
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 and February 13 th 2026 at 12 noon (CET). To receive further updates, please subscribe to our newsletter.
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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