PhD / research offers for European collaboration

CIVICA unites the research communities of eight leading European universities. Our aim is to create an integrated European research space in the social sciences and humanities, built upon shared resources, facilities and pools of expertise.

Through various joint initiatives and opportunities, CIVICA enables doctoral fellows and researchers to exchange on ongoing research, advance their professional and methods skills, team up for collaborative projects, and network with colleagues working on similar topics.

CIVICA's offers at (post)doctoral level include the Early Stage Researcher course catalogue, summer schools, and methods and skills workshops.

For researchers, CIVICA offers rich opportunities for collaboration and exchange around current and emerging European challenges, in particular through CIVICA Research.

ESR course catalogue

Explore the classes, workshops and seminars currently on offer for CIVICA Early Stage Researchers (PhDs and PostDocs)

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PhD/postdoc initiatives

A podcast series? An essay competition? A collaborative report? The CIVICA alliance is open to bottom-up initiatives from PhDs and postdocs. Find out more and get to know your local CIVICA Ambassadors.

CIVICA PhD Panel Series – Fall 2021 Edition

PhD researchers across CIVICA are invited to present or to participate as audience at a series of PhD panels on Gender in the EU Labour Market, Governance in the Digital Era, Challenges and Opportunities in Reforming the EU.

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Research opportunities

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 Research

Read about and find opportunities to get involved in CIVICA Research, our long-term research and innovation strategy, funded under the EU's Horizon 2020 programme.

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PhD Seminar Series on Public Sector Digital Transformation

Outputs from a PhD Seminar Series on Public Sector Digital Transformation held in October-December 2020 in the framework of CIVICA.

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Past opportunities

Students in a reading room at Sciences Po

28-07-2021 Sciences Po

CIVICA's Early Stage Researcher Course Catalogue: Sciences Po School of Research opens courses to CIVICA network

Early stage researchers from CIVICA universities talk about their experience using the course catalogue to take classes at the Sciences Po School of Research.

04-05-2021 LSE

A PhD student’s experience of CIVICA coursework

LSE PhD student Camille Bou reflects on her experience taking a CIVICA course and on the ever-growing opportunities of the alliance.

11-03-2021 CIVICA

CIVICA (post)doctoral summer schools: sharing work and fostering interdisciplinarity

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.

18-02-2021 CIVICA

Top scholars discuss public sector digital transformation in CIVICA PhD series

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.

Student browsing the PhD course catalogue, credit: EUI

19-01-2021 CIVICA

CIVICA’s Early Stage Researcher Course Catalogue now online

Early stage researchers attending CIVICA member institutions have a new resource for research training: the Early Stage Researcher Course Catalogue.

17-09-2020 EUI

CIVICA: A new chapter in European social science research

Corinna Unger, Professor of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, puts CIVICA’s ambitions for early career researchers in historical context.