Training is critical for a NoE such as DIME, for four main reasons:

• It is the best way to develop specific research capabilities in a field that is both complex and interdisciplinary. This capability will need a dense interaction between the joint research actions, the researchers involved in their implementation, and the graduate and post-graduate students interested in and attracted by the field of DIME.
• It is an essential mechanism for raising awareness of both academics and stakeholders to the questions raised by a dynamic and institutional approach to economic and social issues.
• It is the first tool to furthering gender equality by encouraging female students.
• Training is the basis for furthering Integration and excellence by providing economies of scale and improved quality.

The training activities related to DIME aim at three target groups:

• Future policy makers, professionals, officials and administrators, in particular with specific competences in regional development;
• Managers for and from industry and consultants for rapidly evolving enterprises;
• Future researchers and teachers in the field.

Training programmes are long-term activities as are research ventures, i.e. they are long term investments, the pre-requisite for the sustainability of the network.

DIMETIC: a European Doctoral Training Programme
3 sessions par year; in total 6 weeks of training
Contact: Laurent BACH, BETA, bach(replace with @)cournot.u-strasbg.fr
Next sessions:
- Strasbourg, March 31st - April 11th 2008 (applications closed);
- Pecs, July 2nd-13th, 2007,
- Maastricht, October 8th-19th, 2007
- Strasbourg, March 31st - April 11th 2008
- Pecs, June 23rd - July 4th 2008
- Maastricht, October 6th - 17th 2008

DRUID-DIME Winter Doctoral Conference
January 26th-28, 2006
January 25th-27th, 2007
January 17th-19th, 2008
Contact: Bent DALUM, DRUID-IKE

ESNIE: summer school in New Institutional Economics
May 15th-19th, 2006, Cargèse, France
May 21st-25th, 2007, Cargèse, France
May 19st-23th, 2008, Cargèse, France
Contact: Eric BROUSSEAU, EconomiX, eric(replace with @)brousseau.info

ESSID: summer school on Industrial Dynamics
September 17th-23rd, 2006, Cargèse, France
September 10th-15th, 2007, CAAS, Dubrovnic, Croatia
September 1st-6th, 2008, Monte S.Angelo, Italy
Next deadline: May 31st, 2008

SIME: Training in Simulation Economics
March 30th – April 7th, 2006; Strasbourg, France
May 7th -11th, 2007; Strasbourg, France
May 5th - 9th, 2008; Strasbourg, France
Contact: Marco VALENTE, University L’Aquila/LEM, Pisa;
Patrick LLERENA, BETA, pllerena(replace with @)cournot.u-strasbg.fr

International Doctoral Programme in Economics
Launched by the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy,
together with the University of Strasbourg “Louis Pasteur”

In addition two other major actions are underway:

• The development of a common platform for Master programmes in the field of DIME. A survey of the existing training programmes is underway.
  Contact: Patrick LLERENA, BETA; pllerena(replace with @)cournot.u-strasbg.fr
• One of the goals of DIME is also to provide access to doctoral and master education (in DIME related areas) to students who are not able to attend traditional universities because they cannot afford to stop working and/or because they live in far off geographical areas that they cannot leave. The solution for these types of students, who are often older than average, is part time “long-distance” education. The development of an offer of e-based long distance learning has started, with the development of a first module on Industrial Dynamics.
  Contact: Mamata PARHI, DIME; parhi(replace with @)cournot.u-strasbg.fr.