The doctoral council is a unique opportunity to get involved in your own interests and those of your own status group university-wide. Would you like to be nominated as a candidate or do you know someone you would like to propose? Nominations can be submitted between April 25 and May 12, 2025. All those who are admitted to pursue doctoral research at Freie Universität and are enrolled or employed are eligible to vote. 

The elections will then take place on June 17 and 18, 2025. Please note that doctoral candidates in the BCP department can only vote if nominations from the department have been submitted.

What is the Doctoral Council, what does it do, what are its rights and duties? In this DRS Podcast episode, Maren Vogel, speaker of the Doctoral Council of FU Berlin, talks about all these questions. Maren gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to be part of the council.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us: graduate-center@bcp.fu-berlin.de

More information:

• Overview of the doctoral council (FAQ): https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/drs/doctorate/doctoral-council/index.html
• Website of the doctoral council: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/promovierendenvertretung/index.html
• Doctoral Council Statutes: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/drs/resources/documents/ProvmV-S-_English.pdf