{"id":1125,"date":"2021-11-22T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merfish.eu\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2021-11-22T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:07:55","slug":"marie-sklodowska-curie-actions-e161-5-million-to-support-research-and-innovation-staff-exchanges-and-to-co-fund-training-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions-e161-5-million-to-support-research-and-innovation-staff-exchanges-and-to-co-fund-training-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions: \u20ac161.5 million to support research and innovation staff exchanges and to co-fund training programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Commission announced new calls for proposals under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions&#8217; (MSCA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/mariecurieactions\/actions\/staff-exchanges\">Staff Exchanges<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/mariecurieactions\/actions\/cofund\">Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes<\/a>\u00a0(COFUND) strands. The 2021 COFUND call, with a total budget of \u20ac89 million, will close on 10 February 2022, whereas the 2021 Staff Exchanges call, with a budget of \u20ac72.5 million, will close on 9 March 2022. Mariya\u00a0<strong>Gabriel<\/strong>, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said: \u201c<em>The future of science in Europe lies in researchers. The pandemic has shown us again how crucial highly skilled researchers are. These two calls opening today offer excellent opportunities for researchers, institutions, regions and countries, to boost research in Europe.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/mariecurieactions\/actions\/cofund\">MSCA COFUND<\/a>\u00a0provides funding to organisations in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries for new or existing doctoral and postdoctoral programmes. The action supports training and career development through co-funding mechanisms, and promotes excellent working conditions for researchers, and sustainable training and international, interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral mobility.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/mariecurieactions\/actions\/staff-exchanges\">MSCA Staff Exchanges<\/a>\u00a0support short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities. The aim is to develop sustainable collaborative projects between different organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (in particular SMEs), based in Europe and beyond.\u00a0 The calls follow the adoption of the Horizon Europe 2021-2022 work programme. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/mariecurieactions\/\">Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions<\/a>\u00a0are the EU&#8217;s flagship funding programme under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/horizon-europe_en\">Horizon Europe<\/a>\u00a0for excellent doctoral education and postdoctoral training. They contribute to excellent research, boosting jobs, growth and investment by equipping researchers with new knowledge and skills, and foster research cooperation across borders, sectors and disciplines. The MSCA also fund the development of excellent doctoral and postdoctoral training programmes and collaborative research projects worldwide. More information can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/mariecurieactions\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021_MSCA_25th-SM_banner_FB.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021_MSCA_25th-SM_banner_FB.jpg 830w, https:\/\/merfish.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021_MSCA_25th-SM_banner_FB-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merfish.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021_MSCA_25th-SM_banner_FB-768x333.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission announced new calls for proposals under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions&#8217; (MSCA)\u00a0Staff Exchanges\u00a0and\u00a0Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes\u00a0(COFUND) strands. The 2021 COFUND call, with a total budget of \u20ac89 million, will close on 10 February 2022, whereas the 2021 Staff Exchanges call, with a budget of \u20ac72.5 million, will close on 9 March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merfish.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}