Convocatoria: Research and Innovation projects through mobility, the MSCA Staff Exchanges call is open
Research and Innovation projects through mobility, the MSCA Staff Exchanges call is open
The 2023 call is open from 5 October 2023 until 28 February 2024.
The call is open to international consortia of universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs and other non-academic organisations to exchange their staff for up to 12 months. LAC institutions are eligible to join any consortium to submit a proposal.
Objective of Staff Exchanges
The SE action funds short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities of participating organisations. The aim is to develop sustainable collaborative projects between different organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (in particular SMEs), based in Europe and beyond. Exchanged staff benefit from new knowledge, skills and career development perspectives, while participating organisations increase their research and innovation capacities.
Such a project must explore activities that can be based on previous work but should go beyond and generate or strengthen long-term collaborations.
MSCA Staff exchanges projects
Staff Exchanges projects can last up to four years.The mobility of seconded staff members can last from one month to one year. Staff involved should return to their sending organisations after the secondment, to pass on the knowledge they gained during their secondments.
Eligibility to submit a MSCA SE proposal
The MSCA Staff Exchanges call is open to international consortia of universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs and other non-academic organisations.
Consortia need to include:
- at least three organisations in three different countries, two of which need to be located in a different EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country
- above this minimum, the participation of organisations from any country is possible
- if all participating organisations are from the same sector (academic or non-academic), at least one must be from a non-associated Third Country such as all LAC countries.
In the case of MSCA SE, only legal entities that are established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries can be beneficiaries.
Organisations from LAC (and from everywhere else) and from any sectors can join any consortium to submit a proposal. LAC institutions join the consortia as associated partners.
Webinars for LAC
18 October 2023: Webinar in Spanish for LAC institutions.
Register here https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/lac/events/webinar-lac-institutions-spanish-msca-staff-exchanges-call-2023
Eligibility to funding
Remember: Organisations from LAC (and from everywhere else) and from any sectors can join any consortium to submit a proposal. They receive and send* staff at no cost.
*In the case of institutions from Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay, they are eligible to participate but they must fund their own participation or bring their co-funding.
=> Why institutions from some LAC countries are eligible to automatic funding and others are not?
Within Horizon Europe, LAC countries are considered “non-associated Third Countries”. Participants from non-associated non-EU countries can take part in Horizon Europe actions — but not always with funding.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the low- to middle-income countries automatically eligible for institutional funding by the European Commission are: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic). Legal entities established in countries not listed in the Programme Guide will be eligible for funding if their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the granting authority. This is the case of institutions based in Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay, that are eligible to participate but they must fund their own participation or bring their co-funding.
Past Webinars
Watch the recording of the Info sessions in Spanish and Portuguese for LAC and Brazilian institutions we held in 2022 at bit.ly/WebinarsMSCASE22
Additional resources
- Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions –Work Programme 2023-2024
- MSCA SE – How to find partners?
- Guide for applicants MSCA SE (Soon)
- Six steps to prepare your application
- Contacts:
- MSCA National contact point (NCP) in Brazil: Ms. Elisa Natola, CONFAP, elisa.confap@gmail.com
- MSCA National contact points (NCPs) in other LAC countries and in Europe: bit.ly/HorizonEurope_NCP
- MSCA-NET Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Calendario interno:
-13/10/2023: Difusión del concurso desde la VRIDT.
-15/12/2023: Fecha límite para informar a la Dirección de Investigación, sobre la participación en el concurso, completando el Formulario de Iniciativa de Proyectos (FIP) a través del sistema SIVRIDT.
Video Tutorial: ingresar aquí
-05/01/2024: Fecha límite para enviar el Formulario de Autorización de Proyectos (FAP) a través del sistema SIVRIDT.
Video Tutorial: ingresar aquí
-15/01/2024: Fecha límite para enviar los documentos de avances del proyecto a través del sistema SIVRIDT (Formulario de postulación, Carta de recomendación que debe firmar el Director/la Directora de la Unidad).
Vídeo Tutorial: ingresar aquí
-31/01/2024: Plazo máximo de la VRIDT, para solicitar mejoras o ajustes a los proyectos.
-28/02/2024: Plazo máximo para postular a través de la plataforma de postulación MSCA.
-15/03/2024: Plazo máximo para respaldar (subir) los documentos postulados del concurso en el sistema SIVRIDT.
Video Tutorial: ingresar aquí
Link Concurso: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/lac/research-and-innovation-projects-through-mobility-msca-staff-exchanges
Correo de contacto: yuliya.ossipovich@ucn.cl