Marie Skłodowska-Curie DOCTORAL NETWORKS | Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics at the Gdańsk University of Technology

A consortium of universities, research institutions, enterprises (including SMEs) and other institutions apply for the project. The consortium must include at least 3 institutions from three different EU Member States or associated with the Horizon Europe framework program. Institutions from any country and sector can participate in the project. Institutions can play the role of beneficiaries in the consortium and then they have to hire at least one scientist or partner - in this case they do not have their own budget and their costs are reimbursed by the beneficiaries.

Each researcher employed in the Doctoral Networks project must also be a PhD student.

Types of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks projects:

• Doctoral Networks: enables the development of doctoral programs through the collaboration of universities, research institutions, enterprises (including SMEs) and all other institutions from Europe and beyond. The program responds to the needs of development in the areas of research and innovation, enables scientists to have direct contact with the academic and non-academic environment, offers training, exchange of knowledge and skills;
• Industrial Doctorates: is dedicated to PhD students who want to develop their skills outside of academia, especially in the industrial and business sectors. Fellows must be enrolled in a doctoral school and be under the joint supervision of partners from the academic and non-academic industries;
• Joint Doctorates: the program offers international, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration leading to the award of joint or multiple doctoral degrees. The cooperation is based on the joint selection of candidates and care.

The project budget includes the salaries of doctoral students, the costs of their research and training, network activities, organization of training and conferences as well as management costs and indirect costs - in the form of unit costs, calculated on the basis of the number of person-months planned to employ doctoral students.

Researcher's salary (gross amounts including employer's costs) / month:

• basic: € 3,400 (the amount is subject to the correction factor appropriate for the country of the host institution. In Poland it is 70.5%),
• mobility allowance: 600 €,
• family supplement (if applicable): € 660,
• long-term illness allowance: according to the formula specified in the MSCA Work Program,
• the addition of the so-called special needs allowance (if applicable): as set out in the MSCA Work Program.

Institution costs / month:

• research, training and network activities: € 1,600,
• management and indirect costs: € 1,200,
• The living allowance is subject to a country-specific correction factor. In Poland, it is 70.5%.

Projects can last a maximum of 4 years, the hiring of individual scientists can be planned between 3 and 36 months. Doctoral students may be seconded to other members of the consortium for a period not exceeding 1/3 of their employment in the project. In projects such as Industrial doctorates, it is required to plan employment of a doctoral student in the amount of 50% of the employment time in the non-academic sector.

Up to 360 person-months of employment for PhD students can be planned in the project. For Industrial Doctorates and Joint Doctorates projects, 180 more person-months can be scheduled.

Applications are submitted via the Funding & Tenders Oportunities portal of the European Commission.

Deadline: November 15^th, 2022 (17:00 Brussels time).

More information is available on the website of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.