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A. About the Initiative

The European Doctoral School on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) is an initiative launched in 2017 by volunteer institutions and the European Security and Defence College to develop a range of training and provide support for doctoral research on the CSDP in the EU.

Its objective is to develop a critical mass of scientific and academic expertise that brings together supervisors and mentors and promotes the exchange of knowledge, skills and competences on European security and defence with a view to providing support for PhD level research reflecting on the CSDP.

It offers a specialized training program supplementary to the courses organized by its network institutions in their doctoral curricula and supports multi-disciplinary doctoral researches with relevant European training and environments in the following areas:

• Cyber, new technologies and security in the CSDP context
• Critical infrastructure, personnel and logistics in CSDP
• Defense industry and capabilities for the CSDP
• Partner capacity-building and external relations in the CSDP context
• History, conflict studies, concepts, values and ethics of the CSDP
• Defence economics, financing, education, training and leadership in the CSDP context
• Governance, management, decision-making and deployment for CSDP

B. Governance

It is steered by a Working Group coordinated by the ESDC. All the member institutions and the associate members that have committed themselves to the principles set out in the European Doctoral School’s Charter are represented in this Working Group.

C. Who can participate?

C.1       Researchers in pursue of their PhD can access a wide range of academic, scientific and practical expertise and specialised training opportunities on the CSDP as well as fellowship programmes offered by institutions of the network.

C.2       European experts on the CSDP benefit from the networking of academic, scientific and practical expertise and experience meeting in the European Doctoral School in promoting the exchange of information, raising the profile of their work and specific research areas, and helping identify appropriate resources for doctoral students.

C.3       Training institutions with Doctoral award capabilities can partner with institutions in the CSDP field, as in‑house academic specialisation in this field represents a significant investment.

C.4       Institutions (including research and training institutes) without Doctoral award capabilities, through their participation, increase recognition of their expertise and experience in the CSDP field. They also benefit from working with doctoral researchers both during and after the research period.

D. How to participate?

D.1       Researchers in pursue of their PhD are invited to apply by submitting to the ESDC's Secretariat an application form and the documents referred in the respective checklist.

The applications can be submitted until 15 February 2019.

The attention of the applicants is drawn on the fact that financial support for participation to the 2019 CSDP Summer University will not be granted.

D.2       European experts on the CSDP, whose Institutions are members of the network, can contribute to the initiative, by participating either as research mentors or as supervisors. Membership application should be sent to the Doctoral School Working Group, in the format of the following datasheet. 

D.3       Training institutions with Doctoral award capabilities apply for membership to the Doctoral School Working Group.

D.4       Institutions (including research and training institutes) without Doctoral award capabilities apply for membership to the Doctoral School Working Group.

D.5       Other entities willing to actively contribute to achieving the objectives of the European Doctoral School can propose projects for joint actions to the Doctoral School Working Group.

For contacting the Working Group of the European Doctoral School on the CSDP: secretariat-esdc@eeas.europa.eu

We are delighted to announce that we have launched a recruitment procedure for 2 co-financed SNEs focussing on the ESDC Cyber ETEE platform.

Applications should be sent by the Permanent Representations to the EU only by email to the Division EEAS.BA.HR.2 “Selection and Recruitment of Staff” at the following address:
SNE-CSDP@eeas.europa.eu, and not directly to the ESDC.

Candidates shall draft their CV in English or in French in a PDF or Word version, following the European CV form which can be found at the following internet address: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/documents/curriculum-vitae

Only applications received in the above-mentioned format by Thursday 28 February 2019 will be considered for this call for applications.

The protection of your personal data is very important at the ESDC and they will be handled as appropriate.