We invite applications for our 2^nd cohort of scholarships beginning 1 October 2010. Deadline for applications is 19 April 2010. For further information see Criteria of Application.

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The international NRW Research School Education and Capabilities unites the excellence of two neighbouring universities, which are each highly distinguished in the relevant fields: The Bielefeld University and the Technische Universitaet Dortmund. The graduate school is jointly funded by the state Northrhine-Westfalia and the universities. The school offers an innovative study and research program as well as excellent learning conditions for the doctoral students in the interdisciplinary empirical field of educational processes and opportunities of social participation.

The study program of the research school begins in October 2008. 18 principal investigators coming from different fields conduct an integrated doctoral training. There will be up to 50 internationally excellent doctoral students; most of them can expect scholarships. A special attraction of the training program is the chance for graduate students to participate in a large-scale longitudinal study that reconstructs those central phenomena and problem areas that promote or impede an individual’s educational chances in societies. Studies in the research school combine quantitative and qualitative methods and the research perspectives of educational science, linguistics, language teaching psychology, rehabilitation science and sociology.