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Andean-Caribbean Chapter

6 Board Members
75 Members
2022 EST.

Welcome to the MCAA Andean-Caribbean Chapter!

 

The Andean-Caribbean Chapter is part of the MCAA and encourages local networking, recruits and attracts new members to the Association, and generally enhances the image of the MCAA within Andean-Caribbean and its sub-region. All MCAA members residing in the chapter’s geographical area can become a member of the chapter. Membership to a Chapter is free!

 

The chapter will host members from South America not represented in existing chapters (initially considering members from Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and other Caribbean countries without excluding interested members from other Central and South American countries not represented in existing chapters). 

 

 

 

MCAA Andean-Caribbean Chapter Geographical Scope

 

 

Chapter Goals for 2022-2023

 

In order to promote MSCA itself and its fellows’ network in the Andean-Caribbean region, we aim at:

 

-  Strengthening networking and promoting collaboration among current and former MSCA fellows linked to the Andean/Caribbean region.

-  Promoting communication and dissemination of knowledge and research outputs.

-  Defining pathways to involve different public and private HEIs with the objective of attracting international research funds into Andean/Caribbean universities.

-  Defining a communication plan which includes events and periodical newsletters to highlight professional and research opportunities of beneficiaries returning home.

-  Advising new MSCA fellows for settling down culturally and administratively at their host countries.

-  Establishing mechanisms to help and advice beneficiaries that had a stay abroad to re-incorporate in the Andean/Caribbean countries social security system (e.g., how to more effectively move pension payments made abroad to the Andean/Caribbean countries systems).

 

Supporting and guiding current and former MSCA fellows linked to the region in further topics such as the effective validation of academic titles obtained abroad.

 

 

Chapter LinkedIn Group

 

Name

MCAA Andean-Caribbean Chapter

Description

Working group for the Marie Curie Alumni Association's Andean-Caribbean Chapter formation and future communications. All current and former MSCA PhD/Postdoc fellows, citizens and/or residents of Andean/Caribbean countries, are welcome to join this group.

Sector

Research, Public Relations and Communications, International Affairs

Location

Latin America

Andean Countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Perú.
Caribbean Countries: Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica.

Group Rules

Our rules are quite simple. a) You must be or have been a MSCA fellow, b) You must be either national or resident of an Andean or a Caribbean country.

URL

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12538969/

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Events

Events

PAST
26-28 Oct 2023
Colombia Cartagena de Indias
Co-organized by MCAA

by General

MCAA Latam Conference 2023
The MCAA Andean-Caribbean Chapter, together with the rest of the MCAA Latam Chapters, is organizing this year's version of the MCAA LATAM CONFERENCE (3rd edition), taking place on October 27th and 28th, 2023 (preceded by a MCAA Latam Board meeting on October 26th afternoon), and hosted at Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (MSCA NCP Coordinator) in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

This conference will serve as a venue for MSCA current and former fellows attached to Latin America region (residents and/or citizens) to get together for communicating and disseminating their research while discussing matters of regional interest. It will be a forum for networking and collaboration, as well as for promoting MSCA and EU funding opportunities in the region.

This year's conference theme is Scientific Cooperation in Latin America, and the event will include different sessions around Scientific Cooperation for Regional Development and SDGs, Science Diplomacy and Citizen Science, among others, as well as talks/workshops on MSCA opportunities, research proposals and grant writing tips and tricks.

Main conference language will be Spanish.

See event