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Highly competitive and globally interconnected markets, accelerated population aging throughout the world, rapid progress in information and gene technologies, the overuse of natural resources, emerging religious fundamentalism and new hot spots of military and social conflict highlight the persisting need for and dependency on accurate, forward looking and sustainable decisions in our contemporary world which will have critical consequences for future generations.
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This PhD program stands at the forefront of cutting-edge transdisciplinary research in the field of visual communication combining and interrelating four core disciplines: communication science as nexus discipline is connected to art history, experimental psychology as well as computer science.
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During doctoral studies, students further develop and deepen their methodological knowledge and scientific understanding and are prepared for leading positions in and outside of academia, nationally and internationally.
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The CDSS offers a three-year doctoral program for students in political science, psychology, and sociology. Doctoral students find a variety of special courses in all three areas which are taught by an internationally renowned faculty. The University of Mannheim provides an excellent research environment.
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The International Research Training Group (IRTG) "Adaptive Minds: Neural and Environmental Constraints on Learning and Memory" provides a structured PhD program for candidates from the fields of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.
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IDEALAB is a laboratory-based interdisciplinary 3-year doctoral programme. Research carried out by the doctoral candidates contributes to our understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms of language learning, language use and language re-learning in linguistically unimpaired as well as impaired populations.
The programme is jointly offered by a transnational and transsectorial consortium and received the Erasmus Mundus quality label of excellence in 2011.
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IECL is an interdisciplinary university programme providing training for students in the fields of Neurolinguistics, Clinical Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. Established at the Department of Linguistics, the IECL is a section of the Excellence Center of Cognitive Sciences and is characterised by an intensive, research-orientated training of high international standard in experimental and clinical linguistics.
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The International Research Training Group “Brain-behavior relationship of emotion and social cognition in schizophrenia and autism” (IRTG 1328) is formed by German and American scientists of the RWTH Aachen University with the University Hospital Aachen, the Research Center Jülich (all within the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, JARA) and the University of Pennsylvania and is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG). The major aims of the German-American IRTG are interdisciplinary and international scientific co-operation and the support of young scientists with aspiration to cutting-edge research in neuroscience.
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To understand changing patterns of societal integration, we have to analyze the complex interplay of social structures, culture, and individuals’ attitudes and behaviors across time. This means to examine the changing dynamics of individual lives against a backdrop of political and social integration.