the topics and subjects researched as part of the programme in an international context and drawing inspiration from this. In the third year of the programme, an international conference (2 days) co-organised by the scholarship holders will be held with the participation of the university teachers involved in the programme as well as internationally renowned guest speakers from different countries, at which the scholarship holders will present their research results to a larger academic public. A publication on the core issues of the programme will be compiled from the contributions to the final conference. Participation in the organisation and implementation of these events can be credited in the module "Interdisciplinary Competencies" (see module overview).