Integrated Research Training Group (IGK)

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About the IGK

The Integrated Research Training Group (IGK) offers and ensures an attractive, comprehensive, structured and cross-disciplinary scientific qualification program for the PhD students involved in the SFB. The key components of the IGK’s qualification plan include a structured course program, which familiarizes the PhD students with the central theoretical concepts relevant to the SFB, and the facilitation of collaboration between projects and across research areas, which raises the PhD students’ awareness of cross-disciplinary research questions and methodologies. The PhD students will assume partial responsibility for workshops, summer schools, lecture series, and outreach events. The IGK is organized in close cooperation with the university’s general graduate program (GradUS), a quality assurance and networking program developed for doctoral researchers at Saarland University.

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Practical Information

Furthermore, Saarland University’s Welcome Center is offering support to international researchers coming to Saarbrücken.

The university’s general graduate center Gradus offers a variety of opportunities including a versatile workshop program and various funding opportunities.

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Events and Activities

Distinguished Speakers in Language Science (the joint colloquium of the SFB and the department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics)
Information Theory Course
SFB Retreat
PhD Colloquium (twice yearly)
- 1st SFB 1102 PhD Day, 5 February 2016
- 2nd SFB 1102 PhD Day 18 November 2016
Tutorial groups
Social events (get-togethers, culture nights…)