MCAA to make digital magic in November
The Marie Curie Alumni Association is preparing to hold its first ever virtual conference in November 2020. This online networking experience will delve deep into the topic of Research & Democracy.
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PRESS CONFERENCE: impact of COVID-19 and budget cuts on the next generation of EU researchers
The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and Eurodoc, with the initiative of Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE), presented their analyses about the impact of covid-19 and budget cuts in a press conference on Monday 28th of September at 11am CEST.
European funding opportunities ‒ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are European research grants available to researchers regardless of their age, nationality or field of research
There are different types of MSCA Actions:
MCAA Greek Chapter meets again
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
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.
BREXIT uncertainty taints UK participation in H2020
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.
Apply for ITN grant with support from the MCAA
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!
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MSCA COFUND 2019: co-financing of doctoral and fellowship programmes
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.
Horizon 2020 funding for UK participants - if there’s no Brexit deal in October 2019
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.
H2020 - where the budget will go in the final calls
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.