THE MARIE CURIE MULTIPARTNER TRAINING SITE

Within the framework of the Marie Curie Training Site programme of the European Union, the European Doctoral School in the Economics of Technological and Institutional Change offers a number of fellowships to doctoral students who are nationals from Member States and Associated States (or have been residing in the Community for at least five years) for stays at one of the research groups of the network. Age limit for applicants is 35 years. Fellows might not carry out their fellowships in the country of their nationality and his/her recent centre of activity (12month stays in the 2 years immediately prior to their selection).
 

Objectives

• To provide doctoral students with an opportunity to do in-depth training at one of the specialised research groups
• To experience training in a European environment
• To participate in a larger European training network offering : a four-week training programme presenting the latest developments in the field at large; participation in international conferences, a European label on their PhD degrees

The Marie Curie Training site programme is part of a larger endeavour which aims at setting up a European Doctoral School in the field of the Economics of Technological and Institutional Change.

Objectives :

• To offer advanced doctoral training in the field of the economic and social understanding of technological and institutional changes. The research groups involved in the training network are internationally recognised centres for research on innovation studies and policy, national innovation systems, economic and industrial dynamics, organisation theory, technology management, trade and growth....

• To strengthen the empirical foundations of the fellows' research and to reinforce their ability to derive policy and management implications from theory and evidence, to provide them with an opportunity to do part of their research and training in an international and really European context, to benefit from the complementarity of competencies, to train them both for academia and corporate and public management.

• This proposal is integrated into a more general project agreed upon by the partner organisations, leading to a common mark for the dissertation and to a European doctorate in Economics of Technological and Institutional Change (four-week training programme, research stays, participation in summer schools and international conferences, see below).

Coordinating Organisation :

• BETA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France - Patrick LLERENA [http://cournot.u-strasbg.fr/beta/index.html]

• SPRU , Sussex University, Brighton, Great Britain - Martin BELL [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ink/]
• Doctoral School in Economics, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain - Ignacio PEÑA [http://www.uc3m.es/gral/TC/ESDO/esdo04in.html]
• MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands - Robin COWAN [http://www.unimaas.nl][http://meritbbs.unimaas.nl]
• IKE, Aalborg University, Denmark - Bent DALUM [http://www.business.auc.dk/ike/]
• LEM, S.Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy - Giovanni DOSI [http://link.sssup.it/LEM]

• CREI, University of Paris XIII, France - Benjamin CORIAT [http://www.univ-paris13.fr/menuhaut/rech.labo/Labos/sc.eco/index.htm]
• CESPRI , Bocconi University, Milan, Italy - Franco MALERBA [http://www.uni-bocconi.it/]
• TIK, University of Oslo, Norway - Jan FAGERBERG [http://www.tik.uio.no/]
• CRIC, University of Manchester, Great Britain - Stan METCALFE [http://www.man.ac.uk/study/pgrad/socsci/cri.html]

Fields of specialisation : See Individual Site presentation for fields of specialised offered by each of the partners (connected with the Economics of Technological and Institutional Change) :
 

[Links with individual pages]
 
 

THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME

Structure of the fellowship programme

• The total amount of month/fellow granted by the EU is 288 fellow/month, meant for stays between 4 and 6 months. The 4 months is an absolute minimum and the maximum might be reconsidered depending on the nature of the research to be carried out during the stay. The differences in duration will be related to the nature of the training and of the research. It will also depend on the supervision availability of the research groups.

• The co-ordination of the EDS-ETIC activities will be entrusted to the 'Programme committee', composed of one representative of each research group, one of them acting as general co-ordinator. The Programme committee will meet about 2 times a year and as much as necessary.

• Selection criteria: Scientific ability and excellence of the applicants (in economics, management and other connected disciplines...), relevance and adequacy of the research project with the competencies of the research partners (see list of specialisation of the various partners), degree of maturity of the research agenda, and other criteria linked to the origin of the applicants (less favoured regions, ...)

• The objective is to have more then 60% of the students coming from outside the network of main partners, over the whole period of the contract. The on-going doctoral training programme (ETIC summer schools financed under the TMR programme of the EU) has already reached this objective. [Link with ETIC web page]

• Because of the specificity and 'taylor made' aspects of each individual case, a 'research group-fellow' agreement will be signed, defining the mutual commitments of the fellows and the 'research group'. This mutual agreement will be designed with minimal contents and specific arrangements, corresponding to local arrangements and project characteristics.

• Each research group has its own doctoral programme and specialities. The applicants can obtain relevant informations on the specific web pages of the partners

• Each fellow will have a local supervisor, with whom he/she will meet as frequently as necessary. Additional supervision staff can also be provided from associated research groups.

Application procedure

Interested doctoral students should send an application (by e-mail if possible and regular mail

• Letter of motivation with mention of two host laboratories in order of preference
• CV
• Abstract of PhD topic
• Draft work plan for the stay abroad (or "fellow's project")
• Letter of support by the home supervisor

Patrick Llerena : : flasaquier@cournot.u-strasbg.fr  ; fax : 33(0)390414050;

BETA, 61 avenue de la Forêt Noire -F-67000 Strasbourg (France) :
 
 

OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE EUROPEAN DOCTORAL SCHOOL

4 weeks of common doctoral training

A broad and general training in the field and discussion of the PhD projects (fall and spring). This activity is particularly relevant for students at the beginning of their PhD.

Participation in summer schools and in international conferences.

The " Programme Committee" will see to it that participants in the programme such events.

Obtaining an ETIC mark on a European Doctorate Degree

To obtain an "ETIC" mark on a European Doctorate, supervised by one member of the academic staff of the Doctoral School, will have to:

- present at least one paper at one of the conferences.

In the European Doctorate rule, one member of the doctoral committee has to represent the institution where the doctoral student has moved for at least 4 months. In addition, to get the "ETIC" mark, a "rapporteur" (out of the ETIC teaching staff) will be appointed by the "Programme Committee" to assess if the dissertation meets the "ETIC" requisites.

The proposed doctoral activities are not meant to substitute for normal and local PhD programmes. The student will remain a student of his/her home university.

If the student does follow the relevant set of the activities proposed by the network, he/she will obtain - if so wished - an additional mark on his/her "home" European doctorate, delivered by our European Doctoral School ( the ETIC mark). More precisely he/she will get a (European) Doctoral Degree with a specific mark called "ETIC".

By European Doctorate, we mean the Doctorate as it is proposed by the 'Liaison Committee of Rectors of the Member States of the EC". To obtain the degree, some constraints have been fixed, in particular concerning a stay in a foreign country for at least 3 full months, the composition of the Defence Committee (at least one member must be from a different country than the country of origin), the languages of the defence (partly done in another European language than the language of the university of origin)...