MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022
HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01-01
- Programme
- MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- October 5, 2022
- Deadline
- March 7, 2023
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €77,500,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01-01HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01
Description
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.
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 (see definitions at the end of this Work Programme part).
[2] See specific conditions at the end of this Work Programme part.
Destination & Scope
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. The scheme 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. It is open to research, technical, administrative and managerial staff supporting R&I activities.
Expected impact
Proposals under this Action should contribute to the following expected impacts:
- Increase international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility of research staff within Europe and beyond through collaborative research networks and activities;
- Strengthen the R&I human capital base in Europe and beyond;
- Increase Europe's attractiveness as a leading destination for R&I;
- Contribute to Europe's competitiveness and growth through high-quality R&I;
- Foster the culture of open science, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes
- Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes
Specific conditions
7. Specific conditions: described in the specific topic of the Work Programme
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE MSCA SE)
Standard evaluation form — will be used with the necessary adaptations
Standard evaluation form (HE MSCA)
MGA
Call-specific instructions:
HE MSCA SE Guide for Applicants
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 2. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 12. Missions
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Support & Resources
Online Manual is your guide on the procedures from proposal submission to managing your grant.
Horizon Europe Programme Guide contains the detailed guidance to the structure, budget and political priorities of Horizon Europe.
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – find the answers to most frequently asked questions on submission of proposals, evaluation and grant management.
Research Enquiry Service – ask questions about any aspect of European research in general and the EU Research Framework Programmes in particular.
Enterprise Europe Network – contact your EEN national contact for advice to businesses with special focus on SMEs. The support includes guidance on the EU research funding.
IT Helpdesk – contact the Funding & Tenders Portal IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
European IPR Helpdesk assists you on intellectual property issues.
CEN-CENELEC Research Helpdesk and ETSI Research Helpdesk – the European Standards Organisations advise you how to tackle standardisation in your project proposal.
The European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for their recruitment– consult the general principles and requirements specifying the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of researchers, employers and funders of researchers.
Partner Search Services help you find a partner organisation for your proposal.
Latest Updates
FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS (FLASH CALL INFO)
Call identifier: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01
Call title: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges
Call opened: 06/10/2022
Deadline: 08/03/2023
Available budget: Total budget: EUR 77,5 million
The Research Executive Agency has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call. The results of the evaluation are as follows:
Number of proposals submitted: 196
Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
Number of withdrawn proposals: 0
Number of ineligible proposals: 7
Number of above-threshold proposals: 120
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 127.571.800 €
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by mid/end of September 2023.
Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS after that date.
Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Research Executive Agency.
For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.
Call Horizon-MSCA-2022-SE-01 has closed on the 08/03/2023.
196 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per panel is:
· CHE: 32 proposals
· ECO: 6 proposals
· ENG: 70 proposals
· ENV: 21 proposals
· LIF: 18 proposals
· MAT: 4 proposals
· PHY: 15 proposals
· SOC: 30 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in June 2023
Dear Applicants,
We would like to draw your attention to an update of the submission template part B1. The instructions on artificial intelligence on page 9 have been updated. The following additional bullet point has been added: “[AI-based systems or techniques should be, or be developed to become] able to provide a suitable explanation of their decision-making processes, whenever they can have a significant impact on people’s lives.” A new template Part B1 has been republished for your kind consideration and use.
Best regards,
MSCA Staff Exchanges team
Dear Applicants,
We would like to draw your attention to an update of the submission template part B1. The instructions on artificial intelligence on page 9 have been updated. The following additional bullet point has been added: “[AI-based systems or techniques should be, or be developed to become] able to provide a suitable explanation of their decision-making processes, whenever they can have a significant impact on people’s lives.” A new template Part B1 has been republished for your kind consideration and use.
Best regards,
MSCA Staff Exchanges team
Dear Applicants,
We would like to draw your attention to an important update of the submission template part B1. In accordance with the Horizon Europe Framework Programme rules, Associated Partners can be Deliverable’s leaders. Therefore, the footnotes:
- “8 - A "lead Beneficiary" must be a Beneficiary (= organisation established in a MS/AC) and cannot be an associated partner organisation” and
- “12- A "lead beneficiary" must be a beneficiary (= organisation established in a MS/AC) and cannot be an associated partner”,
preventing the appointment of Associated Partners as Deliverable’ leaders in the proposal, have been removed. A new template Part B1 has been republished for your kind consideration and use.
Best regards,
MSCA Staff Exchanges team
Dear Applicants,
We would like to draw your attention to an important update of the submission template part B1. In accordance with the Horizon Europe Framework Programme rules, Associated Partners can be Deliverable’s leaders. Therefore, the footnotes:
- “8 - A "lead Beneficiary" must be a Beneficiary (= organisation established in a MS/AC) and cannot be an associated partner organisation” and
- “12- A "lead beneficiary" must be a beneficiary (= organisation established in a MS/AC) and cannot be an associated partner”,
preventing the appointment of Associated Partners as Deliverable’ leaders in the proposal, have been removed. A new template Part B1 has been republished for your kind consideration and use.
Best regards,
MSCA Staff Exchanges team
Dear Applicants,
We would like to draw your attention to an important update of the submission template part B1. In accordance with the Horizon Europe Framework Programme rules, Associated Partners can be Work Package's leaders. Therefore, the footnote “7 - A "lead beneficiary" must be a beneficiary (= organisation established in a Member State/Associated Countries) and cannot be an associated partner” preventing the appointment of Associated Partners as Work Packages’ leaders in the proposal, has been removed.
A new template Part B1 has been republished for your kind consideration and use.
Best regards,
MSCA Staff Exchanges team