Jena Alliance

The Jena Alliance "Life in Focus" promoted a nationally and internationally visible excellent graduate qualification at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena by connecting the university profile lines LIFE and LIGHT through funding of the Carl Zeiss Stiftung for six years (2019-2024).

Under the umbrella of the Graduate Academy, the Jena Alliance connected the well-established graduate programmes of the Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC), the Jena School of Molecular Medicine (JSMM), the Abbe School of Photonics (ASP) and the Max Planck School of Photonics (MPSP). The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary elements of the graduate programmes were combined by the Jena Alliance and expanded to include innovative aspects of modern doctoral programmes.