Forms / Regulations

• Declaration of Intent to undertake a doctorate at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg
  Admission to a doctorate is decided by the responsible Faculty Board, based on the applicants Declaration of Intent to begin a doctorate. The Declaration of intent should be submitted, via the supervisor, to the relevant Faculty. Information about documents which have to be submitted apart from the Declaration of Intent itself, you may find in the Regulations of the Faculties for the Award of Doctorates (§7, paragraph 2).
• Extension of the Declaration of Intent (only for the Faculty of Chemistry and Physics)
• Extension of the Declaration of Intent (only for the Faculty of Geosciences, Geoengineering and Mining)
• Certificate for graded performances (Please save the file before filling it out.)
• Application for the substitution of the doctoral oral examination (Rigorosum) by equivalent academic achievements
• Application form for Admission to Studies for Foreign Applicants: The process has changed. For admission to doctoral studies please apply via the Application Portal of our university. All necessary information you find here.
• Specimen letter for the written application to the Dean of the Faculty for the opening of the doctorate procedure
• Declaration for completion of the doctoral thesis without help from third parties
• Declaration for handing over primary data
• Antrag auf Eröffnung eines Habilitationsverfahrens an den Dekan einer Fakultät
• Musterbrief zur Eröffnung eines Habilitationsverfahrens an den Dekan einer Fakultät
• Spezimen general agreement for joint / double doctorate procedures - agreement between the participating universities
• Working tool for the creation of a general agreements in joint / double doctorate procedures
• Spezimen contract for individual agreements in joint / double doctorate procedures - agreement between the participating faculties
• Working tool for the creation of individual contracts for joint / double doctorate procedures

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• Regulations of the Faculties regarding the structured doctoral studies and the substitution of the Rigorosum
• Regulations of the Faculties for the Award of Doctorates, published on 16th of March 2010, valid for the Faculty of Geoscience, Geoengineering and Mining and for all those doctoral students whose Declaration of Intent have been confirmed by the Faculty Board prior to the date of publishing of the regulations mentioned below
• Guidelines - Non-official reading version of the Regulation of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science for the Award of Doctorates, published on 07th of August 2017
• Guidelines - Non-official reading version of the Regulations of the Faculty for Chemistry and Physics for the Award of Doctorates, published on 26th of July 2017
• Regulations of the Faculty of Geosciences, Geoengineering and Mining, published on 28th of August 2017
• Regulations of the Faculty of Geosciences, Geoengineering and Mining, published on 27th of April 2020, available only in German
• Guidelines - Non-official reading version of the Regulations of the Faculty for Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering for the Award of Doctorates, published on 12th of June 2017
• Guidelines - Non-official reading version of the Regulations for the Amendment of the Regulations of the Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering for the Award of Doctorates, published on 12th of December 2018
• Guidelines - Non-official reading version of the Regulations of the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg for the Award of Doctorates at the Faculty of Materials Science and Materials Technology, published on 10th of July 2019
• Regulations of the Faculty of Business Administration for the Award of Doctorates, published on 07th of August 2017
• Information sheet regarding a cumulative dissertation at the Faculty of Chemistry and Physics, published on 12th of May 2009
• Instructions for preparing a publication-based (cumulative) dissertation at the Faculty of Geosciences, Geoengineering and Mining – Information sheet, German version publised on 16th of November 2020
• Information sheet for preparing a publications-based dissertation in Faculty 4, German version published on 14th of December 2021
• Handreichung zur publikationsbasierten Dissertation der Fakultät 5, available only in German
• Publication-based dissertation at the Faculty of Business Administration: Information can be found on the page of the Doctoral Committee. Click on the link "OPAL course" and register. Then all the necessary documents will be provided to you.
• Habilitationsordnung der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, published on 22nd of May 2001
• Satzung zur Änderung der Habilitationsordnung, published on 21st of April 2005
• Ordnung zur Verleihung der Bezeichnung "Privatdozent", published on 09th of January 2015, available only in German
• Enrolment Regulations of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, published on 19.05.2016, (applies for enrolled doctoral students)
• Regulation on the Amendment of the Enrolment Regulations, published on 21st of January 2013
• Regulations for the Centre of Advanced Study and Research at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, published on 11th of April 2008
• Guidelines for the design of scientific papers (seminar papers, theses, dissertations) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, published on 27th of June 2005
• Open Access Policy of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, published in February 2015
• Regulations on safeguarding good scientific practice and on handling scientific misconduct at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, published on 19.03.2015; since 01/20/2022 ineffective
• Ordnung zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und zum Umgang mit wissenschaftlichem Fehlverhalten an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, published on 20.01.2022; availlable only in German
• Memorandum der deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) zum Thema Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis, erschienen 2013
• Positionspapier des Wissenschaftsrates mit Empfehlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Integrität, erschienen im April 2015

For questions regarding the translation of the Regulations of the Faculties for the Award of Doctorates please contact Mrs Dr. Corina Dunger (e-mail: corina [dot] dungergrafa [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de) or Mrs Katrin Langer (e-mail: k [dot] langergrafa [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de).

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