GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines (“bottom-up”), but exceptionally can also focus on specific disciplines, notably when they are based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies). In this case, the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers to define their topic.

A Career Development Plan must be jointly established by the supervisor and each recruited researcher upon recruitment. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher’s training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events aimed at opening science and research to citizens. 

COFUND takes the form of:

A) Doctoral programmes: Doctoral programmes offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences.

B) Postdoctoral Programmes: Postdoctoral Programmes fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers.