Stefano Volpe Mar 23
If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated.

Fellow PhD student: hello! ​​ I hope you had a good Monday.

0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD?
1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already have a Master's?
2) How many academic credits (e.g., ECTS) are you required to get in order to complete your PhD?
3) If you are paid for TAing, can you estimate the number of teaching contact hours you need in order to supplement other sources of funding?

My union and Ph.D. committee have been asking for feedback, and I have a theory I'd like to test. Feel free to use private mentions if you want.

Edit: I am now using "academic credits" to make myself more understandable to non-EU people.
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@foxy
0) Germany
1) No official duration, you usually get a three year contract of you are on third party funding, which is common, and likely a second one afterwards. Average time very much depends on area of research. It assumes a Master.
2) 0
3) NA
Mar 25 at 8:04amWeb
Show threadStefano Volpe Mar 25

@godoot

3) NASo if I understand, you don't need any teaching to get by, since your external funding is enough to live by?

Show threadgodootMar 25

@foxy Yes, the way it works here is that each professor has 1-3 positions for phd students, those are required to do teaching as part of their job. Others are not required to teach, but usually supervise thesises.
Additional teaching for more money isn't really a thing as far as I know.

If you are in a less well funded research area you usually don't get a full position. That means less teaching, but of course the amount of research you need to do stays the same.
I also know some people who work a regular job and do their PhD unpaid im their free time.