Research Grants - Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees / Cotutelle 2022

About the scholarship:

This programme offers you the opportunity to do a bi-national doctoral degree at your home university and at a university in Germany.Funding is provided for doctoral projects that are carried out at the home university and at a university in Germany according to the so-called Cotutelle model. This is based on an individual cooperation agreement which is concluded individually for your doctoral project by the participating universities. After you have successfully completed your doctorate, the German university and your home university award the doctoral degree jointly.

Who can apply?

Depending on the nature of your project, you can apply for:

a) bi-national supervision based on the “sandwich model”. You can apply if you have earned a Master’s degree or Diplom (or in exceptional cases a Bachelor’s degree) at the latest at the start of the funding period.

b) ”Cotutelle model”. You can apply if you have been admitted to a doctoral programme at the latest at the start of the funding period.

What can be funded?

In option a), a doctorate with bi-national supervision based on the “sandwich model”, research stays at a state or state-recognised institution of higher education or a non-university research institute in Germany (as part of a doctoral programme in the home country) are funded.

In option b) a doctorate based on the “Cotutelle model”, research stays at a state or state-recognised institution of higher education in Germany are funded. These allow doctoral students to complete a doctoral thesis which is supervised and carried out bi-nationally on the basis of an individually concluded cooperation agreement.

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