Claire Morel is, at the European Commission, the Head of unit in charge of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the EU research and training programme that supports the career, skills development, and mobility of researchers at all stages of their careers and from all over the world. Before that, she was the Head of the Unit for international cooperation at DG Education, Culture, Youth and Sport of the European Commission, with particular focus on the international dimension of the Erasmus+ programme and international policy dialogues in higher education and youth with various partners of the EU in the world. She has worked several years with the countries neighbouring the EU. Before, she worked for the Tempus programme (for higher education modernisation), cooperating with Central Asian countries, and for the European Training Foundation, an agency of the EU based in Turin, on the reform of vocational education and training systems in the Eastern neighbouring countries and Central Asia.