Welcome to the Doctoral Students Representation

The doctoral candidates’ representation (PromV) is elected by the doctoral students admitted at the University of Göttingen. The election of the members takes place annually in the winter semester, subdivided by faculties. Specific information about the elections of the doctoral candidates’ representation is published on the Website of the Law and Foundation Department.

The tasks and organisation of the doctoral student representatives are largely determined by three regulations and legal texts, which are translated below:

• §9 NHG (Niedersächsisches Hochschulgesetz) [in German]:

  (4) ¹The accepted doctoral candidates elect the members of a doctoral students representation. ²The university shall regulate the details of the election of the doctoral students representative committee in a regulation.³The doctoral student representative committee advises on the questions concerning the doctoral students and makes recommendations to the university bodies. ⁴The Faculty Council must give the doctoral student representatives the opportunity to comment on drafts of doctoral regulations. ⁵As a rule, a member of the doctoral students representation participates in an advisory capacity in the meetings of the Senate and the Faculty Council.

• §19 GO (Basic Regulations of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) [in German]:

  ¹The doctoral student council advises on questions concerning doctoral students and makes recommendations to the university bodies. ²The details regulate order, in particular composition, choice and tasks.³The interests of the Faculty of Medicine are to be taken into account appropriately.

• Regulation of the Doctoral Student Representation (PromV-O) [in German] .

Further legal texts of the university can be found here [in German].