Structure of Cooperatio by scientific discipline

The Cooperatio program is university-wide and structured by scientific discipline areas. This means that all academic and research staff-as well as PhD students-who are engaged in a given field across the University are assigned to the Cooperatio programme areas.

Assignment of doctoral students to individual scientific disciplines

The assignment of doctoral students to the individual disciplines of the Cooperatio programme is primarily governed by the accreditation of the respective study programmes. Thus, learners cannot choose any discipline to which they wish to belong, or implicitly choose a discipline by their choice of doctoral programme. Some doctoral study programmes at our faculty are accredited in several disciplines, some in only one.

Duties of doctoral students

The inclusion of students in the Cooperatio programme implies, in particular, the obligation to develop scientific/publication activities (in relation to the individual study plan and other formal requirements of the study) primarily in the field to which the student is assigned within the Cooperatio.

Change of disciplinary affiliation

A change of field of affiliation is possible in justified cases. However, the change can only be made within the disciplines belonging to each student's specific programme of study.

Students should contact their supervisor to request a change in your affiliation. If the supervisor agrees, he/she will forward the request for a change of subject affiliation to the supervisor of the particular student's programme of study.

Support for scientific research activities

Students apply for financial support for scientific research activities within the Cooperative Research Council to which they belong.

In the case of affiliation to two disciplines, learners are guided by which of the two disciplines the results they intend to deliver from the support belong to. It is certainly not possible to submit the same application to two Cooperatio disciplinary groups at the same time.

Support for the scientific research activities of FHS UK PhD students is implemented through two segments of the Cooperatio programme:

• Strategic Priorities of Cooperatio FHS UK,

• Cooperatio Disciplinary Groups (clustered around FHS UK departments).

For information on the current calls for applications for support of scientific research activities of academic staff and PhD students of the Cooperatio FHS UK departmental groups, follow the Cooperatio current calls page on the FHS UK Research Administratiion Office website.