PE&RC postgraduate courses are often organised together with other graduate schools, in particular Graduate Schools at Wageningen University and the Research School Ecology and Evolution (RSEE) of the University of Groningen. Besides being able to offer more courses and having more participants (reduced chance of cancellation), this collaboration clearly amplifies the interdisciplinary character of the courses which is a central element of the PhD learning objectives. Also, most postgraduate courses involve lecturers from abroad with excellent reputations in the relevant field.

	The Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK) aims at developing an integrated understanding of environmental change and its impact on people, society and nature.
	The objective of the Graduate School Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS) is to train early-stage researchers to become professionally skilled scientists with strong theoretical background.
	EPS organises and coordinates fundamental and strategic plant research of the collaborating universities, aiming at the development of new principles in plant molecular biology, plant physiology, plant growth for sustainable agriculture and horticulture, plant breeding and plant protection.
	The mission of WASS is to understand social processes with regard to today’s global challenges of disparities and poverty, of responsible production and consumption, of natural resource use and the environment, as well as of knowledge in society.
	VLAG forms a community of research within the Biobased, Biomolecular, Food and Nutrition Sciences. The mission of the VLAG Graduate School is to develop the careers of young researchers and to promote research collaboration in Biobased, Biomolecular, Food and Nutrition Sciences.
	Research School Ecology and Evolution RSEE is local research school within the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) at the University of Groningen, and is administered under the Groningen Graduate School of Science (GGSS). RSEE organizes and coordinates all aspects of PhD-level education in the fields of ecology and evolution.
	Research school DISC is an interuniversity research institute and graduate school that unites all university groups in the Netherlands that are active in systems and control theory and engineering.
	BioSB is the national community in the field of bioinformatics and systems biology research.