Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Awarding €6.16 billion in the period to 2020, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) support research training and career development focused on innovation skills. The programme funds worldwide and cross-sector mobility that implements excellent research in any field (a "bottom-up" approach).
There are MSCA grants for all stages of a researcher's career, from PhD candidates to highly experienced researchers, which encourage transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility. The MSCA will become the main EU programme for doctoral training, financing 25,000 PhDs.
There are four main types of MSCA:
Research networks (ITN): support for Innovative Training Networks that develop new researchers
Individual fellowships (IF): support for experienced researchers undertaking mobility between countries, with the option to work outside academia
Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges (RISE) for international and inter-sectoral cooperation
Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes that finance research training or fellowships involving mobility to or from another country
The MSCA also funds the European Researchers' Night, public events involving researchers which take place every year across Europe on the fourth Friday of September.
More information is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about-msca/actions/index_en.htm
