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TU-Clausthal

Graduate and doctoral programs

The DFG describes Research Training Groups as "university institutions for the promotion of researchers in early career phases, which focus on the qualification of doctoral candidates within the framework of a thematically focused research program and a structured qualification concept".

Clausthal University of Technology supports academics in setting up graduate and doctoral colleges by offering advice and providing a guidelines for setting up internal doctoral colleges at Clausthal University of Technology and cooperative doctoral colleges with other research institutions. are available.

Clausthal University of Technology currently has the following doctoral colleges:

Doctoral programs funded by foundations

CE College of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)

With its fellowship program, the DBU supports doctoral students in applied environmental research and the development of a network of environmental experts.

Lower Saxony state-funded colleges

Research Training Group CircularLIB

Cooperation between the universities of Braunschweig, Clausthal and Hanover and the Fraunhofer Institute IST in the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig; TUC…

Cognitive and Empathic Intelligent Collaborating Robots (KEIKO)

As part of the SPRUNG program with over 1.7 million euros, the Göttingen-Clausthal Simulation Science Center is collaborating on a project.

Sustainable human-AI collaboration (NaMeKI)

The "Sustainable Human-AI Collaboration" science area jointly applied for by Clausthal University of Technology, Göttingen University, Göttingen University…

TUC's own colleges

Materials and processes

TUC-internal doctoral program with the common goal of specifying and further developing material properties and processes with the help of experimental and…

Doctoral program "Digital transformation towards a sustainable society"

The doctoral program "Digital Transformation towards a Sustainable Society" is a cooperative institution of Clausthal University of Technology and Ostfalia…

Completed doctoral programs

Graduate School "Heterogeneous Human-Machine Teams" (Hermes)

TUC-internal lead project at the Simulation Science Centre (SWZ) on the importance of heterogeneous functional and organizational networks of networked human…

EUROPEAN TRAINING NETWORK SULTAN

Europe-wide cooperation of 15 partner institutions on the topic of remediation and reprocessing of sulphide residues from mining; TUC institutes involved: IFAD

DFG Research Training Group 1931 SocialCars

Until 2023: Cooperation between the Universities of Hanover, Braunschweig and Clausthal at the Lower Saxony Research Center for Automotive Engineering (NFF);…