Find a Cofunded Call under the People Programme

• What is COFUND?
• Where to find open calls of COFUND fellowship programmes?
• List of COFUND fellowship programmes

 

What is COFUND?

<> COFUND is a Marie Curie Action under the FP7 People Programme that co-funds regional, national and international fellowship programmes for research training and career development.

Fellowship programmes supported by COFUND are labelled "co-funded by Marie Curie Actions". They are selected through transparent and independent peer review after evaluating them (among others) on fairness and transparency of the recruitment process and on working and employment conditions that they provide for researchers.

Researchers who receive a grant from co-funded fellowship programmes are considered as Marie Curie Fellows. To be eligible, researchers have to demonstrate transnational mobility (incoming, outgoing or re-integration) and must have at least 4 years of research experience or be holders of a doctorate. Detailed information of working conditions and financial contribution of each fellowship programme can be found in the table below under "Programme Summary".

Funding organisations execute co-funded fellowship programmes independently from the European Commission and the Research Executive Agency. Typical funding organisations can be ministries, research academies or agencies, international organisations or other bodies with a public mission, including universities or research organisations.

More information on COFUND and all related documents can be found on the CORDIS and Marie Curie Actions websites. You may also consult the People work programme.

 

Where to find open calls of COFUND fellowship programmes?

<> Information on planned calls for proposals can be found in the list of fellowship programmes below and in the Fellowship Portal on the EURAXESS Jobs web site where you can also find RSS for active fellowship programmes.

 

 

 

 

List of COFUND fellowship programmes

Fellowship Programmes funded under the PEOPLE-2007-2-3.COFUND call can be found on CORDIS.

Fellowship Programmes funded under the FP7-PEOPLE-2008-COFUND call can be found on CORDIS.

Fellowship Programmes funded under the FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND call can be found on CORDIS.

Additionally the table below lists the current fellowship programmes that are supported by COFUND and their planned calls for proposals.

This table is automatically sorted by closing dates of the open calls. "Continuous" means that there are no fixed deadlines and applications may be sent in at any time. Fellowship programmes with no further co-funded calls in the future are indicated as "closed". Note that the table can be sorted according to any other column by clicking the up and down arrows in each header.

Also note that the co-funded programmes are responsible for the information provided and that the European Commission or the REA cannot be made responsible for any incorrect information on the call or programme details provided below.

