The university-wide Graduate Academy is a central service and coordination point for early career researchers.

The central target of the Graduate Academy is the support and promotion of early career researchers of the University of Rostock. The range of services comprises the qualification program, funding opportunities for the participation in external qualification courses, travel allowances and diverse networking opportunities. Additionally, the Graduate Academy is the point of contact for all questions and issues that arise during the doctoral studies or the postdoc phase. We consider support, advice and information as our elementary base. We focus on the needs of our target group - early career researchers.

The Graduate Council is the Graduate Academy´s central body for a long-term, strategic and conceptional development of funding early career researchers. Via the Graduate Council, the Graduate Academy is interconnected with professors and early career researchers on a university-wide basis. The Graduate Council accompanies and supports the faculties in their efforts to develop and customize the conditions of promotion and habilitaition continuously. A particular concern of the members of the Graduate Council is the improvement of the individual academic supervision of doctoral candidates.