Most PhD students within the CRC 1349 get a regular working contract. After succeeding in the application procedure, the PI applies (in some cases in collaboration with the CRC-office) for your employment and a few weeks later HR contacts you, offering you a working contract and perhaps asking for some additional documents.

Important! On your first working day, your PI must send a note that you started working to HR.
Stipends are usually granted through the DRS. The CRC-office will prepare all documents together with you and send it to the DRS. After one to two weeks, you have to sign a receipt and will receive your stipend contract.

Together with your principal supervisor, you agree on a topic/title for your PhD project and select a suitable second supervisor (ideally from within the CRC). You fill out a Betreuungsvereinbarung and send a copy to the CRC-office. Then you apply for doctorate admission proceedings at your department.

• PhD offices of the FU Berlin and Betreuungsvereinbarung of the doctoral program Natural Sciences (DPNS) of the FU Berlin
• PhD office HU Berlin and registration form of the HU Berlin incl. Betreuungserklärung
• PhD office TU Berlin and Betreuungsvereinbarung of the TU Berlin

The CRC-office sends you a form which you fill out and send back as quickly as possible. The provided data is for example necessary to include your email address into the CRC's email-lists or for reporting statistical data to the DFG. Otherwise, your data will never be forwarded to anyone else. All your information will be deleted, at the latest, after finalizing the final report for the DFG.

Together with your principal supervisor you set up a research plan and fill out your first qualification agreement. A copy of the latter you send to the CRC-office.

Form: Qualification Agreement

After 6, 18 and 30 months you write a progress report with respect to your research plan and your latest qualification agreement. You and your two supervisors schedule a development meeting and send the date and time to the CRC-office, which will delegate one additional PI from the CRC-board to attend. After you and your supervisors adapt your research plan - if necessary - and set up a new qualification agreement; one copy of each must be sent to the CRC-office.

Form: Qualification Agreement

During the first three years of your PhD studies, you need to collect 30 credit points to pass the PhD program. A list with activities, for which you receive credit points is here. All credit points for mandatory activities are counted automatically. To receive credit points for optional activities, send an email with some proof to the CRC-office.

After three years, you ask the CRC-office for a certificate for successfully passing the PhD program of the CRC.

Now it's time to finish your dissertation. Please send the final title, the date when you hand in and defend your thesis and your mark to the CRC-office.