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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2017

148 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2017, across 23 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET5
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET4
  • RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN4
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS3
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique3
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM3
  • UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT3
  • ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN2

Funded projects

  • Dimitris Petroutsos

    Investigating mixotrophic metabolism in the model diatom <i>Phaeodactylum tricornutum</i>

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Richard Ruíz

    Lepton number violation at colliders from kinematically inaccessible gauge bosons

    Durham University · GB

  • Igor Nakonechnyi

    Mechanistic Insights in Seeded Growth Synthesis of Colloidal Core/Shell Quantum Dots

    Ghent University · BE

  • Alexander Pearce

    Electron spin relaxation in a transition-metal dichalcogenide quantum dot

    University of Konstanz · DE

  • Advanced THermomechanical mOdelling of Refractory linings

    UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES · FR

  • Impact of air pollutants on cutaneous responses in both healthy and compromised skin barrier, and innovative solutions to protect skin against urban pollution

    DOW SILICONES BELGIUM · BE

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

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL

  • European Industrial Doctorate on Next Generation for sustaINable auTomotive ElectRical ACtuaTion

    UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA CLUJ-NAPOCA · RO

  • Enabling Technologies and Drug Discovery: Continuous Flow Processes to Discover Novel Antiviral Inhibitors

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES

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

    THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · UK

  • Epigenetic Diversity in Ecology

    KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW · NL

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

    TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL · EE

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

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA · ES

  • Driving next generation autophagy researchers towards translation

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • Targeting the metabolism-immune system connections in Cancer

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO BIOMEDICA DE BELLVITGE · ES

  • A new era in personalised medicine: Radiomics as decision support tool for diagnostics and theragnostics in oncology

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL

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

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

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

    CENTRO DE NEUROCIENCIAS E BIOLOGIACELULAR ASSOCIACAO · PT

  • Submarine LAndslides and Their impact on European continental margins

    UNIVERSITAET BREMEN · DE

  • European Advanced Superconductivity Innovation and Training

    ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH

  • Personal Technologies for Affective Health

    UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER · UK

  • EXPLORING THE NEUROLOGICAL EXPOSOME

    ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS · EL

  • Advanced integrative solutions to Corrosion problems beyond micro–scale: towards long-term durability of miniaturized Biomedical, Electronic and Energy systems

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE · IT

  • Uncertainty Treatment and OPtimisation In Aerospace Engineering

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · UK

  • International Training Network for Statistics in High Energy Physics and Society

    ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE · UK

  • Annular Instabilities and Transient Phenomena in Gas Turbine Combustors

    NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO

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

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT

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

    STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH · NL

  • RAtionalising Membrane Protein crystallisation

    UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · FR

  • circular RNA Biology Training Network: from biogenesis to biomarkers

    MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC) · DE

  • Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics

    THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL · UK

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

    CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CARLOS III (F.S.P.) · ES

  • Training Network on Automatic Processing of PAthological Speech

    FONDATION DE L'INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE IDIAP · CH

  • Quantum-enhanced Sensing via Quantum Control

    FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · DE

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

    HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · FI

  • FogGuru: Training the Next Generation of European Fog Computing Experts

    UNIVERSITE DE RENNES · FR

  • HEAR-ECO Innovative Hearing Aid Research - Ecological Conditions and Outcome Measures

    STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL

  • An international, multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral training network on ageism

    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY · IL

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

    AMSTERDAM UMC RESEARCH BV · NL

  • European Training Network on Visible light based Interoperability and Networking

    ECOLE CENTRALE DE MARSEILLE EGIM · FR

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

    MALMO UNIVERSITET · SE

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

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE

  • SOLUTION - Solid lubrication for emerging engineering applications

    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · UK

  • Harnessing the power of enzymatic oxygen activation

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

  • Directed Protein Evolution for Synthetic Biology and Biocatalysis

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

  • Translational Research Network in Prostate Cancer

    UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW · UK

  • Interdisciplinary training network on the purinergic P2X7 receptor to control neuroinflammation and hyperexcitability in brain diseases.

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND · IE

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

    CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAET ZU KIEL · DE

  • Improving Genome Editing Efficiency (IMGENE)

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

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

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · UK

  • HEalth related Activity Recognition system based on IoT – an interdisciplinary training program for young researchers

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MACERATA · IT

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

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · UK

  • Next generation Compact Lightsource And Spectrometer Systems

    VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL · BE

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

    AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH · AT

  • European Intellectual Property Institutes Network - Innovation Society

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL

  • A sound fundament for our future buildings

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • Multidisciplinary European Joint Doctorate in the Design and Development of Glyco Drugs

    UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI · SI

  • Electrochemical Conversion of Renewable Electricity into Fuels and Chemicals

    USTAV FYZIKALNI CHEMIE J. HEYROVSKEHO AV CR, v. v. i. · CZ

  • Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT

  • Selective Agonists For Serotonin Receptors

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

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

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

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

    INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES · PT

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

    UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER · FR

  • A Training Network on Designing Novel Bio-based Fibre Products for Targeted Advanced Properties and New Applications

    TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI

  • Energy Systems in Transition

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

  • AMBER - enhAnced Mobile BiomEtRics

    UNIVERSITY OF KENT · UK

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

    UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE · FR

  • Bringing the paradigm for marine pelagic production into the 21st century: incorporating mixotrophy into mainstream marine research

    CARDIFF UNIVERSITY · UK

  • Generation of new yeast strains for improved flavours and aromas in beer and wine

