26 Jun 2025
Most recent MSCA COFUND call receives 136 proposals
The European Commission has announced that its Research Executive Agency (REA) has received a total of 136 proposals for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) 2025 COFUND call for doctoral and postdoctoral programmes. COFUND gives organisations a unique opportunity to attract research and innovation talent through their own doctoral and postdoctoral fellowship programmes by co-funding a significant part of the programme cost, which organisations need to top up with their own resources.
The number of 136 proposals, submitted by organisations in 27 countries, is a considerable increase compared to the 81 proposals submitted in 2024, out of which 27 were eventually selected for funding (12 doctoral training programmes and 15 postdoctoral fellowship programmes). The highest number of proposals comes from France (26), followed by Spain (14) and Germany and Finland (12 each). 9 proposals were submitted by organisations based in Austria.
The fifth call under Horizon Europe of the MSCA COFUND scheme closed on 24 June 2025. Through the 2025 call, the European Union will fund around 30 projects with an indicative budget of €105.6 million. The European Commission will also award Seal of Excellence certificates to applicants who applied to the MSCA COFUND call in 2025 but whose proposals cannot be funded due to budgetary constraints. This label recognises the value of these high-quality proposals and helps organisations secure funding from other sources.
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