Graduate Academy accepts two new research training groups

On 16 June 2025, the Board of the Academy officially welcomed two new Research Training Groups: The “IMPRS for Modeling the Anthropocene“ and the Doctoral School of the Diaspora Studies Research Network "Communities and Networks". As part of the admission procedure, it is checked whether the concept of the doctoral programme fulfils binding university-wide quality standards in the qualification of doctoral candidates. Membership in the Graduate Academy therefore represents a seal of quality. Furthermore, all doctoral candidates of these research training groups will receive regular access to all offers and resources of the Graduate academy.

The International Max Planck Research School for Modeling the Anthropocene is a joint doctoral programme of the Max Planck Institute for GeoanthropologyExternal link (MPI-GEA), Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Bielefeld UniversityExternal link, Leipzig UniversityExternal link and Arizona State UniversityExternal link. In this transdisciplinary doctoral programme past human actions are examined in order to find out what influence they had on later and future developments.

The Doctoral School of the Diaspora Studies Research Network ‘Communities and Networks’ has not yet started. The transdisciplinary programme will focus on researching the interaction of faith, culture and identity in the context of global migration. The programme is being initiated by six university professors from the Faculties of Theology, Philosophy and Chemistry and Earth Sciences. Researchers from other faculties are welcome to join the programme.

Thus, more than 20 institutions for the qualification of doctoral candidates are active members of Friedrich Schiller University’s Graduate Academy. This means that about 500 doctoral candidates of Jena University currently pursue their doctoral projects at the various member institutions of Graduate Academy.