Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Networks

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Funding organisation:

Europese Commissie

What?

Doctoral Networks are a part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and fall under the ‘excellent science’ pillar of the EU’s research and innovation funding programme Horizon Europe. These actions aim to boost lasting careers for excellent and innovative researchers through international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary training. Doctoral Networks are formed by strategic international consortia of academic and non-academic partners that recruit several doctoral candidates (DCs) for individual PhD projects within an overarching collaborative research project. Doctoral Networks are open to innovative and original research from all fields and are encouraged to be interdisciplinary.

There are three types of networks:

  1. Standard Doctoral Networks (DN)
  2. Industrial Doctorates (DN-ID): DCs are trained extensively outside academia and are jointly supervised by academic and non-academic partners.
  3. Joint Doctorates (DN-JD): DCs are enrolled in a programme that leads to a joint, double, or multiple degree.

Doctoral Networks can last for up to four years for DN and DN-ID, and up to five years for DN-JD. The duration of a fellowship is three to 36 months for DN and DN-ID, and three to 48 months for DN-JD. Consortia contain at least three beneficiaries from three different Member States or Associated Countries and no more than 40% of the budget can be allocated to institutions of the same country. Each beneficiary must recruit at least one DC and can organise secondments for them to other beneficiaries or associated partners anywhere in the world.

Who?

Doctoral candidates:

  • can be of any research area;
  • can be of any nationality;
  • must not have a doctoral degree at the date of their recruitment;
  • have to be enrolled in a doctoral programme;
  • should work full-time on the project;
  • must comply with the mobility rule.

Mobility rule: DCs must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date.

Doctoral Candidates receive extensive and tailor-made training and are encouraged to take on secondments outside academia. For DN-ID, these secondments must encompass at least 50% of the fellowship.

Application?

Proposals have to be submitted using the HORIZON Europe Participant Portal.

Resubmission restrictions: please note that, according to the Work Programme, applicants having received a score below 80% in the DN 2023 call are not eligible to resubmit a similar proposal in this DN 2024 call.

More specific UHasselt facts and figures to complete the application form can be found on our intranet page.

Regulations?

Doctoral Networks indicative timeline:

  • 27 November 2024: Deadline for submitting proposals
  • April 2025: Notification of call results to applicants (to be confirmed)
  • July 2025: Grant agreement signature for successful projects (to be confirmed)
  • Summer 2025: First EU-funded projects start (to be confirmed)

More information?

Upcoming information session on MSCA-DN - Call 2024
  • Organised by OBI
  • Wednesday 9 October (12h00-13h30)
  • Register before 27 September (registration form)

Further readings:

Deadline intern

20.11.2024, 27.11.2024

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail ward.ceunen@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211268945

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