The EMJD in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC) is an international joint doctoral school for the study of distributed computing. EMJD-DC combines a well-structured, interdisciplinary training programme with high-quality research work. The training and research is carried out in cooperation with leading research groups from four universities in different countries: UPC (Spain), KTH (Sweden), IST Lisbon (Portugal), and UCL (Belgium).