Funding organisation	Link to Programme	Closing date of next call	Geographical scope	Scientific Area	Required research experience	Programme Summary
Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal	WELCOME II	(to be announced)	Worldwide (incoming)	Exact, natural and health sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities, including all scientific topics	Post-Docs residing in Third Countries for the last three years having the nationality of a EU Member State or FP7 Associated Country	Download (pdf 19 Kb)(19 Kb)
TURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU	Co-Circulation	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Chemistry, Social and Human Sciences and Economic Sciences, Information science and Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, Environmental and Geo-Sciences and Energy, Life Sciences	PhD
Science Foundation Ireland	SIRG	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Science and engineering that underpin biotechnology (BIO), information and communications technology (ICT), sustainable energy and energy-efficient technologies (ENERGY)AA	At least three years, but not more than eight years of relevant research experience beyond the PhD, MD, or equivalent
Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele	INVEST	2012-05-22	Worldwide	Biomedical sciences, molecular medicine	PhD or 4 years of research
Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center	PLANT FELLOWS	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Natural sciences, plant research	PhD or 4 years of research
Regione Umbria (REGUMBRIA)	I–MOVE	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Life science, genomics, genetics, informatics and nanotechnologies	PhD
Asociación de apoyo a la movilidad de personas cualificadas en innovación y conocimiento, Bizkaia:xede	B-MOB	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Technology, health, biology, sociolinguistics, management studies, company innovation, business transformation, information society	PhD or 4 years of research
Consortium national pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation, la santé animale et l'environnement	AgreenSkills	2012-05-15	Worldwide	Agriculture, environment, nutrition	PhD with up to ten years of experiences
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)	TAPIR-COFUND	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Social and political sciences, economics	PhD
Tecnalia Corporación Tecnológica AIE	TIFER	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Engineering, technology, natural sciences, health sciences, physical sciences	PhD or 4 years of research
Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)	AFR-Postdoc	2012-09-05	Worldwide	All	PhD (up to 8 years after PhD)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)	ASTROFIT	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Physical sciences, Astronomy	PhD or 4 years of research
University of Durham (DUR)	DIFeREns	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities	PhD
Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III	CNIC IIF	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Cardiovascular	PhD
Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica "Francesco Severi" (INdAM)	INdAM-COFUND	2012-05-15	Worldwide	Mathematics and/or its applications	PhD or 4 years of research
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC)	FELCARES	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Cancer research	PhD or 4 years of research
Austrian Science Fund	SCHROEDINGER FELLOWS (III)	0000-00-00 (continuous)	Worldwide (outgoing), with a return phase	All disciplines (Science and Humanities)	Postgraduate at least 4 years of research
Austrian Science Fund	SCHROEDINGER FELLOWS (II)	(CLOSED)	Worldwide (outgoing), with a return phase	All disciplines (Science and Humanities)	Postgraduate at least 4 years of research
Austrian Science Fund	SCHROEDINGER FELLOWS (I)	(CLOSED)	Worldwide (outgoing), with a return phase	All disciplines (Science and Humanities)	Postgraduate at least 4 years of research	Download (pdf 78 Kb)(78 Kb)
Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron	INCOMED	2012-05-24	Worldwide	Health sciences, biomedicine, clinical medicine	PhD
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)	UNITE	(CLOSED)	EU Member State, Associated Country or Third Country	All	PhD or 4 years of research
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)	PEGASUS	(to be announced)	Worldwide	All (Biological sciences; Humanities; Social sciences; Medical sciences; Exact and applied sciences)	PhD
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)	RESTATE	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Neuroinformatics; machine learning methods	PhD
Freie Universität Berlin (FUB)	DRS Fellowship	(to be announced)	Worldwide	All fields of the participating Excellence Programs	PhD (4 to10 years after PhD)
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas (CIBERDEM)	DIATRAIN	2012-05-07	Worldwide	Diabetes and associated metabolic disorders	PhD or 4 years of research
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)	IPoD	2012-10-01	Worldwide	All	PhD
VIB	OMICS(at)VIB	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Integrative biology	PhD
The Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)	START	2012-06-15	Worldwide	All	PhD
Universidad de Murcia (UMU)	U-IMPACT	(to be announced)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Université de Genève (UNIGE)	BRIDGE	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Neuroscience, psyhology; Fields that correspond with major disciplines represented in the CISA or CIN	PhD or 4 years of research
