Welcome to Docata - the web portal for doctoral researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Do you intend to do a doctorate or are you already pursuing a doctorate at a KIT Department? Docata offers you:

Registration as a doctoral researcher at KIT
Compliance with the duty of doctoral researchers to provide information in accordance with the Hochschul-Datenschutzverordnung (Higher Education Data Protection Ordinance)
Download of information documents and forms (e.g. application for acceptance at your KIT Department)
Reminders of deadlines
Subscribing to the KHYS infomail
Membership to Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS) and thus access to all KHYS offers

Docata was thus developed to support you in the best possible way during your doctoral phase at KIT - from the registration as a doctoral researcher to the printing of the doctoral certificate. At the same time, KIT is able to fulfil its legal obligations, in particular according to the Higher Education Statistics Law (Hochschulstatistikgesetz).

Prerequisites for registration in Docata as doctoral researcher are:

Conclusion of a doctoral agreement with your main supervisor >> info doctoral agreement
Owning a KIT account >> info KIT account

First step for the registration as a doctoral researcher in Docata - one-time registration as a user

Before using Docata for the first time, you must register as a user once with your KIT account (of the type “ab1234@kit.edu “or “ab1234@partner.kit.edu” plus password).
>> To the user registration in Docata.

Login for users already registered in Docata

As soon as you have registered as a user in Docata, you always log in directly with your KIT account.
>> Login as a registered user

Important note: You will complete your doctorate at another university, but have your research focus at KIT or are mainly supervised at KIT? Or are you a postdoc at KIT and in the first qualification phase after your doctorate (usually 3 years)? Then please switch to >> Registration in the KHYS Network

Informations

Important information for the subsequent entry of data according to Baden-Württemberg Higher Education Data Protection Ordinance (HSchulDSV BW)

Would you like to participate in the subsequent entry of data pursuant to HSchulDSV BW?
To enable you to quickly enter all the necessary information in Docata's online assistant, you can download a leaflet >> Subsequent entry of data

Questions about pursuing a doctorate at a KIT Department

For questions regarding doctoral ordinances and admission requirements, please contact your relevant KIT Department (Fakultät).

Questions about using Docata

If you have any questions concerning the use of Docata (e.g. the entry of certain registration data), please contact the Docata team at Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS):
docata@khys.kit.edu