A good exposé is important for your promotion. First and foremost, you should think about quality and not quantity. The exposé should present your research project clearly and concisely. The principle of "as long as necessary, as concise as possible" applies.
During the course of the doctorate, the supervisor, doctoral candidate and co-supervisor should hold structured supervision meetings at least every six months (curriculum component). If the co-supervision is carried out by an official co-supervisor, the latter does not have to take part in the supervision meetings.
The first structured supervision meeting should take place approximately two months after the start of the doctorate.
Yes, emeritus members of the teaching staff of the University of Lübeck can continue to supervise the doctorate as first supervisor for an unlimited period of time.
No, you must actively re-enroll each semester in order to remain enrolled.
Yes, according to the statutes, you must enroll as a doctoral researcher at the UzL in the Student Service Centre (SSC). Enrollment as a doctoral candidate is not tied to semester times, but is possible at any time. International doctoral researchers should enroll via the International Office.
Yes, according to the doctoral regulations, registration at the CDSL is mandatory.
Yes, according to the doctoral regulations you must submit a supervision agreement to the CDSL.
For a structured doctorate in medicine, you need co-supervision. First and co-supervision must come from different institutes/clinics. Further details are regulated in the doctoral degree regulations for medicine. These can be found under Forms and Statutes.
In the MINT sections, a second supervisor is required if you are doing a structured doctorate and/or the first supervisor does not belong to a MINT section(affiliation is possible).
You will receive your access data by letter. If you have not received a letter, please contact the ITSC as an employee of the university or academic staff of the UKSH. They will then check why you have not received a letter.
If you are a doctoral candidate without an employment contract at the UzL, please contact the SSC to check your registered postal address.
Double enrollment is not possible; you cannot be enrolled at UzL and another university at the same time. If you are still studying at another university and are doing your doctorate at UzL, you will no longer be enrolled as a doctoral student at UzL, which means that you will no longer have automatic accident insurance cover on campus and other benefits (such as the semester ticket). It is important that you take out your own accident insurance in such a case.
In principle, yes. It is important that the course/workshop has a time limit or credit points.
You will find many workshops and courses on the UzL/CDSL continuing education program that can be credited towards your structured doctorate. In addition to the compulsory components, there are individual components where you are very free in your choice of workshops and courses. Here you can choose according to your interests, subject-specific and interdisciplinary. For the CDSL courses, the credit points are already specified; for the other UzL courses, the units of work (TU) can be converted into credit points. This conversion is carried out by the CDSL. It does not matter whether you complete the course in classroom format or online, in German or English. To be able to take courses free of charge via the CDSL, you must be registered with the CDSL.
There is also a self-study course for good scientific practice, which the Technische Hochschule Lübeck makes available to the CDSL. The basic course is recognized with 0.5 credit points. You can create a user account with your UzL e-mail address.
In principle, you can receive credit for courses from outside the UzL, provided that they are appropriate in terms of content, equivalent in value and time. In addition, they must not have been part of a previous qualification (e.g. compulsory/elective course for a Bachelor's or Master's degree). The corresponding examination takes place in the CDSL.
The information sheet on the curriculum for the structured doctorate in medicine is also relevant.
Please write an email to the CDSL(cdsl.service@uni-luebeck.de) in which you briefly explain the reasons for the cancellation. Your first supervisor should be included in the email.
If the new (expected) submission date differs significantly from the previous date, please send an email to the CDSL(cdsl.service@uni-luebeck.de) informing us of the new date. Your first supervisor should be in the mail in the Cc.
A doctoral project in medicine is registered at the Central Examination Office for Medicine(form). The Doctoral Committee of the Medical Section decides on its acceptance. Doctoral projects in the MINT sections require a prior admission check by the MINT Office.
As a rule, the first supervisor can only be a full-time member of the University of Lübeck as a professor, junior professor, habilitated research assistant or through another selection process of equal rank. For doctorates in medicine, the first supervisor must be a member of the Medical Section; for doctorates in the STEM sections, the first supervisor must be a member of a STEM section. The exact regulations can be found in the current doctoral degree regulations of the STEM and Medicine sections.
Yes, but please note that in the case of publication-based dissertations, it must be ensured that the written doctoral thesis is equivalent in its entirety to a classic monograph (based on a position paper of the German Council of Science and Humanities "Structuring the doctorate in the German science system" [2023]).
Please also see §11 of the MINT doctoral regulations
In principle, publication-based dissertations must also make a new, substantial, scientific contribution of their own that goes beyond the work already published. A purely additive form of publication is excluded. Materials and texts that have already been published can be included verbatim in the dissertation, but must be placed in an overall academic context and form a coherent document. In the case of publications with several authors, you must explain in detail what your own contribution to the dissertation is.
The assessment of whether the conditions for a publication-based dissertation are met should be carried out in consultation with the supervisor. The final decision is the responsibility of the examination board.
No, there is no official list. You can check the individual institute pages to see who is most likely to fit your thesis topic.
There are different types of police clearance certificates. The required certificate of good conduct is called: Police certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority (according to § 30 para. 5 BZRG). It will not be handed over to you, but sent to us.
Please ensure that the citizens' office/registration centre marks the FZ with "Promotion - MINT". Please have it sent to this address: Geschäftsstelle der MINT-Sektionen, Universität zu Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Lübeck, attn. Mrs Britta Schulz.
It must not be older than six months when the doctoral procedure is initiated.
You can also apply for the FZ online: Apply for a certificate of good conduct online - quickly and easily from home
A supervision agreement is concluded with the supervisor at the beginning of a doctoral project. If this supervisor is not a professor in the STEM departments of the UoC, a second supervisor from the STEM departments must be ensured and recorded in the supervision agreement.
At a later point in time, when the doctoral procedure is to be opened with the submission of the dissertation by the SA-MINT, an examination committee must be proposed by the first supervisor, consisting of the first examiner, second examiner and chair. It is important to ensure that only one of the above-mentioned supervisors in the supervision agreement is allowed to sit on this committee, which is usually the first supervisor.
These two copies are the publication copies that are placed in the library. The difference to the four previously printed copies is that you now enter the information on the second page. The four examination copies remain with the three examiners and one in your file at the MINT office.