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NOW)	Rubicon II	(to be announced)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Consellería de Economía e Industria. Xunta de Galicia (DXIDI)	TalentGalia	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Agriculture & food Science & Technology; Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics; Health; Social & Economical Sciences and Humanities; Environment, Energy, Geology and Sciences of the Sea; Information and communication technologies; Engineering, Production, Processes and Materials Sciences	PhD or 4 years of research
Fundación Ikerbasque / Ikerbasque Fundazioa (IKERBASQUE)	SMARTfellows	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Biophysics; Chemical, Telecommunication, Civil, Industrial, Electrical Engineering; Medicine; Economics, Law, Social Psychology; Psychology, Linguistics, History	PhD with at least 4 years of research
Gerda Henkel Stiftung (GHF)	M4HUMAN	2012-06-15	Worldwide	History, Prehistory and Early History, Archaeology, Art History, Historic Islamic Studies and Legal History	PhD or 4 years of research
Universität Bern (Ubern)	IFP-MUST	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Ultrafast sciences	PhD
Sociedad para el Impulso del Talento, TALENTIA SL (TALENTIA)	TALENTIA POSTDOC	(to be announced)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Fundacio Privada (ICFO)	ICFONest	0000-00-00 (continuous)	Worldwide	Health, Renewable Energies and Information Technologies	PhD
Le Réseau français des instituts d'études avancées (Fondation RFIEA)	EU-IAS-FP	2012-06-07	Worldwide	Humanities and Social sciences	PhD
Fundacion Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigacion y el Desarrollo (ARAID)	ARAID-EU	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD and at least six years of full-time equivalent research
Fundació Privada Institut de Recerca Biomèdica IRB (IRB Barcelona)	IRBPostPro	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Pôle de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur UniverSud Paris (UNIVERSUD)	Rbuce-UP	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All scientific disciplines	PhD
Université européenne de Bretagne (UEB)	Rbuce-W	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD or 4 years of research
Eidgenoessische Materialpruefungs - Und Forschungsanstalt	EMPAPOSTDOCS	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Nanostructured Materials; Sustainable Built Environment; Materials for Health and Performance; Natural Resources and Pollutants; Materials for Energy Technologies	PhD and up to 8 years after PhD
Universidad de Málaga (UMA)	U-MOBILITY	(CLOSED)	EU Member State, Associated Country or Third Country, Worldwide	Experimental sciences and environment; Engineering, information sciences and mathematics; Social and Human Sciences, and Economic Sciences	PhD with less than 10 years of research experience
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS)	TRAIN 2009	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Oncology, health sciences, medical sciences, medicine, degenerative diseases	PhD or 4 years of research
Fundación Ikerbasque / Ikerbasque Fundazioa (IKERBASQUE)	SMART BRAIN	(to be announced)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich)	ETHFELLOWS	2012-09-01	Worldwide	All	PhD
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)	CARA	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Humanities, Social sciences including business and law	PhD
Service public fédéral de Programmation Politique Scientifique (BELSPO)	MOBEL GRANTS	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Universität Bern (UBern)	IKPP	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Chronic kidney disease, Nephrology, Renal physiology and pathophysiology, Pharmacological sciences	PhD
Fundació Privada Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)	InterPod	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Health sciences	PhD
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)	BP	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Sihtasutus Eesti Teadusfond (ETF)	ERMOS	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NOW)	Rubicon	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD
GEIE ERCIM (ERCIM)	ABCDE	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics	PhD
Universität Bern (WTI - Uni Bern)	COFIT	(to be announced)	EU, Associated Countries	Law, economics, political science, or a closely related field	PhD
Consorzio Per L'Area Di Ricerca Scientifica E Tecnologica Di Trieste Consorzio (AREA)	TALENTS	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Biotechnologies and Diagnostics; Material technologies, Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry; Ecology, Environment and Energy; Information Technology; Economic, Human and Social Sciences	Postgraduate at least 4 years of research
Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH)	Braudel-IFER-FMSH	(to be announced)	EU, Associated Countries	All social and human science disciplines. An interdisciplinary approach is encouraged.	PhD
EMBO	EMBOCOFUND2010	2012-08-15	European countries or when justified worldwide	Natural sciences, biological sciences, molecular life sciences, molecular biology	PhD
EMBO	EMBOCOFUNDFP7	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Life Sciences	PhD	Download (pdf 82 Kb)(82 Kb)
CERN	COFUND-CERN 2010	(to be announced)	Worldwide (incoming to CERN in Geneva); possibility of outgoing for 3rd year	Particle physics, engineering, computing	Postgraduate with 4-10 years of research
CERN	COFUND-CERN	(CLOSED)	Worldwide (incoming to CERN in Geneva); possibility of outgoing for 3rd year	Particle physics, engineering, computing	Postgraduate with 4-10 years of research	Download (pdf 77 Kb)(77 Kb)
