The TUM Sprachenzentrum's English Department encourages all doctoral candidates to take advantage of it's various offerings for helping you improve your English -- written and spoken. The English Writing Center, with offices on the central campus and in Garching, offers free, 45-minute, one-to-one sessions with native English speakers who are trained to help you improve your written English; bring a text to each session -- anything from a CV to a paper you're submitting for publication -- and we'll go through it with you. Learn more and sign up for sessions here: http://www.sprachenzentrum.tum.de/academic-english-cluster/english-writing-center/make-an-appointment/

You can make as many as three appointments per week!

Please note that the Writing Center is also looking to hire native English speakers who are students in the mathematics faculty (BSc, MSc or PhD). The job involves six hours of paid work per week and includes training in how to teach English and writing. Please find more information here: http://www.sprachenzentrum.tum.de/academic-english-cluster/english-writing-center/writing-fellows/

The English Coaching program, meanwhile, is a service exclusively for professors and PhD students. Our coaches are poised to edit papers with you ("Interactive Editing"), help you prepare presentations, or sit in on classes and later review with you how you might improve your English-language teaching. More information here: http://www.sprachenzentrum.tum.de/academic-english-cluster/english-coaching/

Finally, in addition to block and semester-long courses -- including a Dissertation Writers' Workshop, starting in the summer semester -- we offer self-guided English-language study using MOOCs. If you're planning to take an English-language MOOC, you can tack on English language tuition to the experience with our help. Write to Dr Heidi Minning for more information: minning@zv.tum.de.

As part of the scholarship and supervision program (STIBET) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the TUM Graduate School (TUM-GS) once per semester awards financial support for international doctoral candidates who are already conducting their doctoral research at the TUM. There are several forms of support available each semester. Go here for more information.