The Research Centre for East European Studies participates in the following international networks for doctoral researchers: 

• Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences

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  Innovative Training Network "Markets": Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

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  International Network in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (formerly: Finnish – Russian Network for Russian and Eurasian Studies in Social Science and Humanities)

Recently finished network-projects:

• Around the Caspian: Doctoral training for future experts

• Post Soviet Tensions:Training programme in post-Soviet affairs for early career researchers

The Research Colloquium of the Dept. of Politics and Economics is open for external participants who want to participate in discussions on a regular basis.

Вoth departments of the Research Centre for East European Studies offer regular lunch talks on questions related to the organisation of academia and career planning. We also support interested scholars applying for third-party funds with the aim to affiliate to our Centre.

The Research Centre for East European Studies regularly organizes Summer Schools and German language conferences for young researchers working on Central and Eastern Europe (JOE).

Currently Summer Schools are organised as part of the Discuss Data project. From 2017 to 2024 the Centre was part of the International Network in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (formerly: Finnish – Russian Network for Russian and Eurasian Studies in Social Science and Humanities) which had been initiated by the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki.

Completion grants of up to six months for doctoral students who are supervised at the Research Centre and have received a PhD grant of no more than three years. (The completion grant is awarded upon application subject to availability of funding.)

• current doctoral projects

• completed doctoral projects at the Departments of History & Culture and Politics & Economics