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.