Consortium structure

The EPOG-DN consortium

The EPOG-DN con­sort 8 pres­ti­gious insti­tu­tions and 12 asso­ci­at­ed part­ners in Europe, which offer excel­lent, recog­nised and well-estab­lished doc­tor­al pro­grammes in spe­cif­ic and com­ple­men­tary fields, and which owns lead­ing research cen­tres work­ing on dif­fer­ent dimen­sions of eco­nom­ic poli­cies, but also social sci­ences and human­i­ties, life/earth sci­ences and engi­neer­ing, as required to tack­le the com­plex and mul­ti­di­men­sion­al chal­lenges human­i­ty has to face.

Ben­e­fi­cia­ries

They are recruit­ing the doc­tor­al can­di­dates (DCs) and degree award institutions.

Asso­ci­at­ed partners

They are aca­d­e­m­ic or non-aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions. They come from dif­fer­ent sec­tors (acad­e­mia, pub­lic and pri­vate insti­tu­tions, local author­i­ties, NGOs, eco­nom­ic actors) to achieve high­er rel­e­vance in the cho­sen research direc­tion, greater soci­etal impact and wider dis­sem­i­na­tion of the results to rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers. They host the doc­tor­al can­di­dats (DCs) for spe­cif­ic peri­od of research (e.g. sec­on­de­ments peri­ods) and con­tribute to their super­vi­sion. They par­tic­i­pate in the work­shops, con­fer­ences, sem­i­nars and publications.

The EPOG “doc­tor­al net­work” is coor­di­nat­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of tech­nol­o­gy of Com­piègne (France). The pro­gramme is head­ed by David Flach­er (Uni­ver­si­ty of tech­nol­o­gy of Com­piègne). He is in charge of the over­all coor­di­na­tion. He is assist­ed by an admin­is­tra­tive coor­di­na­tor. The ben­e­fi­cia­ries and local coor­di­na­tors are list­ed in the table below.

Ben­e­fi­cia­ries	Coun­try	Sci­en­tist-in-charge
Uni­ver­sité de tech­nolo­gie de Com­piègne (UTC)	France	David Flach­er
Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité (UPC)	France	Nathalie Blanc
Uni­ver­sità degli stu­di Roma Tre (ROMA3)	Italy	Vale­ria Costantini
Uni­ver­sità di Pisa (UNIPI)	Italy	Simone d’Alessandro
Aal­borg Uni­ver­sitet (AAU)	Den­mark	Mikael Ran­drup Byrialsen
Roskilde Uni­ver­si­ty (RUC)	Den­mark	Loui­son Cahen-Fourot
Uni­ver­si­tat Autòno­ma de Barcelona (UAB)	Spain	Gia­co­mo D’Alisa
Uni­ver­sité de Genève (UNIGE)	Switzer­land	Cédric Durand

The asso­ci­at­ed part­ners and local coor­di­na­tors are list­ed in the table below.

Asso­ci­at­ed partners	Coun­try	Sci­en­tist-in-charge
Sor­bonne Uni­ver­sité (SU)	France	Luc Abbadie
Uni­ver­sité Sor­bonne Paris Nord (for­mer­ly Uni­ver­sité Paris 13)	France	Nathalie Cou­tinet
Uni­ver­sità degli stu­di di Tori­no (UNITO)	Italy	Aldo Geu­na
Wirtschaft­suni­ver­sit ät Wien (WU)	Aus­tria	Manuel Scholz-Wäck­er­le
Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain (UCLou­vain)	Bel­gium	Hervé Jean­mart
Uni­ver­sität für Bodenkul­tur Wien (BoKu)	Aus­tria	Dominik Wieden­hofer
Agence française de développe­ment (AFD)	France	Antoinde Godin
Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Applied Sys­tems Analy­sis (IIASA)	Aus­tria	Fabi­an Wagner
Inter­con­ti­nen­tal net­work for the pro­mo­tion of social sol­i­dar­i­ty econ­o­my (RIPESS)	Lux­em­bourg	Jason Nar­di
Euro­pean Trade Union Insti­tute (ETUI)	Bel­gium	Nico­la Countouris
Ville de Paris (PARIS)	France	Cédis­sia About
Secré­tari­at général pour la plan­i­fi­ca­tion écologique (SGPE)	France	Cécil­ia Berthaud

Training and supervision

To encour­age cross-dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty and emer­gence of inno­v­a­tive results, each doc­tor­al can­di­date (DC) will be joint­ly super­vised by an econ­o­mist from acad­e­mia and at least a super­vi­sor from anoth­er rel­e­vant field (either from acad­e­mia or not). Dis­ci­plines involved in the super­vi­sions will include eco­nom­ics and anoth­er aca­d­e­m­ic dis­ci­pline among soci­ol­o­gy, geog­ra­phy, polit­i­cal sci­ences, engi­neer­ing, life and earth sci­ences (as sec­ond super­vi­sor) and/or a sec­ond­ment at a non-aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tion which will be aimed to pro­vide a hand-on perspective. 

The DC will gen­er­al­ly spend 2 years at the award­ing degree insti­tu­tion and one year out­side (dura­tion and organ­i­sa­tion of visiting/secondment being adapt­ed to indi­vid­ual DCs’ projects at appli­ca­tion stage).

The doc­tor­al train­ing pro­grammes will include col­lec­tive train­ing activ­i­ties (work­shops, sem­i­nars and a final con­fer­ence) and train­ing activ­i­ties tai­lored to indi­vid­ual needs (spe­cif­ic cours­es and sec­ond­ments). These activ­i­ties will:

• train the DCs in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach­es and meth­ods;
• pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for dis­cus­sions with senior researchers, experts and stake­hold­ers in dif­fer­ent aca­d­e­m­ic fields (eco­nom­ics, soci­ol­o­gy, geog­ra­phy, polit­i­cal sci­ences, engi­neer­ing, life and earth sci­ences) and sec­tors (acad­e­mia, pub­lic and pri­vate insti­tu­tions, local author­i­ties, NGOs, eco­nom­ic actors), to allow the con­struc­tion of sys­temic rep­re­sen­ta­tions of a com­plex world with numer­ous interdependencies;
• enhance the DCs’ trans­fer­able skills and pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment. Aca­d­e­m­ic pub­li­ca­tions, pol­i­cy briefs, state­ments, mul­ti­me­dia con­tent, and par­tic­i­pa­tion in round tables and media inter­views, etc. will help to raise aware­ness in the polit­i­cal and soci­etal spheres, and will inform stake­hold­ers on project outcomes.

Progress mon­i­tor­ing and eval­u­a­tion of indi­vid­ual research projects aims to ensure that each DC is work­ing in a stim­u­lat­ing and sup­port­ive envi­ron­ment. This will be done though:

• a joint super­vi­sion of each DC;
• an indi­vid­ual mon­i­tor­ing com­mit­tees, which will assess the research progress, dis­cuss career per­spec­tives and set tasks and objectives;
• a Super­vi­so­ry Board (SB) which will exam­ine the super­vi­sors’ reports and the Indi­vid­ual Mon­i­tor­ing Com­mit­tee reports.