Professor Dr Heidrun Dorgeloh, Vice President for University Culture and International Relations, calls upon interested researchers who have finished their doctoral studies to submit proposals for a Summer School, either as an in-person, hybrid or purely online event. The aim is to enable participants to gain valuable specialist and international competences, as well as discuss alternative approaches and methods. They can also enhance their foreign language and intercultural skills.
Funding is available to all subject areas, insofar as the following criteria are met:
• Relevant theme and subject
• International (at least five instructors, at least 50% of whom are from non-German universities)
• Active involvement of early career researchers
• Event language: English or the corresponding foreign language of the subject
• Duration: usually five days as a block event during the lecture-free period
• Acquisition of credit points for participants
Bachelor’s students at an advanced stage of their degree programme and international guest students are also eligible to participate. This annual call for proposals is offered on an open-topic basis and the funding comes from Quality Improvement Funds (QVM). Everyone who submits a proposal will be notified in early 2026.
By way of inspiration – these HHU Summer Schools were funded in 2025:
• Linguistic transfer between Japan and the West
• P3: Pluralism, Pragmatism, Perspectivism
• “Spring R(h)ein Quantum School”
• Agonality in Times of Crisis: Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Current Socio-Political Discourse
Contact for questions relating to the call for proposals: Dr Anne Mitzen Jones, Personal Assistant to the Vice President for University Culture and International Relations, anne.jones(at)hhu.de