The European Commission has published the results of the 2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks (DN) call.
149 projects out of 946 applications have been retained for funding, corresponding to an overall success rate of 15.8%. 1199 organisations in 62 countries are involved in these MSCA DN projects, with 796 organisations from the public sector and 403 from the private sector. Of the 403 organisations from the private sector, 124 organisations can be classified as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The total allocated budget is €429.4 million, and 1650 doctoral candidates in and outside academia are expected to receive training as part of the 2022 MSCA DN scheme.
€47.5 million is for 14 Industrial Doctoral programmes to train PhD candidates and develop their skills outside academia, including in industry and business. In this DN scheme, doctoral candidates will also benefit from joint industry-academia supervision.
€43.6 million is for 12 Joint Doctoral programmes, which support joint selection, training and supervision of doctoral candidates leading to jointly or multiply awarded doctoral degrees.
Selected projects are coordinated by organisations in 17 countries and seven MSCA DN projects have been awarded to UK-based coordinators. Projects have been successful in the different research fields as follows:
- Engineering and Information and Communication Technology (ICT): 33.6%
- Life Sciences: 26.2%
- Chemistry: 12.8%
- Environment and Geosciences: 9.4%
- Social sciences and Humanities: 8.7%
- Physics: 7.4%
- Mathematics: 1.3%
- Economics: 0.7%
Further information, including an overview of the evaluation results, cut-off scores and statistics, has been published in the section ‘Call Updates’ on the 2022 MSCA DN call webpage. The European Research Executive Agency (REA) has now informed all applicants about the outcome of their evaluation and will contact projects on the reserve list once all grant offers on the initial main list have been processed, either to signature or withdrawal.
REA expects the first MSCA DN projects to begin in the Summer of 2023.