NBIP Ireland	CEMP Post-doctoral Fellowships	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Biophotonics and Imaging	PhD	Download (pdf 80 Kb)(80 Kb)
CEI-ES	CERES - CEI Research Fellowship Programme	(CLOSED)	17 CEI Member States: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.	Physics, math, genetics, biotechnology, neuroscience, nano-science, bioinformatics.	PhD or 4 years of research	Download (pdf 83 Kb)(83 Kb)
CEA	Eurotalents	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Nano-science, computing, energy, environment, climate change, life sciences, biotechnology, physics, astrophysics	PhD or 4 years of research after master's degree	Download (pdf 76 Kb)(76 Kb)
National Research Fund, Luxembourg	AFR-PD	(CLOSED)	Luxembourg and abroad (no restrictions for mobility towards Luxembourg; mobility outside Luxembourg restricted)	ALL	from PhD onward, up to 8 years after PhD	Download (pdf 79 Kb)(79 Kb)
SEMM	SIPOD	(to be announced)	Incoming worldwide and reintegration	Life science	PhD	Download (pdf 77 Kb)(77 Kb)
IRCSET	INSPIRE: IRCSET Marie Curie International Mobility Fellowships in Science, Engineering and Technology	(CLOSED)	Worldwide (outgoing), with a return phase	Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth/Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, Macro/Microbiology, Molecular Biology/Biotechnology, Physics	Up to 5 years as a Researcher (career breaks are not counted)	Download (pdf 78 Kb)(78 Kb)
EMBL	EIPOD	(to be announced)	Worldwide	Life Sciences	PhD	Download (pdf 64 Kb)(64 Kb)
ESO	ESO-FEL-ALMA08	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Astronomy	PhD	Download (pdf 68 Kb)(68 Kb)
The Research Council for Working Life and Social Research	COFAS	(CLOSED)	Outgoing - from Sweden to worldwide. Incoming - Worldwide to Sweden	Chemical and physical hazards at work, Stress, work and health, Work organisation, Labour market issues, Public health and health services, International migration and ethnic relations, Social policy and social insurance, Social welfare, Family and children, The elderly, Disability, Drug abuse	PhD exam, not older than 5 years	Download (pdf 88 Kb)(88 Kb)
IMDEA	AMAROUT	0000-00-00 (continuous)	Worldwide (incoming and reintegration)	Life Sciences	PhD	Download (pdf 94 Kb)(94 Kb)
ERS	RESPIRE	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Life Sciences	PhD holders or postgraduates with 4 years full-time research	Download (pdf 81 Kb)(81 Kb)
HRB	HRB/Marie Curie Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowships	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Health research	PhD or 4 years of research	Download (pdf 78 Kb)(78 Kb)
VINNOVA	VINNMER PEOPLE	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	Health sciences, natural sciences, physical sciences, technological sciences, communication sciences, information management	PhD or 4 years of research	Download (pdf 79 Kb)(79 Kb)
Provincia Autonoma di Trento	TRENTINO	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	ICT, Environment, climate and biodiversity; local development and competitiveness; genomics and bio-technologies; nano- and micro-technologies; technologies for sustainable construction, renewable sources, spatial management	PhD + experience or other qualifications depending on the different call	Download (pdf 76 Kb)(76 Kb)
South Moravian Region, JCMM	SoMoPro	(CLOSED)	Worldwide (Incoming), Czech Citizens (Reintegration)	Research fields in science, medicine and technology	PhD or 4 years of research	Download (pdf 80 Kb)(80 Kb)
Conference des Presidents d Universite (CPU)	MCFR	(CLOSED)	Worldwide	All	PhD	Download (pdf 76 Kb)(76 Kb)
IDIBAPS	BIOTRACK	2012-06-30	Worldwide	Biomedical research	PhD required with up to 6 years postdoc experience	Download (pdf 79 Kb)(79 Kb)
IARC/WHO	IARC FELLOWS	(to be announced)	Worldwide (incoming)	Life Sciences; cancer research: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental chemical carcinogenesis, cancer etiology and prevention, infection and cancer, molecular cell biology, molecular genetics, molecular pathology and mechanisms of carcinogenesis, with emphasis on interdisciplinary projects	M.D. or Ph.D., or completing M.D. or Ph.D.	Download (pdf 65 Kb)(65 Kb)
NKTH	TRANSMOB_HU (Mobility programme)	0000-00-00 (continuous)	Worldwide	All	PhD or 4 years of research	Download (pdf 79 Kb)(79 Kb)
RSE	RSE IRAS	(CLOSED)	Applications invited worldwide but Fellowships must be held in Scotland. Overseas travel before, during and after the Fellowships can be worldwide.	All disciplines but must align to Scottish Govt National Outcomes	PhD with 2 to 6 years postdoc experience	Download (pdf 102 Kb)(102 Kb)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation	B.R.I.G.H.T	0000-00-00 (continuous)	Worldwide (incoming)	All	PhD required with max. 4 years postdoc experience	Download (pdf 112 Kb)(112 Kb)

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Note: the information contained in this page is not legally binding and not officially sanctioned. The European Commission and the Research Executive Agency (REA), responsible for its management, through the People Specific Programme, has launched the COFUND action. The European Commission or REA does not replace the authorities in the management of the co-funded programmes. This information page provides access to information on current open calls by these organisations under the COFUND action. It shall be considered as indicative information only for potential participation by researchers in these actions, and prospective applicants should only use information from the web site of the organisation charged with the execution of each programme.