MSCA

The Greek Chapter’s second annual meeting was an opportunity for members to gather and to discuss an upcoming series of seminars to be organised.

 

Today is European Equal Pay Day.   Women in the EU still earn on average 16% less than men, that is only a slight improvement from last year's 16.2%. Spread out over a year, this would be equivalent to women working two months for free compared to men.  

The first figures have emerged demonstrating that Brexit uncertainty has adversely affected UK research, writes By Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent, BBC News

They show Britain's annual share of EU research funding has fallen by nearly a third since 2015.

The Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) call is now open! Send your application by 14 January 2020, 17:00 (Brussels time). You can also receive some help from the MCAA!

 

What is it?

The MSCA COFUND is a Horizon 2020 instrument for co-funding of ongoing or planned programmes to promote PhD students or post-docs. Therese Lindahl, the Austrian National Contact Point for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, tells us more about it.

Tomorrow will see a new Prime Minister take on the BREXIT challenge. Specifically, he has not ruled out a no deal scenario. Delivering the deal negotiated with the EU remains the government’s top priority. This has not changed. The text below is the governments current advice to UK participants. It deals with funding issues.

The European Commission today announced how it will spend the last and biggest annual tranche - €11 billion - of the EU research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020 in the final year of the programme.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) encourage transnational, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility, helping researchers take their careers to the next level. These opportunities and more will be discussed by researchers, European Union officials and policymakers at a high-level conference in Bucharest, Romania, next month.

 

RISE involves organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (in particular SMEs), based in Europe (EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries) and outside Europe (third countries).

Latest Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call breaks all records, according to Europa’s press release.

With 9,830 applications for Individual Fellowships from researchers across the world, this year's call is the biggest ever in terms of applications under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.