The winter term meeting of the DFG Senate Commission on Graduate Schools had great news for Bochum and Osnabrück: A new Graduate School on Situated Cognition will be established for up to nine years on the Philosophy and the Neuroscience of Mind. Both Philosophers and Biopsychologists of both universities had worked relentlessly on the application. In its very core, the theoretical thrust of the application was to develop an alternative to the outmoded sandwich model of cognition. This sandwich model is the relict of a Fodor’ian thinking about modules. It posits that the mind consists of three main entities; perception, cognition, action. Each of these modules is encapsulated and can be disambiguated from each other. We meanwhile know, however, that cognition encompasses the full extent of information processing that runs from the first aspects of perception till the last step of action generation. Within this framework, emotion, social integration, and decision making will be analyzed using, among others, the concept of embodiment, according to which many cognitive features are shaped by aspects of the body beyond the brain. The picture associated with this message shows such a situation: Forcing us to display the emotion of smiling indeed increases our happiness. Our body shapes our mind. The School has also one PhD-slot for Biopsychologists from Bochum and will start in fall/summer 2017.