MSCA COFUND 2023
Summary
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) have the goal to help build Europe’s capacity for research and innovation by investing in the long-term careers of excellent researchers. Therefore, this programme provides funding to excellent research and innovation as well as equip researchers at all stages of their career (regardless of age and nationality) with new knowledge and skills, through mobility across borders and exposure to different sectors and disciplines. Additionally, the MSCA fund the development of excellent doctoral and postdoctoral training programmes and collaborative research projects worldwide. Furthermore, it supports cooperation between industry and academia and innovative training to enhance employability and career development.
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.
Call
Detailed Call Description
COFUND takes the form of:
- Doctoral programmes, which offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences and they will lead to the award of a doctoral degree in at least one EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. The training activities should be based on the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training.
- Postdoctoral Programmes, which fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers. The programmes should offer training to develop key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, foster innovation and entrepreneurship and promote and (where appropriate) reward Open Science practices (open access to publications and to research data, FAIR data management, public engagement and citizen science, etc.).
The maximum duration of the action must be 60 months from the starting date set out in the grant agreement. It also includes the time that is needed to select and recruit the researchers. The minimum duration of each fellowship (on the basis of full-time employment) must be 3 months.
See specific conditions for the duration of the action, at the end of the MSCA 2023-2024 Work Programme (page 103).
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Beneficiaries must ensure full access — on a royalty-free basis — for the staff members to background and results needed for their activities under the action.
Programme Category
EU Competitive ProgrammesTotal Budget
€96 570 000Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Training Centres
Call Opening Date
10/10/2023Call Closing Date
08/02/2024National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Dr. Angelos Dantos
Scientific Officer
Email: antantos@research.org.cy
Dr. Ioannis Theodorou
Scientific Officer
Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy
Myrto Anastasiadou
Scientific Officer
Email: manastassiadou@research.org.cy