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Training and Events

The RePIM Doctoral Network offers a structured, multi-year training programme designed to equip all Doctoral Candidates (DCs) with advanced research skills, interdisciplinary knowledge, and professional competencies needed to shape the future of public interest media. The programme combines network-wide seasonal schools, online seminars, specialised modules, and mobility-based learning through academic and non-academic secondments. It culminates in a final RePIM Conference & Scenario-Building Symposium.

Secondments & Mobility-Based Learning

Each DC undertakes two secondments:

  1. Academic secondment (approx. 2 months) at another university, enabling collaboration, comparative analysis, and joint knowledge exchange.
  2. Industry/civil society/regulatory secondment (approx. 3 months) with associated partners, offering hands-on experience, exposure to real applied challenges, and opportunities to work with data, tools, and professional teams.

These placements provide inter-sectoral experience crucial for leadership roles across Public Interest Media.

Network-Wide Training Programme

Module 1​: Inaugural Seminar & Summer School 1

September 2026, Brussels
Consortium-wide sessions on Public Interest Media and RePIM’s foundations, data management, and research ethics.

Module 2: ​Winter Seminar 1

January 2027, online
Discussions on progress with peers and supervisors. External speaker presentations and trainings.

Module 3: Summer School 2

September 2027, Copenhagen
Research progress discussions. Trainings focused on methodological advancement and transferrable skills.

Module 4: Winter Seminar 2

January 2028, online
Progress in academic writing and synergies across proposed (joint) publications; RePIM publication strategy. Training on publishing.

Module 5: ​Summer School 3

September 2028, Salzburg
Domain-specific entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Trainings and sessions by industry speakers.

Module 6: Winter Seminar 3

January 2029, online
Presentations of finalised dissertations (3-year PhDs). Trainings and sessions on outreach and policy strategies

Module 7: ​Final RePIM Conference
Scenario-Building Symposium
DN Career Days

October 2029, Brussels
Presentations of all research projects, discussions of challenges and opportunities identified across the different PIM sectors researched.
Roundtable sessions with full consortium and finalisation of scenario-building exercise.
Doctoral Networks Career Days with professional trainings for DCs.