Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences
Welcome to the GGG homepages!
The Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG) is responsible for PhD students and their supervisors from the social science faculties. Here you can find more information about us...Dates and News
The News:
GGG Support Information
- information sheet for supervisors of international PhD students
- information for international PhD students
- Beratungsnetzwerk für Promovierende (English translation will appear soon)
- GGG has published concept about Diversity to support PhD students
Qualification
Information about PhD funding
- Please consider the criteria for awarding GGG scholarships, which have been elaborated.
- Support for self organized courses and networks!
- Application Deadlines for Grants of GGG
GGG newsletter
Four times a year GGG publishes a newsletter for PhD students and their supervisors in the social sciences as well as interested persons.
current newsletter 02|2026 (May 2026)
The next newsletter will be published on August 11, 2026.
archive of newletters and yearly reports
Further announcements
workshops and events
- GRADE eLearning tool “Good Academic Practice during Doctoral Studies”
- open for PhD students, too: Help Desk XXL - Virtual coaching on academic writing
- eResearch Alliance: news and events
- courses at the GWDG Academy (e.g. introduction to Python, R, CUDA and much else)
- for PhD students interested in entrepreneurship: university’s start-up support
Tips
- Primary publications free of charge with Göttingen Research Online (GRO.publications)
- Checklist for open access publishing of scientific articles (German only)
- Funding for the Open Access publishing of books at the University of Göttingen
- Reading Advice: Managing your Mental Health
- Book your working space via ecampus