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Organisation

The organisation of the Graduate School consists of board, working committee, director, vice director, project coordinator, and the network faculties and departments. Each organisational body has its distinctive functions.

The board is the decision-making body of the Graduate School. It chooses the director, vice director and the coordinator for the garduate school.

The working committee is appointed by the board and functions as the operational body of the Graduate School.

The director of the Graduate School is responsible for administering the academic and budgetary facets of the Graduate School. The director is also resbonsible for the scientific standards of the school and for all the matters of curriculum development. Furthermore, the director is involved in development and implemantation of univerity and Ministry of Education policies related to doctoral training.

The coordinator is responsible for administering all aspects of day-to-day functioning of the school and serving as the liaison with the associate universities, departments and doctoral students. International and national networking, budgeting, and personnel administration are coordinator’s tasks. Furthermore, together with the working committee the coordinator plans the curriculum and writes internal reports.

The partner universities are responsible for evaluating applications and selecting doctoral canditates for the doctoral programme. They provide doctoral training in specific fields whereas the Graduate School provides doctoral training in more general subjects. Furthermore, the associate universities are to provide national and international networking possibilities for the students in their respective fields.

The advisory board of the Graduate School has a dual-role: an internal role to assist in and advise on the development and execution of the training programme of the Graduate School, and an external role to liaise with cooperative partners in doctoral training in theology and religious studies.