October 18, 2011 | News | Education & Career

Under a European Star: Debut of Demo-Doc

With 18 PhD students enrolled, the Demo-Doc school celebrates its debut. Starting on Monday, October 17, participants in the Demo-Doc school are spending two weeks at the MPIDR. During the first week, the students will learn about current trends in population research from some of the world’s leading demographers. The students’ own research projects will be discussed in the second week.

The multinational school was jointly launched at the beginning of this year by the MPIDR and the universities of Rostock, Lund, Rome, and Barcelona. The five partners have agreed to supervise and educate the students through a multinational mentoring program and through annual schools.

Demo-Doc will demonstrate whether it is possible to establish a doctoral program in demography across national borders, in which two or more universities award a joint PhD.

“By enabling the MPIDR and the University of Rostock to work together with such renowned European partners, Demo-Doc advances Rostock’s demographic research,” said Prof. Gabriele Doblhammer, rector of the PhD program. “The students will be conducting their research at their home university as well as at one of the partner institutes across Europe. This contributes to the internationalization of university education.”

The interested public can benefit from Demo-Doc as well: the morning lectures of the first week, which provide insight into various aspects of demographic research, are open to all.

For more information please visit www.demodoc.uni-rostock.de