Posted: 29 May 2024
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks aim to train creative, entrepreneurial, innovative, and resilient doctoral candidates who are prepared to face current and future challenges. These candidates will be equipped to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services that yield economic and social benefits.
The MSCA Doctoral Networks will enhance the attractiveness and excellence of doctoral training in Europe. They will equip researchers with a robust combination of research-related and transferable competencies, providing enhanced career perspectives in both academic and non-academic sectors through international, inter-sectoral, and interdisciplinary mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mindset.
Proposals under this Action should contribute to the following expected impacts:
- Strengthen Europe’s human capital base in R&I by training highly-skilled doctoral candidates;
- Improve the attractiveness of researchers’ careers, notably through better working and employment conditions for doctoral candidates in Europe;
- Enhance talent and knowledge circulation across the R&I landscape through international, inter-sectoral, and interdisciplinary mobility;
- Increase Europe’s attractiveness as a leading research destination;
- Enhance the quality of R&I contributing to Europe’s sustainable competitiveness;
- Establish sustainable collaboration between academic and non-academic organisations;
- Foster a culture of open science, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
KEY DATE
Submission deadline: 27 November 2024
CALL INFORMATION
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CONTACT
Applicants should contact the MSCA National Contact Point msca@esastap.org.za for queries relating to the application process.
ESASTAP is a collaboration between the Department of Science and Innovation, partnering member states and the European Commission. The programme’s main objective is to strengthen ties within the field of science, technology and innovation. Funding for projects, mainly sourced from both the Department of Science and Innovation of the Republic of South Africa and the European Commission.