"Advanced Research in Urban Systems" (ARUS)
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Advanced Research in Urban Systems (ARUS) – International promovieren in Deutschland (IPID)

For quite some time the University of Duisburg-Essen has regarded the ever-expanding process of global urbanization as a central challenge for present and future societies. Thus, it dedicates a substantial part of its research and teaching efforts to meet the manifold challenges and to solve the problems that accompany this megacity trend. Hence, as early as 2005, the University of Duisburg-Essen decided to establish the topic area “Urban Systems” as one of its university-wide Main Research Areas. The purpose of this concentration is to fathom the most important aspects of urban development in scientific depth as well as in a comprehensive, inter- and transdisciplinary manner. The structured PhD programme ARUS established in the autumn of 2010 is based on previous academic achievements in selected fields within the Main Research Area "Urban Systems”. It offers doctoral students the opportunity to explore their research interests in this interdisciplinary and international framework.

International Promovieren in Deutschland - a PhD programme of the DAAD

ARUS is one of the structured PhD programmes established in 2010 with funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the framework of the programme “International promovieren in Deutschland“(IPID). With these PhD programmes, the DAAD supports the implementation of recommendations of the “Wissenschaftsrat” and the „Hochschulrektorenkonferenz” concerning the reform of PhD programmes in Germany. The distribution of funds within these programmes concentrates solely on already existing excellent research structures.

For further information please consult the following websites:

http://www.daad.de/hochschulen/internationalisierung/ipid/14086.de.html.

or here

http://www.uni-due.de/international/

Participating Departments:

The following Professors and departments involved in ARUS:

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Anglophone Studies - British and Anglophone Literature and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr (Project Director)
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Institute of City Planning and Urban Design (Institut für Stadtplanung und Städtebau (ISS)), Civil Engineering, Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Alexander Schmidt
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Department of Geography, Faculty of Biology and Geography, represented by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Juchelka (Speaker of the institute and board member of ARUS), Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kuttler, Prof. Hans-Werner Wehling, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ohl.
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Professor for Theory and Practice of Social Work, Center for Social Work and Social Policy, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Prof. Dr. Fabian Kessl
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Municipal Water and Waste Management, Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Renatus Widmann
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Transport Systems and Logistics, Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Noche
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Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities Workgroup Prof. Dr. Reichertz, Prof. Dr. Jo Reichertz

Graduate students in the ARUS programme

Graduate students are admitted to the PhD programme by means of a competitive admission process consisting of two steps. As an interdisciplinary programme, ARUS appeals to those graduates of engineering, planning, spatial, social and humanities courses, who locate their objects of study in an urban context. For further information see “Application”.

http://www.uni-due.de/urbane-systeme/us_arus_application_en.shtml