The network-wide training within ADAPTED is delivered through formats that differ in terms of ESR involvement and participation and mode of delivery.

ADAPTED’s yearly meetings are the focal points of network-wide training, which encourage personal encounter of the ESRs and face-to-face interactions of all ESRs with all beneficiaries and partners. Through tailor-made training in research as well as on transferable skills, the annual meetings allow for a continuous reflection on the individual ESR research projects and for fructifying the projects by the consortium’s multidisciplinary research agenda during SDG-Fora.

Annual meetings are complemented by

• methodology-oriented cross-work package trainings in case study analysis, design of questionnaires and interview guidelines, and organisation and analysis of large data sets,
• self-organised peer-learning meetings of ESRs within the 3 work packages Validating pathways to poverty reduction, Studying interactions between poverty reduction and other policy areas, and Optimising the impact of poverty reduction-related policies,
• non-academic secondments of 3-6 months for selected Early Stage Researchers at major European development finance institutions and think tanks (DEG, AFD, SOMO), all development practice partners of ADAPTED,
• field research secondments of 3-6 months for most Early Stage Researchers which are supervised by African partner universities. Overall, ADAPTED ESRs completed 23 fieldwork periods in five different African countries (Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia).