The European PhD in Socio Economic and Statistical Studies was initiated in 2001 by Sapienza Università di Roma. A Partnership Agreement with other European Universities, based upon an International Interuniversity Co-operation Programme, was signed in 2002 and was followed in 2005 by a further Agreement allowing the joint delivery of the Doctor Europaeus.

The following partner universities are currently admitting and/or tutoring Sess.EuroPhD candidates:

	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences www.hu-berlin.de
	Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Faculty of Social Sciences www.elte.hu
	University of Haifa Faculty of Social Sciences www.haifa.ac.il
	HSE Moscow Faculty of Social Sciences www.social.hse.ru/en
	Sapienza Università di Roma www.uniroma1.it
	University of Southampton School of Social Sciences www.soton.ac.uk
	University of Tampere Faculty of Economics and Administration www.uta.fi

Network Organisation and Institutional Structure

The European PhD's institutional structure consists of:

• the President representing the PhD programme
• the Scientific Board consisting of two representatives from each partner university; the Board meets on an annual basis to approve admissions, define core-curricula, establish examination procedures and evaluate, on the basis of shared methodological criteria, the high quality of the programme
• the Doctoral Candidates Representation as a self-organised body for voicing the interests of the doctoral students to the Scientific Board
• the Programme Director bearing responsibility for administering funds, currently assigned to Sess.EuroPhD by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and for over-seeing the coordination of the programme
• the Academic Manager in charge of the overall programme management and coordination
• the Advisory Board composed of representatives of the associated research institutions.

Since October 2008, the coordination center is based at Humboldt University in Berlin where it is part of the Humboldt Graduate School (HGS) and the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS). It is also associated with the Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

President

Andrew Hinde (since 2015)
University of Southampton

Past President

Elke Koch-Weser Ammassari (2007-2015)
Sapienza Università di Roma

Doctoral Candidates Representatives

Sara Picchi
Sapienza Universitá di Roma

Tim Winke
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Co-ordination

Bernhard Weßels (Programme Director)
Martin Nagelschmidt (Co-ordinator)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences