• 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)
• Rodboud University Nijmegen

• 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)
• Institute for New Technologies of the United Nations
• University Maastricht
• University of Gent
• Catholic University Leuven
• University of Aarhus (Dept of Ethnography and Social Anthropology)

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!