Apply Now: Postgraduate Programme for Sustainability Cooperation

The Postgraduate Programme offers a comprehensive 360-degree perspective on global cooperation, and participants learn competences for partnership-based cooperation. Participants gain a foundation for reflective and dedicated professional action and are part of our valuable network. Thus, the Programme is more than just a gateway into a career.

The PGP enhances competencies of master’s graduates aspiring a career in international cooperation for development and sustainability. Each year, they select 18 people for our 9-month programme.

What they offer

• Comprehensive Perspective: Gain a 360-degree perspective on global cooperation.
• Unique Learning Environment: Work in an environment that emphasizes intensive teamwork, a high degree of participant involvement, and collaboration with their international partners. Conduct research in a team under the guidance of experienced IDOS researchers on current questions and real-world challenges in international cooperation.
• From Research to Policy: Learn from their experience at IDOS on how to provide theory-led and empirically based policy advice to political decision-making.
• Career Orientation: Benefit from individualised coaching, career trainings, and their personal contacts to main actors in the field of international cooperation.
• International Networks: Establish connections with future decision-maker from emerging global powers (MGG) and from African countries (Shaping Futures). They consider fostering mutual exchange within trust-based networks as fundamental for international cooperation.
• Valuable Alumni Network: Build personal networks with their alumni working in different professions in the field of international cooperation.

Benefits

• Through your participation, you:
  • ideally prepare for a professional career in international cooperation;
  • strengthen your personal and professional competencies;
  • expand your knowledge on sustainable global development;
  • reflect your positionality and privileges in a world shaped inequalities and postcolonial power structures;
  • engage with real-life sustainability challenges;
  • gain insights into the interface of research, policy advice and practice;
  • become part of their valuable networks.

Funding Information

• All participants receive a scholarship of €1,500 per month. IDOS covers additional costs for the research stays.

Eligibility Criteria

• Good to very good Master’s degree in economics, social sciences (e.g. political science/international relations, sociology, development studies, social anthropology, regional sciences, social science-oriented sustainability research) or 2nd state examination in law or 1st state examination teaching degree.
• Qualifying degree must have been completed within the 5 years preceeding the start of the course.
• English language skills (C1); proficiency in German (C1) is desired; good knowledge of another widely used language (preferably a UN language or Portuguese) is an asset.
• German or EU citizenship (including Schengen area) or persons with a permanent residence permit for Germany or EU.
• Stays in or transnational life connections to Africa, Asia and Latin America are an asset (e.g. internships, voluntary services, work or study visits).
• Personal motivation to work in global cooperation for sustainable development.

For more information, visit IDOS.