The group, consisting of the six universities’ Graduate Deans and senior managers of the graduate schools, aims to strengthen the collaboration between the EuroTech Universities by fostering longer research stays of doctoral candidates, as well as to encourage joint summer/winter schools and networking between doctoral candidates. To provide a formal framework for longer research stays, the group initiated an agreement for the joint supervision of doctoral candidates in EuroTech that was endorsed by the EuroTech Presidents in November 2016.