Graduate Center of DIW Berlin
The goal of the DIW Berlin Graduate Center is to provide outstanding young doctoral students, from all over the world, with an excellent training in economics and related social sciences. It is a PhD program facilitated by DIW Berlin, allowing the students to gain stimulating hands-on research experience during their doctoral studies.News
Application Deadline: April 1, 2012
See Application and Admission for more information
Welcome to the GC
The program follows highly demanding international standards in the design of its coursework education. It is conducted in close cooperation with the Berlin Doctoral Program of Economics & Management Science, ensuring that the participants receive an intense and broad academic training in terms of PhD-level coursework and dissertation supervision.
The academic research of doctoral students at DIW Berlin Graduate Center often focuses on applied topics within economics and other social sciences. The program gives them the opportunity to apply their knowledge within the professional research environment of one of Germany's leading economic think-tanks.
The program follows a dual training approach. It offers high-level core and field courses, as well as on-the-job training in DIW Berlin research projects. In order to effectively link academic research and real-life policy issues, the PhD education also contains internships at institutions outside of DIW Berlin or its partnering universities. The Graduate Center also contains numerous activities for further education and research dissemination, like Masterclasses, research seminars and reading groups. Researchers from all parts of DIW Berlin and many of its partnering institutions participate in these activities.
Both the education and the practical research at the DIW Graduate Center have a strong empirical component.
The Graduate Center itself is not a degree-awarding body, but a network of professors from Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and elsewhere. It provides doctoral-level instruction and supervision leading to a doctorate at one of these partner universities. Many of the university scholars are also members of DIW Berlin or otherwise closely connected to the Institute’s research work.
The location of the DIW Berlin Graduate Center offers a unique vantage point for young economic and social researchers with a strong policy focus. DIW Berlin provides doctoral students with a wide array of opportunities to communicate with policy makers, enabling them to sharpen their proficiency in listening to the public debate and in presenting their scientific results for discussion with highly experienced research and policy professionals.
Graduates of the DIW Berlin Graduate Center will be outstandingly qualified in the scientific analysis of economic and social policy issues: they will possess excellent methodological skills, in-depth experience in handling empirical data, and detailed institutional knowledge of the economic and societal structure of Germany and other countries, in addition to the crucial ability to disseminate their research results. They will be able to present their results effectively at international congresses, publish their scientific contributions in internationally renowned journals, and successfully manage large-scale research projects.
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