Timeline
- 29 May 2024: Launch of the call for proposals
- 27 November 2024: Deadline for submitting proposals
- April 2025: Notification of call results to applicants (TBC)
- July 2025: Grant agreement signature for successful projects (TBC)
- August 2025: First EU-funded projects start (TBC)
The objective of MSCA Doctoral Networks (MSCA-DN) is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe and beyond to train highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their innovation capacities and boost their employability in the long-term.
Three types of MSCA-DN
- Standard Doctoral Networks: they implement doctoral programmes, by partnerships of universities, research institutions and infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond. These doctoral programmes will respond to well-identified needs in various research and innovation areas, expose the researchers to the academic and non-academic sectors, and offer research training, as well as transferable skills and competences relevant for innovation and long-term employability.
- Industrial Doctorates: they train PhD candidates who wish develop their skills and step outside academia, in particular in industry and business. Individual participants must be enrolled in a doctoral programme and jointly supervised by the academic and non-academic partners.
- Joint Doctorates: they provide a highly integrated type of international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in doctoral training leading to a joint doctoral degree or multiple doctoral degrees awarded by the participating institutions. PhD candidates must be enrolled in a joint programme and be jointly supervised.
Who can apply
MSCA-DN are open to international consortia of universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs and other 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.
UNIPI Support service
The support service for the call HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01-01 will be structured as follows:
- The Research Development Unit will organise one collective online training/information event in June 2024. The event will not be recorded, but the slides will be made available.
- The Research Development Unit will develop a toolkit for candidates.
- Researchers interested in coordinating MSCA-DN projects must express their interest by writing to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. by 27/08/2024 (no support will be given to requests received after the deadline).
- The support will consist of up to a maximum of 3 revisions of proposals in a one-to-one mode. Drafts must be submitted according to predetermined deadlines, which will be established once the number of proposals to be reviewed is determined.
CONTACTS
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