Within the doctorate program, early-stage researchers will use approaches from the humanities and social sciences to analyze the historical foundations of migration and to develop solutions. The program is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. In addition to the five universities, 18 non-academic partners are involved in the organization of the program, including the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Literary Colloquium Berlin, and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

In May 2018 the funding for another EU funded graduate program involving the universities of Kent, Porto, Charles University in Prague, and Freie Universität ended. That program, which was called “Text and Event in Early Modern Europe,” funded dissertation projects in history, cultural studies, or literary studies that used a comparative or transnational perspective to investigate topics in the European early modern era as well as their impact on the modern and/or their reception in modern times.