İThe 2025 call for higher education institutions (HEIs) and universities to participate in the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme encompasses 25 collaborative research topics. The Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Programme (CDP) is a JRC initiative to establish strategic collaborations with HEIs/universities. The programme facilitates dual PhD projects, where HEIs/universities partner up with the JRC to jointly design, host, and supervise doctoral research.
The Call for expressions of Interest is directed at HEIs/universities that wish to jointly organise PhD projects with their JRC counterparts. They should be able to host and train PhD candidates, and fulfil at the closing date of the Call and for the duration of the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Agreement with the JRC (at least 5 years from the time of signature)
The 2025 Call for Expressions of interest is formulated around 25 collaboration topics:
25-01 Horizontal cybersecurity
25-02 Data driven innovation
25-03 Digital society
25-04 Macroeconomic modelling and fiscal surveillance
25-05 Urban trends, analysis of cities and territories
25-06 Analyses of labour taxation with the use of EUROMOD-HHoT
25-07 Innovative health biotechnologies in a competitive Europe
25-08 Advanced Materials for Safe and Sustainable Innovation
25-09 Innovative Safe Automated and Decarbonised Built Environment
25-10 Climate tipping point risks
25-11 AI and ICT technologies in the European Crisis Management Laboratory
25-12 Improving soil health to increase water quality and reduce eutrophication
25-13 Earth system modelling for a sustainable and profitable use of marine ecosystems
25-14 Earth observation tools for monitoring and assessment of European freshwater ecosystems
25-15 The water footprint: a system perspective to water resilience
25-16 Digital Building Stock Model
25-17 EU Energy System Decarbonisation Scenarios
25-18 Electricity Risk Preparedness and Exercises for Resilience
25-19 System integration of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in future Hybrid Energy Systems
25-20 Safety, Security, and Safeguards by design for Small Modular Reactors
25-21 Modelling emerging issues in relation to techno-economic conditions for the future role of nuclear energy in decarbonised energy system
25-22 New evidence-based tools and approaches for developing, supporting and evaluating policies in democracy
25-23 Composite indicators and scoreboards for policy monitoring
25-24 Analysis of behavioural evidence aimed at informing policy initiatives
25-25 Technologies and methods for monitoring micro- and nano-plastics pollution
You can have more information about the topics here.
Main page of the CDP programme is here.
Deadline for applications 18th March, 2025