Graduate School Opening Days

Welcome to Graduate School!

The Graduate School Opening Days are the joint welcome event for Master's and doctoral students and an opportunity to get to know the Leuphana campus, your fellow students, the content of your study programme, the student associations and the university's digital platforms. In addition, you will gain a first insight into our graduate community by participating in the academic discourse.
The next Opening Days will take place in October 2026 at the Graduate School. You are warmly invited!

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Graduate School welcomes all new master's students and doctoral candidates with its Opening Days at the start of the winter semester!

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The Opening Days engage current scholarly and societal questions and open up space for interdisciplinary perspectives. Each year’s theme sets a specific focus and invites participants to bring different approaches and research interests into conversation.

Further information on the annual theme of the Opening Days can be found in the programme shortly.

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OPEN CALL – OPENING DAYS 2026 WORKSHOPS

RESEARCH >> IN::SECURITY

For the Opening Days 2026, Leuphana Graduate School invites postdoctoral researchers and experienced PhD students to propose interactive workshops engaging with this year’s theme: RESEARCH >> IN::SECURITY. We can offer an honorarium for your efforts. 


The theme invites new Master’s and PhD students to explore (in)security as a defining condition of contemporary societies and as a cross-cutting object of research. It moves beyond narrow or exclusively geopolitical understandings of security and opens an interdisciplinary space for thinking about how security is experienced, organized, narrated, governed, and contested.
As part of the academic program, we welcome workshop proposals that help the new cohorts of Graduate students to engage with this theme through research-based and interactive formats.


More precisely, we wish for:
⎯ Engaging, interactive formats that invite student involvement
⎯ Thought-provoking content that connects to the theme on multiple levels
⎯ Sensitivity to diverse perspectives and inclusive facilitation styles
⎯ Practical outcomes, such as new insights, skills, or collaborative ideas


ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Theme: RESEARCH >> IN::SECURITY 
Duration: 2.5 hours per session, including a 30 -minute break
Format: On campus; the workshops will be offered twice (two sessions) 
Day One: 5 October (2:00 – 4:30 pm), Day Two: 6 October (2:00 – 4:30 pm)


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
If you are willing to support us by offering a workshop, please fill in this form via LimeSurvey , including:
⎯ Workshop title and brief description (max. 300 words)
⎯ Objectives and key sub -topics (max. 200 words)
⎯ Planned activities and teaching methods (max. 300 words)
⎯ Workshop engagement strategies (max. 200 words)
⎯ Your background and relevant experience (max. 200 words)
⎯ Faculty / Institute you belong to
⎯ Special technical requirements (if needed)


DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS
4 June 2026


QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
If you need any further information, please contact: 
graduate.openingdays@leuphana.de

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Contact

Luisa Hilmer
Leuphana Graduate School
Graduate School Opening Days
Universitätsallee 1
21335 Lüneburg