Mission Statement
This multi-disciplinary Initial Training Network (ITN) on Inter-institutional Cooperation in the EU (INCOOP) brings together a group of 8 Universities, 3 professional organisations and high-level officials which share an interest in a better understanding of the functioning of institutions in the European system of multi-level governance.
The participating universities:
- Maastricht University (coordinator)
- Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
- Cambridge University
- Fondation nationale des Sciences Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
- University of Loughborough
- Université de Luxembourg
- University of Mannheim
- University of Osnabrück.
All host institutions offer pre-doctoral positions (13 in total) and the Centre d’etudes européennes, Paris and the University of Cambridge offer 1 post-doctoral position each.
The focus of the research is the rapidly-evolving field of inter-institutional cooperation within the European system of Multi-level governance. Each PhD studentship is available for a duration of 36 months (maximum); post-doctoral fellowships are available for 24 months (maximum).
The main objective of INCOOP is to improve the European career opportunities of young researchers by offering them a coherent academic training programme, complemented with a professional skills training programme and by exposing them to experience on the work-floor through an internship at a professional organisation such as the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA, Maastricht), DLA Piper Brussels and the and Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS, Brussels).