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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2014

138 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2014, across 18 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS6
  • STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT4
  • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON4
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO3
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM3
  • UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM3
  • ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN2
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET2

Funded projects

  • Imprinted Polymers as Coffee Sensors

    QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · GB · €1,335,986.28

  • Short Period Superlattices for Rational (In,Ga)N

    FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV · DE · €1,221,003.36

  • Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · GB · €3,144,654.72

  • The next generation epigenetic medicine for inflammation

    AMSTERDAM UMC RESEARCH BV · NL · €1,294,785

  • ONCOgenic Receptor Network of Excellence and Training

    STICHTING VU · NL · €3,893,983.37

  • Drug-Free Antibacterial Hybrid Biopolymers for Medical Applications

    LUCIDEON LIMITED · GB · €3,918,054.96

  • Rapid Bioprocess Development

    UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · GB · €4,038,971.76

  • FIber-Wireless Integrated Networks for 5th Generation delivery.

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €3,867,896.88

  • Advanced Biological Waste-to-Energy Technologies

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CASSINO E DEL LAZIO MERIDIONALE · IT · €3,918,950.64

  • Metabolomic analysis for the forensic detection of drugs of abuse in performance and food producing animals

    THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · GB · €819,863.64

  • Children Born of War - Past, Present and Future

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · GB · €3,729,290.40

  • Brachiopods As SEnsitive tracers of gLobal marINe Environment: Insights from alkaline, alkaline Earth metal, and metalloid trace element ratios and isotope systems

    HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL (GEOMAR) · DE · €3,749,331.24

  • Advanced glasses, Composites And Ceramics for High growth Industries

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €3,882,899.52

  • SupramolecularlY eNgineered arCHitectures for optoelectRonics and photONICS: a multi-site initial training action

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €3,650,589

  • Lightning protection of wind turbine blades with carbon fibre composite materials

    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · GB · €1,093,151.52

  • Waves and Wave-Based Imaging in Virtual and Experimental Environments

    SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €3,227,952.96

  • Wireless Visionaries for 2020

    IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS · GR · €1,496,866.32

  • MELanoma GENetics - understanding and biomarking the genetic and immunological determinants of melanoma survival

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · GB · €3,988,365.84

  • Training Network for the Immunotherapy of Cancer

    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €3,627,525.24

  • Click Chemistry for Future Gene Therapies to Benefit Citizens, Researchers and Industry

    DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY · IE · €3,556,990.44

  • Around the Caspian: a Doctoral Training for Future Experts in Development and Cooperation with Focus on the Caspian Region

    DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY · IE · €3,811,357.08

  • RNA-based technologies for single-cell metabolite analysis

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €3,995,643.24

  • Engineering of new-generation protein secretion systems

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL · €3,685,072.68

  • From Omics to Patient: Improving Diagnostics of Pathogenic Yeasts

    FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA · ES · €3,319,305.84

  • Modelling and Computation of Shocks and Interfaces

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX · GB · €3,914,276.31

  • European Dry Eye Network

    UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID · ES · €2,484,775.44

  • ArcInTex ETN

    HOEGSKOLAN I BORAS · SE · €3,856,700.88

  • Research Training Network on Integrated Component Cycling in Epithelial Cell Motility

    UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM AACHEN · DE · €3,866,665.32

  • Improving Design, Evaluation and Analysis of early drug development Studies

    UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER · GB · €3,108,939.48

  • Interdisciplinary concepts for municipal wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Tackling future challenges

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE RECERCA DE L'AIGUA · ES · €1,267,466.76

  • Distributed 3D Object Design

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €3,050,022.40

  • Industrial optimal design using adjoint CFD

    QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · GB · €3,854,909.52

  • Breeding Invertebrates for Next Generation BioControl (BINGO)

    WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · NL · €3,288,069

  • Training and research in Listeria monocytogenes Adaptation through Proteomic and Transcriptome deep Sequencing Analysis

