Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges: Webinar

MSCA Staff Exchanges promote innovative international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain. It is open to all domains of research and innovation, chosen freely by the applicants.

EURAXESS Australia & New Zealand would like to invite you to an exclusive webinar that covers the following questions about the MSCA Staff Exchanges (SE):

• What are MSCA SE?
• Who can apply for MSCA SE?
• What is funded?
• How do I apply?
• Where can I get information and support?
• Testimonial from an MSCA SE project representative from Australia

The free webinar is aimed at researchers & institutional actors of any country & discipline. 

Seats are limited and will be offered on a first-come-first-serve basis.

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Watch the recording below

*Please note that the Q&A has been edited out of the recording to adhere to privacy of the participants.

• Understanding MSCA Staff Exchanges: Ms Leila Triki, Tunisian National Contact Point for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
• Why we applied for the MSCA Staff Exchanges and how we did it?: Dr Corinne Caillaud, Associate Professor, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney
• Interactive Q&A: Moderated by Mr Nishant Shandilya, Regional Coordinator, EURAXESS Australia & New Zealand

*The presentation slides are attached at the bottom of the page.

Speakers

Ms Leila Triki, Tunisian National Contact Point, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions

Leila Triki is part of the Tunisian National Contact Points (NCP) team for Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions within the framework of the European research and innovation program Horizon Europe, with expertise in the field of technology transfer and assistance with technological maturation. She is a member of the EURAXESS Tunisia - TEN team; in charge of Network & Services development. Throughout her career, Leila has held several key positions, including that of chief engineer, head of the specialized unit of technology transfer, project engineer and commercialization (T2IPM) at the National Research Institute and physico-chemical analysis (INRAP), at the Sidi Thabet Technology Center. She has exercised her expertise in several areas with different projects, as a trainer and expert in Intellectual Property, technology transfer and entrepreneurship by supervising and training young student entrepreneurs in national competitions.

Dr Corinne Caillaud  Associate Professor  School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney

Corinne is a Professor of digital health at the University of Sydney. She has wide experience in exercise physiology gained over several years of research in this field and has worked with different populations including young and master athletes as well as elderly healthy individuals. She started her academic career in France and still has active collaborations with Europe including the MSCA SE (previously RISE) project, FALAH.

About Staff Exchanges

MSCA Staff Exchanges fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps turn ideas into innovative products, services, or processes.

Staff Exchanges

• support collaborative projects addressing the triple dimension spanning all research fields
• provide specific opportunities to promote international cooperation between the academic and non-academic spheres

The MSCA SE 2023 call is open. The European Commission will allocate €78.5 million to fund around 75 projects promoting cooperation between organisations in the EU and around the globe in R&I.

Innovation and knowledge transfer

Secondments are the core of Staff Exchanges. Selected projects will exchange and train researchers and innovators, as well as administrative, technical or managerial staff involved in research activities.

Participants will go abroad for up to 12 months to enlarge their networks, exchange knowledge, and carry out cutting-edge research.

This call will help researchers and relevant staff in different career stages gain new skills and competencies, in line with the priorities of the European Year of Skills, which focuses on lifelong learning and gaining skills for quality jobs.

International consortia

Through Staff Exchanges, organisations can form international partnerships with other leading organisations, strengthen long-term collaborations and increase their capacities.

Staff Exchanges projects are highly international, intersectoral projects, implemented by consortia involving several organisations from the EU, countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme and very often organisations from third countries.

Who can apply?

To be eligible, consortia must be made of at least three organisations in three different countries. Two of these must be in separate EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries. Beyond that, organisations from any country in the world may participate.

Organisations from all socioeconomic sectors in any country can apply to Staff Exchanges. This includes organisations such as

• higher education institutions
• research institutions and infrastructures
• private sector organisations, including industry, businesses, and small and medium-sized enterprises
• public sector organisations, including national, regional, and local governments, agencies, and museums
• other socio-economic actors, including non-governmental organisations, charities, etc.

Participating organisations host and train seconded staff from other project partners at their own premises, and second staff abroad to other organisations in the consortium.

However, the participation modalities differ depending on where the organisation is based.

Organisations based in EU Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme can participate as beneficiaries, meaning that they are automatically eligible for funding and can second, host, and train staff members

Organisations based in all third countries can participate as associated partners.

• Low and middle-income third countries can second their staff, and host and train seconded staff from other partners in EU Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme under the project’s costs (see specific conditions in the MSCA Work Programme)
• Organisations based in high-income third countries can host and train seconded staff from other partners in EU Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme under the project’s costs, but they can second their staff members only under their own expenses.