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The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) anniversary communication material features a selection of projects and testimonials highlighting the researchers, projects and collaborations supported by MSCA over the past three decades. Through these stories, the material celebrates the achievements of the MSCA community and illustrates how MSCA-funded research has helped advance scientific knowledge, support innovation, contribute to society and supported the career of researchers. This publication contains communication resources to support your outreach and help share stories of MSCA achievements and impact across Europe and beyond. Among others, it contains: A selection of MSCA projects Editable assets of 12 MSCA projects which can also be easily adapted to any other project of your choice relevant to your networks. Available here. Fellow stories A selection of 16 testimonials of MSCA fellows across 3 decades representing different career paths, fields, countries and experiences. It describes their top three career milestones during or since the MSCA grant. Available here. Anniversary webpage articles A selection of 34 articles on a variety of topics, from Marie Sklodowska-Curie and radium research, to guidance (MSCA guidelines on supervision, MSCA Green Charter) and to achievements of MSCA funded projects on e.g. a resilient food system, protecting cultural heritage and inclusive urban design. The complete selection of articles is available here. The participation of Flemish entities in the selection of MSCA funded projects is highlighted in the overview below (entity, participation status in project, project acronym, project title, MSCA type of action and call year, links to more information on the project). KU Leuven (coordinator) in MINTS - Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing for Beyond 5G, call MSCA-ITN-2019. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘Building businesses with science. From collaboration to contracts: MSCA's impact on industry.’ to be found here. Centre for Children in Vulnerable Situations (partner organisation) interuniversity research centre (Universiteit Gent, KU Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel) in CHIBOW - Children Born of War - Past, Present and Future, call MSCA-ITN-2014. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, the website and the article ‘Learning to build peace. How MSCA-funded research is helping build lasting peace.’ to be found here. KU Leuven (beneficiary) in NeEDS - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Network of European Data Scientists, call MSCA-RISE-2018. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘Pivoting to take on COVID-19. How researchers turned on a dime to face the COVID-19 pandemic.’ to be found here. FUJIREBIO EUROPE NV (partner organisation) in TAME - Doctoral training network TAu imMunE: strategies for innovative diagnosis and therapies in dementia, call MSCA-2022-DN. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘The future of dementia care. MSCA’s innovative solutions for neurodegenerative diseases.’ to be found here. KU Leuven (beneficiary) in HONOURs - Host switching pathogens, infectious outbreaks and zoonosis; a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Training Network, call MSCA-ITN-2016. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Building pandemic defences. How MSCA research is preparing us to face the next pandemic.’ to be found here. Universiteit Antwerpen and KU Leuven (beneficiaries) in CHAMELEON - Virtual Laboratories for Exoplanets and Planet Forming Disks, call MSCA-ITN-2019. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘From virtual labs to space-bound robots – how European researchers are helping shine a light into the cosmos’ to be found here. BIOBEST GROUP NV (beneficiary) in ACROPICS - Agroecological crop protection: towards international co-innovation dynamics and evidence of sustainability, call MSCA-2022-SE. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Drought-proof crops and edible insects: the MSCA’s recipe for a resilient food system’ to be found here. KU Leuven (beneficiary) in GREENEDGE - Taming the environmental impact of mobile networks through GREEN EDGE computing platforms, call MSCA-ITN-2020. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Balancing Tech and Sustainability. Ensuring the digital revolution is both green and fair.’ to be found here. AQUAFIN NV and Universiteit Gent (beneficiaries) in SANITAS - Sustainable and integrated urban water system management, call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Sustaining Europe’s water. Cleaner ways to recycle Europe’s precious wastewater.’ to be found here. KU Leuven (coordinator) and Universiteit Gent (beneficiary) in INSIDE:INSIGHT - The integration of technology with medical and healthcare education - a leadership programme, call MSCA 2023-DN. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘How AI is reshaping education. AI in the classroom’ to be found here. All communication material is available in the resources section, under the communication toolkit, on the MSCA 30th anniversary webpage.
