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Graduate Centre
The Graduate Centre is the central administrative resource for all doctoral students of the FAU, as well as postdoctoral researchers, habilitation candidates, and doctoral advisors. They provide a wide range of services, including soft-skills seminars and networking opportunities; for more information, visit their homepage.
Good Scientific Practice
The FAU is committed to ensuring good scientific practice in all of its research and educational endeavors. You may find the following resources useful in maintaining scientific integrity in your doctoral research.
- ALLEA: The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
- DFG: Memorandum on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice
- DFG: Proposals for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice – Recommendations of the Commission on Professional Self-Regulation in Science
- FAU: Regulations for safeguarding good scientific practice and dealing with scientific misconduct
Gender and diversity
For questions about gender mainstreaming, equal opportunities, family services, and more, please visit the homepage of the Office of Gender and Diversity.
Skill enhancement
See Further Trainings.
Skill acquisition
See Further Trainings.
Professional development
See Further Trainings.
Further trainings
In addition to your doctoral studies, you might want to spend some time learning a new language, acquiring proficiency in some useful software, or improving your soft skills in preparation for your future career. Please visit the page for further trainings on the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy website, or check out the online presence of the various offices at the FAU that offer such courses, such as the Language Centre, the Regional Computer Centre, or the Graduate Centre.
Forms & downloads
The following selection of forms and downloads have been issued by the given offices of the FAU, and have been collected here for your convenience. In case a form you need is not listed here, please consult the website of the office in question.
Graduate Centre:
- Checklist for carrying out and supervising doctoral degrees
- Checklist for good practice for supervising and completing work on postdoctoral qualifications
- Checklist for the initial meeting between doctoral candidates and their supervisor
- Description of the Cotutelle Program for Binational Doctoral Degrees
- DFG Memorandum on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice
- Doctoral Regulations of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (RPromO)
- Faculty doctoral regulations for the Faculty of Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (FPromO Nat)
- Proposed supervision agreement
Office for Gender and Diversity:
- Checklist for the Letter of Support
- Checklist for Reviews for Applications for Bavarian Sponsorship “Realization of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching” (FFL)
- Dealing with Sexual Harassment at FAU
- Funding Guidelines for the Visiting Scholarship Target Agreement Programme
- General Information on Visiting Scholarships
- Guidelines for Awarding Funding for Travel Costs as Part of the Target Agreements between the Executive Board and the Faculty of Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) for Increasing the Number of Women in Research, 2018-2022
- Guidelines for the Use of Funds from the Programme “Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching” (FFL)
- Informational brochure: Funding for participation in conferences
- Informational brochure: Quality assurance in appointment procedures
- Informational brochure: Visiting Scholarships at the Faculty of Science
University Library:
- Checklist for a Software Management Plan
- Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers
- DFG Guidelines on the Handling of Research Data
- DFG Proposal Preparation Instructions
- DFG Proposal Template for the Establishment of a Collaborative Research Centre
- EDP Sciences – List of Journals
- Informational Brochure: arXiv
- Publication Agreement
Familienservice: Downloads
Rechenzentrum: Forms
Financing your doctoral studies
Detailed and extensive information on financing your doctoral studies can be found on the homepage of the Graduate Centre.
The site includes information on working a doctoral position, applying for third-party funding, scholarships, and more. The Graduate Centre also offers classes on putting together effective applications for third-party funding. More information is available here.
Family Services
The FAU Familienservice (in German) can be a good resource for students and doctoral candidates with children or other care responsibilities. Please feel free to reach out to them if you have questions or concerns about babysitting and childcare services, parental leave, childcare facilities on campus, networking with other parents, and more.