The Promovierendenkonvent (doctoral students representatives' board: Proko) has the goal to offer a central plattform for everybody who intends, performs or already has finished a PhD at Ulm University.
We collect and represent the interests of doctoral students of Ulm University to the official organs that are responsible for steering the University. To this we are in regular exchange with PhD committees, faculty councils and the senate.
To make the voice of doctoral students heard, we draft statements and participate in the design of statutes and regulations relating to the pursuit of a doctorate.
You can find out more about your representatives here.
The Proko board offers individual doctoral students to share their concerns relating to their studies. These can include disputes with supervisors or critical clashes with university regulations.
If you seek advice or support, please write us an E-Mail.
We promote interdisciplinary and cross-faculty networking among doctoral students and with other Promovierendenkonventen.
Our network extents up to state- and country-wide doctoral student organizations, such as the Bundesverband Promovierende.
We organize events and get-togethers for doctoral students, such as Christmas parties, game nights, information events, bar hoppings and beer pong tournaments.
The offers are typically advertised via the e-mail list doktoranden(at)uni-ulm.de (you may sign up yourself if you don’t already receive the messages) and are listed on our website. We hope to see you soon. :)
You like to organize events, support other PhD students or engage in university politics?
Speak to us on events or reach out to us via e-mail so we can inform you of upcoming organizational meetings for you to join!
On 15.12.2025, starting at 18:00 in H8
A (christmas) board game evening for all phd students. Bring your friends, your game face and any favorite boardgames you'd like to share. There will be drinks sponsored by the Proko, and we'll order Pizza.
Doctoral students receive relevant information regarding their studies at the university via the mailing list doktoranden@uni-ulm.de.
Distributed mails contain, amongst others, calls for applications for the funding programs of ProTrainU, information about seminars held particularly for doctoral students and invitations to networking events.
Enrolled students are added to the mailing list automatically, everybody else can and should subscribe to the list via this link.
