Different types of projects
- Doctoral Networks are large collaborative projects that fund up to 15 PhD candidates in an international consortium.
- Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF), formerly known as Individual Fellowships (IF), is an individual mobility scheme that finances a two-year position for an incoming researcher.
Doctoral Networks
MSCA Doctoral Network (partner): EUFOG: Contested EU Foreign Policy in an Era of Geopolitics
Contact: Helene Sjursen, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Duration: 01.12.2024 – 30.11.2028
EUFOG analyses how the EU is reconsidering its international role amid geopolitical shifts.
MSCA Doctoral Network (partner): ESSGN: The European Social Science Genetics Network
Contact: Eivind Ystrøm, Department of Psychology
Duration: 01.03.2023 – 28.02.2027
ESSGN will analyse to what extent genetic ("nature") and environmental ("nurture") factors contribute to equality of opportunity and intergenerational mobility, and establish how nature and nurture jointly shape inequalities in life chances.
MSCA Doctoral Network (partner): HELENAE
Contact: Wenzel Geissler, Department of Social Anthropology
Duration: 01.01.2026 – 01.01.2031
HEALENAE is a continuation of the now-completed doctoral network ANTHUSIA, and will explore the relationship between environment and health in Africa and Europe.
MSCA Doctoral Network (partner): VoCS: Voice Communication Sciences
Contact: Sascha Frühholz, Department of Psychology
Duration: 01.12.2024 – 30.11.2028
The project will study how humans and animal species use their voices to communicate and combine this with voice technology (VT) within artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically, the project will examine how AI voices manage to convey so-called paralinguistic information, such as identity, emotional state, and health.
MSCA Doctoral Network (partner): VORTEX: Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism
Contact: Tore Bjørgo, C-REX Center for Research on Extremism
Duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2026
VORTEX' overarching aim is to develop new evidence-based innovative strategies to counter and prevent ideological and behavioral radicalization.
Completed Doctoral Networks
MSCA European Joint Doctorate (partner): ANTHUSIA: Anthropology of Human Security in Africa
Contact: Paul Wenzel Geissler, Department of Social Anthropology
Duration: 01.01.2018 – 31.12.2022
MSCA European Training Network (koordinator): PLATO: The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union
Coordinator: Christopher Lord, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Duration: 01.01.2017 – 31.12.2020
MSCA European Training Network (partner): WEGO-ITN: Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity
Contact: Andrea J. Nightingale, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
Duration: 01.01.2018 – 30.06.2022
Postdoctoral Fellowships
MSCA-PF: ELITE: Elite Politics in Electoral Autocracies
Adrian del Rio Rodriguez, Department of Political Science
08.01.2024 – 07.01.2026
Dictators are dependent on a loyal coalition of supporters within the ruling elite. This project seeks to answer how elite defection and divisons affect regime stability and democratization.
MSCA-PF: INMATTER: Making and unmaking refugee camps in Greece
Theodora Lefkaditou, Department of Social Anthropology
16.06.2025 – 15.06.2027
In recent years the establishment and subsequent closure of refugee camps across Europe have become emblematic, highlighting significant and long-lasting socio-environmental transformations and disruptions. INMATTER addresses this urgent reality by examining the profound impacts of constructing and dismantling refugee camps in mainland and island Greece.
MSCA-PF: JUSTCARBON: Just Carbon Transitions
Jakob Laage-Thomsen, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
01.02.2024 – 31.01.2026
The project investigates contemporary policy processes around expansions of carbon tax systems and their implementation in national legal jurisdictions, and its effects on the professional organization of legal expertise.
MSCA-PF: MIPED: Migrants in the Politics of Energy Decarbonisation
Rocío Hiraldo López-Alonso, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
15.08.2025 – 14.08.2027
MIPED studies the place of migrant workers in the politics of energy decarbonisation, a question underexplored in the literature yet highly relevant due to the growing recognition of the need of migrant labour in the attainment of European climate targets in the energy sector.
MSCA-PF: PROTRUST: Public Trust in Contemporary Europe: Trusting the Antitrust
Elena Beatriz Escalante Block, ARENA Centre for European Studies
01.05.2024 – 30.04.2026
PROTRUST investigates how the politicisation of antitrust cases influences citizen's trust in the European Commission and Tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook.
Completed MSCA Postdoctoral/Individual Fellowships
MSCA-IF: GenGeoRisk: Genetic and geographical determinants of depression
Ziada Ayorech, Department of Psychology
01.02.2021 – 31.01.2023
MSCA-IF: MICROPOLPAX: Micro-level Politics of Peace
Lesley-Ann Daniels, Department of Political Science
01.09.2022 – 31.08.2024
MSCA-IF: SODIS: Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far Right Recruitment and Enrolment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Katherine Kondor, C-REX Center for Research on Extremism
06.09.2021 – 05.09.2023
MSCA-IF: ToPP: Towards Precision Psychiatry
Thomas Wolfers, Department of Psychology
01.08.2020 – 31.07.2022