PEARL in brief

Located at the centre of North-western Europe, I-SITE ULNE is committed to providing researchers with the best working environment thanks to partner institutions and networks. Meeting European standards for doctoral studies, PEARL aims to welcome and guide 30 recruited PhD students in the best conditions, provide them with a secure and unparalleled environment to carry out their research. PhD students will benefit from an internationally recognised scientific environment of excellence in and around the Lille area. Concerning their career development, they will be strongly immersed in the socio-economic world, participate in workshops on the development of transferable skills and perform inter-sectoral activities and internships in the best companies.

In addition, they will have to undertake internships at international partner universities or as part of a co-supervised thesis-project. ULNE is also committed to collaborating with European counterparts via a strategy of regional cooperation. The PEARL project will support this international strategy and by strengthening collaborations with universities in north-western Europe, in particular KU Leuven, Ghent University and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Wageningen University & Research and Radboud University in the Netherlands and the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, will commit to the development of a common network. PEARL will thus fully support the I-SITE ULNE ambition to create a cross-border European campus. The PEARL PhD students will participate in this goal by taking advantage of the numerous collaborations between laboratories to carry out secondments as part of their research.