    UNIVERSITE DIJON BOURGOGNE · FR · €2,841,979.50

  • Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling

    UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · ES · €3,785,867.52

  • Hybrid Colloidal Systems with Designed Response

    UNIVERSITAT WIEN · AT · €3,895,886.88

  • DEFect NETwork materials science and engineering

    RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM · DE · €3,804,639.48

  • MICROWINE - Microbial metagenomics and the modern wine industry

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,945,597.12

  • Targeting Cartilage Regeneration in joint and intervertebral disc diseases

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €3,971,459.88

  • Molecular Electron Dynamics investigated by IntensE Fields and Attosecond Pulses

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €3,896,490.22

  • Genetic and molecular priming approaches to increase crop strength and stress tolerance

    UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM · DE · €1,268,698.32

  • Viruses, Immune stimulation and RNA Interference in Oncology Network

    STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL · €1,304,413.56

  • Interdisciplinary Training Network for Validation of Gram-Negative Antibacterial Targets

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA · IT · €2,793,330.72

  • Smart ELECTrodeposited Alloys for environmentally sustainable applications: from advanced protective coatings to micro/nano-robotic platforms

    UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · ES · €3,274,969.68

  • SUPRAmolecular polyolefins as oxygen BARRIER materials

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA · IT · €513,435.60

  • Peptide-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Delivery in Tumor Therapy

    UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD · DE · €3,746,420.28

  • BIG4 - Biosystematics, Informatics and Genetics of the big 4 insect groups: training tomorrow's researchers and entrepreneurs

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,874,278.60

  • Training of Innovative, Creative and Entrepreneurial Researchers in Waterborne Dispersed Polymers

    UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA · ES · €754,634.16

  • Hyporheic Zone Processes – A training network for enhancing the understanding of complex physical, chemical and biological process interactions

    FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV · DE · €3,090,951.60

  • Combustion for Low Emission Applications of Natural Gas

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €3,832,293.60

  • European Training Network on Bone Pain

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,558,676.32

  • Real time therapy planning for Thermal based therapy modalities in oncology care.

    PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV · NL · €766,122.84

  • Training the Next Generation of European Visual Neuroscientists for the benefit of innovation in health care and high-tech industry

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL · €3,886,818.12

  • FULLY INTEGRATED ANALYSIS, DESIGN, MANUFACTURING AND HEALTH-MONITORING OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €3,095,280.36

  • Advanced Pump Engineering for Severe Applications

    WEIR MINERALS NETHERLANDS BV · NL · €1,366,439.40

  • European Training Network on Antiviral Drug Development

    UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · NL · €3,837,214.41

  • Answering Questions using Web Data

    RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · DE · €3,885,922.44

  • Nanophotonics by Nanocrystals, from integration to single photon operation

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €3,056,430.24

  • Service Design for Innovation

    UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO · PT · €2,283,925.68

  • Head protection: a European training network for Advanced Designs in Safety

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €3,387,265.56

  • Pulsed valves: Fast Forward

    STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NL · €766,122.84

  • Drivers of Pontocaspian biodiversity RIse and DEmise

    STICHTING NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER · NL · €3,784,088.60

  • Chromatin Dynamics in Development and Disease

    IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS · GR · €3,782,583.36

  • Integrated view on disruptions of early brain development

    STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NL · €3,888,945.36

  • Towards a novel paradigm for cardiac function assessment from imaging

    UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA · ES · €1,021,497.12

  • Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual Europe

    UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM · DE · €3,848,639.76

  • Complex Oscillatory Systems: Modeling and Analysis

    UNIVERSITAET POTSDAM · DE · €3,877,488.12

  • Improved production strategies for endangered freshwater species.

