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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021

126 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2021, across 20 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN6
  • ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN4
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS3
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET3
  • KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET3
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT3
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA3
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS2

Funded projects

  • Drug-coated balloon simulation and optimization system for the improved treatment of peripheral artery disease

    PANEPISTIMIO IOANNINON · EL

  • Exploring the impacts of collaborative workspaces in rural and peripheral areas in the EU

    PANTEIO PANEPISTIMIO KOINONIKON KAIPOLITIKON EPISTIMON · EL

  • Nano-structured glass for future display and communication technologies

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES · ES

  • European Young Eye

    UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID · ES

  • Leveraging Multiphase Flow and Physical Chemistry to Engineer the Next Generation of Flotation Processes

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN · DE

  • European Training and Research Program in Translational Vision Science to ensure Optimal support of Visually Impaired Individuals through Tests and Tools of Functional Vision

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • Machine LEarning in Optical NeTwORks

    ASTON UNIVERSITY · UK

  • Space Weather Awareness Training Network

    HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · FI

  • SMARTHEP: Synergies between Machine leArning, Real Time analysis and Hybrid architectures for efficient Event Processing and decision making

    THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · UK

  • Applications and Hardware for Photonic Quantum Information Processing

    UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI · PL

  • Pioneering Strategies Against Bacterial Infections

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,144,986

  • YIELD-stress fluids beyond Bingham - closing the GAP in modelling real-world yield-stress materials

    KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE

  • Complex microbial ecosystems multiscale modelling: mechanistic and data driven approaches integration.

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT · FR

  • Systems approach of URban enviRonmEnts and heALth

    LISER - LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH · LU

  • Intra- and Inter-Areal Communication in Primate Brain Networks

    UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE · FR

  • European Network Linking Informatics and Genomics of Helper T cells in Tissues

    HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR INFEKTIONSFORSCHUNG GMBH · DE

  • PI3K/PTEN-related monogenic disease to understand cancer

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA CONTRA LA LEUCEMIA JOSEP CARRERAS · ES

  • Exploring cell-to-cell heterogeneity and exploiting epigenetic regulation for the interception of myeloid disease cells.

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA CONTRA LA LEUCEMIA JOSEP CARRERAS · ES

  • Training Network for Optimizing Adoptive T cell Therapy of Cancer

    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE

  • Legality Attentive Data Scientists

    SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA · IT

  • Dynamics of dense nanosuspensions: a pathway to novel functional materials

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE

  • ALgorithms for PAngenome Computational Analysis

    UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD · DE

  • Serotonin and BEYOND: Brain development research Excelling Young Ones in Neurotechnologies and Discoveries

    STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM · NL · €4,012,551

  • Advanced research and Training Network in Food quality, safety and security

    INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN · SI

  • Multiscales and Critical Transitions in the Earth System

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • European Training Network on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT

  • Skill-For.Action

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT

  • Computational Proteomics Training European Innovative Network

    FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA · ES

  • European Training Network on Grey-Box Models for Safe and Reliable Intelligent Mobility Systems

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • European Training Network for InduStry Digital Transformation across Innovation Ecosystems

    ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SPAIN SL · ES · €4,056,696

  • TRAINING AND RESEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN GUT HEALTH AND REDUCE LOSSES IN MONOGASTRIC LIVESTOCK

    EIDGENOESSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUER WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG · CH

  • Inventive forecasting tools for adapting water quality management to a new climate

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

  • European Aquaculture Training for improving Seafood Husbandry

    WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · NL

  • Real-time Adaptive Particle Therapy of Cancer

    PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT · CH

  • Fundamentals of Design Competence for Our Digital Future

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL

  • CHronic exposure scenarios driving enviRONmental rIsks of Chemicals

    ROSKILDE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Nose-to-Brain Delivery of Biopharmaceutics for the therapy of central nervous system diseases: A design-based approach for efficient drug delivery systems

    FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE

  • Training experts in antigen processing to deliver new drug prototypes for cancer and autoimmune diseases

    UNIVERSITE DE LILLE · FR

  • Evidence-based co-creation methodology for bridging the implementation gap between knowledge and action in health promotion.

