Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

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)