For PhD students and Early-stage researchers

For PhD students and Early-stage researchers

Engage.EU Research and Innovation supports PhD students and early-stage researchers with opportunities for growth, collaboration, and networking. Connect with peers across disciplines, share ideas, and advance your research career.

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PHD AND EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS OPPORTUNITIES

The alliance provides networking opportunities alongside workshops, summer schools, conferences, and webinars to enhance skills and knowledge. It also offers online courses tailored for PhD students and early-stage researchers, emphasizing continuous learning.

  • Expedition week+ at WU Vienna, 22-26 September

    Expedition week+ at WU Vienna, 22-26 September

    The ENGAGE.EU Expedition Week+ is an intensive, week-long programme that brings together students, researchers, experts, and mentors to collaborate on developing solutions to real-world societal challenges.

    The programme offers participants a unique opportunity to develop practical skills, engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, and contribute to solutions for pressing global issues.

     

    This year’s Expedition Week+ in Vienna will address three key challenges:

    • Empowering women refugees in Europe, in collaboration with MIGRANT, the Counselling Centre for Migrants.
    • Including refugees in Europe in decision-making processes on issues that directly affect them, in collaboration with UNHCR Austria.
    • Supporting volunteer work in the refugee sector, in collaboration with Caritas Austria.

     

    More information about the event:

    • Topic: "(Forced) Migration",
    • Location: WU Vienna,
    • Dates: 22-26 September,
    • Target group: Master's and PhD students,
    • Application period: 27 June to 17 August,
    • Apply here: Expedition+ @ WU Vienna 2025 – ENGAGE.EU
  • PhD and advanced research courses – AUTUMN 2025

    PhD and advanced research courses – AUTUMN 2025

    As a PhD candidate and young researcher in the alliance, you have the incredible advantage of accessing a diverse range of online and in-person opportunities that will enable your personal and academic growth within a rich international environment. Engage.EU partner universities are dedicated to creating opportunities that foster your development by providing you with set of skills and competences needed to tackle major societal challenges.

    The PhD and Advanced research courses offered by the alliance gives learners the opportunity to take courses at the other partner universities digitally.

    ENGAGE.EU COURSE CATALOGUE 

  • Seed funding for collaborative research initiatives

    Seed funding for collaborative research initiatives

    This funding is aimed at small-scale, time-limited, bottom-up projects designed to initiate collaborative activities in line with Engage.EU’s mission, especially those that support early-stage researchers.

    Part of the Engage.EU Research Label, this seed funding initiative is designed to stimulate bottom-up research collaborations within the alliance.

    For more information, please consult the following documents:

  • Research community platform

    Research community platform

VISITING OPPORTUNITY FOR PHD STUDENTS!

Engage Research and Innovation offers PhD stays at partner universities, providing exposure to diverse academic environments, perspectives, and methodologies to enrich your research.

Visit the ENGAGE.EU website for more information!

READ MORE ABOUT THE ENGAGE.EU CALL FOR VISITING PERIODS!

THIS IS ENGAGE.EU

  • A European university alliance,
  • Founded in 2020, NHH became a member in 2021,
  • Comprised of 9 prominent higher education institutions in the areas of business, economics and social sciences
  • Includes universities from Norway, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Finland and France,
  • Fosters collaboration mobility and innovation in education to tackle societal challenges and prepare students for global issues,
  • Provides faculty with opportunities for collaborative research, innovative joint teaching and professional networking.