Doctoral Students Representation

The tasks and organisation of the doctoral student representatives are largely determined by three regulations and legal texts, which are translated below:

• §9 NHG (Niedersächsisches Hochschulgesetz) [in German]:

  (4) ¹The accepted doctoral candidates elect the members of a doctoral students representation. ²The university shall regulate the details of the election of the doctoral students representative committee in a regulation.³The doctoral student representative committee advises on the questions concerning the doctoral students and makes recommendations to the university bodies. ⁴The Faculty Council must give the doctoral student representatives the opportunity to comment on drafts of doctoral regulations. ⁵As a rule, a member of the doctoral students representation participates in an advisory capacity in the meetings of the Senate and the Faculty Council.

• §19 GO (Basic Regulations of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) [in German]:

  ¹The doctoral student council advises on questions concerning doctoral students and makes recommendations to the university bodies. ²The details regulate order, in particular composition, choice and tasks.³The interests of the Faculty of Medicine are to be taken into account appropriately.

• Regulation of the Doctoral Student Representation (PromV-O) [in German] .

Further legal texts of the university can be found here [in German].