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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2016

133 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2016, across 20 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN6
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET5
  • RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN4
  • THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN4
  • UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE4
  • ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM3
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET3
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM3

Funded projects

  • Individualised Interventions in Learning: Bridging Advanced Learning Science and 21st Century Technology

    BIRKBECK COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · GB · €1,342,368

  • International Network for Training on Risks of vascular Intimal Calcification And roads to Regression of cardiovascular diseasE

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL · €3,832,965.36

  • From microbial interactions to new-concept biopesticides and biofertilizers

    FONDAZIONE EDMUND MACH · IT · €2,833,636.32

  • Translational Research Network in Prostate Cancer

    UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW · GB · €2,629,315.80

  • Educational Network in Ocular Drug Delivery and Therapeutics

    ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO · FI · €3,933,728.88

  • PlantHUB - Boosting technology transfer and responsible research and innovation (RRI) in plant sciences

    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €2,597,093.27

  • PROTECTion against Endocrine Disruptors; Detection, mixtures, health effects, risk assessment and communication.

    THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · GB · €3,974,594.76

  • Exploitation of Glycosylation Signatures for Precision Medicine

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN · NL · €1,552,846.32

  • Imaging and detection of tumor-associated glycan structures on tumor cells

    MALMO UNIVERSITET · SE · €2,138,720.04

  • ENTREPRENEURING DYNAMIC SELF-ORGANIZED INTERFACES IN PHOTOCATALYSIS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING NETWORK CONVERTING LIGHT INTO PRODUCTS

    ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · IT · €3,630,212.28

  • A sound fundament for our future buildings

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,906,158.56

  • 4D analysis of heart development and regeneration using advanced light microscopy

    CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CARLOS III (F.S.P.) · ES · €1,487,736.62

  • SOLUTION - Solid lubrication for emerging engineering applications

    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · GB · €3,510,527.04

  • Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €2,569,501.62

  • Evolving Security SciencE through Networked Technologies, Information policy And Law

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €3,756,496.68

  • Synthesis and Formulation of Nanoparticles for pinning in YBCO coated conductors

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €499,776.48

  • Host switching pathogens, infectious outbreaks and zoonosis; a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Training Network

    AMSTERDAM UMC RESEARCH BV · NL · €3,860,395.56

  • Dementia modelling

    BIOMEDIQ AS · DK · €853,451.64

  • Submarine LAndslides and Their impact on European continental margins

    UNIVERSITAET BREMEN · DE · €3,894,543.36

  • European industrial doctorate for damage modelling and online detection in aerospace composite structures

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · GB · €789,498.32

  • Plant-inspired materials and surfaces

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GB · €2,348,245.60

  • RAtionalising Membrane Protein crystallisation

    UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · FR · €3,240,525.66

  • Interdependent Challenges of Reliability, Security and Quality in Nanoelectronic Systems Design

    TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL · EE · €3,755,824.92

  • EU Training Network for Resource Recovery through Enhanced Landfill Mining

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,836,165.55

  • Electrochemical Conversion of Renewable Electricity into Fuels and Chemicals

    Heyrovskeho ustav AV CR, v. v. i. · CZ · €3,616,665.12

  • “MICROMETABOLITE” – Research Training Network on the Microbial Enhancement of Bioactive Secondary Metabolite Production in Plants

    AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH · AT · €2,732,872.32

  • Technology Enabled Adolescent Mental Health

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €3,971,595.23

  • Training European Experts in Multilevel Bioimaging, Analysis and Modelling of Vertebrate Development and Disease

    UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER · FR · €3,562,028.64

  • Uncertainty Treatment and OPtimisation In Aerospace Engineering

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GB · €3,876,853.68

  • Improving the flow in the pipeline of the next generation of marine biodiscovery scientists

    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €2,853,005.40

  • Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics

    THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL · GB · €3,848,854.18

  • Training, Research and Raising of Public Awareness in Cell Biology and Pathology of Neuroglia

    UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES · DE · €3,924,324.72

  • Sustainable Organic Coatings for Corrosion Protection

    AKZO NOBEL CAR REFINISHES BV · NL · €1,276,871.40

  • Catalytic Methods for Sustainable Synthesis. A Merged Experimental and Computational Approach

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · GB · €1,569,640.32

  • History of European Urbanism in the 20th Century

    BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITAET WEIMAR · DE · €3,703,651.56

  • Directed Protein Evolution for Synthetic Biology and Biocatalysis

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €3,827,031.48

  • Food science, technology and engineering - European Joint Doctorate training towards knowledge, skills and mobility

    UNIWERSYTET ROLNICZY IM. HUGONA KOLLATAJA W KRAKOWIE · PL · €2,078,485.56

  • circular RNA Biology Training Network: from biogenesis to biomarkers

    MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC) · DE · €3,865,078.52

  • Bioenergetic Remodeling in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

    CENTRO DE NEUROCIENCIAS E BIOLOGIACELULAR ASSOCIACAO · PT · €3,202,195.68

  • Multidisciplinary European training network for development of personalized anti-infective medical devices combining printing technologies and antimicrobial functionality

    HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · FI · €2,265,900.12

  • Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €3,461,495.04

  • Regulation of mitochondrial expression

    UNIVERSITAT ZU KOLN · DE · €3,920,630.04

  • European Training Network for the sustainable, zero-waste valorisation of (critical) metal containing industrial process residues

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,858,940.08

  • The Role of Universities in Innovation and Regional Development

    UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER · NO · €3,709,815.23

  • Harnessing the power of enzymatic oxygen activation

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €3,076,435.64

  • Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters for Self-Powered Automotive Sensors: from Advanced Lead-Free Materials to Smart Systems

    UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE · FR · €3,382,787.16

  • Scanning probe microscopies for nanoscale fast, tomographic and composition imaging

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA · ES · €3,593,489.40

  • models, EXperiments and high PERformance computing for Turbine mechanical Integrity and Structural dynamics in Europe

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €3,815,947.44

  • Smartphone analyzers for on-site testing of food quality and safety

    STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH · NL · €2,830,941.14

  • The Extensive and Ubiquitous Role of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Space

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,009,451.64

  • SEcure Network Coding for Reduced Energy nexT generation Mobile Small cells

    INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES · PT · €3,274,857.72

  • European Intellectual Property Institutes Network - Innovation Society

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL · €3,865,881.60

  • Globalisation, Europe and Multilateralism - Sophistication of the Transnational Order, Networks and European Strategies

    UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE · €3,843,713.31

  • EXTREME LOADING ANALYSIS OF PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS AND DESIGN OF METAMATERIAL-BASED SHIELDS FOR ENHANCED RESILIENCE

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO · IT · €3,393,811.98

  • Photovoltaic module life time forecast and evaluation

    FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE · €3,576,247.56

  • Next generation Pass-By Noise approaches for new powertrain vehicles

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,584,644.56

  • Industrial Academic Initial Training Network towards specific diagnosis and treatment of age-related gait and balance deficits

    CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAET ZU KIEL · DE · €3,059,313.21

  • Personal Technologies for Affective Health

    UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER · GB · €3,871,209.57

  • Dynamic behaviour of composite materials for next generation aeroengines

    FUNDACION IMDEA MATERIALES · ES · €495,745.92

  • Controlling Cartilage to Bone Transitions for Improved Treatment of Bone Defects and Osteoarthritis

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €3,607,596.36

  • Network for Innovative Training on ROtorcraft Safety

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €3,146,893.92

  • Circular European Economy Innovative Training Network

    UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €3,991,638.80

  • European Training Network for Cell-based Regenerative Medicine

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,028,783.40

  • 5G System Technological Enhancements Provided by Fiber Wireless Deployments

    IQUADRAT INFORMATICA SL · ES · €3,797,921.67

  • An integrated mulTidisciplinary appRoach towards a new generAtIon of aNtibiotics: Targeting function and cross-talk of bacterial Envelope proTein machineries

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO · IT · €3,931,378.20

  • Predictive models and simulations in bone regeneration: a multiscale patient-specific approach

    UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ES · €1,247,425.92

  • Advanced Carbon Materials from Biowaste: Sustainable Pathways to Drive Innovative Green Technologies

    UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ES · €3,623,224.47

  • An integrated interdisciplinary approach to animal-free chemical and nanomaterial safety assessment

    STICHTING VU · NL · €3,860,843.40

  • Lubricant impregnated slippery surfaces

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €3,722,017.32

  • European Network on Anti-Cancer Immuno-Therapy Improvement by modification of CAR and TCR Interactions and Nanoscale Geometry

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €2,539,859.76

  • Molecular Tools for Nucleic Acid Manipulation for Biological Intervention

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €3,971,347.92

  • Training European Network: Metabolic Dysfunctions associated with Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €3,750,898.68

  • TRANSlating the role of Mitochondria in Tumorigenesis

    ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · IT · €2,851,761.40

  • Molecule-to-man pain network

    FONDAZIONE IRCCS ISTITUTO NEUROLOGICO CARLO BESTA · IT · €3,335,316.12

  • Targeting SYNthetic lethal interactions for new cancer treatments TRAINing network

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,990,269.16

  • High Performance Soft-tissue Navigation

    OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF · NO · €4,041,920.04

  • Innovative Nanowire DEvicE Design

    UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · GB · €4,000,457.52

  • European Training Network for Continuous Sonication and Microwave Reactors

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,833,301.24

  • Natural Toxins and Drinking Water Quality - From Source to Tap

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,976,833.96

  • Fibre Nervous Sensing Systems

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €3,854,909.52

  • Low energy ELEctron driven chemistry for the advantage of emerging NAno-fabrication methods

    HASKOLI ISLANDS · IS · €3,840,800.35

  • MEthane goes MObile - MEasurements and MOdelling

    UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · NL · €3,361,290.84

  • Improving the crashworthiness of composite transportation structures

    THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · GB · €3,813,566.25

  • Blood Biomarker-based Diagnostic Tools for Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

    UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH · GB · €3,434,981.39

  • Synaptic dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    LUNDS UNIVERSITET · SE · €3,129,428.16

