MSCA GROW Project

51 African PhD candidates

working on African SDGs

2024-2029

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At a glance

One of the largest projects currently running in the GROW community is the MSCA Project: Graduate Research On Worldwide Challenges (GROW). This project is co-funded by the EU through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND programme.

After an intense recruitment process in 2023-2024, the selected candidates joined Dutch universities as fully funded PhD candidates for four years. They are all working on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) topics in African countries, in collaboration with academic partners from Africa and/or the Netherlands.

Interdisciplinary

Candidates are coming working in research groups with specializations in social sciences & humanities, engineering and natural sciences.

International

The research focuses on SDGs in African countries, making use of the research facilities and experts from the Dutch research & training infrastructure as well as the African network and context specialists.

Intersectoral

All research projects will be supported by an advisory committee with experts coming from the field of interest, such as NGOs, Industry, Government etc.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

All candidates applied with their own research ideas, regarding one or more of the UN SDGs. Understanding and addressing them is at the heart of this GROW Project.

Implementing partners / Dutch Universities

Funded by the European Union. Views and Opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or REA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.