Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
MSCA Staff Exchanges promote innovative international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain. The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps turn ideas into innovative products, services or processes. It is open to research, technical, administrative and managerial staff supporting R&I activities.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals, under the present call, are expected to contribute for staff members to increased set of research and transferable skills and competences, leading to improved employability and career prospects within and outside academia, more knowledge and innovative ideas converted into products, processes and services, more entrepreneurial mind-sets, testing new and innovative ideas, increased international exposure leading to extended networks and opportunities and enhanced networking and communication capacities with scientific peers, as well as well as with the general public that will increase and broaden the research and innovation impact.
For the participating organisations proposals, should contribute to innovative ways of cooperation and transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines, strengthened and broader international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral collaborative networks and boosted R&I capacity.
MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe.
Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of R&I staff leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations. MSCA Staff Exchanges can address three dimensions of mobility: inter-sectoral, international and interdisciplinary.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
- The admissibility and eligibility conditions are described in Annex A, Annex B, and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Special eligibility conditions for the present call are described under the “Specific Conditions” part of the MSCA Work Programme 2021-2022, page 92.
- Secondments between institutions established in non-associated Third Countries or within the same EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country are not eligible.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Dr Angelos Ntantos
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 033
Contact Email: antantos@research.org.cy
Dr Ioannis Theodorou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 038
Contact Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 26/10/2021-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
European Research Executive Agency:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/european-research-executive-agency_en