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Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) and Individual Fellowships (IF)
“Provide simple explanations supported with figures.”
Halil İbrahim Ciftci with the project Super-HIPPO aims to discover the new anti-HIV drugs.Read the story here
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“Choose a topic that you are passionate about.”
James Ciarlo with his project PALEOSIM studies climate change impacts on the habitats of arthropods in the Circum-Sicilian islands.Read the story here
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“It is important to balance ambition and feasibility!”
Magdalena Bohutínská with the program CONstrainCONverge aims to explore the process of repeated adaptation in nature.Read the story here
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“You need to carefully read the documents provided on the Funding and Tenders portal.”
Korkut Kaan Tokgoz is developing a high data rate and, at the same time, an energy-efficient sub-terahertz transmitter.
“You need to be highly motivated and stay focused on your goal.”
Christoforos Panteli with the project SepsISensoR will give clinicians a new medical instrument in their arsenal, that will allow non-invasive diagnostics in hospitals.
“Choose a project you are enthusiastic about.”
AMPLIFI aims to design and develop an auxetic, antimicrobial polymer for biomedical devices
such as catheters.

“Luck plays a part but you also need to create your own luck by being proactive.”
Adam Bennett with the project DiBDEV aims to intercept molecular messages from the brain of migraine patients to better understand the processes that occur during migraine.Read the story here
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Doctoral Network (DN) and Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
“One should not give up, despite the low success rate.”
PHYMOL provides an ambitious programme of research and training, helping to produce a new generation of researchers in the broad field of molecular modelling.Read the story here
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“Focus on the application requirements, the impact on society and find the appropriate partners.”
The AQTIVATE project offers an interdisciplinary training programme for fifteen PhD research fellows in high performance & quantum computing, scalable algorithms and machine learning.Read the story here
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“Participate actively in conferences, COST actions, and other networks.”
The goal of the ALLPreT project is to enable the safe introduction of new and more sustainable foods into the human diet while protecting people from the unacceptable risk of developing food allergies.Read the story here
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“Sometimes it is not the first submission that succeeds.”
ALLODD’s objective is to design new molecules the therapy of proteins function regarding the ability to bind ligands.Read the story here
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“Don’t be discouraged by failed applications; learn from them.”
The FANTOM Doctoral Network seeks to train 10 PhD students through a research programme focusing on the cancer of the immune system called Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL).Read the story here
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“Comments of evaluators from our previous application provided some useful feedback.”
The doctoral network “Targeting RNA as an approach for treating retinal disease” (RETORNA) aims to study different types of RNA that are expressed in retinal cells.Read the story here
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“The Hungarian NCP provided generous technical assistance.”
RASOPTA’s goal is to identify factors endangering production safety and to bridge existing knowledge gaps related to these factors with regard to the farming of fish species that are important for human nutrition and economy in Europe.Read the story here
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“Do not go with vague ideas.”
DIEM is a Doctoral Networks project bringing together academic, government and industry
expertise to holistically investigate the managerial, economic, and societal implications of
Distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Read the story here
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“Talk to people with experience.”
The PLENOPTIMA project aims to develop a cross-disciplinary approach to plenoptic imaging,
which includes new optical materials and sensing principles, signal processing methods, new
computing architectures, and vision science modelling.
Read the story here
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COFUND
“Follow the guidelines of the European
Commission.”
The aim of A2M2TECH is to deliver an interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international excellent
doctoral training programme in all aspects of Advanced Materials and Advanced
Manufacturing,
with a major focus on additive manufacturing.
Read the story here
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“A successful COFUND project requires a team with four pillars: researchers, research managers, administrative facilitators and NCPs.”
The mission of ENRICH-TOGETHER is to host the next generation of leading experts in the Green and Blue Transition field, that will translate radically new concepts to scientific, economic, technological and social impacts.Read the story here
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Staff Exchanges (SE) and Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
“Carefully plan in advance the secondments.”
The main objective of the project is to advance our knowledge on crop priming in order to
foster the development of innovative and environmentally friendly tools to protect plants from
abiotic and biotic stresses.
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“You need a serious, dedicated and focused approach to developing your project proposal.”
The aim of the GaitREHub project is to develop an interactive tool for at-home rehabilitation with real-time telemonitoring from the clinic. It will enable at-home gait training for neurologically injured patients and any other patients in need of gait rehabilitation.Read the story here
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“You need a great project and great researchers, but this is not all!”
PsyCoMed project aims to examine the role of anthropogenic pollutants, including microplastics and agriculture pesticides, in the Mediterranean area as a risk factor for neuropsychiatric disorders and associated pathologies.Read the story here
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“Carefully study the rules of the programme to
ensure that all secondments can be implemented.”
PHENOMENO aims to develop comprehensive technological solutions for producing high-
quality physical breast phantoms derived from novel computational anthropomorphic breast
phantoms and novel 3D prototyping techniques.
Read the story here
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“Include SMEs and focus on practical application.”
The SAFEMILK project’s goal is the development of a novel complex assay for evaluation of milk
safety. This will result in an important tool for the dairy industry, guaranteeing sufficient safety
and quality of milk and dairy products.

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