• the Utrecht University (the administrative hub of the school)
• the University of Amsterdam
• the Wageningen University and Research Centre
• Institute of Social Studies at The Hague
• and the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam)

• African Studies Centre (ASC, Leiden)
• Centre for Development Studies (CDS, Groningen)
• Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA, Amsterdam)
• Centre of Environmental Science (CML, Leiden)
• ETC Foundation, Leusden
• International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden)
• Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp (IOB)
• Development Research Institute of Tilburg University (IVO)
• Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES, Amsterdam)
• Institute Clingendael (Den Haag)
• Royal Tropical Institute (KIT, Amsterdam)
• UNU-MERIT (Maastricht)
• Section Technology and Sustainable Development of the Technology and Development Group (University Twente)

Associated research schools

Cooperation agreements between CERES and two other research schools, operating in adjacent research areas with complementary missions:

• ASSR: the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
• NETHUR: Netherlands Graduate School Housing and Urban Research

The training programmes of the research schools ASSR, CERES and NETHUR are open for each PhD from each of the schools!