LLM-Bridge's Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) serves as an instrument to strengthen incubation capacity in Europe to support early-stage GenAI ventures, accelerate the commercialisation of LLM technologies, providing mentoring, access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources, data infrastructures, and regulatory guidance. The VIP programme aims to select one incubator to run a 12-week VIP cohort across Europe, which will: Deliver structured training and mentoring to 30 startups. Provide and help access technical expertise and AI infrastructure. Monitor and report progress using standardised KPIs. Contribute to the overall impact of LLM-BRIDGE and the European GenAI innovation ecosystem. More information on the call can be found on the Funding & Tenders Portal and on the project's website. Deadline to apply is 28 November 2026. Background: The LLM-Bridge project aims to strengthen Europe’s position in generative AI by building a pan-European ecosystem for foundation models and language technologies, reducing dependence on non-EU providers and embedding European values, languages, and culture in AI systems. It brings together expertise, infrastructure, and resources across Member States to support the development, scaling, and competitiveness of European GenAI innovators.
The NOSTRADAMUS project has launched its first open call for digital applications that support more sustainable and efficient cereal-based farming. SMEs, start-ups and small mid-caps can apply individually or in a consortium of up to two organisations, with research organisations, universities and end-user bodies eligible as partners. Proposals should develop and validate open-source, data-driven tools for crop optimisation, soil and nutrient management, water efficiency, drought resilience, or predictive pest and disease management. Cross-domain applications combining several of these areas are also eligible. Selected projects will receive up to €50,000 and take part in a 12-month programme, including testing at a NOSTRADAMUS pilot site. Applications must be submitted by 2 December 2026 at 17:00 CET. Full application documents and further details are available on the NOSTRADAMUS open call webpage.
As of the 2028 ERC calls, under the EU’s future Research and Innovation framework programme (2028-2034), a new thematic evaluation panel on Fundamentals of AI in the domain Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE12) will be established. The new panel will cover fundamental and basic research aimed at advancing the foundations, methods, and theories of artificial intelligence - rather than applications of AI in specific domains, which can be submitted to other panels. The new PE12 scope will include machine learning, reasoning, intelligent and autonomous systems, computer vision, natural language processing, generative and multimodal AI, and its mathematical and statistical foundations. The establishment of the new panel will bring the total to 29 evaluation panels (9 panels in Life Sciences; 8 in Social Sciences and Humanities and 12 in PE). More information on this news is available here and on the panels here.
The NCP_WIDERA.NET factsheet ‘Key Facts on Knowledge Valorisation (KV) in the European Research Area (ERA)’ presents key information on KV and highlights its relevance within the ERA and Horizon Europe (HE), with a special focus on the HE programme component “Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I System” (in short: the “ERA part”) of the WIDERA work programme. For more information about the ERA part, visit the dedicated Research Executive Agency page and NCP Flanders page. The European Commission defines knowledge valorisation as follows: “KV is the process of creating social and economic value from knowledge – transforming research results, data, and know-how into sustainable products, services, solutions, and knowledge-based policies that benefit society. It serves as a bridge linking academia, industry, policymakers, and citizens”. The topics covered in the factsheet are: KV in the ERA Part of the WIDERA Programme ERA KV: Key Milestones HE: KV Funding Actions EU Tools and Resources for KV Activities and Key Studies for KV Information and Advice NCP Flanders offers info sheets on the following topics Knowledge Valorisation & Results Boosters in the HORIZON Europe context and the Horizon Results Platform.
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Funded under Horizon Europe (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01) and running from 2023 to 2026, the ANERIS project aims to tackle the rapid loss of ocean biodiversity. The project’s main objective is to develop, test and implement the next generation of scientific instrumentation tools and methods for sensing and monitoring marine-life. Another key concept of the project is the introduction of the concept of Operational Marine Biology (OMB) as a biodiversity information system. The project consortium consists of 25 partners from 13 countries. Read more about the project and the contribution of Flemish partner VLIZ in this testimonial.
