Life-long training and career development
Funding schemes
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development (IEF)
Marie Curie European Reintegration Grants (ERG)
Marie Curie International Reintegration Grants (IRG)
Marie Curie Co-funding of Regional, National, and International Programmes (COFUND)
Objective
This activity will support experienced researchers in complementing existing skills or acquiring new skills and competencies or in enhancing inter/multidisciplinarity and/or intersectoral mobility, in resuming a research career after a break and in (re)integrating into a longer term research position in Europe after a trans-national mobility experience.
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 Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development (IEF)
This action provides financial support for advanced training and trans-national mobility, for a period of 12-24 months (full-time equivalent), for individual projects presented by experienced researchers from Member States or Associated Countries in liaison with a host organisation from a Member State or Associated Country.
Researchers can be of any nationality but as a general rule must move from one Member State or Associated country to another in order to carry out the project. - Marie Curie European Reintegration Grants (ERG)
This action offers the opportunity for experienced researchers from Member States or Associated countries to capitalise on their transnational mobility period after having participated in a Marie-Curie action either under the Seventh or the previous Framework Programme. They must be hosted by an organisation located in a member State or Associated country.
Participating researchers can be of any nationality and at the time of application must have recently benefited from a training and mobility action under the Seventh or the Sixth Framework Programme of at least 18 months full-time equivalent. - Marie Curie International Reintegration Grants (IRG)
This action provides financial support for a period 2 to 4 years, for individual projects presented by experienced researchers in liaison with a legal entity ('host organisation') in a Member State or an Associated country. They must be hosted by an organisation located in a member State or Associated country.
Researchers must be nationals of a Member State or Associated country who have been active in research in a third country for at least three years. - Marie Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes (COFUND)
This action is addressed to organisations that finance and manage fellowship programmes. Participants will submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing regional, national or international programmes to be co-funded by the European Commission.
Rather than providing the possibility for trans-European experiences only at Community level, the co-funding action aims to encourage existing or new regional and national programmes to open up and provide for trans-national mobility, as well as to reinforce international programmes.
The action takes into account three types of trans-national mobility, on which the support under this action is essentially based:
- Outgoing mobility for fellowships/grants to residents of Member States or Associated countries, preferably with a return phase;
- Incoming mobility for fellowships/grants to non-residents of the country of the host organisation;
- Re-integration of Member State or Associated country nationals having carried out research in a third country for at least 3 years, to establish them in a longer-term career after this trans-national mobility period.
For a list of programmes that are currently being funded under this action and who may be offering individual fellowships, please refer to COFUNDED Calls page.
Last updated on: 2009-09-16