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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2016

133 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2016, across 17 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN7
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN6
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET5
  • AARHUS UNIVERSITET4
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET4
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD4
  • ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE3
  • THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN3

Funded projects

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

    UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID · ES

  • From microbial interactions to new-concept biopesticides and biofertilizers

    FONDAZIONE EDMUND MACH · IT

  • Doctoral Industrial School on Human Skin models for Staphylococcal infections

    GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL · IT

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

    NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH · IE

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

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · UK

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

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

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

    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT

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

    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT

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

    ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · IT

  • Accelerated Early staGe drug diScovery

    HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH · DE

  • Big Data in Chemistry

    HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH · DE

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

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT

  • Nanoscale solid-state spin systems in emerging quantum technologies

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · UK

  • Advanced TeChnologies and PlatfoRm fOr Smarter ASsisted LivING

    DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY · UK

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

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Angular studies of photoelectrons in innovative research environments

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · UK

  • Deictic Communication - A Multidisciplinary Training

    UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · UK

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

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • The History of Human Freedom and Dignity in Western Civilization

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Microorganisms in Warming Arctic Environments

    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Educational Network in Ocular Drug Delivery and Therapeutics

    ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO · FI

  • Hydraulics modelling for drilling automation

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

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

    UNIWERSYTET ROLNICZY IM. HUGONA KOLLATAJA W KRAKOWIE · PL

  • Sustainable Organic Coatings for Corrosion Protection

    AKZO NOBEL CAR REFINISHES BV · NL

  • Plant-inspired materials and surfaces

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · UK

  • PET Imaging in Drug Design and Development

    LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY · UK

  • Diaphora: Philosophical Problems, Resilience and Persistent Disagreement

    UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · ES

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

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Dementia modelling

    BIOMEDIQ AS · DK

  • Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology (INDUCT)

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

  • 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

  • Regulation of mitochondrial expression

    UNIVERSITAT ZU KOLN · DE

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

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Technology Enabled Adolescent Mental Health

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE

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

    FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA · ES

  • EU Training Network for Resource Recovery through Enhanced Landfill Mining

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • A multiscale approach towards mesostructured porous material design

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • VIbro-acoustics of PERiodic media

    ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON · FR

  • Exploitation of Glycosylation Signatures for Precision Medicine

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN · NL

  • Stimuli-responsive Membranes for consumer goods sustainability

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

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

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · UK

  • Metrology Excellence Academic Network for Smart Grids

    FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS · ES

  • Understanding and controlling complex systems

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Near Memory Computing

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

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

    UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE

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

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO · IT

  • European Glaucoma Research Training Program-Plus

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • Photovoltaic module life time forecast and evaluation

    FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE

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

    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH

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

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Doctoral Industrial School for Vaccine Design through Structural Mass Spectrometry

    GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL · IT

  • The Role of Universities in Innovation and Regional Development

    UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER · NO

  • European Vascular Interventions and Therapeutic Innovation Network

    QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · UK

  • History of European Urbanism in the 20th Century

    BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITAET WEIMAR · DE

  • Dynamic behaviour of composite materials for next generation aeroengines

    FUNDACION IMDEA MATERIALES · ES

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

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE

  • Quantum Communications for ALL

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · UK

  • Unraveling Principles of PDZ-mediated Cell Signaling

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

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

    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE

  • Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL

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

    UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES · DE

  • Targeting SYNthetic lethal interactions for new cancer treatments TRAINing network

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

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

    MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT

  • Myopia: Fundamental understanding needed

    EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE

  • TRANSPORT OF SOFT MATTER AT THE NANOSCALE

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · UK

  • 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

  • SOcial Cognitive Robotics in The European Society

    UMEA UNIVERSITET · SE

  • Training on Remote Sensing for Ecosystem modElling

    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT

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

    GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE

  • Physical Activity and Nutrition INfluences In ageing

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · UK

  • Spins for Efficient Photovoltaic Devices based on Organic Molecules

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

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

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA · IT

  • Applications of Personal Robotics for Interaction and Learning

    UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH · UK

  • Convergence of Electronics and Photonics Technologies for Enabling Terahertz Applications

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • Wireless In-Body Environment

    OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF · NO

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

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • Interdisciplinary Training Network in Multi-Actuated Ground Vehicles

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET ILMENAU · DE

  • 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 · UK

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

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH

  • Predictive and Accelerated Metabolic Engineering Network

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • New Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases: “ND4ID”

    UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE

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

    UNIVERSITE GUSTAVE EIFFEL · FR

  • OMT - Optomechanical Technologies

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH

  • SUPercontinuum broadband light sources covering UV to IR applications

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Multimodal, Functional Bio-Photonic Imaging

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Fibre Nervous Sensing Systems

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH

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

    PERCUROS BV · NL

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

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT

  • Continuous Resolution and Deracemization of Chiral Compounds by Crystallization

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · UK

  • ISOTOPIC LABELING FOR DRUG INNOVATION

    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR

  • Non-Noble Metal Catalysis - NoNoMeCat

    UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · NL

  • European Training Network for Continuous Sonication and Microwave Reactors

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • FRAGments training NETwork

    STICHTING VU · NL

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

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · UK

  • Improving the crashworthiness of composite transportation structures

    THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · UK

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

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE

  • 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

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

    LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR RAUMBEZOGENE SOZIALFORSCHUNG (IRS) EV · DE

  • Sustainable Product, Energy and Resource Recovery from Wastewater

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE

  • Network for Innovative Training on ROtorcraft Safety

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT

  • Circular European Economy Innovative Training Network

    UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL

  • Cancer: Activating Technology for Connected Health

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • European Training Network for Cell-based Regenerative Medicine

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Smart capture phases for proteomics, glycomics and biomarker assays

    MALMO UNIVERSITET · SE

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

    HASKOLI ISLANDS · IS

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

    PROCTER & GAMBLE TECHNICAL CENTRES LIMITED · UK

  • Fibre break models for designing novel composite microstructures and applications

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Nanomedicine: an integrative approach

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • Sustainable CellulAr networks harVEstiNG ambient Energy

    CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA · ES

  • Stability and Sensitivity Methods for Industrial Design

    UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES

  • Methods in Research on Research

    UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE · FR

  • Ion-Molecule Processes for Analytical Chemical Technologies

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · UK

  • Targeted small-molecule Stabilisation of Protein-Protein Interactions

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • High Performance Soft-tissue Navigation

    OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF · NO

  • Algebraic Representations in Computer-Aided Design for complEx Shapes

    ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS · EL

  • Brain injury and trauma monitoring using advanced photonics

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · UK

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

    UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ES

  • Tribbles Research and Innovation Network

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · UK

  • Coding for Optical communications In the Nonlinear regime

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK

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

    ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH

  • The Elusives Enterprise: Asymmetries of the Invisible Universe

    UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · ES

  • Precision Additive Metal Manufacturing

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Metal oxide Aided Subsurface Remediation: From Invention to Injection

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

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

    JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · DE

  • Managing soil and groundwater impacts from agriculture for sustainable intensification

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · UK

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

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

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

    GFZ HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR GEOFORSCHUNG · DE

  • 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

  • Optimization of Medical Accelerators

    THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL · UK