Summary

The CODOC project was developed due to a need to develop a new, global approach to doctoral education, taking into account the development of new means of communication and easier physical mobility, but also the need to build research capacity across the world to meet global challenges. In this spirit, the project attempted to examine and promote creative and mutually beneficial modes of collaboration to foster a more equitable global research community. For this purpose, the project looked at three world regions with developing, emerging and developed countries, namely East Asia, Latin America and Southern Africa. It compared how doctoral education was developing within these regions, and related the findings to developments in Europe.