The International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1792 “High Dimensional Non Stationary Time Series” offers outstanding young researchers a full-time, internationally competitive doctoral program with a unifying research focus and financial support in the form of scholarships. With its participating faculty, the IRTG represents all major academic institutions of statistics and economics in Berlin and Xiamen: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Xiamen University, Freie Universität Berlin, C.A.S.E., WISE, WIAS, and DIW.