Come and Join the EURAXESS Mentoring Programme! This initiative, as part of the EURAXESS TOP IV “Open to the World” project, aims to encourage and to facilitate the transnational mobility, by fostering cooperation between the researchers from European Research Area (ERA) and EURAXESS Worldwide countries. In the framework of this programme, experienced researchers will have the unique opportunity to mentor early stage researchers and support...

Call open from 22 June 2021 to 16 November 2021. IMPORTANT: The call is open to institutions, not to individual PhD candidates. The objective of Doctoral Networks (MSCA DN) is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe and beyond to train highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulate their creativity, enhance their innovation capacities and boost their employability in the long-term....

Call for experts The European Research Executive Agency (REA) invites experts from a wide range of fields to register in the European Commission’s experts database. The applicants can come from any country granted they have expertise in one of the research fields covered by the agency. They can represent industry, business associations, innovation agencies, non-governmental and international organisations, local, regional and national...

The recording of the event, Key changes to the Ethics Appraisal Process in Horizon Europe, identifying serious and complex issues in EU-funded projects and addressing ethics of Artificial Intelligence, organized by DG RTD and held on July 9, 2021, is available for online viewing: These are the main novelties: Explicit declaration of conformity with the European Code for Research Integrity. Exclusivity of the civil use of technologies. “The...

One of the main characteristics of the Horizon Europe research...

[Science Business] A simplified explanation of the thickets of legal details in Horizon Europe grant agreements will be released in stages across the second half of the year, with the first set coming out in July. The simplified version of the model grant agreement, the legal document setting out the terms and conditions of EU grants, is expected to be essential resource for applicants who struggle to understand legal language. The first part...

As Horizon Europe gears up, we take a closer look at the international dimension and what stronger cooperation means for mobile researchers who take the plunge. Despite its name, Horizon Europe (HE) has a decidedly international flavour that extends way beyond the European continent. Running from 2021 to 2027 and with a budget of €95.5 billion – including €5.4 billion for the Next Generation of the EU ‘Recovery Fund’ – HE is the EU’s main...

On 24 March, the European Commission organised an open information session to inform all potential applicants to Horizon Europe calls on the modalities for preparing their proposals. The agenda included two main points: “Submission and Evaluation” and “Model Grant Agreement”. Recordings of the sessions are now available.   YouTube recording - morning session   YouTube recording - afternoon session   Presentation: Submission and evaluation of...

The European Commission has adopted the first annual work programme of Erasmus+ 2021-2027. With a budget of €26.2 billion, (compared to €14.7 billion for 2014-2020), complemented with about €2.2 billion from EU's external instruments, the new and revamped programme will fund learning mobility and cross-border cooperation projects for 10 million Europeans of all ages and all backgrounds. It will seek to be even more inclusive and to support the...

The Seal of Excellence quality label is awarded to Individual Fellowship applicants who scored highly but ultimately did not get funding. The Commission awarded Seal of Excellence certificates to applicants for MSCA Individual Fellowships in 2020 With a record 11,300-plus proposals received for the 2020 Individual Fellowships call, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are highly competitive. Of this number, 1,630 were funded. High quality...