Besides their enrolment at the institution heading the research programme associated with the student's research project, each enrolled doctoral student will be awarded at least a year-long visiting research sojourn at a 2nd degree-awarding partner institutions.

Mobility efforts must be motivated and justified by the underlying joint research project and reflected in the student's tutorship choices. Accordingly, all aspects of the programme – its teaching, management, and mobility flows – strengthen the accomplished research.

In all cases, students will enjoy the support and council of the various GEM PhD School provisions aimed at facilitating their mobility actions. First and foremost amongst these are the local contact points established within each partner institution, as well as the programme's Central executive Office