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

  • Yeast Biotechnology Doctoral Training Programme

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK · IE

  • TRANSlating the role of Mitochondria in Tumorigenesis

    ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · IT

  • Reduced Order Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Coupled systems

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN · DE

  • Personalised In-Silico Cardiology

    KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · UK

  • Exploiting GLIOblastoma intractability to address European research TRAINing needs in translational brain tumour research, cancer systems medicine and integrative multi-omics

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND · IE · €3,836,772

  • Memory research: Ground-breaking, Applied, and Technological Exchanges

    STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NL

  • Future Optical Networks for Innovation, Research and Experimentation

    CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA · ES

  • Fog Computing for Robotics and Industrial Automation

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Innovative training in methods for future data

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · UK

  • SUrvey Network for Deep Imaging Analysis and Learning

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

  • Machine learning for Advanced Gas turbine Injection SysTems to Enhance combustoR performance.

    UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL · €3,873,159

  • AdvanCed Hardware/Software Components for Integrated/Embedded Vision SystEms

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

  • MultidisciplinarY training network for ATrial fibRillation monItoring, treAtment and progression

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT

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

    HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY · UK

  • mmWave Communications in the Built Environments

    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA · ES

  • 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 · EL

  • Innovative tools for offshore wind and DC grids

    CARDIFF UNIVERSITY · UK

  • 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

  • Smart tomographic sensors for advanced industrial process control

    HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV · DE

  • Improving Quality of Care in Europe

    UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG · DE

  • EU TRADE AND INVESTMENT POLICY

    THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · UK

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

    DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY · IE

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

    UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · NO

  • Synaptic dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    LUNDS UNIVERSITET · SE

  • MAking pErovskiteS TRuly explOitable

    UNIVERSITY OF BATH · UK

  • Translational Brain Imaging Training Network

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Innovative Nanowire DEvicE Design

    UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · UK

  • Engineered Calcium-Silicate-Hydrates for Applications

    UNIVERSITY OF SURREY · UK

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

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL

  • Advanced use of mosses for biotechnological solutions

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Analytics for Biologics

    UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF · DE

  • Teaching Emerging Methods in Palaeoproteomics for the European Research Area

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Molecular Tools for Nucleic Acid Manipulation for Biological Intervention

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

  • Educating the next generation of scientists in translational medicine: Focus on eye diseases

    EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE

  • Innovative Training Network towards raising and supporting the next generation of creative and entrepreneurial cross-speciality imaging experts

    EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · DE

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

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · UK

  • 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

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

    ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · CH

  • A EUROpean training and research network for environmental FLOW management in river basins

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · UK

  • Expectations and Social Influence Dynamics in Economics

    UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD · DE

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

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL

  • Collective effects and optomechanics in ultra-cold matter

    UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · UK

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

    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT

  • 5G System Technological Enhancements Provided by Fiber Wireless Deployments

    IQUADRAT INFORMATICA SL · ES

  • Control of flexible structures and fluid-structure interactions

    TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL

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

    STICHTING VU · NL

  • Double Dynamics for design of new responsive polymer networks and gels

    UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · BE

  • 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

  • Research School for TINnitus Assessment, Causes and Treatments

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • European Training Network to improve materials for high-performance, low-cost next- generation redox-flow batteries

    FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE

  • DyViTo: Dynamics in Vision and Touch - the look and feel of stuff

    UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD · UK

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

    UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ES

  • Interdisciplinar cross-sectoral approach to effectively address the removal of contaminants of emerging concern from water

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO · IT

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

    UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH · UK

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

    STICHTING VU · NL

  • European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research

    KLINIKUM DER UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG · DE

  • CLOUD-MObility, Training and InnOvation Network

    JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · DE

  • Innovative Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics

    THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · UK

  • Towards Next-generation Eco-efficient PHOTO and EMULSION Polymerisations Imparting Synergy to Process, Products and Applications

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • MEthane goes MObile - MEasurements and MOdelling

    UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · NL

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

    DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IE

  • Microbe induced Resistance to Agricultural pests

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

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

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE

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

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • Science and Innovation with thunderstorms

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Lubricant impregnated slippery surfaces

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE

  • 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

  • Sand Mitigation around Railway Tracks

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT

  • Late Stage Fluorination and its Applications to Drug Discovery

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · UK

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

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · UK

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

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

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

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

  • Molecule-to-man pain network

    FONDAZIONE IRCCS ISTITUTO NEUROLOGICO CARLO BESTA · IT

  • Fabio Scafirimuto

    Room-Temperature Exciton-Polariton Condensation in a Tunable Zero-Dimensional Microcavity

    IBM Research - Zurich · CH

  • Dimitris Petroutsos

    Investigating mixotrophic metabolism in the model diatom<i>Phaeodactylum tricornutum</i>

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Dimitris Petroutsos

    Investigating mixotrophic metabolism in the model diatom<i>Phaeodactylum tricornutum</i>

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

  • Wan-Il Park

    Flavor versus mass eigenstates in neutrino asymmetries: implications for cosmology

    Jeonbuk National University · KR

  • Thomas Unger

    The Impact of Driving Force and Temperature on the Electron Transfer in Donor–Acceptor Blend Systems

    University of Bayreuth · DE

  • Fabio Scafirimuto

    Room-Temperature Exciton-Polariton Condensation in a Tunable Zero-Dimensional Microcavity

    IBM Research - Zurich · CH