CALL FOR APPLICATIONS EUROPEAN DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN THE HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT DOCTORATE EDPIII 2013 ‘EUROPE IN ITS GLOBAL CONTEXT – RE-INVENTING EUROPE IN THE WORLD’
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
EUROPEAN DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN THE HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT DOCTORATE EDPIII 2013
‘EUROPE IN ITS GLOBAL CONTEXT – RE-INVENTING EUROPE IN THE WORLD’
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN (HU)
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI SCIENZE UMANE (SUM)
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY (CEU)
The European Doctoral Programme (EDP) is an advanced international study programme for doctoral research and training in the Human and Social Sciences launched by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, the Central European University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in 2010 which aims at the establishment of a European doctoral school and a European doctoral degree. The third curriculum of the EDP in the Social Sciences explores the question of how the political, economic and cultural construction of “Europe” has been shaped by its global context and how this global context has been shaped by Europe.
Responsible for the running of the 3rd curriculum are the partner institutions in Berlin (co-ordinating), Budapest and Florence. The curriculum for the Joint PhD in these three sites foresees the fellows to work in at least three different countries by following courses on theory, methodology and research design while annual joint seminars and mobility periods between the sites will give fellows the opportunity to exchange and debate. The joint workshops will take place in turn in the three different sites and will focus on the three strands of the curriculum, sociology, political science and political economy. Further courses taught by experienced and expert staff in all sites will offer fellows an unequalled opportunity to develop a reflexive view on Europe.
Thematically, the EDP will focus the social, economic, political and cultural dimension of the making of Europe in its global context. The EDP can draw on the particular strength of each partner to train doctoral fellows on this issue: while Florence will focus on issue of social movements, political participation and democratization, Budapest will offer teaching on the political economy of transition processes and Berlin provide special competence on the link between cultural identities and social relations in the making of civil society and the implementation of democratic designs. This unique trademark of the consortium will provide its fellows with a set of conceptual tools and methods that enable them to analyse Europe in its political, social and cultural context.
Starting in the academic year 2013/14, EDPIII will receive funding from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Scheme. The joint programme will be run by the partner sites in Berlin, Budapest and Florence, but the circle of involved partners will be enlarged by the association of the Middle-Eastern Technical University in Ankara (Turkey), the University of Haifa (Israel) and the Université de Tunis-El Manar (Tunisia).
