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Promotionsordnung DOCTORAL DEGREE REGULATIONS Preamble The Academic Senate of the Hertie School adopted on 25 September 20191 the following doctoral degree regulations for all matriculated PhD students. Contents § 1 Conferred degree ................................................................................................................. 2 § 2 Academic criteria .................................................................................................................. 2 § 3 PhD Board ............................................................................................................................. 2 § 4 Admission requirements ...................................................................................................... 2 § 5 Admission procedure............................................................................................................ 3 § 6 Matriculation as PhD student ............................................................................................... 4 § 7 Doctoral programme ............................................................................................................ 4 § 8 Dissertation project supervision and standard completion time ........................................ 4 § 9 Information and supervison duties of the main advisor, prospectus defence and the decision on the continuation of the dissertation project .......................................................... 5 § 10 Dissertation ........................................................................................................................ 6 § 11 Dissertation evaluation ...................................................................................................... 7 § 12 Doctoral committee ........................................................................................................... 8 § 13 Decisions on the dissertation and scheduling the defence ............................................... 8 § 14 Defence ............................................................................................................................... 9 § 15 Decision on the defence and passage of the doctoral examination ................................ 10 § 16 Publication and submission obligation ............................................................................. 10 § 17 Doctoral degree certificate ............................................................................................... 11 § 18 Motion for reconsideration .............................................................................................. 12 § 19 Revocation of the doctoral degree ................................................................................... 12 § 20 Withdrawal from the doctoral examination process, new doctoral examination process .................................................................................................................................................. 12 § 21 Taking effect and publication ........................................................................................... 13 1 Conditional on the confirmation by the Berlin Senate „Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Wissen- schaft“. § 1 Conferred degree The Hertie School confers the academic degree of Dr. rer. pol. or PhD based on the following provisions of the doctoral degree regulations. § 2 Academic criteria (1) The conferment of a doctoral degree provides proof of exceptional scholarly qualification through the completion of individual research which goes beyond the successful completion of a course of study. The written doctoral work includes a scientific treatise (dissertation) or several individual research papers (cumulative work). The oral examination takes the form of a colloquium (defence). (2) The doctoral degree is conferred in the academic area of ‘Governance’, with a focus on one of the disciplines represented at the Hertie School. (3) The regulations apply correspondingly for the conferral of a doctorate to those whose written doctoral work consists of several individual research papers. (4) Requirements for conferral of a doctorate are to be fulfilled in the English language. Ex- ceptions may be granted by the PhD Board. § 3 PhD Board (1) The Academic Senate shall appoint a PhD Board to oversee doctoral examination pro- cesses. The Academic Senate shall appoint the members of the PhD Board at the beginning of each academic year. The chairperson of the PhD Board is a member of the Hertie School faculty . In addition to the chairperson, the PhD Board consists of at least two additional members of the Hertie School faculty and one post-doctoral researcher. (2) The PhD Board shall decide on the admission of candidates and their dissertation pro- posals into the doctoral programme. The Board shall meet at least once per semester. These meetings are not open to the public. The PhD Board may delegate admission decisions to a third party or to a committee within the Hertie School. (3) The PhD Board may delegate decisions in individual cases or certain powers in general to the chairperson. The PhD Board may reverse this delegation at any time. (4) The PhD Board shall inform the Academic Senate about its activities at least once per aca- demic year. The Committee shall also report to the Academic Senate on request about indi- vidual doctoral examination processes. § 4 Admission requirements (1) Candidates who have completed a degree programme at a German or foreign university with a substantive focus on one of the disciplines represented at the Hertie School in a par- ticularly successful manner may be admitted to the doctoral programme. 2 (2) The following final degrees at a German university are considered - Master’s examination – requiring a total of 300 ECTS credit points, including the pre- viously completed degree course, - Magister Artium, - diploma examination, - first state examination (e.g. for secondary school teachers at general or vocational schools, law, medicine), - church examination. As a rule, a candidate must possess a first degree with a clear disciplinary foundation if the above-mentioned degrees are of an interdisciplinary nature. (3) A final degree from a foreign university has to be equivalent to the final degrees listed in para. 2. In case of doubt, an equivalency confirmation from the central office for foreign ed- ucation at the Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education of the States in the Federal Republic of Germany shall be obtained. In the case that no scoring clas- sification of the foreign university degree is provided by the central office for foreign educa- tion, a core faculty member of the PhD Board with a relevant disciplinary background verifies that the university degree grade is equivalent to the degrees mentioned in para. 2. (4) If the applicant has a final degree other than those required in para. 2 and 3, she or he may be admitted to the doctoral programme if her or his qualifications for the disciplinary subject of the dissertation are proven. The PhD Board may conditionally admit the applicant to the doctoral programme with the requirement to provide missing certificates of course completion required in para. 1 or which are necessary for the dissertation pursued by the applicant. § 5 Admission procedure (1) Applications for admission to the doctoral programme should be sent to the PhD Board with the following documents: a) Documents which are required pursuant to § 4, particularly diplomas or other proofs of qualification, b) a CV with special emphasis on the activities and experience relevant to the intended dissertation project, c) a statement as to whether or not the applicant has previously submitted a disserta- tion proposal or if her or his dissertation project is being conducted at another uni- versity or department; the application shall be accompanied by complete documen- tation, if applicable. (2) The application for admission should include a presentation of the dissertation project’s goals and methods. The dissertation project must be endorsed by at least one member of the Hertie School core faculty. The doctoral candidate proposes a main advisor. The pro- posed advisor must confirm her or his acceptance of this function. She or he makes the deci- sion at their own discretion. 3 (3) The PhD Board shall normally reach a decision on the admission applications within two months and in the framework of the meeting frequency set in § 3 para. 2. Rejected appli- cants shall be notified in writing. The explanation of rejection may be limited to notification that competing applicants better met the selection criteria set by the PhD Board. § 6 Matriculation as PhD student (1) PhD candidates shall be matriculated as PhD students at the Hertie School. (2) The PhD candidates shall be matriculated by the registrar of the Hertie School upon ad- mission according to § 5 and upon examination and acceptance of all documents provided by the candidate in accordance with the notification of admission. § 7 Doctoral programme Upon admission, the doctoral candidate shall be required to participate in one of the Hertie School’s doctoral programmes and to fulfill its requirements. Participation in a doctoral pro- gramme is an integral part of the dissertation supervision by the Hertie School. The respec- tive doctoral programme serves to deepen the doctoral candidate’s theoretical and method- ological knowledge. The Academic Senate issues programme descriptions specifying the con- tent, sequence and performance requirements
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