Registration

Please apply here for Phd Exchange Scholarships..

After submitting the form, you will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt by e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact joern.benzinger@rs.rub.de. 


Important note: The character numbers given in the form include characters and spaces. The fields are not automatically limited. Please ensure that you adhere to the specifications. An overrun will result in the formal rejection of your application.

1. Applicant information

2. (Social) Media contact

By sharing your digital information, you agree that RUB Research School may
mention and link you in its posts.

3. Career

4. Proposed Project

Project Abstract: Summarize your proposed project in a generally understandable way, for both experts and layperson

Project description: State the scientific content of your project [state-of-the-art, goals, methods, work-plan] in a generally understandable way. 

Impact on your doctoral studies: How does your doctoral project benefit from your proposed project?

Impact on international research contacts: How does your project improve your international standing? Propose criteria that help measure the success of the project with respect to your international contacts.

Importance for your personal career: Please indicate how your career, inside or outside academia, benefits from the proposed project. Propose criteria
that can be used to measure the success of the project concerning your career in the future (e.g. postdoc opportunities, special qualifications, job offers.)

5. Host at Ruhr University Bochum

7. Equal Opportunities

We try to take unavoidable personal restrictions in your academic work into consideration. Therefore, we would like to give you the opportunity to briefly explain your personal circumstances that lead to a special need in the implementation of your international activity in your application. We invite you to take this need into account when designing your activity and your application.

In order to raise the awareness of the researchers involved in the review process before reading your application, we ask you to briefly explain the needs arising from your unavoidable personal restriction. Keep your statements in such a way that they can be passed on to the reviewers (e.g. do not give any diagnoses).

Please enclose proof for your unavoidable personal restriction with your application. This proof will only be checked by the RUB Research School office and is not part of the documents which are handed over to the reviewers.

Please explain here in max. 1,000 characters how your stay here is affected by your restriction or why the reviewers should take it into account. An example could be: Due to the birth of my child, more time has passed since my PhD. Due to care obligations, I can only travel for 8 weeks. I have a child and need childcare for this period. I use a wheelchair and need further assistance. 

8. Attachments

Note: This application is only complete with several attachments. These must be sent separately to joern.benzinger@rs.rub in a single PDF.  Please note: Applications without this document cannot be considered! 

9. Information on the use of AI in this application

Please indicate whether and in what form you have used AI tools to ensure transparency and traceability in the review process in accordance with the ‘Rules of Good Scientific Practice’. As AI tools can inaccurately alter content or distort contexts, we ask that you review all AI-generated results responsibly and carefully. The use of AI tools is not an evaluation criterion in the review process and does not influence the funding decision.

In accordance with the guidelines on the use of AI tools in applications, any use of such tools for the scientific content of your application must be disclosed.

10. Decleration

I certify that the information provided in this application is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I am aware that false answers, whether intentional or the result of negligence, are illegal and that their discovery will lead to the revocation of my funding. Furthermore, I agree to inform Research School immediately of any changes or amendments. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
NOTE: The application and accompanying documents will remain with Research School. Personal data will be stored and processed in computer files only to the extent necessary for the administration of applications and in compliance with the “Datenschutzgesetz Nordrhein-
Westfalen” (Data Protection Act of North Rhine Westphalia, § 4).

I acknowledge that the CCO, doctoral reviewers and boad members will have access to my application in the context of the review process. I take responsibility for the completeness of my application, as well as accept that the accompanying data and documents will be stored
at the Research School. In case my application will be funded, I agree that the following data will be published on the Research School website: Name, location, cooperation partner, faculty, institute, project type.

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