The Dresden Leibniz Graduate School is established for Doctoral Students of several disciplines to serve the following aims and purposes:

• Promoting excellent research in an international and interdisciplinary context,
• Facilitating competent and critical understanding of current theories and methods,
• Contributing to an efficient and time-conscious realization of dissertations under an umbrella topic,
• Providing opportunities to acquire key qualifications for further professional development,
• Giving insight into requirements of practice and issues related to policy advice,
• Fostering abilities to effectively communicate research findings.