Twenty-five German universities and research institutes will present their international PhD programmes and discuss employment opportunities with highly qualified candidates from China.

On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and its campaign “Research in Germany – Land of Ideas”, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is coordinating the German delegation at the PhD Workshop China 2011.

The two-day career event will offer Chinese graduate students a platform to learn more about PhD and research opportunities in foreign countries. Organised by the Chinese Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), the event will give aspiring researchers an opportunity to meet personally with representatives of foreign colleges and universities.

With the goal of fostering Sino-German research cooperation and bilateral exchange programmes for young scientists, the German delegation will also participate in a networking event with Chinese universities and science organisations on 24 November. Representatives from both countries will be assigned to round-table discussions according to research subject and have the opportunity to discuss joint projects.

The agenda of this preparatory event will also include briefings and presentations on the part of the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC), the CEAIE and the DAAD which support the internationalisation and cooperation efforts of their respective governments.

The German delegation includes the following institutions:

• Bauhaus Research School (Weimar)
• Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies
• Berlin International Graduate School of Natural Sciences and Engineering
• BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (Freiburg)
• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim)
• Chemnitz University of Technology
• Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Freie Universität Berlin
• Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
• Goethe Graduate Academy (Frankfurt)
• Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science (Mainz)
• Graduate School University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (Heidelberg)
• Institute of Molecular Biology (Mainz)
• Institute of Production Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• International Giessen Graduate School for Life Sciences
• Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology
• L3S Research Center at Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
• Paderborn Institute for Advanced Studies in Computer Science and Engineering
• Philipps-Universität Marburg
• TU Dortmund University
• University of Bayreuth
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

The PhD Workshop China 2011 will be held on 26 and 27 November 2011 from 9 am to 5 pm at the Swissôtel Beijing, Ballroom 2F, No. 2 Chao Yang Men Bei Da Jie, 100027 Beijing.

For more information on PhD Workshop China 2011, visit
www.phdchina.org.

The Sino-German networking event will be a closed session.