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News archive - New Marie Curie Calls Now Open

The 'Marie Curie Actions' have long been one of the most popular and appreciated features of the Community Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development. They have developed significantly in orientation over time, from a pure mobility fellowships programme to a programme dedicated to stimulating researchers' career development.

The 'Marie Curie Actions' have been particularly successful in responding to the needs of Europe's scientific community in terms of training, mobility and career development. This has been demonstrated by a demand in terms of highly ranked applications that in most actions extensively surpassed the available financial support.

Four new Marie Curie Calls are now open for applications in the field of outgoing fellowships, incoming fellowships and intra-european fellowships (deadlines: August 18, 2009) as well as industry-academia partnerships (deadline: Juli 27, 2009).

Further information about the calls is available at: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7ActivityCallsPage&id_activity=12.

Read more about the individual actions

Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development - IOF: This action provides financial support for advanced training and trans-national mobility, for a period of up to 3 years, for individual projects presented by experienced researchers from Member States or Associated Countries in liaison with a host organisation from another Member State or Associated Country.

Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships - IIF: This action is open to experienced researchers from third countries. It provides financial support to individual research projects presented by the incoming experienced researchers in liaison with a legal entity ('host organisation') in a Member State or an Associated country, as well as possibly a 'return host organisation' if the researcher's country or origin is an International Cooperation Partner Country.

Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development - IEF: This action provides financial support for advanced training and trans-national mobility, for a period of 12-24 months (full-time equivalent), for individual projects presented by experienced researchers from Member States or Associated Countries in liaison with a host organisation from a Member State or Associated Country.)

Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways - IAPP: This action seeks to open and foster dynamic pathways between public research organisations and private commercial enterprises, in particular SMEs, based on longer term co-operation programmes with a high potential for increasing knowledge-sharing and mutual understanding of the different cultural settings and skill requirements of both sectors.

Sources and further information:

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/industry-academia_en.html

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/life-long-training_en.html#ief

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/international-dimension_en.html#iif

(all accessed on May 28, 2009).

Entry created by Katarina Rohsmann on May 28, 2009
Modified on May 28, 2009

Western Balkans Info Hub - powered by "Policy Answers" - is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe project "R&I policy making, implementation and support in the Western Balkans", grant agreement: 10105887. The portal builds upon previous initiatives, such as for instance WBC-RTI.INFO and WBC-INCO.NET, which were funded under different Framework Programmes (FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD) of the European Commission and other contracts.

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