Around 2000 early-stage researchers will be recruited through 147 new projects under the 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (MSCA-ITN) action.
The €530 million budget available this year will fund 1373 organisations (including 158 SMEs) involved in research and innovation activities. The full list of funded projects is available here.
Early-stage researchers will be recruited and trained to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit. The projects will provide researchers with enhanced career prospects both in the academic and non-academic sectors, through international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mind-set.
The Research Executive Agency will manage the 147 selected projects, which will run for four years.
See below four examples of newly-funded projects:
T-OP:
T-OP will train 15 early stage researchers, enabling them to develop efficient therapeutic solutions and to tackle economic opportunities in adoptive T cell therapy (ACT). T-OP brings together interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial teams spanning large and small-sized companies as well as experts in different aspects of cell therapy, immunology, protein engineering and bioinformatics.
DEDS:
The European Joint Doctorate in Data Engineering for Data Science will develop education, research, and innovation at the intersection of data science and data engineering. The objective of the project is to provide holistic support for the end-to-end management of the full lifecycle of data, from capture to exploitation by data scientists. DEDS is the only doctoral programme worldwide with this focus, which is crucial for realizing the next generation of Data Science breakthroughs.
CriticalEarth:
CriticalEarth will train 15 early stage researchers to develop new methods for assessing the mechanisms and associated risks of critical transitions in the climate. The program will enable them to generate, integrate and apply multidisciplinary knowledge from applied mathematics, climate science (paleo and projected future) and numerical simulations. The network will give them an excellent background for collaborating in cross-disciplinary teams in academia, industry, governmental- and non-governmental institutions.
PERSEPHONe:
PERSEPHONe is a training network which wants to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation for the development of a novel technological platform for photonics. It will train 14 early stage researchers, exposing them to a wide spectrum of expertise: materials synthesis, photonic devices and integrated circuits fabrication, characterization, and modelling, upscaling and manufacturing together with a powerful set of soft skills.
To know more about the MSCA-ITN read here: https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/research-networks_en