IRTG - Integrated Research Training Group
About
Overview
The Integrated Research Training Group (in short IRTG) was newly established in July 2020 with the beginning of the second phase of CRC 1211 “Earth-Evolution at the dry limit”. The IRTG offers a qualification programme open to early-career scientists working in or closely associated to CRC 1211 related topics. The IRTG in a nutshell – please see this poster:
Organisation
The IRTG aims to support the doctoral candidates of the CRC 1211 (figure 1) in their development toward scientific independence, and prepare them for positions in academia, higher administration, consulting and public relations.
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| Figure 1: Role of IRTG within the CRC 1211 |
For this purpose, the IRTG offers a qualification programme consisting of a scientific training programme, an internal grants programme to foster international co-operation and networking, and support activities initiated by the doctoral candidates themselves. Furthermore, the IRTG builds on local graduate schools and/or graduate academies (figure 2), which offer non-project-related transferable skills training, and shall complement the project-related and topic-specific training of the IRTG with a variety of offers.
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| Figure 2: Role of the IRTG in the context of institutional structured postgraduate education |
Together, they aim at educating a generation of truly interdisciplinary doctoral candidates in the fields of Earth and Life Sciences, a combination of growing importance in the course of ongoing and accelerated global change.
