MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021

Call Updates

Mar 23, 2022 2:03:38 PM

A total of 209 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each scientific panel is shown below.

• Chemistry (CHE): 22
• Economic Sciences (ECO): 6
• Information Science and Engineering (ENG): 79
• Environment and Geosciences (ENV): 25
• Life Sciences (LIF): 25
• Mathematics (MAT): 4
• Physics (PHY): 18
• Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC): 30 

Jan 20, 2022 5:54:39 PM

Dear Applicants,

Due to IT constrains in the budget calculation, all participants (beneficiaries and associated partners)  must be encoded in SEP submission forms by clicking the button “Add partner”.

The distinction between “beneficiaries” and “associated partners” will be done at the Grant Agreement Preparation phase (GAP) for the proposals that will be retained for funding.

Legal entities located in Member States and Associated Countries (MS/AC) can be considered as associated partners during GAP phase if a Letter of Commitment (LoC) was submitted in the proposal. These associated partners (MS/AC) must encode 0€ costs in the budget table.   

Legal entities located in non-associated Third Countries will be automatically considered as associated partners and must submit a Letter of Commitment (LoC) in the proposal.

Low to middle-income third countries listed in the https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/programme-guide_horizon_en.pdf are eligible to receive funding and can encode costs in the budget table.

Note: For the 2021 call, applicants must submit Part B of their proposal as two separate documents: Part B1 and Part B2 (the correct link will be available in the forthcoming days).

Best regards,

MSCA Staff Exchanges team

Oct 22, 2021 4:46:51 PM
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01(HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE)

Oct 8, 2021 11:12:35 AM
Dear applicants,
The proposal submission links for the HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE call will be available shortly.
Another call update will be published in the coming days to inform you.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards
MSCA Staff Exchanges team

MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021
TOPIC ID: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges
Type of MGA: HORIZON Unit Grant [HORIZON-AG-UN]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 07 October 2021
Deadline date: 09 March 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

For staff members

• Increased set of research and transferable skills and competences, leading to improved employability and career prospects within and outside academia;
• More knowledge and innovative ideas converted into products, processes and services;
• More entrepreneurial mind-sets, testing new and innovative ideas;
• Increased international exposure leading to extended networks and opportunities;
• Enhanced networking and communication capacities with scientific peers, as well as with the general public that will increase and broaden the research and innovation impact.

For participating organisations

• Innovative ways of cooperation and transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines;
• Strengthened and broader international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral collaborative networks;
• Boosted R&I capacity.

Scope:

MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe.

Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of R&I staff leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations.

Mobility through secondments

The organisations constituting the partnership contribute directly to the implementation of a joint R&I project by seconding and/or hosting eligible staff members. Such a project must explore activities that can be based on previous work but should go beyond and generate or strengthen long-term collaborations. Secondments must always take place between legal entities independent from each other.

MSCA Staff Exchanges can address three dimensions of mobility: inter-sectoral, international and interdisciplinary[1]. While exchanges between organisations within EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries should mainly be inter-sectoral, same-sector exchanges[2] are also possible under the condition that they are interdisciplinary. Interdisciplinarity is not required for same-sector exchanges with non-associated Third Countries.

Secondments between institutions established in non-associated Third Countries or within the same EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country are not eligible.

The collaborative approach of MSCA Staff Exchanges should exploit complementary competences of the participating organisations and create synergies between them. The secondments should be essential to achieve the joint project’s R&I activities. The project should inter alia enable networking activities and the organisation of workshops and conferences, to facilitate sharing of knowledge and testing of innovative approaches for specific R&I topics.

Skills’ development

For participating staff members, the project should offer new skills acquisition and career development perspectives. Participating organisations must ensure that the seconded staff are adequately mentored.

[1]Interdisciplinarity means the integration of information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts or theories from two or more scientific disciplines. These aspects will be assessed during the evaluation.

[2]See specific conditions at the end of this Work Programme part.