Stay Abroad and Hands-on Experience


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:

As part of the Erasmus cooperation, staying abroad was also possible at the following institutons:

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.