MIN Graduate School (MINGS)

The MIN Graduate School (MINGS) is an institution within the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences. Our goal is to guarantee the high quality of PhD education and to contribute to its continuous improvement. In close cooperation with the participating departments and research areas, we work to organise and further develop the structured PhD program MIND (“MIN Doktorandenkolleg”). Further, MINGS offers a wide range of support measures and events open for all doctoral candidates of the MIN faculty. These include travel grants and short-term stipends, counselling for newcomers, career and networking events and more.

Moreover, MINGS is an umbrella graduate school for currently nine structured doctoral programs within different departments. To help members organise their respective structured PhD programs, MINGS runs the online platform Geventis.

From 2019 onwards, the Joachim Herz Stiftung has been supporting the MINGS within the framework of the ProBe project, which aims at optimising the mentoring and career development environment for the doctoral candidates and, accordingly, establishing demand-oriented and sustainable support measures. The centerpiece of the project are Individual Development Plans (IDP), which intend to support the MIN students at different phases of their PhD studies. The IDPs will build a basis for personalised career development plans from the project-planning phase over the implementation and to the project completion. A further focus of the project lies on popularising the standards of good scientific practice which are to be addressed and applied already at the beginning of one’s PhD.