    NORGES MILJO-OG BIOVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET · NO · €3,867,449.04

  • Training in Bio-Inspired Design of Smart Adhesive Materials

    LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR POLYMERFORSCHUNG DRESDEN EV · DE · €2,822,328.36

  • Graphene-based nanomaterials for touchscreen technologies: Comprehension, Commerce and Communication

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,358,044

  • Multivalent Molecular Systems for Innovative Applications

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €2,321,096.40

  • Development of Selective Carbohydrate Immunomodulators Targeting C-type Lectin Receptors on Antigen Presenting Cells

    ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN BIOMATERIALES- CIC biomaGUNE · ES · €3,811,581

  • High-Intensity Coherent Nonlinear Optics

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE · €2,338,562.16

  • Applied mathematics for risk measures in finance and insurance, in the wake of the crisis

    STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN · NL · €1,522,617.12

  • Advanced XFEL and Synchrotron based Probes of Protein Structure and Dynamics

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · IT · €2,331,284.76

  • The Algal Microbiome: Friends and Foes

    THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE LBG · GB · €3,710,595.24

  • BIOCASCADES- Sustainable and Scalable Biocatalytic Cascade Reactions Training Network

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · AT · €2,787,956.64

  • Biochemical and mechanochemical mechanisms in polarized cells

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · GB · €3,911,897.16

  • MICroACTuators

    TARTU ULIKOOL · EE · €3,300,160.68

  • Directed Colloidal Structure at the Meso-Scale

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €3,613,194.36

  • Postgraduate Research on Dilute Metamorphic Nanostructures and Metamaterials in Semiconductor Photonics

    UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER · GB · €3,947,452.55

  • Design and development of advanced NAnomedicines to overcome Biological BArriers and to treat severe diseases

    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT · €2,851,274.54

  • UNDERSTANDING THE CLOSTRIDIUM SPORE, A PREREQUISTE FOR DISEASE INTERVENTIONS AND EXPLOITATION

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · GB · €3,910,777.56

  • Toll-Like Receptor 4 activation and function in diseases: an integrated chemical-biology approach.

    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT · €3,122,539.38

  • Multi-Stimuli Responsive Molecular Systems and Materials

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €2,646,333.72

  • Exploiting MELanoma disease comPLEXity to address European research training needs in translational cancer systems biology and cancer systems medicine

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND · IE · €3,583,870.17

  • Development and experimental validation of computational models for cavitating flows, surface erosion damage and material loss

    CITY ST GEORGES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · GB · €3,939,999.12

  • VPH-Cardiovascular Simulation and Experimentation for Personalised Medical Devices

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · GB · €3,700,187.28

  • Radiation Innovations for Therapy and Education

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €3,081,061.44

  • Infrared sensing made visible: Combining infrared light sources and upconversion sensors for improved sensitivity in medical applications and gas analysis

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,001,129.28

  • Machine Sensing Training Network

    UNIVERSITY OF SURREY · GB · €3,866,329.44

  • The Extracellular Matrix in Epileptogenesis

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €3,047,025.60

  • Software ENgineering in Enterprise Cloud Applications systems

    SOFTWARE IMPROVEMENT GROUP BV · NL · €2,236,902.48

  • Perception and Action in Complex Environments

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,911,673.24

  • Nano-tailoring organo-mineral materials - Controlling strength and healing with organic molecules in mineral interfaces

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €4,103,572.68

  • Anticipatory Networking Techniques in 5G and Beyond

    LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET · SE · €1,043,441.28

  • Computational and functional annotation of genomic elements during development of the model vertebrate zebrafish

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · GB · €3,724,035.89

  • innovative Quality Of Experience maNagement in Emerging mulTimedia services

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI · IT · €2,883,122.64

  • Critical Transitions in Complex Systems

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · GB · €3,896,688.10

  • Improved decision-making in contaminated land site investigation and risk assessment

    THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · GB · €3,348,716.78

  • Advanced Wind Energy Systems Operation and Maintenance Expertise

    FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS · ES · €2,862,074.16

  • MEDICIS-produced radioisotope beams for medicine

    ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH · €2,829,269.88

  • European Joint Doctorate in Functional Materials Research

    UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX · FR · €3,779,224.56

  • AQUAtic INVAders: Early Detection, Control and Management

    SWANSEA UNIVERSITY · GB · €2,079,605.16

  • New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL · €3,812,140.80

  • Development and disease of the renal tract

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,137,377.32

  • Research and training network on MIniaturized Gas flow for Applications with enhanced Thermal Effects

    KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · DE · €3,815,117.07

  • BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data

    UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES · €3,803,407.92

  • European Integrated Research Training Network on Advanced Cryptographic Technologies for the Internet of Things and the Cloud

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,893,199.84

  • Social Science Aspects of Fisheries for the 21st Century

    UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET · NO · €2,724,033.96

  • Dynamic electromechanical control of semiconductor nanostructures by acoustic fields

    UNIVERSITAET AUGSBURG · DE · €3,855,693.24

  • European Training Network to Accelerate the Development Chain of Nanostructured Polymers

    FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE · €3,794,898.96

  • Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics - Enabling Open Cities

    UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER · DE · €3,676,092.26

  • Control of leishmaniasis, from bench to bedside and community

    FUNDACION PRIVADA INSTITUTO DE SALUD GLOBAL BARCELONA · ES · €3,820,537.80

  • Integrated self-assembled SWITCHable systems and materials: towards responsive organic electronics – a multi-site innovative training action

    UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG · FR · €3,826,359.20

  • Airborne Wind Energy System Modelling, Control and Optimisation

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €2,990,467.20

  • Engineering responsive and biomimetic hydrogels for biomedical therapeutic and diagnostic applications

    DWI LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR INTERAKTIVE MATERIALIEN EV · DE · €3,522,760.86

  • Multi-Scale Fluid Flow in DYNamically FRACtured Porous Reservoir

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €255,374.28

  • European Training Network for Zero-waste Valorisation of Bauxite Residue (Red Mud)

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,720,893.40

  • European Joint Doctorate in Organocatalysis and Sustainable Polymers

    UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA · ES · €2,590,353.72

  • Safety Enables Cooperation in Uncertain Robotic Environments

    UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG · DE · €3,106,495.20

  • Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring

    NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO · €3,851,102.88

  • Training in Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Safety

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €3,701,306.88

  • Efficient harvesting of the wind energy

    LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET · SE · €3,811,804.92

  • RELIability of product Environmental Footprints

    STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NL · €1,276,871.40

  • EUROPOL

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · GB · €3,960,039.96

  • Complex RhEologies in Earth dynamics and industrial Processes

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,661,113.24

  • Accelerating photoredox catalysis in continuous-flow systems

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €2,248,434.36

  • Monomer sequence control in Polymers : Toward next-generation precision materials

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,926,899.80

  • Innovative Architectures, Wireless Technologies and Tools for High Capacity and Sustainable 5G Ultra-Dense Cellular Networks

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,858,492.24

  • High Performance Computing in Life Sciences, Engineering And Physics

    THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE · CY · €3,667,663.72

  • MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €3,835,204.56

  • Epigenetic regulation of endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer: A systems medicine approach to predict treatment outcome

    UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · NL · €2,797,697.16

  • Carbon Cascades from Land to Ocean in the Anthropocene

    UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE · €3,112,980.61

  • Enhancing CHO by Mammalian Systems Biotechnology (eCHO systems)

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,044,793.68

  • Building Innovation in the Extended Digital Chain

    DET KONGELIGE DANSKE KUNST-AKADEMISSKOLER FOR ARKITEKTIR, DESIGN OG KONSERVERING · DK · €3,972,691.44

  • Advancing brain research in children’s developmental neurocognitive disorders

    JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO · FI · €3,883,795.20

  • Mastering skills in the training Network for attention deficit hyperactivity and autism spectrum Disorders

    STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NL · €3,913,940.43