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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2015

131 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2015, across 19 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN7
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET5
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM4
  • AARHUS UNIVERSITET3
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET3
  • GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL3
  • IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE3
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN3

Funded projects

  • European Joint Doctorate in Teacher Education

    UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK · AT · €3,472,230.24

  • Doctoral Industrial School on Human Skin models for Staphylococcal infections

    GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL · IT · €1,026,871.20

  • The outstanding challenge in solid mechanics: engineering structures subjected to extreme loading conditions

    UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID · ES · €2,052,846.72

  • Maximising the technical and economic performance of real wave energy devices

    NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH · IE · €804,637.08

  • STARs that 'R' Young : When do stars form in clustered environments?

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · GB · €546,575.76

  • Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (INDUCT)

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · GB · €3,878,757

  • Angular studies of photoelectrons in innovative research environments

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · GB · €3,180,705.84

  • Training network providing cutting-EDGE knowlEDGE on Herpes Virology and Immunology

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,961,943.28

  • AMBER - enhAnced Mobile BiomEtRics

    UNIVERSITY OF KENT · GB · €2,505,152.16

  • Complex and Open Innovation for Networked Society

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · GB · €1,366,439.40

  • Stimuli-responsive Membranes for consumer goods sustainability

    PROCTER & GAMBLE SERVICES COMPANY NV · BE · €1,252,800

  • European Joint Doctorate in Biology and Technology of Reproductive Health

    UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA · ES · €3,811,469.04

  • Training Network for the Design and Recycling of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Motors and Generators in Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,802,512.24

  • A training network for the chemical site-selective modification of proteins: Preparation of the next-generation of therapeutic chemically-defined protein conjugates

    INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOAO LOBO ANTUNES · PT · €2,542,770.72

  • Training for Big Data in Financial Research and Risk Management

    TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI · €3,463,286.40

  • Protein-excipient Interactions and Protein-Protein Interactions in formulation

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,067,745.48

  • European Vascular Interventions and Therapeutic Innovation Network

    QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · GB · €2,887,041.24

  • Regulation of red cell life-span, erythropoiesis, survival, senescence and clearance

    UNIVERSITAT ZURICH · CH · €3,852,126.97

  • Adaptation to a New Economic Reality

    HASKOLI ISLANDS · IS · €3,200,531.77

  • Deciphering PI3K biology in health and disease

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO BIOMEDICA DE BELLVITGE · ES · €3,896,148.12

  • European Network linking informatics and genomics of helper T cells

    HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFEKTIONSFORSCHUNG GMBH · DE · €3,354,685.20

  • Diaphora: Philosophical Problems, Resilience and Persistent Disagreement

    UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · ES · €3,670,853.76

  • Modulation of glycolytic flux as a new approach for treatment of atherosclerosis and plaque stabilization: a multidisciplinary study

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO · IT · €3,086,435.52

  • Microorganisms in Warming Arctic Environments

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,897,006.48

  • Holistic Approach of Spray Injection through a Generalized Multi-phase Framework

    CITY ST GEORGES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · GB · €3,857,734.84

  • ALK Activation as a target of TRAanslational Science (ALKATRAS): Break free from cancer

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €3,849,199.56

  • Deciphering the Metabolism of Haematological Cancers

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · GB · €2,572,664.04

  • Deictic Communication - A Multidisciplinary Training

    UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · GB · €3,460,823.28

  • Nanoscale solid-state spin systems in emerging quantum technologies

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · GB · €3,965,414.04

  • Archaeology on the Edge: Northern Europe and the Circumpolar World

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,074,239.16

  • Advanced TeChnologies and PlatfoRm fOr Smarter ASsisted LivING

    DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY · GB · €3,759,345.47

  • European Training Network on Full Parallax Imaging

    TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI · €3,801,840.48

  • Boosting plant-Endophyte STability, compatibility and Performance Across ScaleS

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,907,754.64

  • In the eye of the observer: Visual processing at the heart of the retina

    EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE · €3,860,554.35

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Health and Disease

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE · €3,628,756.80

  • Understanding and controlling complex systems

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €1,537,619.76

  • Hydraulics modelling for drilling automation

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €773,624.16

  • Near Memory Computing

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €766,122.84

  • Doctoral Industrial School for Vaccine Design through Structural Mass Spectrometry

    GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL · IT · €1,096,286.40

  • Chromatin and Metabolism Chromatin-metabolism interactions as targets for healthy living

    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €3,825,128.16

  • Metrology Excellence Academic Network for Smart Grids

    FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS · ES · €2,819,753.28

  • PET Imaging in Drug Design and Development

    LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY · GB · €3,901,247.78

  • Quantum Communications for ALL

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · GB · €3,924,884.52

  • Leveraging Pharmaceutical Sciences and Structural Biology Training to develop 21st Century Vaccines

