Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) / International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)

As the first generation in your family to study at university and now continue on the path to academia, you bring special perspectives with you - and often face specific challenges: Experiencing uncertainty and doubt due to feelings of foreignness, navigating the academic environment and the feeling of having to figure a lot of things out for yourself. The mentoring programme “First Generation Doctorate” is aimed at doctoral students who come from a non-academic family background and are looking for exchange, orientation and support beyond academic questions. Together with a mentor who has travelled this path themselves, we create space for your questions - and strengthen your individual path in academia.