Requirements Overview

The doctoral student is supervised by a mentoring committe, consisting of 3 supervisors. A protocol of the supervisory meetings is mandatory. In addition, a short written report by the doctoral student about the state of the research has to be attached.

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Minimum requirements:

• For PhDs: First meeting within the first 3 months after joining GB.Com (see also Research Proposal).
• For MDs: First meeting within the first 6 weeks after start of full time research activity.

• Annual meetings after the initial meeting
• Meeting at the end of the studies.

In your first Mentoring Committee meeting, you will have to present a written and an oral proposal for your reserach project.

Please make sure to have this meeting no later than three months after admission to Life@FAU/IZKF-GRK (Research Training Group) and submit your research proposal or project outline to your Life@FAU study book.

Every PhD and MD Student within the GB consortium needs to participate in the GB.Com Jour Fixe. To join the Jour Fixe, please email cornelia.redel-smirnov@uk-erlangen.de

Time and Location:

Every first Friday of the month, 11 am – 1 pm

Kussmaulallee 4, TRC-IV, U1.012 or U1.013

Exceptions apply. Please check GB-Jour Fixe for the up-to-date schedule.

Scheduled presentations: 

Please check the schedule for 2026 here: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/de/p/b0a565deed9a8fe38870f0cb0b143d64-1443888

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Minimum requirements:

• 90% participation is mandatory. Attendance will be tracked via participation list.
• You have to present your project once a year.

Participation in subject-specific, specialist or interdisciplinary training courses (e.g. IZKF, FAU Graduate Center), including one seminar on “Good Scientific Practice”.

Costs of seminars can be covered by the coordination of GB.Com (please contact Cornelia Redel-Smirnov).

Seminars offered by Life@FAU

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Minimum requirements:

• For PhDs: at least 3 training courses
  • One of which has to be Good Scientific practise
• For MDs: at least 2 training courses
  • One of which has to be Good Scientific practise
• Seminars have to be at least 4 hours.

Guest speaker seminars are lectures by renowned scientists from other domestic and foreign institutions. They must be publicly announced. The seminar must take place live.

Possible lecture series offered by Life@FAU: Guest speaker seminars

Next guest speaker of GB.Com:

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Minimum requirements:

• For PhDs: ten seminars / year (30 total)
• For MDs: at least ten in total

It is mandatory to show a list of the visited Guest Speaker seminars during the annual mentoring meetings.

We will plan a retreat annually. Our next retreat will be from October 28th to 30th, 2026 in Waischenfeld.

Next Retreat:

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Minimum requirements:

• Attendance once / year.

Every GB member should contribute to our work on public relations. The contribution needs to be regarding the scientific content of GB.Com.

The coordinator will organize several events and inform you regularly about oportunities. Please contact Cornelia if you would like to participate.

Next Public Event:

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Minimum requirements:

• Required once at an public event or participation of 12 months at social media communcation.

Doctoral candidates are required to provide evidence of having given presentation (poster or talk) at different national or international symposia or conferences.

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Minimum requirements:

• For PhDs: two until graduation
• For MDs: one until graduation