Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

About this programme

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships are European research grants available to researchers regardless of their nationality or field of research. In addition to generous research funding scientists have the possibility to gain experience abroad and in the private sector, and to complete their training with competences or disciplines useful for their careers.

MSCA – Key Features:

  • Open to all domains of research and innovation from basic research up to market take-up and innovation services
  • Entirely bottom-up
  • Participation of non-academic sector strongly encouraged, especially industry and SMEs
  • Mobility as the key requirement - funding on condition participants move from one country to another
  • Promotion of attractive working and employment conditions
  • Particular attention to gender balance
  • Public engagement of supported researchers

There are five types of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions:

  • Individual Fellowships (IF)
  • Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
  • Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
  • Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
  • European Researchers’ Night (NIGHT)
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Your NCP contact for this programme

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Margot Beereboom

margot.beereboom@fwo.be

+32 2 550 15 76

Your PC contact for this programme

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The National Contact Points (NCPs) provide support, guidance, and practical information to potential applicants, helping them navigate funding opportunities and application processes.

The Programme Committee (PC) members represent their country in decision-making about the work programmes, evaluate implementation, and provide strategic input on priorities and calls.

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Testimonial

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Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations

Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.

NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic