A Stay Abroad
All doctoral students were given the opportunity to spend up to four weeks researching at a research institution of their choice abroad.
The following departments have had agreed to form part of the network:
- Centre d'Études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance (CEMR) (einschließlich Kontakt zur Forschergruppe "Enzyklopädien im Mittelalter" [Orientalistik und CEMR]) sowie Zugang zu den Handschriftenbeständen der Universität Leuven und der Bibliothèque Royale in Brüssel, Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Prof. Dr. Baudouin Van den Abeele);
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science der Universität Cambridge und Whipple Museum (Prof. Dr. Liba Taub);
- Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica, Università di Bologna (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Iolanda Ventura)
- Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, Bereich Gräzistik und Latinistik der Universität Innsbruck und Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien (Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Martin Korenjak)
- Research Library and Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Harvard;
- University of Manchester (Classics and Graeco-Arabic-Studies) (Prof. Dr. Peter Pormann).
As part of the Erasmus cooperation, staying abroad was also possible at the following institutons:
- Department for Archaeology, Gazi Üniversitesi Ankara [Classical Archaeology]
- Faculty of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [Classical Archaeology]
- Ägyptologisches Seminar, Universität Basel [Egyptology]
- Department of Archaeology, Uludağ Üniversitesi Bursa [Classical Archaeology]
- Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi - Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hitit Üniversitesi, Çorum [Ancient Near Eastern Studies]
- Département Lettres Classiques, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon [Classical Philology]
- Department of Archaeology, Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir [Ancient Near Eastern Studies]
- Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo (SAGAS), Università degli Studi di Firenze [Ancient Near Eastern Studies]
- Edebiyat Fakültesi, Hititoloji Ana Bilim Dalı, İstanbul Üniversitesi [Ancient Near Eastern Studies]
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, School of Middle Eastern Studies, Universiteit Leiden [Acient Near Eastern Studies]
- Département Langues et Cultures Antiques, Sciences Humaines et Sociales - Université de Lille 3 [Egyptology]
- Instytut Archaeologii, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) Lublin [Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology]
- Dipartimento Culture e Società, Università degli Studi di Palermo [Classical Philology]
- Institut d'Art et d'Archeologie, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne (F PARIS001) [Ancient Near Eastern Studies]
- L'Unité de Formation et de Recherche de Grec / L'Unité de Formation et de Recherche de Latin, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) [Classical Philology]
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, UMR 8167, Orient et Méditerranée - Mondes Pharaoniques, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) [Egyptology]
- Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Lingue e letterature straniere, Scienze dell'Antichità, Universität Pavia [Classical Archaeology]
- Dipartimento di Scienze Archaeologiche, Università di Pisa [Classical Archaeology]
- Dipartimento di Scienze storiche, filosofico-sociali, di Beni culturali e del Territorio, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rom [Classical Philology]
- DIPSUM - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Salerno [Classical Philology]
- Department of Geology and Paleontology, Geoarchäologie, Szegedi Tudományegyetem/Universitas Scientiarum Szegediensis [Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology]
- School of History and Archaeology AUTh, Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis [Classical Archaeology]
- School of Philology - Department of Classics, Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis [Classical Philology]
- Departamento de Filología Clásica, Universidad de Valladolid [Classical Philology]
- Faculty of Oriental Studies, Uniwersytet Warszawski [Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies]
- Institut für Ägyptologie, University of Vienna [Egyptology]
- Egyptological department, University of Copenhagen [Egyptology]
Hands-on Experience
Doctoral students were able to take part in special courses organised for them (lasting from several days up to a month) at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie and in labs at the Faculty of Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Geography and Geosciences and the Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution at the University of Mainz to become familiar with analytical methods (especially if they are relevant for their own research), e.g. analysing minerals, taxonomy of plants (cooperating partners: Daim, Drauschke, Gronenborn, Hofmeister, Kadereit).
In addition, the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie offered individual instruction in methods of analysis important for the candidate's research.