Eligibility

The training course is financially supported by the EU Marie Curie Action Program. This implies some conditions for the eligibility of  the participating researchers.

Applications are invited from Ph.D students and young researchers (including post-docs at early stages in their careers). Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.

Participants to be selected to the summer school shall meet the following criteria:

  • Have a degree that entitles to embark on doctoral studies
  • Have less than 10 years of research experience. (If you have more than 10 years of research experience you need to be a national of an EU Member or Associated State and be active in research activities outside the EU Member or Associated States at the time of the event to participate in the training course.)
  • Should be involved in some form of research project (doctoral research, individual research or part of research team) on a closely related area to the theme of the training course or have a similar research background and a strong academic interest.
  • Are expected to have a profound methodological knowledge in the study of global environmental politics (e.g. case studies and large n-studies, typological approaches and formal models or discourse analysis).
  • Participants should be fluent in English.

Scholars, who are interested in participation, are expected to submit a resume/CV (1-2 pages), write a letter of motivation (max. one page) and provide an outline of ongoing research activities including methodological abilities (max. two pages). The letter of motivation and the outline paper should show the individual academic (and/or practical) qualification and a clearly visible research interest in the theme of the training course.

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