Select “Yes” to update your information.
Select “No” to terminate your doctoral program (withdrawal). Note: In some faculties, a statement from your advisor is required if you withdraw from the doctoral program. You must upload this statement as a PDF document at the end of the application. For more information, please visit your faculty’s website.

If you wish to submit your dissertation, click “Cancel” and instead start the “Application to Initiate the Doctoral Examination Process.” You will find this below.

Would you like to change your first name, last name, gender, or date of birth?

• If you are not registered in Docata with a UHH user ID (Docata account), please contact Docata Support.
• If you are registered with a UHH user ID (e.g., BBD7601), please first have your information updated at the Campus Center (for enrolled doctoral students) or with Human Resources (for UHH employees) and then also in Docata via Docata Support.

Please note that providing complete and accurate information regarding all first and last names as well as dates of birth is essential for the issuance of certificates.

If you wish to apply for the doctoral examination process in another faculty or change your doctoral regulations, please contact your current faculty.

For German-language doctoral degrees, the following options are available under “pursued academic title”: Doktor (male), Doktorin (female), or Doktor:in (gender-neutral). You may change your selection during the doctoral program and when applying to initiate the doctoral examination process. The title you select will appear on your doctoral diploma.

Discuss with your supervisor whether there is an institutional cooperation involved. This information can be updated in Docata at any time after approval.

Doctorate without cooperation:
This applies when your research will be conducted at an institute or other establishment at Universität Hamburg, even if you have taken an (external) employment that is unrelated to your research project/your doctoral studies.

Doctorate in cooperation with another university in Germany:
This only includes cooperation involving formal, institutional arrangements. It does not apply when a supervisor or reviewer
(assessor) at another German university has played a role in your doctoral studies without a formal, institutional arrangement.

Doctorate in cooperation with a foreign/non-German university, binational doctorate (Cotutelle):
This must involve a contractual arrangement according to Joint doctorates with foreign institutions of the doctoral degree regulations that apply for your doctoral procedures. It does not apply when a supervisor or reviewer (assessor) at a university abroad has played a role in your doctoral studies without a formal, institutional arrangement.

Doctorate in cooperation with a university of applied sciences:
This only includes cooperation involving formal, institutional arrangements. It does not apply when a supervisor or reviewer
(assessor) at a university of applied sciences has played a role in your doctoral studies without a formal, institutional arrangement.

Doctorate in cooperation with a non-university research institute:
This applies when you work within a non-university research institution as part of your doctoral studies and must involve a contractual cooperation agreement.

Doctorate in cooperation with industry (industry-sponsored doctorate) or other institution:
This applies when you work in the research department of a company or other organization as part of your doctoral studies or when your doctoral studies are undertaken in connection with a research contract from a company or other organization and you have a contract or other written agreement.

Please enter the period and reason for your interruption of doctoral studies here. This information will be used for university statistics.

Note: Maternity leave and parental leave can be taken into account for temporary doctoral admissions. In this case, we require supporting documentation. After you have saved the updates in the doctoral phase, upload the supporting documents via the document upload feature on your Docata homepage. This does not apply to doctoral programs in the following faculties: Business Administration, Education, and Psychology.

First, specify the type of your stay and the time period.

Under Name of the host institution please enter the full name of the university or institution you attended during your stay abroad.

Also select the country and the mobility program.

Here are some examples of the options under Funding:

01 EU-program:

• All European educational programs, currently Erasmus+ (2014–2020)
• Erasmus+ student mobility for studies (SMS)
• Erasmus+ student mobility for traineeships (SMP)
• EU–non-EU program (EU–China, EU–USA, EU–Canada, etc.)

02 Non EU-Programm:

• Universität Hamburg scholarship
• Host university scholarship
• Scholarship from a publicly funded foundation (e.g., the German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
• DAAD scholarship (e.g., Promos, ISAP, Carlo Schmid Program, FIT worldwide, Go East summer school, IAESTE, etc.)
• Pädagogischer Austauschdienst (PAD) / COMENIUS school exchange scholarship

03 Non-publicly funded program:

• Scholarship from a private host university
• Scholarship from a privately funded foundation (e.g., Bayer Foundations, Joachim Herz Foundation, Stiftung Mercator)
• Private domestic or international funding programs (e.g., BMW Group’s SpeedUp, NextGen Scholarship for Study in the US, Rotary Club scholarships)

04 No program (“Free Mover”):

• Self-financed—“free-mover”
• Internship abroad with no funding program

Please indicate here if you are pursuing a doctoral degree as part of a structured doctoral program, such as: a doctoral program within your faculty, a graduate school within a Collaborative Research Center, or a graduate school at a non-university institution.
If you are unable to select your graduate program, please contact your doctoral office for clarification.

If the start date of your enrollment has not yet been determined, please enter the expected start date. You can change or add to this information at any time after admission.

This information is required for university statistics.

Please select the type of funding here.
You can find your job title in your employment contract.

Please provide the date and reason for discontinuing your doctoral program.
In some faculties, a statement from your advisor is required if you discontinue your doctoral program. You must upload this statement here as a PDF document. For more information, please visit your faculty’s website.