Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes that finance fellowships involving mobility to or from another country

The MSCA offer additional funding to regional, national and international programmes for research training and career development. COFUND programmes encourage the movement of researchers across borders and provide good working conditions. The scheme can support doctoral and fellowship programmes.

Who can apply?

Applicants for COFUND should be public or private bodies that are responsible for funding and managing fellowships or research training programmes. They may be ministries, research academies or agencies, international organisations but also other similar bodies with a public mission, such as universities.

Which topics can be co-funded?

All fields of research and research training are eligible for COFUND, provided that an element of mobility across borders is involved. COFUND programmes can cover several or all research fields or can be restricted to a specific domain. But there is one exception: research areas covered by the EURATOM Treaty cannot be funded.

What does the funding cover?

COFUND participants submit multi-annual proposals for specific fellowships/research training programmes for co-funding. These programmes should be open to experienced researchers and must include at least one form of transnational mobility, such as incoming or outgoing mobility of researchers or an action to reintegrate them into research employment in Europe. Eligible programmes are co-funded for 40 % of their fellowship costs with a maximum EU contribution of €10 million for any organisation per call. Selected programmes will be co-funded for 24 to 60 months.