Your growth
starts here
The TrainingHub is the central platform for your development as an PhD student or Postdoc within The Adaptive Mind. It brings together scientific training, career development, and international exchange to support you in becoming an independent, interdisciplinary researcher.
New to TAM
Starting at a new institution — and perhaps in a new country — comes with a lot of questions. The TAM Navigator guides you through everything you need to know before you arrive, during your first weeks, and as you settle in. From visa and housing to your first contacts within the cluster: we’ve got you covered.
Career & Skills Development
Career and skills development at TAM builds on the strong graduate school infrastructures at each partner institution. Find your local graduate school below — they offer qualification programmes, transferable skills courses and support structures that complement TAM-specific training.
Get Funding
TAM offers dedicated funding instruments at every career stage — designed to foster your scientific independence, support collaborative projects, and enable international mobility.
Treasure Box
Annual call for short interdisciplinary research grant proposals within TAM. Up to €5,000 per project, 4 projects per year — open to doctoral researchers.
Postdoc Intramural Funding
Yearly funding for research independence projects (6–12 months). Up to €10,000 per project, 4 projects per year — for postdocs pursuing interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches.
Start-up Bridge Funding
Up to one year of bridge support (own position + up to €10,000) for postdoctoral researchers — to finalise manuscripts, write grants, or fund research secondments. 2 positions per year.
EDI Grants / LMIC
Get Connected
Career and skills development at TAM builds on the strong graduate school infrastructures at each partner institution. Find your local graduate school below — they offer qualification programmes, transferable skills courses and support structures that complement TAM-specific training.
Outgoing: Visits and exchange
TAM ECRs at all career stages can apply for research secondments at partner labs worldwide — to acquire new scientific skills, build intercultural competencies, and expand their network.
Funding: Travel costs and living expenses for up to 6 months (€50K/p.a. programme budget). Applications via the annual TAM funding call. ECRs from low- and middle-income countries receive additional consideration through dedicated EDI grants.
Incoming: Visit us
TAM actively hosts international researchers for research stays and training at our partner institutions. Visiting scholars are supported by the TrainingHub, International Offices and Welcome Centers at each site, including a buddy system for social integration.
Funding: Covered through the TAM Visits & Exchange budget. Specific intramural programmes are available for ECRs from LMICs.
Organise an event
At TAM, ECRs don’t just attend events — they shape them. The TrainingHub supports you in hosting speakers and proposing your own workshops and symposia, with logistical and financial backing from the coordination office.
Host a Speaker
TAM’s bi-weekly colloquia are hosted by ECRs. You can propose and invite world-leading scientists to present their work — the TrainingHub coordination office provides logistical support. Colloquia are streamed and posted online to maximise their reach across the cluster and beyond.
Propose a Workshop or Symposium
Have an idea for a thematic workshop or interdisciplinary symposium? TAM actively encourages ECRs to propose and organise scientific events. Yearly symposia and workshops — featuring a mix of up-and-coming and senior international speakers — are organised by ECRs with support from the TrainingHub. Funding is available through the TAM networking budget (YoungPro: €20K/p.a.).
We're Here for You
Whatever your question — training, funding, career, or exchange — Rebekka Volmer the TrainingHub coordinator is here to help. Reach out directly.
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Leadership and Coordination
The governance structure of the TAM TrainingHub combines scientific leadership, operational coordination and participatory Early Career Researcher representation. This integrated structure ensures strategic alignment with the objectives of The Adaptive Mind, cross-institutional coordination and the continuous development of high-quality support structures for Early Career Researchers.