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE

  • European Training network in collaboration with Ukraine for electrical Transport

    UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL

  • Deconstructing the evolution of metastasis

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES

  • Nanoparticle-Based Imaging and Therapy of Chronic Pain in the Dorsal Root Ganglia (DRG)

    KING'S COLLEGE LONDON · UK

  • Mechanistic Integration of vascular aND endocrine pathways for Subtyping Hypertension: an Innovative network approach for Future generation research Training

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL · €4,124,385

  • Training the next generation of archaeological scientists: Interdisciplinary studies of pre-modern Plasters and Ceramics from the eastern Mediterranean

    THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE · CY

  • Enabling X-ray CT based Industry 4.0 process chains by training Next Generation research experts

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Perspectives For Future Innovation in Tendon Repair

    HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · FI

  • Training in Upscaling particle Systems: Advancing Industry across Length-scales

    THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH · UK

  • Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical systems

    TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN · IE

  • Multidisciplinary Training of Young Researchers in Novel Implantable Bio-inspired sensors

    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · ES

  • COMPutationally empowered Electromagnetic industrial TalEnts

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT

  • Drug repurposing and discovery multidisciplinary training network

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN · NL

  • Eco-Innovative Aquaculture System Training for European Industrial Doctorates

    UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA · ES

  • Fluids driving the evolution of the continental crust: influence of pathway networks, fluxes, and time scales.

    STICHTING VU · NL

  • Innovative designs to enable plastic packaging circular economy

    POLYKEY POLYMERS SL · ES

  • Modelling and optimal design of refractories for high-temperature industrial applications for a low carbon society

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO · IT

  • Solidarity in Diversity

    UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE

  • European Training Network on Electromagnetic Risks in Medical Technology

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • Relearning Perception Action In Rehabilitation from a Systems perspective

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • AErial RObotic TRAINing for the next generation of European infrastructure and asset maintenance technologies

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Safeguarding future production of fish in aquaculture systems with water recirculation

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,311,280

  • Economic Policy in Complex Environments

    UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD · DE

  • Sustainability And Procurement in International, European, and National Systems

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO · IT

  • Data Engineering for Data Science

    UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · BE

  • Cu-CHA zeolite-based catalysts for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx in exhaust diesel gas: addressing the issue of Sulfur Stability

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO · IT

  • Drug Absorption in Geriatric Patients and Older People: a training network innovating drug development for the advanced age population

    ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON · EL

  • Reference materials and methods for emerging pollutants

    STICHTING VU · NL

  • Soft and Tangible Organic Responsive Materials progressing roBOTic functionS

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

  • C-C Bond Formation Using Top Performing Enzymes

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE

  • PERovskite SEmiconductors for PHOtoNics

    FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA · IT

  • Hybrid and Organic Thermoelectric Systems

    RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG · DE

  • Photocatalysis as a tool for synthetic organic chemistry

    UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · NL

  • Advanced machine learning for Innovative Drug Discovery

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

  • Opto-Biomechanical Eye Research Network

    UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO · PT

  • Research and Training Network for Smart and Green Energy Systems and Business Models

    UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA · ES

  • Training network on the conversion of CO2 by smart autotrophic biorefineries

    ACIB GMBH · AT

  • Embedded learning and optimization for the next generation of smart industrial control systems

    ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG · DE

  • A game change in continuous biosensing: Molecularly engineered affinity-based nanoswitches for personal monitoring

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

  • Developing optoelectronics in two-dimensional semiconductors

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN · DE

  • Transit Oriented Development (TOD) for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural-Urban Regions

    UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE

  • Cerebellum and Emotional Networks

    UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL · UK

  • MOnItoRing of large scale complex technologicAl systems

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • INSpiring Pressure gain combustion Integration, Research, and Education

