MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024

Research Service

Submission deadline: 27 November 2024

Deadline: 27 November, 2024
MSCA DN implement doctoral programmes set up by a network of complementary partners from the academic and the non-academic sector in different countries across EU and beyond. DN aim to train creative, entrepreneurial, innovative, resilient and highly skilled doctoral candidates.

Eligibility

Doctoral Networks are open to international consortia of academic and non-academic organisations. They should include:

  • at least three independent legal entities, each established in a different EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country and with at least one of them established in an EU Member State,
  • on top of this minimum, other organisations from any country in the world can also join,
  • specific conditions apply to Industrial and Joint Doctorates (JD).

Funding and duration
Project can last for up to 4 years (up to 5 years for JD). The duration of each fellowship is minimum 3 and maximum 36 months, except in the case of joint doctorates, where the maximum duration of a fellowship is 48 months.

The grant, unit base, provides support for each recruited researcher plus Institutional costs. Candidates must be recruited under an employment contract or equivalent.

Researchers funded by Doctoral Networks

  • must not have a doctoral degree at the date of their recruitment
  • can be of any nationality
  • should be enrolled in a doctoral programme during the project
  • should spend at least 50% of their time outside academia, for Industrial Doctorates
  • should comply with the mobility rules

Doctoral candidates employed by a Swiss Institution will be directly financed by SERI. They don’t have the status of an official MSCA grantee but DN’s rules also apply to the them.

More information
MSCA Doctoral Networks website

Contact
Sara Caspani