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RTG Programme

The RTG offers doctoral researchers comprehensive opportunities for disciplinary, interdisciplinary, international, transferable-skills, and higher-education-teaching development. Our training and qualification programme pursues three aims:

  • Competence Development: Doctoral researchers receive academically grounded and methodologically rigorous training that reflects the interdisciplinary and international orientation of the research programme. In particular, they are encouraged and enabled to incorporate perspectives and methods from other disciplines into their own research, thereby developing innovative approaches and research designs.
  • Networking: The RTG programme ensures continuous exchange, cross-disciplinary dialogue, and collaboration that extends beyond individual research projects within the RTG. It lays the foundation for implementing and further developing the shared research programme. By involving international scholars and supporting research stays abroad, doctoral researchers are also given opportunities to build international networks and strengthen their global academic competencies. 
  • Individual Profile Development: Doctoral researchers can tailor their training programme to the specific requirements of their doctoral project as well as to their future career paths and personal aspirations, enabling them to develop an individual academic profile.

The RTG's collaborative research is grounded in the mandatory RTG-specific Core Programme (shown in red in the diagram), comprising an introductory workshop, a monthly doctoral colloquium, research and writing retreats, and a structured completion phase. This core programme is complemented by an optional range of further training and professional development opportunities. Drawing on a wide variety of RTG-internal (shown in yellow in the diagram) and university-wide (shown in green in the diagram) offerings, doctoral researchers design their own individual training programme in consultation with their supervision team, which is reviewed regularly. This creates a needs-based and project-oriented overall package that strengthens academic expertise, builds competencies, and at the same time leaves sufficient space for work on the doctoral project.