The European Commission will provide €105.5 million in co-funding for 15 doctoral training and 14 postdoctoral fellowship programmes under the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call for Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND). Through COFUND, organisations can create or enhance their own doctoral training and postdoctoral fellowship programmes, with the goal of recruiting researchers and attracting international talent, with MSCA co-funding a significant share of their costs. Institutions benefiting from such funding need to top it up with their own funding sources.
The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 141 applications for this call, of which 136 were eligible and evaluated. With 29 selected projects, the success rate for this call is 21%. These collaborative programmes often involve international partners.