The European Commission is launching two new calls for proposals under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) actions for staff exchanges and co-funding of regional, national and international projects ( COFUND ).

The Commission's 2022 COFUND call, with a total budget of 95 million euros, will be open until 9 February 2023. The call for staff exchanges 2022, budget 77,5 million euros, will be open until March 8, 2023.

Marija Gabrielle, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth on the Commission's action

«The international scientific cooperation is vital to strengthen Europe's research and innovation capacities in these difficult times. Projects selected under these calls will enable our researchers, innovators and organizations to expand their networks, attract talent and exchange knowledge. This way they will be able to carry out cutting-edge research for the benefit of our societies." The staff exchanges of Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions support short-term international and cross-sectoral staff exchanges in the field of research and innovation. These exchanges offer unique training and knowledge-sharing opportunities for researchers and innovators and pave the way for sustainable collaborative projects between different academic and non-academic organisations in Europe and beyond. The COFUND programme of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND actions allows all kinds of organisation, companies and regional or national authorities to create or establish doctoral and postdoctoral fellowship programmes. Also increase their research and innovation capacity by attracting international talent. The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions are the EU's reference programme under the Horizon Europe programme. Aiming for excellence doctoral education and post-doctoral training . They promote excellence in research, promote cross-border, cross-sectoral and scientific research collaboration and stimulate employment, growth and investment by enabling researchers to acquire new knowledge and skills. Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions fund the development of excellent doctoral and postdoctoral training programs. Also collaborative research projects around the world.