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PROVED programme of GSH

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PRomovierende Organisieren Vorträge Externer Dozenten
(Doctoral Candidates Orgnise Lectures by External Lecturers)

Funds to finance a self-organised lecture or seminar event by GSH doctoral students

Since 2017, this programme has been advertised annually in January with a submission deadline at the end of February/beginning of March. Please note the current call for applications under "News".

Objective:

The Graduate School supports its doctoral candidates and members as part of its structured "Doctorate with Added Value" programme through a wide range of specially offered and focused support measures. Within this framework, the GSH would like to give its doctoral candidates more opportunities to gain initial and independent experience.

  • in co-operation with each other,
  • the acquisition of third-party funding and
  • organising their own lectures or seminars.

In January and February, the GSH therefore regularly calls for applications for funding to support a lecture or seminar event organised by current doctoral candidates at the GSH. The funds raised will be used to invite external lecturers to organise such an event.

Basic principles:

  • Current doctoral candidates of the Graduate School are eligible to apply;
  • at least two doctoral candidates must always submit a joint application, whereby applications from teams from different subject areas are preferred; as the doctoral candidates at GSH are doing their doctorate as part of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme "Humanities", the subject affiliation of the first supervisor is relevant here;
  • Two different event formats are possible:
    1. a lecture or seminar event with a lecturer,
    2. a lecture event with one lecturer plus a seminar/workshop on the following day
  • NB: International lecturers from Germany or abroad can of course also be invited.
  • The maximum limit for the lecture fee/expense allowance or travel and hotel costs has been €300 since 2025;
  • the event applied for must generally be planned for a date during the following summer semester.

Details & further information:

  • The application process is kept very simple, an informal application is possible with
  • a maximum of two pages A 4 including an overview of costs and time planning (font size at least 10pt, 1.5 lines);
  • a comprehensible explanation as to why the lecturer in question should be invited;
  • a simple cost, planning and implementation plan with details of the lecture fee, travel and hotel costs, organisational planning (announcements, posters, room planning etc.);
  • the GSH Extended Board decides on the funding of the applications received;
  • the GSH expects the sponsored team to submit a short progress report (max. 1 page A4) as well as a complete cost breakdown and statement of costs no later than four weeks after the event;
  • The current call for applications can be found on the GSH website under "News".

Applications can only  be submitted by email with attached documents
to: thomas.schmid@uni-wuerzburg.de

Contact:
Dr. Thomas Schmid
Managing Director Graduate School for the Humanities (GSH)
Tel. 0931 318 25 29
Email: thomas.schmid@uni-wuerzburg.de
www.graduateschools.uni-wuerzburg.de/humanities