Promotion of early career researchers

The Faculty VI Medicine and Health Sciences promotes young academically interested students in all stages of a basic or clinically oriented education. Students interested in science are given the opportunity to gain an insight into research and gain initial experience early on in their studies. Structured support programmes and career opportunities enable scientists to develop from doctoral studies to appointment to a chair.

Funding programmes und prizes

School graduates

The Voluntary Scientific Year (Freiwilliges Wissenschaftliches Jahr – FWJ) gives school graduates the opportunity to do research, gather first work experiences and to get acquainted with university life. 

more information for interested school graduates is available in German

Students

If you are looking for funding for a stay abroad you will find information on the website of the DAAD

Doctoral candidates

Dr. med. Programme

Dr. med. Excellence Programme of the UMO (text in German) 

Funding programme in cooperation with the Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen

Joint MD/PhD Programme

Information on counselling possibilities and stipends can be found on the university website

Information on funding possibilities for doctoral students

If you are looking for funding for a stay abroad, you can find

Information on the webpages of the DAAD

Information on funding opportunities for travel expenses or congress fees can be found on

the webpages of the Department for Research and Transfer

Information on funding opportunities for open access publications and printing costs can be found on

the webpages of the Department for Research and Transfer

Postdocs

Funding programmes of the UMO

(Junior) Clinician/Medical Scientist

Funding opportunitties for scientists with a doctorate can be found

on the webpages of the Department for Research and Transfer

If you are looking for funding for a stay abroad, you can find

Information on the website of the DAAD

Information on funding opportunities for travel expenses or congress fees can be found at

on the webpages of the Department for Research and Transfer

Information on the promotion of open access publications can be found at

on the webpages of the BIS on the Open Access Publication Fund

Scientific prizes

The School VI for Medicine and Health Sciences awards the following prizes: 

  • Doctoral Supervision Award: Supervision award for particularly dedicated doctoral supervisors
  • Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen Preis: Prize for an outstanding published paper by one or more members/affiliates of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Please visit the pages of the Department for Research and Transfer to find

an overview of and research hints to find scientific prizes and awards

Qualification phase

Qualification offers

In order to support young researchers in their development in the best possible way, the university offers a wide range of subject-specific and interdisciplinary qualification courses and workshops.

Graduate Academy

The Graduate Academy (GA) offers all doctoral candidates and postdocs a range of interdisciplinary training opportunities.

The event dates of the GA are currently being integrated in the Qualification offers calendar, so if you are interested, you should, for now, preferably check the dates directly on the GA website.

OLTECH

The OLTECH Graduate School of Science, Medicine and Technology (OLTECH) offers its members mainly subject-related courses.

You can view the announcements of OLTECH events on the OLTECH Graduate School website. As an OLTECH member, you will also receive a regular newsletter announcing new course dates.

OLTECH members can also apply for courses of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (3GO). However, they are initially placed on the waiting list and may be offered remaining spots on short notice

Courses offered by School VI

The School VI of Medicine and Health Sciences offers a number of courses within its degree programmes that are also open to enrolled early career researchers, e.g. the offers of the „Research and Science” pillar of the „Professional Development” workshop programme of the Human Medicine model degree programme.

The course dates of School VI are shown in the calendar on the Qualification offers webpage.

Coaching and mentoring

Beyond individual courses, structured mentoring and coaching programmes are offered. Information on upcoming programmes can be found on the pages of the OLTECH Graduate School of Science, Medicine and Technology and the Graduate Academy.

Research colloquia

Participation in research colloquia is expected in certain structured doctoral programmes. The best way to find out which ones are suitable for you is to discuss this with your supervisor. Information on open research colloquia and scientific events, as well as on other resources and the school's research infrastructure can be found on the school’s Research webpages.

Didactics

The Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Medical Didactics units offer support to doctoral students and postdocs who are interested in teaching.

Course offers

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Doctoral defences and lectures held in the context of habilitation procedures

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