European Commission Call for Applications: Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND 2025
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND 2023 supports new or existing doctoral programmes and postdoctoral fellowship schemes. The aim of the action is to spread the best practices of the MSCA including international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.
Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines (“bottom-up”), but exceptionally, can also focus on specific disciplines.
Types of COFUND:
- Doctoral Programmes – They offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences. They will lead to the award of a doctoral degree.
- Postdoctoral Programmes – They fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers.
Eligibility:
A single legal entity in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country applies. Additional partners can be included in the project.
The types of organisations COFUND may work with include: government entities, regional authorities, funding agencies, universities, research organisations, enterprises.
Researchers involved in COFUND projects:
- can be of any nationality (nationals or long-term residents of an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country, in case the main part of a Postdoctoral Fellowship is carried out in a non-associated Third Country)
- are supported during a minimum of 3 months
- should comply with the mobility rules: in general, they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting organisation or implementing partner for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the deadline of the co-funded programme’s call
- can go on short term secondments
- for COFUND Doctoral Programmes
- must not have a doctoral degree
- should be enrolled in a doctoral programme during the project
- for COFUND Postdoctoral Programmes
- must have a doctoral degree. Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will also be considered as postdoctoral researchers and will be considered eligible to apply.
- should not already be permanently employed by the organisation hosting them.
Indicative budget:
- A beneficiary can receive a maximum of €10 million per call.
- COFUND projects should last for up to five years and should recruit at least 3 researchers.
- COFUND funding helps host organisations cover for each supported researcher
- a fixed amount (COFUND allowance) equivalent to the minimum salary that researchers should receive. This allowance can be used to support any cost items of the programme.
- a long-term leave allowance and special needs allowance, if applicable
Read here for more information.
Submission deadline, 24 June 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time.
