ZEF Bonn

Three new „Doctors“
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ZEF Bonn ● Center for Development Research – Annual Report 2001/2002
ZEF's International Doctoral
Program offers doctoral
degrees for young scientists
engaged in policy analysis,
economics, social sciences and
management of natural
resources. The students usually
join a research group to ensure
an adequate training environment.
Teaching
1. The International Doctoral Program
for Development Studies
ZEF's International Doctoral Program offers doctoral degrees of a top academic
standard for young scientists engaged in policy analysis, economics, social sciences
and management of natural resources. To ensure an adequate training environment
and an overall coherence within ZEF, the students are usually part of one of the research
groups. The Doctoral Program reflects the principal domains of ZEF's research
activities, but in addition, doctoral research stimulates and advances ZEF's research
agenda.
Currently, 94 students from 32 countries, mainly from Africa and Asia, are in the
International Doctoral Program at ZEF. One third are women. In 2001, more than
1,300 persons from all over the world had requested information on the program. In
the end, we received around 320 new applications, many of them from applicants
with an outstanding track record. Out of these, 30 candidates were selected on the
basis of applicant quality criteria, experience and their research proposal to participate
in the academic year 2001/02.
A considerable effort is undertaken to present the Doctoral Program and the research
of the participating students on the ZEF homepage, because the Internet plays
an important role in distributing information on the program. The majority of the
persons interested first heard of the program from the ZEF homepage or through emails
distributed world-wide to universities and other institutions.
2. Scholarships and Funding
In 2001, around 40 % of the participants received scholarships from the DAAD
(German Academic Exchange Service - only for students from developing countries).
The rest were supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation (for German and EU citizens),
the Catholic Academic Foreign Service (Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst,
KAAD), Ecumenical Foundation (Ökumenisches Studienwerk, ÖSW), the German
Business Foundation (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, SDW), the Eiselen
Foundation, the World Bank, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Daimler Benz Foundation
or their own country (students from China, Brazil, Italy). Seventeen students
were funded via research projects at ZEF, and ZEF itself supported 14 students with
scholarships. In addition, the BMZ, via GTZ and the Robert Bosch Foundation, supported
the program with funds for the students' empirical research.
3. The Doctoral Courses
In 2001, more than 160 lectures and seminars were conducted in the doctoral program,
approximately 40% by external lecturers. For this, ZEF had invited experts