On November 4th the final workshop of the AREA Ruhr doctoral program on Transnational Institutions and Transnational Identities in East Asia took place in a hybrid format. Most of the AREA Ruhr doctoral students took part physically and enjoyed meeting the professors and their peers and getting together as a larger group one final time. While the doctoral students presented the current stage of their dissertation projects at the one-day workshop, the graduates of our doctoral program reported on their experience at AREA Ruhr and the resulting career opportunities, i.e., their current academic positions and projects.