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GB · €1,062,698.40

  • EU Training Network on Novel Targets and Methods in Atrial Fibrillation

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,101,221.52

  • Unraveling Principles of PDZ-mediated Cell Signaling

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,733,514.66

  • European Network for Cyber-security

    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €3,882,227.76

  • Probing safety of nano-objects by defining immune responses of environmental organisms

    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €2,814,491.16

  • EUROPEAN ESRs NETWORK ON SHORT PULSED LASER MICRO/NANOSTRUCTURING OF SURFACES

    BSH ELECTRODOMESTICOS ESPANA SA · ES · €3,567,962.52

  • Accelerated Early staGe drug diScovery

    HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH · DE · €3,836,995.92

  • Big Data in Chemistry

    HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH · DE · €2,540,146.42

  • Establishing a new generation of horticulturists: Multidisciplinary approach for breeding innovative novelties using classical and biotechnological methods

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT · €1,515,451.68

  • The History of Human Freedom and Dignity in Western Civilization

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,651,149.88

  • Connected Health Early Stage Researcher Support System

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €3,950,971.20

  • European Training Network on “Process Fingerprint for Zero-defect Net-shape MICROMANufacturing”

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,446,156.52

  • Privacy and Usability

    KARLSTADS UNIVERSITET · SE · €3,376,517.40

  • European Sepsis Academy: towards new biomarkers to improve sepsis management

    AMSTERDAM UMC RESEARCH BV · NL · €3,895,551

  • Enriched communication across the lifespan

    UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA · ES · €3,593,601.36

  • A multidisciplinary approach to cell division: From human oocyte to synthetic biology

    FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA · ES · €2,802,363.62

  • A multiscale approach towards mesostructured porous material design

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,293,103.14

  • VIbro-acoustics of PERiodic media

    ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON · FR · €3,131,359.47

  • Mathematics and Materials Science for Steel Production and Manufacturing

    FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV · DE · €2,110,506.12

  • Empowered decision-making in simulation-based engineering: Advanced Model Reduction for real-time, inverse and optimization in industrial problems

    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · ES · €2,080,164.96

  • European Glaucoma Research Training Program-Plus

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL · €3,870,583.92

  • Engineering in vitro microenvironments for translation of cell-based therapies for tendon repair

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE · €3,876,965.64

  • Innovative training network: Immunoprofile-directed stratification of patients with the autoimmune disorder thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €1,464,397.92

  • Metal oxide Aided Subsurface Remediation: From Invention to Injection

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,716,533.44

  • Solar Energy to Biomass - Optimisation of light energy conversion in plants and microalgae

    JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · DE · €3,839,377.33

  • ANtibioticS and mobile resistance elements in WastEwater Reuse applications: risks and innovative solutions

    UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €3,708,689.76

  • Coding for Optical communications In the Nonlinear regime

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €1,073,894.40

  • Sustainable CellulAr networks harVEstiNG ambient Energy

    CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA · ES · €3,653,723.88

  • Methods in Research on Research

    UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE · FR · €3,864,090.24

  • Pharmaceutical Education And Research with Regulatory Links: Innovative drug development strategies and regulatory tools tailored to facilitate earlier access to medicines

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK · IE · €3,856,253.04

  • Methodologies and Data mining techniques for the analysis of Big Data based on Longitudinal Population and Epidemiological Registers

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €3,860,731.44

  • Calcium-Sensing Receptor (CaSR): Therapeutics for Non-Communicable Diseases

    MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT · €3,657,194.64

  • The Elusives Enterprise: Asymmetries of the Invisible Universe

    UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · ES · €3,855,581.28

  • A Large-Scale Systems Approach to Flood Risk Assessment and Management

    GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE · €3,884,131.08

  • CEREALPATH - Training in innovative and integrated control of cereal diseases

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €4,013,668.80

  • Convergence of Electronics and Photonics Technologies for Enabling Terahertz Applications

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,785,419.68

  • Donor-Acceptor light emitting exciplexes as materials for easily to tailor ultra-efficient OLED lighting

    POLITECHNIKA SLASKA · PL · €3,717,198.72

  • Lossless Photon management – Optical design for manufacture at different length scales

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €3,828,390.55

  • Stability and Sensitivity Methods for Industrial Design

    UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES · €3,900,232.23

  • Innovative controls for renewable sources Integration into smart energy systems

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA EN ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA · ES · €3,527,432.07

  • Mimicking organs on chips for high throughput drug screening and basic research

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · GB · €1,057,324.32

  • Training Engineers and Researchers to Rethink geotechnical Engineering for a low carbon future

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GB · €3,954,721.86

  • Systematic Models for Biological Systems Engineering Training Network

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · GB · €3,805,423.20

  • Managing soil and groundwater impacts from agriculture for sustainable intensification