  • Expectations and Social Influence Dynamics in Economics

    UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD · DE · €3,864,090.24

  • NDTonAIR: Training Network in Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring of Aircraft structures

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA · IT · €3,808,670.04

  • Science and Innovation with thunderstorms

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,996,874.80

  • Smart mitigation of flow-induced acoustic radiation and transmission for reduced aircraft, surface transport, workplaces and wind energy noise

    VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS · BE · €3,842,110.32

  • Training in Cancer Mechanisms and Therapeutics

    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €2,877,076.80

  • Improving Quality of Care in Europe

    UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG · DE · €3,877,749.36

  • SUrvey Network for Deep Imaging Analysis and Learning

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €3,602,483.52

  • Precision Additive Metal Manufacturing

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,896,180.44

  • Training Network to Understand and Exploit Mechanisms of Sensory Perception in Bacteria

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE · €3,381,742.20

  • Sand Mitigation around Railway Tracks

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €794,224.80

  • SOcial Cognitive Robotics in The European Society

    UMEA UNIVERSITET · SE · €3,874,726.44

  • EU TRADE AND INVESTMENT POLICY

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

  • Training REsearch and Applications network to Support the Ultimate Real time high accuracy EGNSS solution

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · GB · €3,386,593.80

  • BIOfilm management and CLEANing by leveraging fundamental understanding of biological, chemical and physical combined approaches

    PROCTER & GAMBLE TECHNICAL CENTRES LIMITED · GB · €3,908,202.48

  • Social Enterpreneurship in Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Analysing Innovative Troubleshooters in Action

    LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR RAUMBEZOGENE SOZIALFORSCHUNG (IRS) EV · DE · €2,529,895.32

  • Cancer: Activating Technology for Connected Health

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €2,120,806.44

  • Training on Remote Sensing for Ecosystem modElling

    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT · €3,062,364.12

  • Silicon-based Ka-band massive MIMO antenna systems for new telecommunication services

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,078,374.40

  • European Training Network on Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures.

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · GB · €3,990,940.92

  • Management of Climatic Extreme Events in Lakes Reservoirs for the Protection of Ecosystem Services

    DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IE · €3,056,654.16

  • Fibre break models for designing novel composite microstructures and applications

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,370,807.44

  • Radio Technologies for Broadband Connectivity in a Rapidly Evolving Space Ecosystem: Innovating Agility, Throughput, Power, Size and Cost

    HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY · GB · €1,834,895.07

  • Single Point Of aTtachment communications empowered by cLoud computing and bIG data analytics running on-top of massively distributed and loosely-coupled Heterogeneous mobile data neTworks

    ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON · GR · €3,813,484.32

  • Teaching Emerging Methods in Palaeoproteomics for the European Research Area

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €2,186,974.80

  • Continuous Resolution and Deracemization of Chiral Compounds by Crystallization

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GB · €3,926,004.12

  • Smart capture phases for proteomics, glycomics and biomarker assays

    MALMO UNIVERSITET · SE · €2,982,872.07

  • European training Network for In situ imaGing of dynaMic processes in heterogeneous subsurfAce environments

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,865,769.64

  • The Post-crisis Legitimacy of the European Union European Training Network

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO · €3,873,718.80

  • Novel Quantum Emitters monolithically grown on Si, Ge and III-V substrates

    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT · €3,900,365.28

  • Tribbles Research and Innovation Network

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · GB · €3,818,969.68

  • RADiation and reliability challenges for electronics used in Space, Avionics, on the Ground and at Accelerators

    ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH · €3,882,975.78

  • Innovative Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics

    THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · GB · €3,929,950.71

  • Predictive and Accelerated Metabolic Engineering Network

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,967,591.76

  • COllaborative Network for Training and EXpertise in psychoTraumatology

    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €3,316,177.44

  • Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe_Towards an integrated, interdisciplinary and transnational training model in cultural heritage research and management

    GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET · SE · €3,867,561

  • European Industrial Doctorate in future efficient minerals analysis, processing and training

    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €1,596,958.56

  • Regulated Assembly of Molecular Machines for DNA REPAIR: a Molecular Analysis training Network

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €3,079,270.08

  • Collective effects and optomechanics in ultra-cold matter

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GB · €3,893,423.76

  • Childhood and Adolescence Psychopathology: unravelling the complex etiology by a large Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Europe

    STICHTING VU · NL · €3,163,687.92

  • Spins for Efficient Photovoltaic Devices based on Organic Molecules

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €3,823,988.75

  • Late Stage Fluorination and its Applications to Drug Discovery

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €1,341,024.48

  • Explaining Global India: a multi-sectoral PhD training programme analysing the emergence of India as a global actor

    DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY · IE · €3,818,522.52

  • Innovative training in methods for future data

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · GB · €2,864,761.20

  • European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research

    KLINIKUM DER UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG · DE · €3,823,896.60

  • Training in Extracellular Vesicles: for benefit in Health and Disease

    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €3,724,252.20

  • OMT - Optomechanical Technologies

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €3,897,443.25

  • SUPercontinuum broadband light sources covering UV to IR applications

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,017,699.36

  • Multimodal, Functional Bio-Photonic Imaging

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,902,716.44