The most important parts of the qualification program are the CRC-Colloquia (1.5 SWS). Three times per year, all members (PIs, PostDocs, and PhD students) meet for talks from guests and members of the CRC. In the Networking-Meeting (0.5 SWS), small groups of CRC members meet every summer in a different composition. These groups can constitute itself from members with similar materials, methods, or techniques. This mixing stimulates interdisciplinary discussions and can initiate new collaborations.

Once a year, all PhD students organize a two to three days Winter School (1 SWS) with talks from guests and themselves. The Winter School offers an additional informal forum (without any PI) for the exchange of ideas among PhD students and for the connection of projects within the CRC.

The CRC has a particular focus on instructing all PhD students in pursuing their research according to the rules of Good Scientific Practice. These rules are the topic of an annual DRS event – Tag der Guten Wissenschaftlichen Praxis (Day of Good Scientific Practice; 0.5 SWS) – which is mandatory for all members of the CRC. Aspects that are of particular interest for the CRC are covered once a year in an additional CRC-event, which is mandatory as well. In addition, the DRS, the Humboldt Graduate School (HGS), and to some extent, the Center for Digital Systems (CEDIS) of FUB offer courses on some aspects of Good Scientific Practice, too. Of cause, all PIs are responsible for incorporating rules of Good Scientific Practice into their daily supervision.

Every PhD student, together with his/her supervisors, will set up a Qualification Agreement, which lists all courses (e.g. courses in languages, rhetoric, writing, presenting, organizing, etc.) that shall contribute to the individual qualification. PhD students enter the CRC with different knowledge, skills and nature, and have different concepts of their career after their PhD. The Qualification Agreement acknowledges individual needs without compromising the aims of the CRC.

According to the recommendations of the DRS, passing a PhD program requires 30 credit points within 6 semesters, that can be obtained according to the following table.

Activity	1st year		2nd year		3rd year
CRC-Colloquia and Networking-Meetings (twice per semester)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
individual Lab-Discussions of PhD students with guests of CRC-Colloquia	0.5		0.5		0.5
Project-Talks at CRC-Colloquia (max. twice)	3.0
Session chair at CRC-Colloquia (max twice)	0.5
Introductory-Talk for guests of CRC-Colloquia (max once)	1.0
Winter-/Summerschool of the CRC (once per year)	1.0		1.0		1.0
Poster/Talk at a scientific conference (max twice)	2.0 - 4.0
Research Stay, Internship, Summer-/Winterschool for at least one week (max two weeks)	1.0 - 2.0
PhD representative for one year (max once)	2.0
Public Relations for/within the CRC (Schülerlabor, NatLab, Long Night of Sciences, Girls' Day)	max. 2.0
Course in (scientific) English (max 4 SWS)	max. 6.0
German language Course for foreigners (max 6 SWS)	max. 9.0
individual Courses/Lectures relevant for PhD project (max. 4 SWS)	max. 6.0
individual Courses in presentation, communication, scientific writing, teaching, etc. (max. 4 SWS)	max. 6.0
Raising substantial amounts of third-party funding/computer time	max. 2.0
participating in the Modul „Lehre in der Chemie“ (3 SWS)	max. 5.0
substantial supervision of students during Bachelor/Master thesis	2.0 - 4.0

The curriculum includes mandatory (violet) and optional (orange, green) elements. The mandatory elements, including core activities of the CRC and add up to 15 CPs. Optional elements include other CRC-relevant activities (orange; up to 10 CPs) and individual qualification measures (green; up to 38 CPs). From the latter, the PhD students and their supervisors select suitable activities. The supervising team can make language courses mandatory.