PhD / research offers for European collaboration

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

PhD researchers across CIVICA are invited to present or to participate as audience at a series of PhD panels on Energy and Climate Policies, the Academic Job Market, Digital Governance, and Political Economy in Times of Crises.

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

The editors of the Journal of International Relations and Development invite CIVICA alliance members to propose a forum to reflect on the “Europe Revisited” theme. The proposal should include at least four CIVICA members.
Deadline: 15 June 2021

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

PhD researchers across CIVICA are invited to present or to participate as audience at a series of PhD panels on International Security, Collaborative Higher Education in the EU and Urban Governance.

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." The Summer School has been postponed to 11-15 July 2022. Applications will be open in due time.

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.

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.

PhD researchers from the CIVICA alliance can register for one or more of the virtual lunchtime sessions taking place between 25 October - 14 December 2020. 

PhD researchers from across the CIVICA network are invited to present their research at one of the upcoming panels.

The sessions are designed to provide PhD researchers across the alliance with an understanding of research ethics in CIVICA’s main focus areas.

During times of digital learning, the Hertie School organised several online trainings to allow PhD researchers to advance their professional and methods skills.

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.

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.

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

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