The workshops on research methods, tools and processes and their application to climate - water and climate - energy will be held from 19th - 30th November 2018, in Cotonou and Niamey simultaneously. Within the framework of the WASCAL-GSPs (Graduate Studies Programme) in Benin (Université d'Abomey-Calavi) in Cotonou and Niger (Université Abdou Moumouni) in Niamey, The two workshops will each consist of twenty WASCAL students (ten students from the 'Climate Change and Water Resources' programme will attend the workshop in Cotonou, and ten students from the 'Climate Change and Energy' programme will attend the workshop in Niamey) and twenty PAUWES students (with a focus on water and energy, ten students in Cotonou and ten in Niamey). This results in a total of twenty PAUWES and twenty WASCAL students.