Funding Opportunities: FP7

People Programme

"People" and Marie Curie Actions

The Marie Curie Actions are aimed at supporting the training and career development of researchers. The most relevant actions are the Marie Curie Initial Training Networks; Marie Curie Intra-European fellowships for career development; Marie Curie Reintegration Grants; Marie Curie co-funding of regional, national and international programmes; and Marie Curie International outgoing fellowships for career development. 

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There are four main Marie Curie Actions that will receive Community support, with the global aim to increase the human potential in European R&D. Current open calls under Marie Curie actions are:

  • Marie Curie initial training networks (MC networks)
  • Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development (MC Intra-EU fellowships)
  • Marie Curie European Reintegration Grants (MS EU reintegration)
  • Industry-Academia Pathways and Partnerships (MC Industry-Academia)
  • Marie Curie International Reintegration Grants (MC int. reintegration)
  • Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development (MC int. fellowships)
  • Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (MC int. incoming)

Marie Curie Initial Training Networks

Currently there are no open calls.

Activities to be funded: this is a host-driven action aimed at improving early-stage researchers' career perspectives with an international networking mechanism. A network in this action shall be composed of at least three participants (e.g. universities, research centres, companies) established in at least three Member States. Participants of the network will apply for support in the frame of the execution of a joint training programme. The network will focus on scientific and technological training through research on individual, personalised projects, complemented by substantial training modules addressing other relevant skills and competences. The joint training programme shall exploit complementary competences of the participants in the network (including industry) and reflect existing or planned research collaborations among partners.

Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development

Currently there are no open calls.

This action is directed at researchers with a more senior profile in terms of experience and seeks to enhance their individual competence diversification, with the aim of supporting researchers in attaining and/or strengthening a leading independent position, e.g. principal investigator, professor or other senior position in education or enterprise. This action provides financial support for advanced training and international mobility for a period of 12 to 24 months (full-time equivalent) for individual projects presented by experienced researchers from Member States or associated countries in liaison with a host organisation from another Member State or associated country. 

Researchers need to be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience

Marie Curie European Reintegration Grants

Currently there are no open calls.

Activities to be funded: This is an individual-driven action aimed at experienced researchers from Member States or associated countries, to capitalise on their international mobility period in a Marie Curie action either under the FP7 or a previous framework programme. The mechanism will assist the professional (re)integration of the eligible researcher in a research organisation in a Member State or associated country, including their country of nationality. Researchers must be nationals of a Member State or associated country and benefiting at the time of application, or else have previously benefited, from a training mobility action under the Seventh or Sixth Framework Programme. The proposal, consisting of a research project to be executed at the proposed (re)integration host institute, will need to be submitted by the researcher in conjunction with the proposed host, at the earliest one year before the end of the initial Marie Curie fellowship, and not later than six months following its end.

Industry-Academia Pathways and Partnerships

Currently there are no open calls.

This action seeks to open and foster dynamic pathways between public research organisations and private commercial enterprises, in particular small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including traditional manufacturing industries, based on longer term cooperation programmes with a high potential for increasing knowledge-sharing and mutual understanding of the different cultural settings and skill requirements of both sectors.

Marie Curie International Reintegration Grants

Currently there are no open calls.

Activities to be funded: The action is aimed at countering European brain drain to third countries, by encouraging European researchers who have carried out research outside Europe for at least 3 years to reintegrate in a Member State or in an associated country in order to contribute to European research and transfer the knowledge they have acquired in a third country, and capitalise in Europe on their experience.

Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development

Currently there are no open calls.

This action is aimed at reinforcing the international dimension of the careers of European researchers by giving them the opportunity to be trained and acquire new knowledge in a third country high-level research organisation. This is aimed at experienced researchers with a more senior profile and offers financial support of individual mobility projects presented by experienced researchers in liaison with return host organisations in the Member States or associated countries.

The contracts will be concluded with the return host organisation of the Member States or the associated countries for a total duration of up to 3 years. It is mandatory for the project to include a coherent research programme for the total duration of the contract, of which an initial outgoing phase, of 1-2 years, is to be spent in a distinct legal entity in a third country "partner organisation" and a mandatory reintegration phase of 1 year within the "return host organisation" in a Member State or associate country.

Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship

Currently there are no open calls.

This action aims to reinforce the scientific excellence of Member States and associated countries through knowledge-sharing with incoming top-class researchers from third countries to work on research projects in Europe. Such projects should constitute nuclei for future research relations at international level, which would be beneficial to Europe. Financial contribution will go to individual research projects presented by the incoming experienced researcher in liaison with a legal entity ("host organisation") in a Member State or an associated country.