Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA; named after Marie Curie) are major research fellowships created by the European Union / European Commission to support research in the European Research Area (ERA).[1] The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are among Europe's most competitive and prestigious research and innovation fellowships.[2][3]
Overview
[edit]Established in 1996 as Marie Curie Actions and known since 2014 as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, they aim to foster the career development and further training of researchers at all career stages. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions promote interdisciplinary research and international collaborations, supporting scientists from not only within Europe but also across the globe.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are currently financed through the ninth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (called Horizon Europe) and belong to the so-called 'first pillar' of Horizon: "Excellent Science." Through this funding scheme, the European Research Executive Agency (REA) has devoted €6.6 billion to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions between 2021 and 2027 (about 7% of the Horizon Europe Programme).
Since the launch of the programme in 1996, over 100,000 researchers had received MSCA grants by March 2017.[4][5] To mark this milestone, the European Commission selected thirty highly-promising researchers (who achieved the highest evaluation scores in 2016)[4] to showcase the EU's actions dedicated to excellence and worldwide mobility in research.[6]
The eponymous Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist, and the first female Nobel prize winner. The only person to win a Nobel Prize for contributions in two different sciences (physics and chemistry), she was also the first person — and only woman — to have been awarded a Nobel Prize twice.[7][8]
Types of funding
[edit]Fellowships are awarded by the European Commission across scientific disciplines within the framework of Horizon Europe.
MSCA are grouped into the following schemes:
- Doctoral Networks (DN),
- Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF),
- Staff Exchanges (SE),
- Co-funding of regional, national and international programs involving mobility (COFUND),
- MSCA and Citizens.
Types of postdoctoral fellowship
[edit]There are two types of postdoctoral fellowships:
- European Postdoctoral Fellowships: 1-2 year support for scholars from anywhere doing research within the EU.
- Global Postdoctoral Fellowships: 2-3 year support for an EU scholar doing 1-2 years of research outside the EU with the third year at "an organisation based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country."[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Home - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions". marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2025-07-20.
- ^ "1348 talented researchers awarded MSCA Individual Fellowships worth EUR 250 million". euraxess.org. 2018-02-12.
- ^ "Marie Curie Alumni Association". mariecuriealumni.eu. Archived from the original on 2021-01-13.
- ^ a b "European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: support for 100 000 excellent researchers, with a strong focus on boosting women's careers in science". europa.eu. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions reach 100,000 researchers - Research & Innovation - European Commission". ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ "100 000 fellows supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Research & Innovation - European Commission". Research & Innovation. Archived from the original on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ "Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Marie Curie, daughter Irene among five women ever awarded". Hindustan Times. 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ^ "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships". Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Wikidata Q133832425.
Sources
[edit]- Marie Curie Actions (PDF). European Commission. 2012. p. 5. ISBN 978-92-79-24951-8. Retrieved 10 September 2012.