Information on the acquisition of certificates

The doctoral regulations of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics stipulate that you must acquire a total of four certificates of achievement for attending doctoral courses (doctoral certificates) as part of your doctorate (PromO 2018, § 9 para. 1, no. 5 and no. 6). The Business Administration, Economics and Business Information Systems groups have each formulated their own requirements for the recognition of credits earned in these courses.

Notes from the Business Administration department

• For the attendance of a method-oriented course according to PromO 2018, §9 para. 1, no. 6, courses are recognized in particular from ...
  the doctoral program ProDok of the VHB
  the Saxon Doctoral Program in Management Research
• As a rule, a certificate of achievement is only recognized if you have passed an examination (e.g. writing an abstract, data analysis and documentation, presentation, reading the literature from a reading list). Pure "Sitzscheine" are not awarded.
• Attendance and active participation in an interprofessorial doctoral colloquium can be credited as evidence in accordance with PromO 2018, § 9 para. 1, no. 5. A doctoral colloquium is considered to be interprofessorial if at least two professors and doctoral students from at least two Chairs take part. Active participation means that you give a presentation and write a multi-page abstract on your research results. One of the two certificates to be provided in accordance with PromO 2018, § 9 para. 1, no. 5 can be provided by giving a presentation at an established specialist conference.

• In the Business Administration group, a professor (usually the first supervisor) checks whether the work performed is equivalent to the requirements of PromO 2018, §9 para. 1, no. 5 or 6. If this is the case, the professor signs the submitted certificate. If there is no certificate (e.g. for a presentation at a conference), the professor confirms the equivalence of the work performed in an informal letter.

Notes from the Department of Economics

As a doctoral candidate in economics, you must attend the courses offered by the Central-German Doctoral Program Economics (CDGE) .

PromO 2018 §9 para. 1, no. 6:

• You must attend at least two courses from the CGDE Core Program.
• The Core Program consists of the First-Year Courses and the Special Courses from the fields of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics.
• First-Year Courses are courses that take place in Halle during the semester. There are Microeconomics and Econometrics in the winter semester and Macroeconomics in the summer semester.
• Special Courses take place decentrally at the various partner universities. Each of these courses comprises at least 4 days with 6 teaching hours each.
• The two certificates must be from different areas (Micro, Macro, Econometrics). Since the Frontier Courses often have more specialized titles, they are assigned to one or two of the areas.

PromO 2018 §9 para. 1, no. 5:

• In order to earn a certificate of achievement, you must give a presentation in the research colloquium and have attended at least 50% of the lectures in the research colloquium over a period of two years.
• External doctoral students (i.e. doctoral students who do not live in Dresden or the surrounding area) must also provide proof of a minimum presence in the faculty colloquium. Upon application (to , this attendance can be reduced to seven dates within two years.
• Achievements from other doctoral modules (e.g. courses offered by the faculty, the Graduate Academy) or another CGDE doctoral certificate (First-Year, Special or Short Course) can be submitted as an additional certificate.

Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum will check whether the work completed for the fourth certificate is equivalent to the requirements of PromO 2018 §9 para. 1, no. 5 and no. 6.

Information from the Business Information Systems department

The requirements of the Business Information Systems department are summarized in a document that you can download here: Notes of the FG Business Information Systems