Administration directly implies network management structure. The structure of the European Ph.D. on Social Representations and Communication is closely related to the size of its network and the need to clearlydefine the cientific/didactic/administrative structure by dividing tasks and responsibilities among the partnerinstitutions and identifying functional roles: Honorary Programme Director, Scientific Coordinator, Core Executive Committee, European Ph.D. Scientific Board, European Ph.D. Teaching Staff, European Ph.D.Recruitment Board, International Evaluation Board. It provides for close monitoring of the process and rapid decision making through a Core Executive Committee.

The structure of the European Ph.D. on S.R. & C. programme includes:

• The Honorary Programme Director, whose function is to monitor the scientific quality of the European Ph.D. programme and ensure that its high standards are maintained. The Honorary Programme Director presides at meetings of the Core Executive Committee and the European Ph.D. Scientific Board. When absent, the Scientific Coordinator presides on his/her behalf. The current Honorary Programme Director is
  Serge Moscovici, founder of the Theory of Social Representations, first President of the European Association for Experimental and Social Psychology (E.A.E.S.P.) and founder and Head of the Laboratoire Européen de Psychologie Sociale (LEPS-M.S.H.).

The Core Executive Committee is composed of the Programme Director, the Scientific Co-ordinator, and the representative partners of the six universities (University of Rome “Sapienza”, University of Aix-Marseille I and University Paul Valéry Montpellier III, France; University Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi, Romania; Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) that confer the joint degree. On a regular or occasional basis a member of the European Scientific Board may be invited to participate in the Core Executive Committee. Research trainees can formally request the Coordinator to include special organizational issues in the committee meetings and to take part in the meetings via a representative. In consultation with the European Ph.D. Scientific Board, the Core Executive Committee sets the guidelines for the doctorate's training strategies. In the interest of maintaining selectivity and transparency in the comparative evaluation of candidates for the program, it sets the specific procedures and criteria for admission to the programme published in the public announcement. It analyses the choice of thesis topics, assigns supervisors and, subject to evaluation of doctoral candidates' work by their tutors, approves readmission to the program after the first year. In addition, it evaluates progress in thesis preparation, decides the grounds for suspension and expulsion of doctoral candidates from the program as well as the grounds for admission to the final exam. Based on supervisors' reports, it approves a report to be sent along with the thesis to the final evaluation committee. In addition to participating in meetings aimed at planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programme activities and research trainees’ progress and needs, the two representatives of the partner institutions that confer the diploma jointly with the coordinating university act as monitors for administration, establish criteria to waive or reduce tuition fees for particularly deserving research trainees from socio-economically disadvantaged areas and assist the coordinator in implementing various initiatives involving the members of the European Scientific Board.