About the Info Hub
In course of announcing the GCSC scholarships and memberships and IPP memberships for 2025, we have launched our GCSC/IPP Info Hub. This Hub is an information platform that caters to all students interested in completing a PhD with an interdisciplinary focus on the Study of Culture—and, of course, particularly to those planning to apply in our 2025 application cycle.
On this page, you will find further information about the GCSC as an international and interdisciplinary research environment, the study programme and opportunities for doctoral candidates, and the application processes at the GCSC and IPP, as well as the funding scheme provided by the DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP).
In addition to this material, we also offer opportunities to ask individual questions about the application in two live Q&A-sessions, or to arrange individual consultations with JLU professors to talk about proposed projects and the doctorate in Giessen.
We specifically encourage those who are planning to apply for a GCSC scholarships or memberships or for one of the IPP's memberships to dive into the GCSC/IPP world.
What the Info Hub Contains
The GCSC/IPP Info Hub is designed as a new asynchronous format deriving from the former GCSC/IPP Info Day. With this new design we hope to provide a reliable tool to come back to during the application process—a platform where you can inform yourself according to your own needs and at your own pace.
The GCSC/IPP Info Hub consists of both video material and supplementary documents that are designed to inform you about the GCSC, the study programme and research environment, and the application processes at the GCSC and IPP. It also offers information for international prospects about the additional funding scheme made available by the DAAD’s Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP). You find more information about the memberships and scholarships starting in October 2025 here for the GCSC and here for the IPP. Please also refer to our FAQs for the GCSC application process and the IPP application procedure.
The online material of the Info Hub is complemented by two live Q&A sessions in which you have the opportunity to ask individual questions about the application at the GCSC and IPP. Since these are two separate processes, we also offer two separate Q&A sessions. You may of course participate in both. The live Q&As will take place on 8 January 2025 and are scheduled for 14:00/2pm (CET) for the GCSC; and 15:00/3pm pm (CET) for the IPP. Both sessions are online meetings and will take place via BigBlueButton. Registration via the online form is required.
Moreover, the Info Hub provides a framework for your participation in individual consultation with professors of Justus Liebig University (JLU). These consultations will be possible in the three weeks of 8–29 January 2025. If you are interested in an individual consultation, we, however, strongly advise you to arrange this appointment before the winter break (20 December 2024 the latest). You find more information about the procedure below.
