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1. Deadlines and Contact Persons

To apply, please submit the documents described below in full as a signed and machine-readable document by e-mail: DigiStrucMed@mh-hannover.de

Project application deadline: March 01

If you have any questions, please contact the academic program coordinator:

Office of the Dean of Academic Career Development, e-mail: digistrucmed@mh-hannover.de

2. Admission Requirements

Requirements for those responsible for the project
Project leader	At least 5 peer-reviewed publications with first or last authorship. Experience in supervising doctoral theses or master's theses that have been successfully completed. Habilitation (professorship or associate professor). Alternatively, habilitation of another project supervisor. A habilitation is a prerequisite for the initial supervision of doctoral students in medicine.
Working group	Full-time supervision of students is guaranteed. Sufficient infrastructure (e.g. access to clinical data) and equipment (computer/computing capacity, laboratory equipment...) Willingness to participate in central events of the DigiStrucMed program. Regular lab meetings and journal club presentations once a week

Requirements for the projects
Project topic	Students of medicine and computer science can work together and in parallel on the project (sequential work possible in exceptional cases). The project deals with a question in the field of "Digital Transformation in Medicine".
Scope of tasks	The content to be worked on must be sufficiently distinguishable between students of medicine and computer science in order to successfully complete their medical doctorate or Master's thesis in computer science.
Scope	Students must be able to successfully complete their project within the given time frame (medicine: 12 months, of which 10 months for practical work; computer science: 6 months)
Resources	All necessary data, samples and materials must be available before the start of the project, but no later than the start of the project. Patient cohorts must already have been recruited or be recruitable within 6 months. In particular, critical approvals from the authorities, e.g. animal testing permits or votes from the Ethics Committee, must be available before the start of the project.
Financial security	The project has sufficient funding.

3. Project application

The project developed by the cooperation partners is submitted via a complete project application by March 1st of each year (application deadline). The current application form will soon be available below (please do not use a version from the previous year).

4. Templates for Download

Project application form

Year 6 (2026-27)

Financial plan (appendix to the project application form)

Year 6 (2026-27)

5. Selection Procedure

Selection criteria

The selection criteria for project funding are, in this order

Scientific quality
Qualifications of the project management and supervisors
Feasibility of the project (expertise, own preliminary work, financial viability, realistic timetable)
Cooperation between medicine and informatics
innovation
Valid statistical methodology

Selection and assignment procedure

After the end of the application period with a project application by March 1st, the program committee makes a pre-selection (preliminary admission). The project leaders of the pre-selected projects present their projects to the students at a project exchange.

At the same time, suitable candidates are selected from the applications received from students, who also briefly introduce themselves at the project exchange. Students and project managers then have the opportunity to meet and get to know each other without obligation for a period of approx. 2 weeks.

The students then send a priority list of projects (priority 1-3) to the program coordinator, who then matches students and projects. The results of the matching (final project approval) will be announced by mid-May if possible.

The introductory event takes place at the beginning/mid-August. Projects start on August 1(medical students) or between August 1 of the current year and February 1 of the following year(computer science students).

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