DN: Can an organisation from a low-income third country eligible for funding be funded under the MSCA Doctoral Networks call as a full beneficiary, i.e. award PhDs on their own?

Doctoral candidates recruited by organisations in low-income third countries eligible for funding need to be enrolled in a doctoral programme leading to the award of doctoral degree in at least one EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. This means that these Doctoral Candidates have to be enrolled in the third country and in a European Union Member State/ Associated Country partner.

DN: Is the awarding of doctoral degrees a mandatory deliverable for Doctoral Networks (Table 3.1c – Deliverables List on p. 37 of the DN Proposal Template)?

This is not a mandatory deliverable but an optional one; the award of doctoral degrees can happen also after the end of the action.

DN: Can we name the deliverable "Awarding of doctoral degrees" (Table 3.1b in Part B) "Enrolment of all researchers in a programme leading to the awarding of a doctoral degree"?

This option is fine. It is important to clearly state that all fellows will be enrolled into doctoral studies. It is quite difficult for beneficiaries to commit to the awarding of a doctoral degree to each recruited researcher at a specific date, given that the PhD programmes duration can be different from an institution to another and that unpredictable events can delay the PhD thesis completion.