MSCA Doctoral Networks 2025

Funded projects

• Flore Duranton

  Gut alterations in a chronic kidney disease rat model with diet‐induced vascular calcification

  Université de Montpellier · FR

• Mélanie Z. Lauria

  Discovery of Fluorotelomer Sulfones in the Blubber of Greenland Killer Whales ( <i>Orcinus orca</i> )

  Stockholm University · SE

• Federico Bosi

  A strain rate and temperature dependent yield criterion for ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) membranes

  University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland · CH

• Rodrigo Rivas-Barbosa

  Comparing the Structure of Microgels at Liquid–Liquid and Solid–Liquid Interfaces

  University of Edinburgh · GB

• Exploring Novel Drivers of Anti-Microbial Resistance

  EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · DE

• Doctoral Network on Energy Geostructures Integration: Buildings, Infrastructure and Underground Storage

  THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH · UK

• Continuous, Automated Validation, and Evaluation of Cognitive Robots in Open-Ended Environments

  UNIVERSITAET BREMEN · DE

• European Training Network on Post-Digital Computing + (POSTDIGITAL+)

  UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS · ES · €3,681,576

• Generative Explainee-aware Explainability and Transparency in Proactive Cyber-Physical Eco-Environments

  EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY · UK

• Intelligent Sensing and Communication as Training Network for Perceptive Mobile Networks in 6G

  ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS · EL

• Advancing in the CHallenge of Improving Lymphoma and LEukemia Survival

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA CONTRA LA LEUCEMIA JOSEP CARRERAS · ES

• Theaters, Sanctuaries, Performance: Interaction and Sustainability

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO · IT

• The rethinking of dyeing as fundamental and applied research training for sustainable fabric and food processing: Development of novel biogenic dyes for classical and innovative application

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT · €3,635,712

• Deconstructing adaptive evolution of metastasis

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES

• Self-AwaRe NEuromorphic ArChiTectures: Security, Reliability and Energy-Efficiency

  RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL

• Decadence for doctoral studies

  UNIVERSITE BOURGOGNE EUROPE · FR

• UPscaling deep conversion routes for hard-to-reCYCLE biogenic waste

  POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT

• Regenerative engineering innovation in early intervention of osteoarthritis

  UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA · ES

• A European Training Program to Foster the Full Therapeutic Potential of Antisense Technology across Tissues

  STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM · NL

• Representations, Motives and Langlands Duality

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €2,399,688

• BRaIn Disease monitoring throuGh the lifE span powered by Artificial Intelligence

  AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI

• Building decentralIsed, DistributEd And Local micro-GRids for dEcarbonisation Electrification challeNge

  UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · ES

• Harnessing the DNA Damage Response to improve plant tolerance to heat stress

  UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY · FR

• Ports as Energy Transition Hubs

  COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL · DK

• GREENS: A Training Programme on 5R's implementation in the design, manufacturing and application of micro and nanorobotic platforms

  UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · ES

• Time-domain Analysis to study the Life-cycle and Evolution of Supermassive black holes

  ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON · EL · €2,453,616

• Responsible Space Growth: Sustainability Resilience and Competitiveness for the Emerging Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Economy

  HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY · UK

• Health Economic Policy Analysis with Real World Data

  UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN · DE

• Doctoral School PALPROX “Proxies from Small Vertebrates in Prehistoric Archaeology"

  FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT CATALA DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIO SOCIAL · ES

• Advanced Leidenfrost Effect

  UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE · BE

• Decarbonising energy-intensive industries with renewable synthetic fuels

  POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT

• Anti-IgLON5 disease: From Neuroinflammation to Neurodegeneration

  FUNDACIO DE RECERCA CLINIC BARCELONA-INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMEDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER · ES

• Photocatalytic Industrial Applications

  UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · ES · €1,590,408

• Self-organisation and barrier functions of the mammalian glycocalyx – Training glycoscientists across disciplines and borders to stimulate new approaches, understanding and biomedical applications

  UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · UK

• Targeting Extracellular Matrix Remodelling in Cutaneous Wounds to Promote Better Healing

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

• Mapping the Uncharted Human Metabolism for Novel Food Bioactives

  UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE

• Quantum Research and Innovation in Optical clocks for Upcoming Scientists

  UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · NL

• Print4Life – Advanced Research Training for Additive Manufacturing of the Biomaterials and Tissues of the Future

  UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · SE

• Intelligent Ingestible Devices for Gastrointestinal Therapeutics, Diagnosis or Intervention.

