In my opinion, the great advantage of collegiate structures is that they usually bring together very different disciplines and there is a framework for exchange. Of course, disciplines differ, from highly collaborative experiments in the natural sciences to still rather individually conducted PhD projects in the humanities. We live in we live in an increasingly specialized world. That there is a mutual inspiration that is often missing in individual graduate programs. Peter-André Alt: I find that very interesting, because that is exactly what I perceived and suspected from the outside view that I had of the program. That's a very good, complementary aspect that created great synergies, as well as a different kind of curiosity. In everyday scientific life, one is naturally curious, but in this larger and unique network, a completely different joy of discovery opened up for me, because we had the opportunity to discuss quite openly with each other and to exchange views from the perspective of different disciplines, approaches and experiments. Heiko Knopf: For me, one very special and important element of the Schools is the direct access to a multi-faceted network.

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