People
International dimension (World Fellowships)
Funding schemes
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development (IOF)
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
Objective
To increase the quality of European research by attracting research talent from outside Europe and fostering mutually beneficial research collaboration with researchers from outside Europe.
What will be funded
This activity is addressed to experienced researchers, i.e. researchers who are either in possession of a doctoral degree (independently of the time taken to acquire it) or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.
The following actions are foreseen in particular:
- Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development (IOF)
This action provides financial support for advanced training and trans-national mobility, for a period of up to 3 years, for individual projects presented by experienced researchers who are nationals of Member States or Associated countries in liaison with a host organisation from a Member State or Associated country. The project includes a coherent research programme for the total duration of the contract, of which an initial outgoing phase, of between 1 and 2 years, is to be spent in a distinct legal entity in a third country which is not a Member State or Associated country and a mandatory reintegration phase of 1 year within the contracting organisation in a Member State or Associated country. - Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
This action is open to experienced researchers of any nationality. The researcher must demonstrate mobility from a third country, which is not a Member State or Associated country, to a Member State or Associated country. It provides financial support to individual research projects presented by the incoming experienced researchers in liaison with a legal entity ('host organisation') in a Member State or an Associated country, as well as possibly a 'return host organisation' if the researcher's country of origin is an International Cooperation Partner Country.
The contracts will be concluded with the host organisations of the Member States or Associated countries for a total duration of between one and two years. The possible return phase would have a duration of one year. - Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
The Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme is an action aimed at strengthening research partnerships through staff exchanges and networking activities between European research organisations and organisations from third countries with which the Community has an S&T agreement (or are in the process of negotiating one).
Compared to existing Marie Curie actions, which provide mobility possibilities to individual researchers, this action will provide support to research organisations to establish or reinforce long-term research co-operation through a coordinated joint programme of exchange of researcher staff for short periods.
Last updated on: 2009-09-23