MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023
136 projects were funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks in 2023, across 19 countries.
Most-funded institutions
- KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN8
- DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET4
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS3
- POLITECNICO DI MILANO3
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT3
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN3
- AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS2
- ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG2
Funded projects
Tracking Nanomaterial Performance, Towards Digital Twins of Quantum Dots Under Loading
UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €3,989,239.20
Time-domain Analysis to study the Life-cycle and Evolution of Supermassive black holes
ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON · GR · €2,453,616
Fluxes at divergent plate Boundary Environments Analyzed in Time and Space
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · FI · €2,778,710.40
Landscape Laboratories: Design strategies for sustainable and beautiful urban landscapes in the Anthropocene
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER · DE · €1,615,989.60
International Dimensions and Effects of Populism
ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG · DE · €2,379,002.40
Closing the fibre-reinforced composites loop: recycling materials for recycled components
POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €3,817,562.40
Smart disassembly, functionalisation and reassembly of plant fibres for fully recyclable bio-based composites.
UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · AT · €2,443,996.80
UPright radiotherapy: Learning, Innovation, Fellowship and Training
GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FUR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH · DE · €3,928,528.80
CRItical raw maTERIAl treatment and recovery from mining tailings and waste dumps
POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €3,370,730.40
Exploring the therapeutic potential of perinatal cell SECRETomes
UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE · IT · €2,585,808
DEaling with conflicts related to MIgration: NEgotiating social cohesion through communication
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €2,471,536.80
A European Training Program to Foster the Full Therapeutic Potential of Antisense Technology across Tissues
STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM · NL · €2,951,611.20
Spatial Communication and Ageing across LAnguages
UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER · DE · €3,280,082.40
Towards an Understanding of Artificial Intelligence via a transparent, open and explainable perspective
POLITECHNIKA SLASKA · PL · €3,358,980
Scaling Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Zooming in on Multidisciplinary Interconnected Challenges
COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL · DK · €4,235,100
Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €3,876,998.40
Harnessing the DNA Damage Response to improve plant tolerance to heat stress
UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY · FR · €2,254,766.40
GREENS: A Training Programme on 5R's implementation in the design, manufacturing and application of micro and nanorobotic platforms
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · ES · €3,754,893.60
Deconstructing adaptive evolution of metastasis
FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES · €3,516,631.20
Exploring Novel Drivers of Anti-Microbial Resistance
EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · DE · €2,669,407.20
PRostate cancer OMics Oriented inTErvention
MOSAIQUES DIAGNOSTICS GMBH · DE · €2,049,184.80
Ports as Energy Transition Hubs
COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL · DK · €4,380,796.80
UPscaling deep conversion routes for hard-to-reCYCLE biogenic waste
POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €3,790,184.40
Intelligent Sensing and Communication as Training Network for Perceptive Mobile Networks in 6G
ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS · GR · €3,253,593.60
European Training Network on Post-Digital Computing + (POSTDIGITAL+)
UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS · ES · €3,681,576
Building decentralIsed, DistributEd And Local micro-GRids for dEcarbonisation Electrification challeNge
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · ES · €4,083,364.80
Representations, Motives and Langlands Duality
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €2,399,688
Structured functional glasses for lasing sensing and health applications
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €3,560,882.40
Scientific Training for Post-Translational Modification Detection in Cancer Screening
AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,651,638.40
Indoor photovoltaics: towards an energy- and climate-neutral world
TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI · €4,038,321.60
Integrated Spectroscopy for Protein Analysis Using Metasurfaces and Interband/Quantum Cascade Devices
MUNSTER TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · IE · €4,080,420.40
Learning Network for AI and Data-Powered Social Innovation and Co-Creation of Transformative Change
UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €2,551,168.80
Co-construction in the field of social welfare
UNIVERSITE PARIS NANTERRE · FR · €3,957,537.60
Interdisciplinary doctoral training on oligonucleotide-based therapies for myotonic dystrophy
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €3,693,326.40
Respiratory Precision Medicine PhD Training Network- Excellence through Systems Biology, Spatial and Single-cell Transcriptomics
ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL · €3,280,572
Closing the loop in stereoselective catalysis with data-driven approaches
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ · DE · €2,623,812
