Institutions

Website: ENB 

About: The Elite Network of Bavaria is an initiative of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany, that supports outstanding academic talent through a series of attractive and coordinated funding programs.

 The ENB is the funding source for the International Doctoral Program: Umweltdenken, which funds the researcher's PhD project.

Website: IDK: Umweltdenken 

About: The International Doctorate Program "Rethinking Environment", funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria, qualifies doctoral students from the humanities and social sciences to contribute inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives to a debate commonly associated with the natural sciences. By working across disciplinary and methodological borders, the program trains doctoral students to approach environmental topics from academically innovative angles.

This program forms part of a cooperation between the University of Augsburg (sponsoring university) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Students are based either at LMU or UniA. 

 This is the doctoral programme through which the research is funded and supported 

Website: RCC 

About: The Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international research center dedicated to the study of environment and society from different disciplines and international perspectives. The Munich-based students (including the researcher) of the international doctoral program “Rethinking Environment” (IDK) are employed at this LMU department.

Website: LMU 

About: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is a leading research university in Europe. Since its founding in 1472, it has been committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching.

 It is one of the two cooperating universities for the IDK program.  The researcher is registered at LMU as a doctoral student in the Geography department of the Geoscience Faculty.

Website: UniA: WZU 

About: The University of Augsburg is a comparatively young university. It was founded in 1970 by the Free State of Bavaria as a “Reformuniversität” (Reform university). The university has successfully leveraged these opportunities to develop dynamically and align its profile with the challenges of the present and future.

 It is the primary/funding university of the two cooperating universities for the IDK program.

 The WZU („Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt“) is a central scientific institution at Augsburg University that promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching. The Augsburg-based students of the international doctoral program “Rethinking Environment” (IDK) are employed at this UniA department.