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

• Structured functional glasses for lasing sensing and health applications

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR

• Digital-Twins for Hydrogen and Ammonia injection and ignition in engines for Transport Systems

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA · IT

• Shaping Porous Electrode Architecture to Improve Current Density and Energy Efficiency in Redox Flow Batteries

  FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE

• Training the next generation of experts in knowledge-based design PRinciples Of induStrial-scale PhotorEactoRs

  UNIVERSITAET ULM · DE

• saFe learNIng for lArge scaLe InTerconnected sYstems

  AVIGNON UNIVERSITE · FR

• Respiratory Precision Medicine PhD Training Network- Excellence through Systems Biology, Spatial and Single-cell Transcriptomics

  ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN · NL · €3,280,572

• METABOLIC REGULATION OF GENOME FUNCTION AND CELL IDENTITY

  FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA CONTRA LA LEUCEMIA JOSEP CARRERAS · ES

• EuroMedMig PhD Network

  UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA · ES

• Boosting sustainability of European aquaculture through Biofloc Technology

  UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA · ES · €3,195,594

• Multicore fiber Applications and TeCHnologies

  Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa · PT

• UnderstandiNg fraIlty tOwards a future of healthy ageiNg

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO · IT · €3,423,240

• Nanoplatforms for Neuroscience

  FUNDACION IMDEA NANOCIENCIA · ES

• wAll teichoic acids as immUnogenic and conseRved altErnative targets for therapies versUs S. aureus

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT

• History, Archaeology, and Botany of Pacific Islands: assessing the Impacts of Early European colonialism on Peoples and Forests

  AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES

• 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

• Actionable Performance Intelligence towards Health and Care Systems for People, Planet, and Prosperity

  STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL · €3,957,048

• European compact accelerators, their applications, and entrepreneurship

  DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY · DE

• Closing the loop in stereoselective catalysis with data-driven approaches

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ · DE

• Fundamentals and Applications of Doped Organic Semiconductors

  RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG · DE

• Edible Soft Matter

  CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €4,041,810

• MAterials for Smarter AUTonomous sensOrs

  UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO · PT

• Social aWareness for sErvicE roboTs

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT

• Harnessing AI and Data-Intensive Technologies

  UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES

• Network for Cross-disciplinary assessment of Endocrine Disrupting compounds: training the next generation of toxicologists

  UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE · €3,871,908

• Designing, Managing and Debugging Quantum Networks

  SOUTH EAST TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · IE

• Privacy for Smart Speech Technology

  AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI

• InSilicoHealth- Training the virtual twin professionals to support healthy ageing

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €3,944,784

• Interdisciplinary doctoral training on oligonucleotide-based therapies for myotonic dystrophy

  INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR

• Metabolic control of cell growth by mTOR in health and disease: a multi-disciplinary training

  UNIVERSITE PARIS CITE · FR · €3,953,988

• Brain Health in Menopausal Women

  UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM JENA · DE · €4,476,069

• Frontier RESearch COmpetences for Neuro-modulation and Oscillations in Pain

  AALBORG UNIVERSITET · DK

• EURopean Epitranscriptomics of Cancer Academy

  ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL

• Improvement of the quality and safety of fermented beverages through the management and control of spoilage microorganisms

  UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX · FR · €3,974,796

• Terahertz Integrated Biosensing from molecular, vesicular to the cellular and tissue level – TeraIBs

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

• Photo-switchable ultra-thin membranes for molecular separation

  LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER PHOTONISCHE TECHNOLOGIEN E.V. · DE

• European Doctoral Network for Resilient Remote Healthcare using Intelligent Sensing and Communication Technologies

  UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL

• Complex lipid membranes for science and technology

  CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €3,258,540

• Building the nExT generaTion of marine Eco-friendly wind faRm

  CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT

• Metaproteome-based leveraged microbiome management in the context of One Health

  LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR ANALYTISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN-ISAS-EV · DE

• Towards Innovative Treatments and Management Of Surgical and Burn Wounds

  MYBIOTECH GMBH · DE · €2,275,839

• The integration of technology with medical and healthcare education - a leadership program

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

• Chiral Nanocluster Materials

  POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA · PL

• Electric solar wind Sail doctors

  TARTU ULIKOOL · EE

• Wireless Networks at Optical Speed with Deterministic Performance

  UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS RESEARCH CENTER · EL

• Advanced Research on Viroid Pathogenesis and Control for Agricultural Sustainability

  UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI · SI

• Leveraging Anaerobic Digestion through environmental stresses

  UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE

• Spatial Crosstalk in Immuno-Oncology

  PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG · AT

• Training network for tracking and controlling therapeutic immune cells in cancer

  LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE

• URBAN MOBILITY CULTURES IN TRANSITION: SOCIO-SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICES

  UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · ES

• ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Doctoral Network

  UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID · ES

• Educating Europe`s Future Engineers for the Next Generation of Mobile Working Machines: AI driven Sustainability, Productivity, and Safety

  TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI

• Embedded AI Systems and Applications

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL

• 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

• Advancing Energy Conversion Technologies: High-Frequency Magnetics in Modern Power Electronics

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

• Inspiring New doctorate Candidates to Empower the Production of interconverTIble and Optimized ziNc-based batteries and supercapacitors

  UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO · PT

• Reliable Conversational Domain-specific Data Exploration and Analysis

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA · IT · €3,289,140

• Transcending limitations of translational research on Multiple Sclerosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder - Spectral, brain-related disorder, patient outcomes, cognition, effect, symptoms

  AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK

• Training doctoral researchers in advanced strategies towards energy-neutral wastewater treatment

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

• Hub Molecules of Metabolism and Signalling – Key regulators of Life

  UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET · NO

• Improving Life expectancy of LUNG transplant recipients through innovative ex vivo perfusion gene therapy

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE · €4,230,837

• Crystallisation towards efficient and sustainable biomanufacturing

  UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO · PT

• Materials UP-cycling TO fabricate advanced MEMbrane technologies for water and food industries: towards zero waste and a circular economy

  UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA · ES

• Holistic integration of eco-Friendly dEsign tools, mateRials, fabrication technologies for the responsible co-creation of future Sustainable integrated electronic systems

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

• Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies

  JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · DE

• TRAMPOLINe-: A training programme to promote the industrial adoption of microbial electrochemical technologies

  UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · ES · €2,644,560

• Computational and Experimental Enzyme Engineering for New Polymers

  UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA · PT

• European Doctoral Network Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Electromagnetic Compatibility

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · NL

• Sustainable Materials-by-Design For Renewable Energy

  UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX · FR

• Co-construction in the field of social welfare

  UNIVERSITE PARIS NANTERRE · FR

• Learning Network for AI and Data-Powered Social Innovation and Co-Creation of Transformative Change

  UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE

• Scientific training Programme for Advanced Research and Knowledge in Light-Matter Engineering

  DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK

• Responses of European Forests to Global Change: Building synergies among flagship manipulation experiments through a network of next generation scientists

  THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · UK · €4,746,744

• Doctoral Network on Interfacial Water in Membrane Transport

  UNIVERSITAT LINZ · AT

• Low Data Machine Learning for Sustainable Chemical Sciences

  FARM-ID - Associacao da Faculdade de Farmacia para a Investigacao e Desenvolvimento · PT

• Generative AI for Industrial Design Engineering

  Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH · DE

• Coupled Problems for Decarbonization in Industry and Power Generation

  HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV · DE

• Training the next generation of research experts on dynamic X-ray imaging and smart emerging materials

  UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN · BE

• Doctoral Network on Assistive Health Technology in Unsupervised/Home Settings (AERIALIST)

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

• Beyond the current: Improving European flowing waters in an era of global change

  SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET · SE · €2,192,760

• In-Situ Monitoring of Electromagnetic Interference

  KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · BE

• NATECH Risk management and Resilience of High-TECH industries and Critical infrastructures across EUrope

  RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN · DE

• Entrepreneurship and Place: How Entrepreneurs Manage Evolving Relationships Across the Life-cycle

  SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET · DK

• Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive mechanisms and Social Dynamics

  UNIVERSITAS NEBRISSENSIS SA · ES

• Strategies for Healing Implant-associated infections and Enhancing Longevity in Devices

  GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET · SE · €4,725,090

• Robust biomarker binders, probes and assays for sustainable precision medicine

  MALMO UNIVERSITET · SE

• Jim Jui-Kai Chen

  Tunable optical matter: electrostatic repulsion modulates near- and far-field gold nanoparticle arrangements

  KU Leuven · BE

• Marta Pérez-Villanueva

  Soil protist diversity enhances prokaryotic diversity, and regulates dominant prokaryotes and the abundance of key nitrogen cycling genes

  Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research · DE

• Morena Raiola

  A method for analysing tissue motion and deformation during mammalian organogenesis

  Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research · ES

• Zakia Alam

  Fosl1 is a transcriptional effector of BRAFV600E-driven intestinal tumorigenesis

  La Trobe University · AU

• Anja ten Brinke

  Antigen-specific B cell response regulation by IL-10–producing tolerogenic dendritic cells

  Sanquin · NL

• Saketh Reddy Ranamalla

  A quality by design strategy to develop curcumin and siRNA co-loaded lipoplexes to target osteoarthritis-related inflammation and oxidative stress

  Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy · RO