MSCA-COFUND-2020 – Funding of international Programmes 2020

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships 2019

MSCA-COFUND-2020 – Funding of international Programmes 2020

Designation/Position- MSCA-COFUND-2020

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions invites application for MSCA-COFUND-2020 from eligible and interested candidates

About- The COFUND scheme aims to stimulate regional, national, or international programs to foster excellence in researchers’ training, mobility, and career development, spreading the best practices of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. This will be achieved by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programs to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career. MSCA-COFUND-2020

Each proposal funded under the COFUND scheme must have a sole beneficiary that will be responsible for the availability of the necessary complementary funds to execute the proposal.

Research/Job Area- Various Research Area

Location- EU Member States

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships 2020

Eligibility/Qualification–

Individual researchers from any country in the world seeking the opportunity to work in Europe for a certain period of their career can apply for funding through the European Research Council and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.

Available local support for H2020 participants from non-EU countries

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon 2020 projects. See the information in the Online Manual.

Job/Position Description- 

A) Doctoral programmes

  • Doctoral programmes address the development and broadening of the research competencies of early-stage researchers.
  • The training follows the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training.
  • Substantial training modules, including digital ones, addressing key transferable skills common to all fields and fostering the culture of Open Science, innovation and entrepreneurship will be supported.
  • Collaboration with a wider set of partner organisations, including from the non-academic sector, which may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training in research or transferable skills, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary elements of the proposed programme, will be positively taken into account during the evaluation.

Each researcher must be enrolled in a doctoral programme. Attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well as career guidance. The selection procedure for doctoral candidates must be open, transparent and merit-based. The vacancy notice must include the minimum gross salary offered to the researcher, as set out in the proposal.

B) Fellowship programmes

  • Fellowship programmes fund individual research training and career development fellowships for experienced researchers.
  • The programmes supported should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing fair competition between the researchers applying.
  • The selections should be based on open, widely advertised competition (the vacancy notice must include the minimum gross salary offered to the researcher, as set out in the proposal), with transparent international peer review and the selection of candidates on merit.
  • Mobility types supported by fellowship programmes may be similar to the ones supported under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships.
  • On top of transnational mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes.
  • Fellowship programmes should be based on individual-driven mobility, i.e. researchers should be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate organisation to host them, fitting their individual needs.

Given that the aim of the co-funded fellowship programmes is the support of individual fellows, research teams will not be funded.

How to Apply- 

To access the Electronic Submission Service, please click on the submission-button next to the type of action that corresponds to your proposal. You will then be asked to confirm your choice of the type of action and topic, as these cannot be changed in the submission system. Upon confirmation, you will be linked to the correct entry point.

To access existing draft proposals for this topic, please login to the Funding & Tenders Portal and select the My Proposals page of the My Area section.

Submit a proposal Guide

IT HOW TO“Submission of Proposals”

Last Date for Apply– 29 September 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time

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