Explore the classes, workshops and seminars currently on offer for CIVICA Early Stage Researchers (PhDs and PostDocs)
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PhD / research offers for European collaboration
CIVICA unites the research communities of eight leading universities in the social sciences in an integrated European research space built on shared resources, facilities and pools of expertise.
Through various existing and upcoming joint initiatives and opportunities, CIVICA enables doctoral fellows and researchers to exchange on ongoing research, team up for collaborative projects, and network with colleagues working on similar topics. CIVICA’s focus areas in research are:
- Societies in Transition and Crises of Earth
- Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
- Europe Revisited
- Data Driven Technologies for the Social Sciences
CIVICA's offers at doctoral level also include an Early Stage Researcher course catalogue, summer schools, and methods and skills workshops.
ESR courses and summer schools
Doctoral and early career researchers from the CIVICA network are invited to apply for an interdisciplinary Summer School on "Pandemics and Power: Redefining solidarity after COVID-19," held on 12-16 July 2021 at Villa Vigoni, Menaggio (Lake Como, Italy). Apply by 15 April.
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CIVICA doctoral researchers from across the social sciences and the humanities are invited to apply for a Summer School on "European integration in historical and contemporary perspective," hosted by the European University Institute in Florence, on 6-9 September 2021. Applications have closed.
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CIVICA researchers are invited to contribute to a special issue of the journal Politics and Governance on "Gender and Illiberalism in Post-Communist Europe." The thematic issue is edited by Matthijs Bogaards (CEU, head of CIVICA's theme group Democracy in the 21st Century) and Andrea Pető (CEU).
Submission of abstracts: 1-15 July 2021
Submission of papers: 1-15 March 2022
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Early stage researchers (ESRs) from across the social sciences and humanities will have a unique opportunity to meet peers, share research, and receive input from senior scholars: the 2021 CIVICA summer schools taking place in Italy this year.
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Five recorded presentations on innovation, AI, digital governance, ethics and more from a PhD series hosted by Hertie School’s Centre for Digital Governance and Bocconi University’s Department of Social and Political Sciences are available online.
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Early stage researchers attending CIVICA member institutions have a new resource for research training: the Early Stage Researcher Course Catalogue.
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Corinna Unger, Professor of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, puts CIVICA’s ambitions for early career researchers in historical context.
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PhD researchers across CIVICA are invited to present or to participate as audience at a series of PhD panels on Data Science and Public Policy, Climate Change and Human Rights, Public Administration and Decision-Making, and EU Legitimacy and Trust.
Find out morePhD researchers from the CIVICA alliance can register for one or more of the virtual lunchtime sessions taking place between 25 October - 14 December 2020.
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PhD researchers from across the CIVICA network are invited to present their research at one of the upcoming panels.
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The sessions are designed to provide PhD researchers across the alliance with an understanding of research ethics in CIVICA’s main focus areas.
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During times of digital learning, the Hertie School organised several online trainings to allow PhD researchers to advance their professional and methods skills.
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