The Volkswagen Foundation has awarded €13m to eight doctoral programmes intended to provide students with experience that could prove valuable outside academia.
The permeability of academia and industry is not sufficiently reflected in Germany’s doctoral education system, the foundation said in its funding announcement on 4 January. The funding for the eight programmes is intended to give their students better insight into the range of opportunities available to them.
The programmes funded in the one-off call focus on the social sciences, humanities and cultural sciences. They include one on the use of ethics in practice at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and another on post-industrial urban futures at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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