The COFUND scheme aims to stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions.

This scheme offers co-funding to new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career. 

The call has two strands: 1) Doctoral programmes, and 2) Fellowship programmes.

Participants submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing doctoral or fellowship programmes that may be run at regional, national or international level. Support cannot be awarded to researchers who are already permanently employed at the host organisation.

Budget: EUR 80.00 million

Opening date:14 April 2016

Deadline: 29 September 2016