In order to be able to offer you a coordinated and varied range of information, advice, qualification and funding opportunities, we cooperate with various institutions both at the university and beyond.
Target group: all Early-career researchers
Support and Promotion of researchers in early career phases with career orientation offers, workshops for professional and interdisciplinary qualification, financial support, various networking opportunities as well as access to mentoring and individual advice.
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Target group: Scholars at all career levels
Information and advice on research funding opportunities, technology transfer, business start-ups and research data management.
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Target group: doctoral candidates
Qualification programme for all doctoral candidates to grant transferable skills and key competences relevant to research and scholarship for the academic and non-academic job market, insights into other academic cultures, networking and exchange among doctoral candidates.
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Target group: Students, graduates and (early-career) academics interested in setting up a business.
Information and advice on setting up a business, support in applying for funding.
Target group: Early-career academics
The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) investigates the causes and consequences of demographic change and has the task of advising the federal government and federal ministries and informing the public in an independent and non-partisan manner on the basis of thorough research. The BiB also conducts its own surveys as part of its basic research. The research focuses on three areas; “Family and Fertility”, “Migration and Mobility” and “Demographic Change and Longevity” as well as the research group “Education and Human Capital”. JGU and the BiB have been collaborating on research and teaching, including with the Faculty 02: Sociology for several years now. In addition, the Director of the BiB has been appointed to a professorship at Faculty 03: Law and Economics.
Target group: Students and early-career academics
Individual writing advice, workshops in cooperation with the General Postgraduate Programme, guidance on academic papers for students and doctoral candidates.
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Target group: Students and graduates as well as early-career academics
Advice, coaching and events on professional orientation and applications, workshops on key skills, company contacts.
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BMBF Regional Studies Project – duration 2025-2027 (second funding phase)
How is cultural production, and with it the conception of cultural spaces, changing in the course of digitization? In addressing this question, CEDITRAA aims to achieve a methodological integration of social and cultural studies and, within the framework of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) network, incorporates expertise and resources at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger, Professor of Film Studies, Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt: hediger@tfm.uni-frankfurt.de
Target group: doctoral candidates
Doctoral Programme in the Humanities, Culture and Social Sciences Mainz-Dijon, open to all doctoral candidates in the humanities, culture and social sciences at JGU, structured programme, interdisciplinary exchange, mobility grants for research and work stays throughout France, regular Franco-German events.
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Project duration April 2021 – March 2026
The joint project DiCi-Hub, funded by the VW Foundation as part of the funding initiative “World Knowledge – Structural Support for Rare Subjects”, addresses the challenges of digital tools and methods in Film and Media Studies. The project brings together the three universities of Marburg, Mainz and Frankfurt to develop new conceptual foundations and methods for the subject.
Target group: JGU students, doctoral candidates and employees
Information and advice on the compatibility of family responsibilities with career/studies, administration and further development of JGU’s compatibility-related measures, scholarship and emergency funds for students/doctoral candidates with family responsibilities.
Target group: Early-career academics and artists
Special grant for selected, outstanding early-career academics and artists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz to support them on their career path into academia and the arts.
Target group: University management board, faculties and institutions at JGU (advice and concept development) | Early-career academics and artists (via the information portal)
Advising decision-makers at JGU on strategic issues relating to the promotion of young researchers; developing and publicizing funding measures, e.g. in the Information portal for young researchers and artists
Target group: Teaching staff
Individual teaching advice, peer or individual teaching observations, peer group coaching, the “Lehrideen vernetzen” (networking teaching ideas) project, examination workshop, advice on writing in teaching and further training courses on teaching academic working techniques through the Writing Center, university didactics support for the implementation of blended learning approaches in courses, continuing education in university didactics and the Rhineland-Palatinate Certificate in University Teaching. Evaluation Association of Institutes of Higher Education Southwest (in German).
Target group: Researchers at all qualification levels who work in the field of school, education and higher education research.
Participating subjects: Educational science, subject didactics/teacher training, sociology, psychology, business education, occupational, social and environmental medicine.
Pooling of the expertise available at JGU, strategic networking, encouragement of academic interchange and profile building.
Target group: Professors, postdoctoral researchers and doctoral candidates
The research unit IPP brings together researchers from the fields of economics, business administration, computer science, sociology, communication studies, psychology and medicine in order to better understand individual and institutional decision-making behaviour. In addition to our diverse research projects and activities, we regularly offer workshops and summer schools on various research methods and topics. Young researchers can present at our bi-weekly Young Researchers Forum.
Target group: Students, doctoral candidates, employment and teaching staff at JGU who…
- come to JGU from abroad to study, obtain a doctorate, teach, conduct research or complete or plan a further education stay.
- would like to complete a stay abroad (study, internship, research, teaching or continuing education) as part of their programme of study for a degree, doctorate or work at JGU.
Welcome Center for International Scholars
Gutenberg International School for international students and doctoral candidates in exchange programmes
Information on stays abroad and funding opportunities for students, doctoral candidates, employees and teaching staff at the JGU
DFG-GRK 2279 (2017-2026) – 36 PhD positions, two post-doc positions
What happens to the Film, and thus to Film Studies, when it leaves the cinema? The Research Training Programme funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 2279 “Configurations of Film” is investigating this dual question, which is both subject-related and epistemological or methodological, during the funding period from 2017-2026. Over a period of nine years, more than thirty doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers will provide answers to these questions with case studies and cross-sectional work.
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger, hediger@tfm.uni-frankfurt.de
Target group: Students, doctoral candidates and academics at all qualification levels
Advice and training on literature research and literature procurement; advice and training on working with historical sources from the Middle Ages and (Early) Modern periods; advice and training on digital databases and applications for working with original historical sources and on digital editions; internship opportunities by individual arrangement.
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Postgraduate Research Group in the field of Art Education, School Education and Social Pedagogy
The Research Training Group examines practices and materials in courses at higher education institutions that are critical of discrimination as well as students’ attitudes and development processes with regard to various categories of difference and their intersectional entanglements. Methodological and conceptual approaches include reconstructive procedures, in particular discourse analysis, critique of representation, ethnography and intersectional analyses.
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Target group: JGU employees
Extensive training programme (in German) including specifically for activities in academia (in German) and research management (in German), continuing education advice
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Target group: Female early-career researchers in the late doctoral phase and female postdocs
Workshops, advice and coaching, Christine de Pizan mentoring programme for humanities scholars and social scientists.
Target group: Students, teaching staff and academics at all qualification levels
Teaching good research practice and preventing research misconduct, advice, toolbox for students and teaching staff, workshops, training courses and e-learning.
Target group: All employees and students at the university (including enrolled doctoral students)
Courses and online advice on various topics, e.g. writing problems and exam anxiety, couselling and short-term psychotherapy
Target group: All users of the university library
Literature supply, workspaces, information services and courses on topics such as academic integrity or literature research and administration, access to digital publications, research data, support with open access publications, source and archive material.
- Further training offers
- Courses and Guided Tours
- Open Mind. Open video (in German): Self-study course from the Center for Audiovisual Production (ZAP) on the topic of Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Courses and workshops on good scientific practice
- Academic integrity, ORCID, Gutenberg Research Elements: Consultation hours and advice
- Checklist for Submitting Doctoral Dissertations
- Subject information pages with contact persons at the University Library (subject-specific information and advice)
- Open Access publishing at JGU
- Johannes Gutenberg University’s Open Access Policy
- How to Get Reimbursed for Open Access Publication
- Special Conditions for Publication Fees
- Tips for Authors: CC licenses, ORCID, secondary publication, etc.
- Gutenberg Open Science: Open Access Repository of JGU
- Publication Guidelines of JGU
- University Bibliography
- Copyright information
- Systematic Reviews for medicine and related subjects (by the end of the year at the latest also for social scientists)
- Offers from the Center for Audiovisual Production (ZAP) for innovative teaching/project teaching and science communication
- REMIX – platform for virtual exhibitions, podcasts, videos (science communication and innovative teaching)
