The software engineering (SE) is a young discipline introduced in 1968. The first educational SE programs were accredited in 2003, the body of knowledge for the SE was accepted as an international standard in 2005, and in 2010 only about 60 universities in the US offered SE programs. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job growth rate ranges from 38% to 56% across the computing spectrum, and the CNN/Money Magazine in 2006 ranked SE as the best job for salary and opportunities. The situation in EU is similar to the situation in North America - the first Bachelor programs in the world were established in the UK and many universities offer Bachelor, Master and PhD programs in SE. At the same time Jordan has only one PhD program in computing and none in SE. In Russia there is a strong tradition on computing research but the SE discipline is scarcely presented.PWs@PhD project approaches SE based on the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, the SWEBOK, as 15 key knowledge areas and 7 closely related disciplines. Introducing such a broad based discipline in any university is a major challenge, and the PWs@PhD project supports the development, modernization and internalization of higher education in the target countries by helping them to train the university staff and PhD students. The project partners have expertise in different areas and this expertise is offered to the project partners. The project has 7 development work packages in which are built around 2 week intense schools organized in different universities. Each university sends PhD students to the schools to study as a part of their PhD education, and the target countries can also train their staff in the schools. The intense schools provide so much information that a typical PhD student cannot learn it all, but individual students can select the best suited schools to create his/her personal path to all the needed knowledge and skills in his/her PhD.