The German association of doctoral researchers („Bundesverband Promovierende e.V.“) aim to unite local PhD representations in a democratic umbrella organisation. We fight for furtherance of the scientific community by supporting its most important resource – the researchers. The majority of researchers at institutes in Germany are employed as doctoral researchers or short PhDs. We have the firm opinion that with an overall good condition for employment and research, the science community in Germany will be able to attract and employ the best qualified people worldwide. We aim to contribute to this vision.

The „Bundesverbands Promovierende e.V.“ is a charitable association of doctoral councils of German universities and comparable institutions, representing over one hundred thousand doctoral candidates across Germany:

Membership

Our society has four forms of membership.

Active members can be anyone who is working as doctoral researcher at a German institution. You can join all of our meetings, contribute in working groups of ours, and vote in our discussions together with other members of your university.

Passive members can support our work even if they do not or no longer fulfill the requirements for the active membership. But they have no voting rights in our meetings.

Sponsoring members support us financially without influencing our political work or taking part in any other way in our work.

Honorable members have done some extraordinary deeds for our society and are chosen by vote in our general meetings.

Executive council

Elected annually in the general meeting, our executive council is formed by active members. This council is formed to have a better coordination of the association and a direct representation in the political landscape. The executive council is always in contact with the members, the working groups, and local doctoral representations.

Working groups

The work of our association is not solely performed by the executive board. The majority of work is performed in working groups which will discuss problems, develop political positions, and organize a diversity of projects. In those working groups every active and passive member can partake and elaborate on improving the lives of doctoral researches in Germany.