The CCBI keeps maintaining strong ties with academia with two instruments, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for visiting students, and a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with selected universities. The MoU has already been signed by seven universities, with more signing soon. The MoU offers postgraduate students, trained in behavioural sciences, a top-level work experience of 3-4 months applying behavioural insights to EU policy. The CCBI will also be hosting a second PhD student for 24 months as a full member of our team with a status of grant-holder. They will contribute to our activities, access primary data and complete their PhD thesis.