What is ENTER?

ENTER (the European Network for Training in Economic Research) is a cooperative venture between eight leading European Economics Departments, located in Barcelona (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), London (United Kingdom), Madrid (Spain), Mannheim (Germany), Stockholm (Sweden), Tilburg (the Netherlands) and Toulouse (France). Its aim is to foster (internationally competitive) research (at highest possible quality), by broadening the base for competent supervision and intensive interaction towards research in Economics. 

In addition to spending time at their home institution, doctoral students in the program spend one or two semesters in one or two institutions of the network, where they are treated on the same footing as local students. Depending on their previous work, they can either take courses or pursue their dissertation research under the additional supervision of faculty at the host institution. They thus obtain direct access to a much larger faculty body with a wide array of research interests and can develop professional relationships with fellow students. 

Annual network-wide meetings, the "Jamborees", focusing on presentations of current research by doctoral students and Faculty, foster closer links between senior and especially junior researchers pursuing work in a similar direction. Both the exchange of students and the Jamborees have been funded under the European Union ERASMUS and TMR programs. The last Jamboree took place on February 6-7, 2009 at the University College London.
Many PhD students would like to have a chance to present their research outside their own university, so recently the ENTER network has started a new initiative which offers our students the opportunity for a short (one or two days) seminar visit to an institution of the network.
This enables them to build their own network of relations in Europe and provides a good opportunity to signal interest in being hired. Additionally, they can meet with PhD students or faculty members from the host university who do research in the same field.

Faculties of the eight institutions are committed to the ENTER program, which will develop scholars able to analyze economic phenomena from a European rather than national viewpoint and to employ analytical methods of the highest standard. 

In order to be admitted to the program, students must be admitted to a doctoral program in one of the eight participating institutions. Typically, students take the regular first year courses at their home university, and are then selected for the ENTER program on the basis of academic excellence, normally to spend parts of either their second or third year of study abroad. This period abroad can be split amongst (at most) two foreign universities. While abroad, each student is supervised by a faculty member at his home institution and by a faculty member at the foreign host institution. 

Upon satisfactory completion of their doctoral degree, participants of ENTER will receive a European diploma, signed by the members of the Executive Committee, certifying their participation in the European exchange program. This executive committee consists of sixteen persons, two from each participating institution. The executive committee meets at least once each year, during the annual "Jamboree", to oversee the scientific and financial management of ENTER. 

The regular tasks of the executive committee are :

• coordination of the flow of exchange students,
• decisions on matching students and institutions in case rationing is necessary,
• organization of the annual Jamboree.

• Albert Marcet* and Carmen Beviá (Barcelona)
• Philippe Weil and Micael Castanheira de Moura* (Brussels)
• Nicola Pavoni* and Steffen Huck (London)
• Carlos Velasco* and Nezih Guner (Madrid)
• Martin Peitz* and Konrad Stahl (Mannheim)
• Richard Friberg* and Marten Palme (Stockholm)
• Wieland Müller* and Peter Kort (Tilburg)
• Pierre Dubois* and Patrick Fčve (Toulouse)

Application for admission into the ENTER exchange program

In order to be admitted into the ENTER program, students must generally be enrolled in a doctoral program at one of the participating universities. It is only when they have completed the first year (or the first two years) program at their home institution that they can be selected for participation in the ENTER exchange program, on the basis of academic excellence. 

Each host institution has its own procedure for the selection of its exchange candidates. (For more information, please contact the coordinators or search the relevant web pages of the participating institutions.) Since office space and other facilities are limited within each host institution, coordination is necessary to accommodate all students who wish to visit another ENTER department.

- Deadlines for applying are : 

April 15

for a visit during the first term (or semester) of the academic year

October 15

for a visit during the second term (or semester).

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