The Programme is jointly offered by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and by Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg .

Moreover, it is part of a European network - involving the University of Sussex, Aalborg, Manchester, Paris XIII, Oslo and several others, supporting inter-European exchanges of research students and faculty, within the European Network of Excellence DIME.

In addition to the teaching activities, Ph.D. students are nested in a rich research environment, within the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM) at the Sant'Anna School, and the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), where Ph.D. students are encouraged to take part in various ongoing research projects.