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GRADE - Straight into Science

GRADE - the Goethe Graduate Academy - builds the platform for graduate education in the Life and Natural Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

GRADE was founded by the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main to specifically improve the education and research conditions for its junior researchers in the area of life and natural sciences. The new facility follows international standards and uses innovative elements to set priorities for postgraduate education at its location in Frankfurt. In doing so, GRADE builds on the experiences of the Otto Stern School for Integrated Doctoral Education (OSS) and the Frankfurt International Research Graduate School for Translational Biomedicicne (FIRST).

"The course of a Scientific career should not be left to chance. That is why GRADE individually and flexibly helps the junior researchers to create a personal roadmap to success. Our academy provides diverse and high-quality offerings that not only improve academic qualifications, but in addition can help develop personality or - as is becoming ever more important today - can provide orientation in a foreign cultural environment. It is our goal and aspiration to offer doctoral candidates and recent post docs the best chances for top qulifications and the development of leadership skills.

The environment and society are in a state of rapid change; this is also true for the scientific community. If we are to actively shape this change, we need the intelligent minds of young people who generate new ideas, communicate and finally are in the positions to implement those ideas. Our purpose is to qualify innovative scientists and leaders to manage the upcoming challenge! "

Volker Mosbrugger
Director

Not only does GRADE ensure a structured standardised and therefore international competitive doctorate, but offers training in research or career related skills for both our doctoral candidates and their supervisors.	GRADE Concept of Doctoral Education	Furthermore GRADE functions as the basis for the inter- and transdisciplinary GRADE Centres which cluster the different graduate programs, research training programs, collaborative research centres as well as the individual candidates in the Natural Science faculties 11 to 16.