Our service offer

We offer the following services for all international students interested in a doctorate at the TU Ilmenau:

• We are the central contact person and advisor.

• we provide information on our website and also personally - by e-mail, telephone or video call - on various relevant topics. Among other things:

  • Possibilities of doing a doctorate at the TU Ilmenau

  • application procedures

  • practical information about life

• we do not offer: the mediation of doctoral candidates to our professors for the conclusion of supervision agreements - you have to contact them directly yourself!

We offer the following services to all newly arrived international scientists and doctoral candidates:

• Establishing contacts and language mediation - within and outside the university:

  • we put you in touch with the right contact persons

  • we help with language mediation - in German, English and French

• we help you with the registration process at the university and in Ilmenau

• we support you in many matters concerning life in Ilmenau and in family matters, such as finding and arranging day-care places or schools

• for internal university use only, we can certify copies of documents on presentation of the originals

• we organize socio-cultural events to get to know university members, peers, the campus, the city of Ilmenau and the surrounding area

• we organise the annual reception for new doctoral students at the TU Ilmenau

• we financially support the Graduate Center of the TU Ilmenau with seminars and workshops for doctoral students in English from the DAAD project Stibet Doktorand*innen.

We are available to university members as central contact persons with the following services:

• general support and information for the inviting as well as the invited persons on all topics listed on our pages

• Issuing of invitation letters (signed by the International Office) for the application of entry visas for your guests

• Support of your guests with all administrative, internal university procedures and also with authorities outside the university

• through the DAAD project Stibet Doktorand*innen we annually advertise so-called "teaching and research assistantships" for international doctoral candidates

  • Professors can submit applications for their suitable doctoral candidates after the respective announcement (which we send to them by e-mail).

  • successful candidates can then be employed as teaching or research assistants for a limited period of time as research assistants to the professors.

  • The financial means for this come from the DAAD project and are provided by the German Foreign Office.