Promoting young talent
To ensure that your doctorate does not take place alone in the library or in your home office, we recommend membership of the TU Dresden Graduate Academy. It offers doctoral candidates and post-docs an interdisciplinary qualification programme, individual advice, support programmes and regular events.
In addition, the IfK supports several interdisciplinary institutions in which young researchers conduct research on important topics of the future.
At the Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group, doctoral students from technical, natural and social science disciplines conduct research on a wide range of issues relating to sustainable energy systems and the mobility of tomorrow. The IfK is involved in the 3rd Boysen Research Training Group "Mobility in Transition" with two communication science projects. Nassim Ghondaghsaz, M.Sc. is researching on "Trust in mobile value chains with informational character" (project B5). Supervisor is Prof. Sven Engesser. Corinna Drexler, M.A., is working on "Mobility scenarios in the judgement of public opinion and the media" (project C2). The Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group is funded by the Institutional Strategy of the TU Dresden and the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation. The scholarships awarded to the doctoral students have a total duration of three years. All information on the content of the Boysen Research Training Group can also be found in the full application (110 p.; 1.2MB).
The IfK also supports the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden. The Kolleg supports doctoral students from the humanities and social sciences - not only financially, but also intellectually with many exchange and training opportunities. In the current project phase on the fundamentals and technical applications of AI informatics, Prof. Lutz Hagen is supervising scholarship holder Sandra Mooshammer, M.A. In her project "Ontological Limits of the Communicator", she is researching the potential and quality criteria of automated journalism and how it influences the perception of technology by human journalists.