Career and Funding

INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOPS AND FUNDING

Attractive degree and doctoral programmes at Leuphana Graduate School lay the foundation for your next steps as an academic. In addition, extracurricular career development and qualification programmes for all our target groups - Master's students, doctoral candidates and postdocs - are of particular importance to us. In today's transformational labour market, professional careers are diverse and dynamic. Our interdisciplinary programmes prepare you for these multi-perspective careers and thus provide qualification opportunities both in preparation for a professorship and for the diverse job profiles in business and society. Take advantage of the various institutions and their expertise for your own individual professional profile - we look forward to hearing your ideas and concerns.

Various facilities at Leuphana University of Lüneburg offer young researchers a wide range of workshops for skills and career development.
GradSkills - Competencies
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Additional qualifications for a career outside university – that is what the "Leadership in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft" certificate programme is all about. (Only available in German)
Certificate: Leadership programme
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The three-day digital, international Summer School is a learning, reflecting and networking event for advanced master's students and doctoral candidates from three higher education institutions: University of Glasgow, KU Leuven and Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Summer School 2023: Feature Your Future
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DOCTORAL TRACK - FOR MASTER'S STUDENTS WITH STRONG RESEARCH SKILLS

The Leuphana Doctoral Track Programme enables particularly qualified students to start their doctorate and doctoral courses directly after completing their Bachelor's degree. The programme is open to all subject areas and semesters.

GradSkills Workshops – FOR MASTERS, DOCTORATES AND POSTDOCS

Leuphana offers a comprehensive, open continuing education programme for interdisciplinary skills that offers half-day to two-day workshops for Master's students, doctoral candidates and postdocs and prepares them for career paths within and outside academic institutions. The university-wide programmes offered by various institutions are listed in the GradSkills Workshops Portal.

Leadership Certificate: FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES AND POSTDOCS

Gaining clarity about your own career prospects, developing a profile and acquiring additional qualifications in the areas of management and communication for a career outside the university - this is what the certificate programme "Leadership in Society and Business" stands for. Up to 12 advanced doctoral candidates and early postdocs from Leuphana can apply for the programme each year. Note: The certificate programme is only offered in German.

QUALIFICATION FUND - RESEARCH FUNDING FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES AND POSTDOCS

With the Qualification Fund, the Graduate School offers its researchers in the qualification phase a generous instrument to network at external conferences, in external summer schools or at international universities as part of a research stay and to further develop their academic profile.

LEUPHANA DISSERTATION AWARDS

Once a year, Leuphana honours outstanding doctoral achievements with up to 5 dissertation awards from all disciplines as part of the graduation ceremony. A get-together of the award winners with active doctoral candidates and Master's students following the award ceremony offers inspiring networking and exchange opportunities.