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE · IT

  • building GrEener and more sustainable soCieties by filling the Knowledge gap in social science and engineering to enable responsible artificial intelligence co-creatiOn

    UNIVERSITAET SIEGEN · DE

  • Spin-orbit materials, emergent phenomena and related technology training

    ASOCIACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA EN NANOCIENCIAS CIC NANOGUNE · ES

  • Sustainable Building Lime Applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches

    UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO · PT

  • Boosting advanced doctoral training in innovative colon targeting drugs

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Spatial thinking in STEM learning: Training a new generation of researchers to increase enrolment and gender balance in STEM learning by addressing deficits in spatial ability among children in Europe

    TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN · IE

  • European training and research network on Autonomous Barges for Smart Inland Shipping

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Evolutionary games and population dynamics: from theory to applications

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL

  • Smart surface design for efficient ice protection and control

    UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA · IT

  • Capture, recycling and societal management of phosphorus in the environment

    SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET · DK

  • A fully integrated, animal-free, end-to-end modelling approach to oral drug product development

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK · IE · €3,464,964

  • Encompassing Training in fUnctional Disorders across Europe

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • ChemArch: The organic chemistry and molecular biology of archaeological artefacts

    UNIVERSITY OF YORK · UK

  • Industrial Doctorate Training Network on Future Wireless Connected and Automated Industry enabled by 5G

    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · ES

  • Eradicating Poverty: Pathways towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

    RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM · DE

  • Electron Nanocrystallography

    FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA · IT

  • Physics of Microbial Motility

    FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH · DE

  • Comorbidity of cHronic Pain and mood disorders: breaking the vicious cYcle

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • Research and training network on understanding Deep icE corE Proxies to Infer past antarctiC climatE dynamics

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

  • Stability and Sensitivity Methods for Flow Control and Industrial Design

    UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES

  • Advanced Research Training for the Biotribology of Natural and Artificial Joints in the 21st Century

    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · UK

  • Colonization resistance: training and research towards microbiome derived solutions to foodborne disease

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

  • Taming the environmental impact of mobile networks through GREEN EDGE computing platforms

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT

  • Service-Oriented Ubiquitous Network-Driven Sound

    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

  • Training European Experts in Inflammation: from the molecular players to animal models and the bedside

    UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER · FR

  • Cross-scale concurrent material-structure design using functionally-graded 3D-printed matematerials.

    UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES

  • A multidisciplinary training network for the bioinspired development of glycomimetics tuning the Siglec-Sialoglycan axis

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT

  • Innovative Tools for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

  • Plenoptic Imaging

    TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI

  • Towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL

  • EU Training Network in understanding the molecular regulation and the role of endo-lysosomal processes in cardio-metabolic diseases

    ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL

  • european weather Extremes: DrIvers, Predictability and Impacts

    UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · SE

  • SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF NOVEL NONISOCYANATE POLYURETHANES

    UNIVERSITE DE MONS · BE

  • Pickering emulsions for food applications

    NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · NO

  • Training Network Sustainable Technologies

    WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · NL

  • Innvative approaches to identification of metabolic Targets for antimicrobials

    KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · DK

  • A knowledge-based training network for digitalisation of photosynthetic bioprocesses

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT

  • Surface Integrity for Micro/Nano Processing of Polymers: A European Research Training Network for High-Performance Medical Devices

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

  • Seismological Parameters and INstrumentation

    UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG · DE

  • Innovative Multi-disciPlinary European Research training netwOrk on VolcanoEs

    ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA · IT

  • Trapping and Removal of X-ray Contrast Medium agents from water resource and stream Sediments- New Concepts in Trapping, Recycling and Management

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT

  • Control Prediction and LeaRning in Mixing processes

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,989,007

  • Allostery in Drug Discovery

    IDRYMA IATROVIOLOGIKON EREUNON AKADEMIAS ATHINON · EL

  • Macro and Microplastic in Agricultural Soil Systems

    UNIVERSITAET AUGSBURG · DE

  • Oligonucleotides for Medical Applications

    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · UK