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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