User Account for doctoral candidates
Doctoral candidates at the University of Bamberg can receive a personal user account. This user account comprises a user name (also called BA number, e.g. ba7da19) and a corresponding password. The corresponding email address reads as follows: firstname.lastname@uni-bamberg.de.
The combination of BA number and corresponding password is your key to accessing various IT services.
User lifecycle for doctoral candidates
(prior registration with TRAc required)
The management of university members’ accounts, from the start of employment to the cancellation of the account, has been automated by means of the User Lifecycle. Your doctoral candidate user account is linked to the duration of your studies.
The following tables provide the chronology of the individual steps regarding your user account, from its creation to its deletion.
Receiving and utilising your account
| User Lifecycle step | Timeline |
|---|---|
| Creation of your user account | After your application has been approved |
| Registration with TRAc | After receiving your user account |
| Use of your account | After receiving your BA number and password |
The end of your doctoral studies and your user account
| User Lifecycle step | Timeline relative to the end of the doctoral studies |
|---|---|
| Email: notice | approx. 25 weeks later (180 days) |
| Email: reminder | approx. 27 weeks later (194 days) |
| Disabling of the user account | approx. 29 weeks later (208 days) |
| Deletion of the user account | approx. 31 weeks later (222 days) |
Applying for a personal user account in two steps
Step 1: User account application
If you are enrolled at the University of Bamberg as a doctoral candidate and you already have access to a staff user account because you are also a university employee, you can continue to step 2: register with TRAc.
Otherwise, please apply for a doctoral candidate user account:
- Use the application below (IAM-Portal) and follow the instructions provided.
- You will receive all necessary information and data concerning your new user account as soon as the account is authorised by the management of the appropriate academic chair or organisational unit.
- Before you can use this data to access IT services, you will have to set your password.
- The initial setup of a user account includes the same authorisation parameters as an account for external users. Following registration with TRAc (step 2), the authorization parameters will be expanded to those of doctoral candidates.
Step 2: Register with TRAc
For your personal user account to be valid throughout the course of your doctoral studies, please register to be included in the TRAc doctoral students’ database:
- Please use the application form provided under the following website and enter the email address of your personal user account (firstname.lastname@uni-bamberg.de).
- Please send the completed form to the address stated therein.
- After registration in the TRAc database, your personal user account includes all authorisation rights pertaining to doctoral candidates.
Extending the user account
With the end of your doctoral studies you lose the usage rights for IT services. Important information and things to keep in mind in this regard can be found on the website pertaining to the end of your studies, doctorate, employment.
If you require the use of your account for more than 29 weeks after the end of your doctoral studies, you can request a user account extension for a maximum of 6 months. This request must be sent via the IAM portal. This is only possible after receiving the e-mail notification (approximately 25 weeks after the end of your doctoral studies). This email will provide specific information regarding the further course of action. By extending your account, your email services will also be extended one time only.
Please note: After the user account has been extended via the IAM portal, it will have the status of an external user account (see the IT services table). However, you will still have access to the services marked (+).