Academic Vocabulary This workshop will cover what makes some words and phrases academic and others not, how you can decode ‘big words’ without always reaching for the dictionary, how word families [...]

Graduate School Science, Medicine and Technology - OLTECH
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Due to the current situation, we would like to ask you to proceed as follows:
- For questions and other OLTECH related issues, please contact us via e-mail!
- If you have any documents for us, please throw them in our OLTECH letterbox or the university house mail!
- During our office hours we are available for you via e-mail!
Thank you for your understanding!
Press
Reports about OLTECH:
Panel discussion "Internationale Mobilität in der Wissenschaft" (NWZ)
Panel discussion "Wissenschaft im Beruf" (NWZ 28.10.2015)
EFRE funding of the Graduate School OLTECH (NWZ 25.04.2012)
Reports about (further) OLTECH doctorates:
Award of the asssociation "Oldenburgische Landschaft" for Christoph Hahn (NWZ, 03.2017)
GdCh prize for Dr. Heinz Bülter (NWZ, 28.09.2016)
Funding for a new junior research group goes to Dr. Victoria Burke (Uni-Info, 4/2016)
Graduate School Science, Medicine and Technology - OLTECH

Graduate School Science, Medicine and Technology
The aims of the Graduate School OLTECH are to train students in an international and interdisciplinary context. They learn to develop inventive research questions and new approaches to solving problems, to plan and manage projects and to present the results of their studies. The PhD students learn about the relevant models and hypotheses in their field of science and can practise discussing them.
The curriculum combines several disciplines ensuring that the students are able to integrate their scientific skills into a broader context. All curriculum elements serve to enhance the scientific independence and creativity of the PhD students.
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