The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) invites Higher Education Institutions to express interest in Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships.
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) launched a call for expressions of interest for the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Programme (CDP). The call targets primarily Higher Education Institutions (HEI) from EU member states and countries associated to Horizon 2020 that grant doctoral degrees (PhD), but also doctoral candidates interested in a PhD position offered under a CDP. The deadline for application to the programme is 3 May 2020.
The CDP is a JRC initiative to establish strategic collaborations with HEI in view of improving the interface between science and policy (research for policymaking). The 2020 call is the second after a first pilot call in 2016. From Switzerland, the ETH Zurich had signed a CDP collaborative agreement under the 2016 call in the field of ‘Soil and Land Use change and Bio-economy and Forest management’.
The current call covers 13 thematic fields:
- Digital Governance;
- Smart, connected and clean mobility;
- EU Energy Transition;
- Development of methods to monitor progresses, design transformations and identify solutions to achieve SDGs;
- Secure and sustainable supply of raw materials for strategic value chains;
- Artificial intelligence for earth observation;
- Graphic causal models for hybrid threats;
- Resilience of built infrastructure to natural and man-made hazards;
- Health promotion and prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs);
- Non-power nuclear and radiological technologies to achieve the SDGs 2030 Agenda;
- Synergies of qualitative and quantitative methods for anticipation activities;
- Behavioural insights applied to policymaking;
- Robustness in complex data analysis and statistical modelling.
Further Information
- To the CDP programme
- To the PDF documents of the thematic fields