Capacity building to strengthen doctoral education in health sciences is needed urgently in Mozambique. The country has been developing remarkable efforts to create the conditions to train and retain people trained at the highest level, able to generate knowledge that will pave the way to solve the country´s health problems. PhD4Moz is designed to foster this capacity to the institutions in Mozambique that are responsible for most PhD training in health sciences. PhD4Moz will allow the transfer and applicability of knowledge accumulated for decades of experience in higher education institutions in Europe.