MSCA Doctoral Networks 2027
MSCA Doctoral Networks 2027 · HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds international partnerships of universities, research institutions, and companies to run joint doctoral training programmes for early career researchers. It pays for recruiting and training doctoral candidates with both research skills and transferable skills like entrepreneurship and IP management, preparing them for careers inside and outside academia. Networks are encouraged to include industrial placements and joint degrees across countries.
research excellence · education skills
Who wins this
A consortium of universities, research organisations, and businesses from different countries that wants to jointly train doctoral candidates through shared supervision, secondments, and structured career development.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Funding model
- Unit costs. A fixed amount per unit (e.g. per researcher-month)
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks; HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates; HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- university, research organisation, business, SME, research infrastructure, other socio-economic actors
- Also required
- Joint supervision is mandatory for Industrial and Joint Doctorates, and a Career Development Plan must be established for each recruited doctoral candidate and revised within 18 months; detailed eligibility, financial, and evaluation conditions are set out in separate Work Programme annexes not reproduced here.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions Described in the MSCA part of the Work Programme. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in MSCA part of the Work Programme. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. Specific MSCA evaluation process is described on the MSCA section of the REA website. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. See exceptions and specific conditions in the MSCA part of the Work Programme. Specific conditions described in the MSCA part of the Work Programme.
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