Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

About this programme

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is a programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training. MSCA equips researchers with new knowledge and skills, including transferable ones and providing them with an international as well as inter-sectoral exposure (including through academia-business collaboration). MSCA also contribute to the development of excellent doctoral programmes, postdoctoral training programmes and collaborative research projects.

Main principles applying to MSCA

  • Excellence in various aspects: supported individual fellows, fostering collaborations, knowledge transfer, R&I methodologies, research conducted, training, supervision and career guidance
  • Mobility of funded researchers across borders, sectors and disciplines
  • Bottum-up and open to the world: open to all domains of research and innovation, chosen freely by the applicants in a fully bottom-up manner and international cooperation encouraged
  • Recruitment, working/employment conditions and inclusiveness: MSCA funded organisatons must put effort into applying the principles of the European Charter for Researchers
  • Supervision: MSCA funded projects are encouraged to follow the recommendations outlined in the Guidelines for MSCA supervision
  • Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation
  • European Green Deal: MSCA-funded projects are encouraged to address the principles of the MSCA Green Charter
  • Synergies: MSCA promote the creation of strong links with the cohesion policy funds and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and also encourage complementarities with other parts of Horizon Europe, such as EIT (note), EIC, and synergies with other Union programmes, notably Erasmus+ (note), including its European Universities Initiative.  

There are five Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions:

  • Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF)
  • Doctoral Networks (DN) including RAISE DN 2026
  • Staff Exchanges (SE)
  • Co-funding of regional, national and international doctoral and postdoctoral programmes (COFUND) including MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2027
  • MSCA and Citizens - European Researchers’ Night

Latest news

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The MSCA30 podcast ‘We are Fellowship’

The MSCA30 podcast, ‘We Are Fellowship’, is hosted by Shane Bergin, a physicist at University College Dublin in Ireland and former MSCA fellow, and produced by Shaun O’Boyle & Maurice Kelliher for the European Commission as part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). This six-part...

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HE Work Programme 2026-2027 MSCA update: Overview of main changes

The updated Horizon Europe Work Programme (HE WP) 2026-2027 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) was published on 29 September 2026 (available here). An overview of the changes compared to the previous version (1.0 with publication date 11 December 2025, available here) is outlined in this article. Choose Europe for Science initiative:...

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  • Research Infrastructures
  • Digital, Industry & Space
  • Climate, Energy, Mobility

Work programme of the Horizontal Activities has been published

After lengthy discussions, the final work programme on the Horizontal Activities has been officially published on the website of the European Commission.  First added to Horizon Europe in 2025, this broadly defined work programme supports EU policy goals through four topics: the Clean Industrial Deal, AI in Science, a nature-positive economy...

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Upcoming events

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SAVE THE DATE - Science is Wonderful! science fair 2027 edition

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Science is Wonderful! is the annual science fair organised by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). Over 4000 primary and secondary school pupils from all corners of Belgium visit the fair. Since its inception in 2015, this fair interactively showcases EU-funded research projects and innovations through hands-on experiments, science...

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Your NCP contact

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Margot Beereboom

margot.beereboom@fwo.be

+32 2 550 15 76

Your PC contact

Contact details on the site of WEWIS

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.

Work programme & calls

We offer a handy Excel file, weekly updated, containing an up-to-date overview of the Horizon Europe calls.

Call topics overview

Documents

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Testimonial

EHRI-IP - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Implementation Phase (EHRI-IP) project was funded under Horizon Europe call topic HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01-02. The project duration was two years and came to an end in February 2026. The main objective of the EHRI-IP project was to undertake all necessary legal, financial and strategic work to have a permanent organisation or ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) fully operational by the end of the implementation phase. The project consortium consisted of 14 partners from 13 countries. Read more about the project and the contribution of Flemish partner Kazerne Dossin in this testimonial.