Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are a European Commission Funding programme which supports researchers across all research disciplines and in all employment sectors.

MSCA fund excellent and innovative research training as well as attractive career development and knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and cross-sector mobility of researchers, to better prepare them for current and future societal challenges. This funding aims to reinforce cooperation between academia and all types of non-academic organisations (companies, CSOs, hospitals, public bodies etc.) in terms of research training, career development and knowledge transfer.

All funding in MSCAs is bottom-up; there are no thematic calls or priority areas that are supported. Depending on the Action, the budgets available range from €50,000 to €10 million.

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THE TEAM

Dr Jane Carrigan

National Contact Point (NCP) for Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Dr Blanca Suarez-Bilbao

National Contact Point for Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

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Working out ways to tackle age-related m...

by Brigid Burke

Horizon Europe

Sarcopenia, or age-related muscle loss, is a primary cause of loss of physical independence in the elderly, and the focus of one recent Horizon-funded research study. “The need for effective treatment strategies that can slow or reverse age-related muscle loss is essential if a future crisis is to be avoided,” says Dr Robert Radford, project lead of Pept-AGE at Nuritas.

Seeing the big picture: CLEXM project op...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Horizon Europe

For a generation of young readers, Sirius is best known as Harry Potter’s godfather. To those of a more scientific bent, it is the brightest star in the night sky. But to a small research elite, it is the Irish-based company behind a high-resolution microscope that can produce images of the internal structure of biological cells, SiriusXT.

Recipe for success: securing funding for...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 1 Health

Recipe for success: securing funding for agri-food research. This project received €2.1 million from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Cofund programme, to support the creation of this postdoctoral fellowship scheme, with a further €3.1 million coming from Teagasc.

Eyeing the future with Horizon’s visiona...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Horizon Europe

As the European population ages, a growing number of people are affected by problems with their eyesight. ORBITAL, a research network coordinated by the South East Technological University (SETU), is dedicated to developing innovative technologies to treat back-of-the-eye diseases. It received more than €4m in Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie funding.

Changing the lives of patients with brai...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 1 Health

Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive form of adult primary brain cancer, for which there is currently no cure. Discover how the team behind the GLIOTRAIN project won #Horizon2020 funding to tackle the disease.

Irish research organisations secured an ...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Horizon Europe

Irish research organisations secured an impressive €34 million in funding from the European Union to support early-career researchers. The funding was competitively won through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) under Horizon Europe, the EU’s mechanism for funding research and innovation projects from 2021 to 2027.

EU funding enables vital ‘human-centric’...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

As AI’s development continues to grow, the EU has declared the need for a ‘human-centric’ approach to AI. TU Dublin has teamed up with 13 partners from across Europe to create Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical systems, a MSCA Innovative Training Network project. Funded by Horizon 2020, the project aims to hire, train and mentor early-stage researchers as collaborative intelligence scientists.

IAEA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship P...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Horizon Europe

The application period for the IAEA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme 22 cycle is now open. The MSCFP helps to encourage young women to pursue careers in the nuclear field. Over the two years since its launch, the MSCFP has already supported 210 female students representing 93 Member States studying in 53 countries around the globe.