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International Max Planck Research School for Advanced Materials (IMPRS-AM)
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Educating and training junior scientists is of primary importance
for the future of science, research, and innovation in Germany.
In 1999, the Max Planck Society together with the Association
of Universities and Other Education Institutions in Germany launched
an initiative to promote junior scientists called the International
Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS). These Schools offer especially
gifted students from Germany and abroad the possibility to work
towards their Ph.D. exam in a structured program providing excellent
research conditions. The doctoral students obtain grants for
up to three years.
The International Max Planck Research Schools - in cooperation
between Max Planck Institutes and Universities - are centers
of scientific excellence in innovative and interdisciplinary
research areas such as molecular biology, the neurosciences,
computer science, demography, law, plasma physics, and polymer
research.
The International Max Planck Research Schools are geared to scientists
and researchers who have already completed their first degree
and are working towards a doctorate degree. The students and
researchers receive excellent scientific value because the Research
Schools provide a first-class, interdisciplinary education, develop
scientific concentrations, interlink topics Ph.D. candidates
are working on, and enable close cooperation among the Ph.D.
candidates and their advisors.
The Research Schools focus particularly on international cooperation
and strive to attract foreign students to Germany to pursue their
Ph.D. studies. The Schools would also like to familiarize the
students with research facilities in Germany and spark the students'
interest for future cooperative activities with German research
institutes. The aim is to have foreigners account for at least
half of the student body. The students have the choice of doing
their Ph.D. exam either at a German university or at their home
university.
Almost 60 International Max Planck Research Schools have already
been initiated involving 71 Max Planck Institutes and 79 faculties / universities. The partners finance the Research Schools
in part from their own funds and from third-party funds.
A scientific commission comprised of the Max Planck Society and
the Association of Universities and other Education Institutions
in Germany has examined all of the programs. Initially the Research
Schools run for six years and after four years they are evaluated.
On the basis of the commission's recommendation the School may
be extended by another six years. More International Max Planck
Research Schools are planned in the next few years, a reflection
of goal to provide increasing support for junior scientists and
strengthen research in Germany.
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