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EUPeace Doctoral Network

The EUPeace Doctoral Network offers structured support through international networking and regularly updated course and training offerings. This includes:

• Virtual trainings and courses organised by EUPeace Graduate Schools
• Virtual and in-person exchange and training formats with experts from the EUPeace Alliance
• Spaces for self-organised exchanges built around thematic focal points defined by Doctoral Network members.

The European University for Peace, Justice, and Inclusive Societies, EUPeace, evolves out of nine core member universities that have committed their strategic international outlook in teaching, research and administration in higher education to foster a peaceful, just, and inclusive European landscape, at various levels. For this, we explicitly address all sciences and research fields, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and life sciences as well as engineering.

About the EUPeace Doctoral Network and the Doctoral Groups of the Research Hubs

The EUPeace Doctoral Network is organised in the framework of the EUPeace Research Hubs. This means that all members of the EUPeace Doctoral Network are integrated in a) a joint network for doctoral candidates within the EUPeace Alliance (see visualisation below). Simultaneously, all Doctoral Network members join b) a Doctoral Group of one of the four EUPeace Research Hubs:

The EUPeace Research Hubs:

• Security and Conflict Transformation
• Climate Science and Just Transition
• Migration and Human Rights
• Inclusive Health and Well-Being

The Research Hubs mobilise existing academic strengths of the EUPeace Alliance and foster collaboration in all subject areas in order to create excellent inter- and transdisciplinary research and academic capacity for curriculum development and academic advancement in peace, justice, and inclusive societies.

Course Offers

This course list encompasses fixed-date courses as well as continuously available courses that are offered by the, EUPeace Research Hubs, Graduate Schools, as well as further doctoral support structures within the EUPeace Alliance. The courses are predominantly virtual. The course list will be continuously updated and information on how to register for the respective fixed-date courses will be sent via the Doctoral Network's email list.

General Information

Who can register: All doctoral candidates enrolled and/or employed at one of the EUPeace Alliance member sites. All EUPeace Doctoral Mobility Grant recipients are also members of the Doctoral Network.

How to register: Complete the registration form, indicating your Research Hub selection.

Main benefits: 

• Structured doctoral training within the support network of the EUPeace Alliance
• International networking opportunities with other doctoral candidates within an interdisciplinary network with a high degree of diversity
• Access to courses and events provided by Graduate schools of the Alliance members
• Enhancement of both general soft skills and thematic skills
• Collaboration with Research Hubs and participation in research-based teaching activities
• Thematic support from Research Hubs in the form of regular conferences, seminars and thematic courses
• Yearly participation in additional activities and in-person events
• Information on and support for doing a Cotutelle within the Alliance institutions.

Duration of membership: The membership in the Doctoral Network ends when members actively decide to leave the network, or finish their PhD.

Start date: There will be a yearly kick-off meeting for the new cohort of Doctoral Network members, it is however possible to join the network anytime.

Universities from the EUPeace Alliance participating in the EUPeace Doctoral Network: Marburg University (UMR), Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU); France: University of Limoges (UNILIM); Italy: University of Calabria (UNICAL); Spain: Comillas Pontifical University (COMILLAS); Czechia: University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB); Bosnia and Herzegovina: University of Mostar (SUM), University of Sarajevo (UNSA); Türkiye: Çukurova University (CU).

Selection process: There is no selection process for joining the Doctoral Network.

Contact: For further information regarding the EUPeace Doctoral Network, please contact the EUPeace Work Package 6 team: eupeace-doctoral-network@uni-marburg.de.