Max Planck Schools

The Max Planck Schools are a joint graduate program of currently 30 universities and more than 33 research organizations. Talented PhD candidates engage in cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in close exchange with their supervisors. Within this unique network, our candidates benefit from first-class research infrastructures, innovative teaching formats (English taught program) and outstanding scientists in the fields of Cognition, Matter to Life, and Photonics. 

Key partners are the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the Georg August University Göttingen, the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, the Humboldt University Berlin, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Technical University Munich, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Leipzig, the DWI Aachen, the Fraunhofer Society and the Max Planck Society. The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space is funding the pilot phase (2018-2025) as well.