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · GB · €3,659,161.29

  • MASS Spectrometry TRaining network for Protein Lipid adduct ANalysis

    ASTON UNIVERSITY · GB · €3,545,010.72

  • TRANSPORT OF SOFT MATTER AT THE NANOSCALE

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €3,899,357.64

  • Targeted small-molecule Stabilisation of Protein-Protein Interactions

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,342,323.49

  • Advancing Modelling for Process-Product Innovation, Optimization, Monitoring and Control in Life Science Industries

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,090,249.44

  • Optimization of Medical Accelerators

    THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL · GB · €3,852,879.13

  • GRACE: Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe

    UNIVERSITY OF HULL · GB · €3,719,102.04

  • Time-lapse understanding of the static and human scene and its lighting

    OSRAM GMBH · DE · €507,277.80

  • Applications of Personal Robotics for Interaction and Learning

    UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH · GB · €1,345,614.84

  • Wireless In-Body Environment

    OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF · NO · €3,957,045.03

  • Interdisciplinary Training Network in Multi-Actuated Ground Vehicles

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET ILMENAU · DE · €3,833,413.20

  • Effect of 4500bar injection pressure and super-critical phase change of surrogate and real-world fuels enriched with additives and powering Diesel engines on soot emissions reduction

    CITY ST GEORGES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · GB · €3,928,243.32

  • Platform-aware Model-driven Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,820,273.63

  • New Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases: “ND4ID”

    UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE · €3,860,507.52

  • Innovation and Networking for Fatigue and Reliability Analysis of Structures - Training for Assessment of Risk

    UNIVERSITE GUSTAVE EIFFEL · FR · €3,161,112.84

  • Image-Guided Surgery (IGS) and Personalised Postoperative Immunotherapy To Improving Cancer Outcome

    PERCUROS BV · NL · €3,922,309.44

  • Promoting SINgle cell GEnomics to explore the ecology and evolution of hidden microeuKaryotes

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €3,889,393.20

  • Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes

    ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS · GR · €3,408,202.08

  • Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC

    ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE · IT · €2,393,361.31

  • Application-aware User-centric Programmable Architectures for 5G Multi-tenant Networks

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,545,458.56

  • Interfaces in opto-electronic thin film multilayer devices

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · GB · €3,866,472.50

  • MARine MAnagement and Ecosystem Dynamics under climate change

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €4,073,903.28

  • SUSPLACE

    WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · NL · €3,818,410.56

  • Cloud-MicroPhysics-Turbulence-Telemetry: An inter-multidisciplinary training network for enhancing the understanding and modeling of atmospheric clouds

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €3,545,328.09

  • Brain barriers training

    UNIVERSITAET BERN · CH · €3,067,402.32

  • Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease

    KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET · SE · €3,846,736.44

  • Non-Noble Metal Catalysis - NoNoMeCat

    UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · NL · €3,318,634.08

  • FRAGments training NETwork

    STICHTING VU · NL · €3,842,481.96

  • Sustainable Product, Energy and Resource Recovery from Wastewater

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €3,715,183.44

  • Development of Biomaterial-based Delivery Systems for Parkinson’s disease - an Integrated Pan-European Approach

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE · €3,995,083.44

  • Exploiting Glycosylation of Colorectal Cancer for the development of improved diagnostics and therapeutics

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN · NL · €3,293,890.61

  • Understanding subduction zone topography through modelling of coupled shallow and deep processes

    GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE · €3,910,105.80

  • HUmins as Green and Sustainable precursors of eco-friendly building blocks and materials

    AVANTIUM CHEMICALS BV · NL · €1,274,464.26

  • Advanced BiomEdical OPTICAL Imaging and Data Analysis

    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · ES · €3,495,300.48

  • Ion-Molecule Processes for Analytical Chemical Technologies

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · GB · €2,538,628.20

  • Physical Activity and Nutrition INfluences In ageing

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · GB · €2,865,980.32

  • ISOTOPIC LABELING FOR DRUG INNOVATION

    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR · €3,948,843.96

  • Myopia: Fundamental understanding needed

    EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE · €3,544,115.03

  • PRONTO: PROcess NeTwork Optimization for efficient and sustainable operation of Europe’s process industries taking machinery condition and process performance into account.

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · GB · €3,629,764.44

  • Brain injury and trauma monitoring using advanced photonics

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · GB · €3,835,764.36

  • Principles of Polarity – Integrating genetic, biophysical and computational approaches to understand cell and tissue polarity

    UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · NL · €3,935,968.56

  • Smart Sensor Technologies and Training for Radiation Enhanced Applications and Measurements

    ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH · €3,872,524.56

  • European Industrial DoCtorate on Offshore WiNd and Wave ENergy

    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €845,838.36

  • A training network for the rational design of the next generation of well-defined glycoconjugate vaccines

    GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL · IT · €3,554,499.69

  • Nanomedicine: an integrative approach

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,894,543.36