MSCA COFUND awarded to 31 doctoral training and postdoctoral fellowship programmes

The European Commission has announced the results of the 2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call for Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND). A total of €105.6 million will be provided to fund 31 projects – 14 doctoral training programmes and 17 post-doctoral fellowship programmes of outstanding quality, subject to successful conclusion of the grant agreement preparation process.

Through COFUND, organisations can create or enhance their own doctoral training and postdoctoral fellowship programmes, with the goal of recruiting researchers and attracting international talent with MSCA co-funding a significant share of their costs. Institutions benefiting from such funding need to top it up with their own funding sources.

The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 136 applications for this call, of which 134 were eligible and evaluated. With 31 selected projects, the success rate for this call is 23%.

These collaborative programmes are often implemented by international partnerships. They cover over 519 organisations in 47 countries in the EU, countries associated to Horizon Europe and beyond, including 69 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The selected projects are coordinated by organisations in 12 countries.

An overview of the evaluation results, cut-off scores and statistics has been published on the MSCA COFUND 2025 call page.

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