About Docata

The IT system Docata meets the increased requirements for personal data management, the administration of doctoral processes, communication in doctoral procedures and legal requirements (e.g. University statistics).

For these tasks the software Docata 2.0 from Divinus Soft is in use.

Doctoral candidates and doctoral researchers use Docata for online applications and get access to important information and documents about their doctoral procedures.

Reviewers and members of the examination commissions use Docata to recieve informations about the examination procedures and gain access to documents, e.g. the electronic version of the dissertation. Find more information here.

The faculties at University of Hamburg are responsible for the administration of doctoral procedures.

Which faculties use Docata?

In 2023, Docata was implemented sequentially in the faculties of the University of Hamburg. You can find information about the doctoral procedures on your faculty's website below.

The following faculties are represented on the platform https://docata.uni-hamburg.de/:

Faculty of Business Administration (since july 2023)
Faculty of Education (since september 2023)
Faculty of Law (since july 2023)
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences (since october 2023)
Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science (since august 2023)
Psychology und Human Movement Science
Faculty of Humanities (since september 2023)
Faculty of Medicine / UKE (since winter 2023/ 2024)

The Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences uses until further notice the platform Docata-min https://docata.min.uni-hamburg.de.

Advantages of Docata

Advantages for administration of doctoral procedures are:

Support of administrative processes for doctoral procedures
Support in communication with doctoral students and reviewers
Support in reporting
Digital file management
Development of an interface to CampusNet (STiNE)