
PhD Clusters
CALL FOR PHD THESES 2026
Find bellow the call document, including the terms of reference & the application file.
Applications should be submitted on the Call’s application platform between November 30 th 2025 (opening of the platform; the link will be made available here) and February 13 th 2026 at 12 noon (CET). To receive further updates, please subscribe to our newsletter.
The BRIDGES challenges
Challenge n°1 – INNOVATE by developing new climate-ocean-user-resource observation capacities and strengthening existing ones to collect, store, and analyze data, and share information required to sustainably manage those complex social-ecosystems
- Sub-challenge n° 1.1. Combined use of multiple observing systems
- Sub-challenge n° 1.2. Open and FAIR data
- Sub-challenge n° 1.3. Information processing
Challenge n° 2 – MODEL dynamic social-ecological systems accounting for multi-level and multi-scale interconnections and feedback loops
- Sub-challenge n° 2.1. Social-ecological modeling
- Sub-challenge n° 2.2. Connectivity
- Sub-challenge n° 2.3. Marine protected area networks
Challenge n° 3 – ANTICIPATE vulnerabilities and emergent hotspots of conflict risks to support rapid and flexible responses to impacts on livelihoods and industries reliant on shifting resources
- Sub-challenge n° 3.1. Vulnerability profiles and interventions portfolio
- Sub-challenge n° 3.2. Climate-ecological-social scenarios
- Sub-challenge n° 3.3. Risk assessment
Challenge n° 4 – SOLVE by co-constructing pathways to mitigate future tensions and increase the resilience of social-ecological systems to these tensions as part of a living lab approach
- Sub-challenge n° 4.1. Blind spots – Integrating multiple views will help avoid blind spots
- Sub-challenge n° 4.2. Co-production
- Sub-challenge n° 4.3. Scenarios and narratives
Challenge n° 5 – TRANSFORM by supporting capacity building and training through research to enable the transition towards a new holistic, equitable and multi-sectoral governance of resources for more resilient societies
- Sub-challenge n° 5.1. Paradigm shift
- Sub-challenge n° 5.2. Food and health systems
- Sub-challenge n° 5.3. Impact