The Doctoral programme of German and Slavic Studies aims to educate young researchers with a deep knowledge in the field of German or Slavic studies, and also a sound experience in the field of comparatistics, considering diachronic and synchronic intersections and interchanges between Slavic and German cultures, in the frame of European literatures and cultures. The doctoral programme covers the whole subject area “M10”, that is research about cultures, languages, texts and literary works of the German and Slavic world, ranging from ancient monuments of German and Slavic languages to the present. Doctoral students can acquire methodological competences in the field of philology, bibliography, literary and textual theory, linguistics, rhetoric, metrics, narratology and didactics. Linguistic research bases on metalinguistic analysis of languages belonging to the German and Slavic group; it concerns also the study of written and oral translation in its many expressions and audio-visual or multimedia application. Among the main paths of research of the Ph.D. programme, Central European studies are included as a whole historical, literary and cultural background, as it proceeds from the medieval tradition of the Holy Roman Empire and continues, through the protestant reformation, up to the present. Cultural and intercultural studies, extending from the German and Slavic context to popular tradition and heritage also in non-German and non-Slavic areas, are also suggested as a consistent field of research, in a trans-disciplinary and trans-lational perspective. German Studies Curriculum: Doctoral students should acquire up-to-date critical and investigation skills in the field of cultures, languages, texts and literary works of one or more German languages (German in its variations, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Afrikaans). German literatures, languages and cultures are studied in the wider context of the German and Slavic area, in a comparative perspective, ranging from ancient monuments to the present, considering also the chosen field and previous experience of the students. Slavic Studies Curriculum: Doctoral students should acquire up-to-date critical and investigation skills in the field of cultures, languages, texts and literary works of one or more Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian [BCMS], Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian; as to the ancient and medieval age, also Old Church Slavonic). Slavic literatures, languages and cultures are studied in the wider context of the German and Slavic area, in a comparative perspective, ranging from ancient monuments to the present, considering also the chosen field and previous experience of the students.