Climate tectonics interactions using big data-informed models
UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN · NO · €3,563,020.80
Metabolic control of cell growth by mTOR in health and disease: a multi-disciplinary training
UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE · FR · €3,953,988
NEXT generation of over 25MW offshore wind Turbine rotor design
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,177,316.80
Understanding the formation, movement, and host-rock interaction of upper crustal aqueous fluids on Earth, from rock grain to tectonic plate scale
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK · IE · €3,969,043.20
Effective Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics via Designed Nanocarriers
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €4,000,132.80
Macrocycles for Drug Discovery
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT · DE · €3,270,780
saFe learNIng for lArge scaLe InTerconnected sYstems
AVIGNON UNIVERSITE · FR · €4,027,672.80
In-Situ Monitoring of Electromagnetic Interference
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,920,083.20
Quantum information science and Ultrafast nonlinear coherent control at the ATTOsecond timescale
ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG · DE · €3,953,253.60
Intelligent systems for autonomous wind power plant operations
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,020,451.20
Mechanical Characterisation of Nucleic Acids using Single Molecule Methods
CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB · SE · €4,085,935.20
High-throughput screening, synthesis and characterization of active materials for flow batteries
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE · €3,603,168
Autonomous Scanning Probe Microscopy for Life Sciences and Medicine powered by Artificial Intelligence
FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA · ES · €3,886,545.60
Advancing the development and implementation of hologenomics in biological sciences
NORGES MILJO-OG BIOVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET · NO · €2,870,877.60
Voice Communication Sciences
UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE · FR · €4,070,023.20
Reliable Conversational Domain-specific Data Exploration and Analysis
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA · IT · €3,289,140
MAterials for Smarter AUTonomous sensOrs
UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO · PT · €2,234,692.80
Automated online monitoring of smart composite structures
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €2,833,005.60
Advancing Research at the Intersection Between Gut Microbiota and Cancer Cachexia to Train Europe’s Future Leaders in Microbiota Medicine
LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR NATURSTOFF-FORSCHUNG UND INFEKTIONSBIOLOGIE EV HANS-KNOLL-INSTITUT · DE · €3,237,962.46
INsect Clock Initial Training Experience
BIOLOGICKE CENTRUM AV CR VVI · CZ · €3,877,120.80
value-ALIGNed socio-technical systems using large-language models (LLMs)
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €3,305,541.60
Embedded AI Systems and Applications
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €3,699,568.80
EuroMedMig PhD Network
UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA · ES · €2,927,551
Modelling the Biochemistry of Terpene Synthases
UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET · FR · €2,671,488
Building the nExT generaTion of marine Eco-friendly wind faRm
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €3,587,378.40
Advanced Research on Viroid Pathogenesis and Control for Agricultural Sustainability
UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI · SI · €2,532,686.40
DANIO-CODE - the next frontier: Decoding transcription regulation in regeneration by advanced genomics and computational tools
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €2,785,636.80
Multicore fiber Applications and TeCHnologies
Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa · PT · €3,450,657.60
Nanoplatforms for Neuroscience
FUNDACION IMDEA NANOCIENCIA · ES · €2,927,620.79
Advanced Leidenfrost Effect
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE · BE · €2,741,011.20
Harnessing AI and Data-Intensive Technologies
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES · €3,464,611.20
Consumer Demand Flexibility in Electricity Use
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €3,635,604
Sustainable Materials-by-Design For Renewable Energy
UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX · FR · €3,975,775.20
InnoGuard: Hybrid and Generative Intelligence for Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems
MONDRAGON GOI ESKOLA POLITEKNIKOA JOSE MARIA ARIZMENDIARRIETA S COOP · ES · €3,220,718.40
Innovative approaches to implantation research in health and disease
EUVITRO SLU · ES · €3,432,420
Liquid phase Ultrafast photoeMIssion spEctroscopy of nonadiabatic photoREactions in biomimetic systems
FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV · DE · €2,396,628
Contested EU Foreign Policy in an Era of Geopolitics
INSTITUT BARCELONA D ESTUDIS INTERNACIONALS, FUNDACIO PRIVADA · ES · €3,915,921.60
European Doctoral Network Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Electromagnetic Compatibility
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €3,989,239.20
InSilicoHealth- Training the virtual twin professionals to support healthy ageing
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,944,784
Actionable Performance Intelligence towards Health and Care Systems for People, Planet, and Prosperity
STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL · €3,957,048
Management of avian influenza in a vaccination context
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT · FR · €3,142,137.60
Free-space Optical Communications for Aerial-sateLlite networks
ECOLE CENTRALE DE MARSEILLE EGIM · FR · €3,569,385.60
Intelligent Ingestible Devices for Gastrointestinal Therapeutics, Diagnosis or Intervention.
SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA · IT · €2,686,665.60
Wireless Networks at Optical Speed with Deterministic Performance
UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS RESEARCH CENTER · GR · €3,454,941.60
Harnessing Hydrogen’s POtential With Rotating Detonation
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN · DE · €4,063,536
Application, effects and fate of nanomaterials in water treatment
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,981,769.86
Crystallisation towards efficient and sustainable biomanufacturing
UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO · PT · €3,285,662.40
AI in Parkinson's Disease
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE · €3,722,580
Doctoral Network on Assistive Health Technology in Unsupervised/Home Settings (AERIALIST)
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,384,928.80
Doctoral Network on Atmospheric Dust
THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE · CY · €3,343,197.60
European compact accelerators, their applications, and entrepreneurship
DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY · DE · €3,970,022.40
Social aWareness for sErvicE roboTs
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT · €3,188,527.20
Macrophage Targets for Metastatic Treatment
ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €4,094,748
Training Wind Energy Experts on Digitalisation
UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ES · €2,923,581.60
MOtorized NAnomachines: fundamentaLs, InnovationS, Applications
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €4,048,480.80
6G TERrestrial & non-teRrestrial integration through an AI-Native architecture
ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS · GR · €2,617,632
Scientific training Programme for Advanced Research and Knowledge in Light-Matter Engineering
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,233,937.60
Edible Soft Matter
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €4,041,810
Computational and Experimental Enzyme Engineering for New Polymers
UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA · PT · €2,563,653.60
Training network for tracking and controlling therapeutic immune cells in cancer
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €4,130,611.20
Improvement of the quality and safety of fermented beverages through the management and control of spoilage microorganisms
UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX · FR · €3,974,796
Bio-Stabilized Multiphase Materials as Carriers for Biopesticides
FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH · DE · €3,170,044.80
InnOvative ArtiFicial IntelligencE methodologIes for monitoRing and maintaining large scale complex infrastrUctures and obtaining greener, more Resilient and smart societies
POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €3,832,812
Airborne Wind Energy TRAining for Industrialization Network
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €3,325,615.20
Training doctoral researchers in advanced strategies towards energy-neutral wastewater treatment
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,949,948.80
URBAN MOBILITY CULTURES IN TRANSITION: SOCIO-SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICES
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES · €3,469,629.60
Cohomology, Geometry, Explicit Number Theory
UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES · FR · €2,754,276.80
Beyond the current: Improving European flowing waters in an era of global change
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET · SE · €2,192,760
Photo-switchable ultra-thin membranes for molecular separation
LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER PHOTONISCHE TECHNOLOGIEN E.V. · DE · €3,806,618.40
The integration of technology with medical and healthcare education - a leadership program
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €2,642,968.80
Decarbonising energy-intensive industries with renewable synthetic fuels
POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €4,000,622.40
Hub Molecules of Metabolism and Signalling – Key regulators of Life
UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET · NO · €4,181,039.90
Terahertz Integrated Biosensing from molecular, vesicular to the cellular and tissue level – TeraIBs
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL · €2,865,196.80
Privacy for Smart Speech Technology
AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI · €4,067,942.40
Photocatalytic Industrial Applications
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · ES · €1,590,408
FITNESS: For actIve disTribution NEtworks in Smart gridS
UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA - LA MANCHA · ES · €2,645,661.60
European Doctoral Network for Resilient Remote Healthcare using Intelligent Sensing and Communication Technologies
UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL · €2,900,692.80
Training the next generation of researchers that will bring rehab robots to clinical practice
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €2,096,033.40
TRAMPOLINe-: A training programme to promote the industrial adoption of microbial electrochemical technologies
UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · ES · €2,644,560
Beyond neuroInflammation: new Concepts to Elucidate the immune system’s vital role in Parkinson’s disease
RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €3,946,888.80
Targeting RNA with small molecules
UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN · NO · €4,281,897.60
METABOLIC REGULATION OF GENOME FUNCTION AND CELL IDENTITY
FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA CONTRA LA LEUCEMIA JOSEP CARRERAS · ES · €4,023,720.90
Leveraging Anaerobic Digestion through environmental stresses
UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE · €3,637,267.20
Healthy Adaptation to Pregnancy, Postpartum and Parenthood
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €4,002,720
Characterization and Recovery of Bionanoparticles for Vaccine Delivery and Gene Therapy
ACIB GMBH · AT · €3,626,251.20
Condensates at Membrane Scaffolds – Integrated Systems as Synthetic Cell Compartments
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €3,965,616
Network for Cross-disciplinary assessment of Endocrine Disrupting compounds: training the next generation of toxicologists
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE · €3,871,908
Challenging AI with Challenges from Physics: How to solve fundamental problems in Physics by AI and vice versa
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG · DE · €1,907,128.80
Quantum Inspired Valuation of circular real estate
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €2,748,477.60
Training and Innovation in Reliable and Efficient Chip Design for Edge AI
TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL · EE · €3,851,294.40
Complex lipid membranes for science and technology
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €3,258,540
Artificial Intelligence and sensor-fusion systems in sustainable (Green) robotics for precision agriculture
UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA · PT · €2,348,280
European Training Program for Deconvolution of Multi-scale Cilia Function in Health and Disease by Integrating Machine Learning-AI Approaches.
STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM · NL · €3,608,186.40
Improving QMRI By Realizing trustworthy integration of AI in Neuro-imaging
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE · €3,982,140
Frontier RESearch COmpetences for Neuro-modulation and Oscillations in Pain
AALBORG UNIVERSITET · DK · €4,167,943.20
wAll teichoic acids as immUnogenic and conseRved altErnative targets for therapies versUs S. aureus
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT · €3,533,767.20
PersonalIzed medicine in Chronic KidnEy Disease
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €2,671,620.76
Integrated multi-angle research and training network to eradicate leukemia minimal residual disease
STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL · €2,637,950.40
UnderstandiNg fraIlty tOwards a future of healthy ageiNg
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO · IT · €3,423,240
Hybrid INtegration of Alkaline niobate -tantalate films for advanced photonic and piezoelectric devices
UNIVERSITE MARIE ET LOUIS PASTEUR · FR · €3,852,872.80