MSCA Staff Exchanges webinar for Africa- 20 October 2022

​This webinar will introduce the MSCA “Staff Exchanges” (MSCA-SE) which promotes international and cross-sector collaboration through exchanging research and innovation staff.

The European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) offers funding for short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities of participating organisations.

The aim of this action 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.

Join this webinar on 20 October at 14H00 CET to find out how you can enhance your organisation's innovation capacity through interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration with European and global partners!

This webinar will provide the following information:

• What are the MSCA Staff Exchanges?
• Who can apply for MSCA Staff Exchanges?
• What is funded?
• How does it work?
• When is the next call for propoals?

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Speakers :

-Julie Leprêtre is in charge of the Coordination and Support Action “MSCA and Citizens”, which embeds the European Researchers’ Night and the newly launched Researchers at Schools initiative, with an aim to reach out to the general public and raise interest in science and research careers amongst pupils and students. She is also responsible for MSCA stakeholder engagement andoutreach, and for citizen engagement activities. In that framework, she follows closely the Marie Curie Alumni Association activities. Julie is the contact point for African partners for the MSCA, with a view to encourage further participation from African researchers and organisations in the programme. Before that, she was the representative of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA, France) in Brussels, in charge of relations with the European institutions.

-Cristina Gómez is the Spanish National Contact Point and National Delegate for MSCA since 2014 at the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), institution that she joined back in 2002. After carrying different roles in the financial department, she joined the International Projects Unit in 2009 where, among other duties, she coordinated EURAXESS at national level. She became part of the European Office in 2013, the department whose objective is to encourage the participation of Spanish Institutions in European Framework Programmes. She has over 15 years of experience in national and European research landscape, with a focus on career development and mobility of researchers and specific activities to support the collaboration of Europe and Latin-American and Caribbean countries in the scope of MSCA. As NCP, her role is to promote MSCA among the research community and Spanish institutions and support applicants during the whole life circle of the projects. To do so, she carries out promotional activities on a periodic basis, pre-screen proposals and delivers on-hands trainings while also organizing support actions for management and implementation phases of funded projects. She holds a B.A in Tourism Management, a Postgraduate degree in R&I Management and a Master in International Cooperation.

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