Doctorates

Doctoral degree regulations

Doctoral candidates should act in accordance with the?doctoral degree regulations: the General doctoral degree regulations in conjunction with the doctoral degree regulations of the respective faculty (Promotionsordnungen).
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Doctoral procedures

The dean?s office?of a given faculty is?responsible for all formalities related to the progress of their own doctoral candidates. You can find further information on the individual faculties? webpages:

	Catholic Theology
	Law
	Business, Economics, and Management Information Systems
	Informatics and Data Science
	Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities
	Human Sciences
	Languages, Literature, and Cultures
	Mathematics
	Physics
	Biology?and Pre-Clinical Medicine?
	Chemistry?and Pharmacy
	Medicine

At Universit?t Regensburg, doctoral studies differ depending on the subject. Furthermore, some are within structured programs, and some are not.?
How a candidate proceeds depends on the guidelines and formalities set out in the?doctoral degree regulations (Promotionsordnungen).

Each program is organized in a different way. You can find more detailed information on what is available on the webpages detailing the individual programs.

The following structured doctoral programs are currently available:

Cooperation of bavarian universities? ? ??Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics
GS OSES Universit?t Regensburg Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
DfG-Research Training Group?2337 ? ??Metropolity in the pre-modern era
Institute of Art History?with Partners International?Doctoral College "Aisthesis"
Faculty of?Philosphy, Art History, history, and Humanities, And Faculty of Languages, Literature and Cultures Doctoral College of the Faculties?of Philosophy (PUR)
DFG-Research Training Group?2339 ? ??IntComSin: Interfaces, Complex Structures, and Singular Limits??
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Collaborative research center 1085 Higher Invariants, Interactions between Arithmetic Geometry and Global Analysis?
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Collaborative research center?1277 ? ? Emergent Relativistic Effects in Condensed Matter
DFG-Research Training Group 2905 Ultrafast nanoscopy - from single particle dynamics to cooperative processes
DFG-Research Training Group?2174 Neuroscience Graduate Programme "Neurobiology of Emotion Dysfunctions"
Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctorate Program RNAmed "Future Leaders in RNA based Medicine"
Faculty?of Biology und Pre-clinical medicine?studies Regensburg International Graduate School of Life Science (RIGeL)
DFG-Research training group 2620 Ion Pair Effects in Molecular Reactivity
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Transregio 325 Assembly Controlled Chemical Photocatalysis
Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctorate Program Photo-Electro Catalysis (PEC)
Faculty of chemistry and pharmacy? ChemPharm Graduate School Regensburg
Integrated Research Training Group in DFG-Transregio 221 Modulation of graft-versus-host and graft-versus leukemia immune responses after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
else Kr?ner-Research College ?Regensburg Interdisciplinary Translational Immuno-Oncology
Faculty?for medicine Biomedical International Graduate School (BIOMEDIGS)
Faculty?for Medicine Graduate?program?Humanwissenschaft (Promotion Humanwissenschaft)
Universit?t regensburg teacher education centre ?(RUL) Research Training Group?

Always make sure to discuss your options for financing your doctoral studies with your supervisors. The following tips do not replace this, but may serve to complement it.??

Also, take note of the information?for students?(scholarships?und stipends) and for?academics.

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Ads?and programs at Universit?t?Regensburg

• Job ads at Universit?t Regensburg?(Stellenausschreibungen)

• Faculty of Medicine research support program
  (Forschungsf?rderprogramm ReForM)

• Mobility programs of the faculties
  for?Human Sciences
  for Languages, Literature, and Cultures?

• Promotion of equal opportunities for women

• Sponsors and foundations of the Universit?t Regensburg
  (F?rderer und Stiftungen für die UR)

• Oskar-Karl-Forster scholarship,?a subsidy for printing costs of theses, including dissertations by needy doctoral students (Oskar-Karl-Forster-Stipendium)

Research - further possible funding options

• Scholarships by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF):
  (alle Begabtenf?derungswerke, e.g. Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Databases:
  Scholarships for research in Germany
  Scholarships for reasearch abroad (auf Deutsch)

• Euraxess?Databases for researchers moving internationally

• myStipendium.de - Database for scholarships hosted by a social start up

• ELFI - Service Agency for Electronic Research Funding Information?
  Comprehensive database for research support

External ads

• German-American Fulbright-Commission: Doctoral program?for Germans?
  for four to?six month?USA-stays

While doing your doctorate, you can enroll as a doctoral student for up to 6 semesters, and in this way obtain student status. A prerequisite for this is that you are accepted into a doctoral study program at a faculty of Universit?t Regensburg. You may, however, also work on your doctorate without prior registration.

The Registrar?s Office ?(Studierendenkanzlei)?can provide you with more information?on registering as a doctoral student. International doctoral candidates can also get advice from the?Welcome Center.

It is also possible to undertake doctoral projects at Universit?t Regensburg which are supervised cooperatively by teaching staff at UR together with teaching staff from other universities both within Germany and abroad. Further details are dealt with in the?doctoral degree regulation?(Promotionsordnung). The dean?s office?of the faculty in question?is responsible for the candidates progress in?the doctoral process.
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Cooperatively supervised doctorates at universities of applied sciences and universities in Bavaria?

The Bayerische Wissenschaftsforum (BayWISS) supports cooperatively supervised doctorates at Bavarian universities by setting up research training groups. You can find links to external websites and information about currently existing groups here.

The BayWISS research training groups?"Health"?(Verbundkolleg Gesundheit)?and ?"Economics" (Verbundkolleg ?konomie)?have their headquarters at UR. The BayWISS coordinating office at the Center for Graduate & Postgraduate Researchers?will be happy to?answer your questions (contact "Health", contact "Economics").?