MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024
HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01-01
- Programme
- MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- September 19, 2024
- Deadline
- February 5, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €99,466,431
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01-01HORIZON-MSCA-2024-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, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary 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 involve physical mobility[1] of the eligible staff members and must always take place between legal entities independent from each other.
MSCA Staff Exchanges can address three dimensions of mobility: international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary[2]. While exchanges between organisations within EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries should mainly be inter-sectoral, same-sector exchanges[3] 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] Virtual mobility is not allowed for secondments.
[2] 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).
[3] 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, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary 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
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Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes
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Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
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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
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 2. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2024 – 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.
National Contact Points (NCPs) – get guidance, practical information and assistance on participation in Horizon Europe. There are also NCPs in many non-EU and non-associated countries (‘third-countries’).
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 overall results of the HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01 call for proposals (‘flash call info’)
Call identifier: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01
Call title: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges
Published: 19/09/2024
Deadline: 05/02/2025
Available budget: EUR 99,466,431.00
The Agency has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the abovementioned call. The breakdown of evaluation results is as follows:
MSCA-2024-SE (Staff Exchanges)
Number of proposals submitted: 329
Number of ineligible/inadmissible/withdrawn proposals: 5
Number of proposals receiving an evaluation score above the threshold: 219
Total budget requested from these above-threshold proposals: EUR 264,563,070.00
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by June 2025.
Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS after that date.
Please note that the number of proposals that can be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Commission.
For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.
SE Percentiles - This table informs on the percentage of proposals with a given score or higher, per ranking list, also showing the funding ranges.
You can access and download the percentiles table in pdf format from the following link
Summary of the independent observer report:
MSCA Staff Exchanges is a popular action open to all areas of science and related technologies, focused on promoting 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.
This year we had an increase of the number of proposals submitted by approximatively 40% compared to last year, confirming the need of the academic and the R&D community for such action. It was the fourth MSCA Staff exchanges call under Horizon Europe; the framework is now well-established and rigorously tested, ensuring the timely progression of evaluations and compliance with best assessment practices. Significant effort has been deployed to recruit the experts with the scientific and technical expertise matching the submitted proposals to provide their independent review reports. Throughout the whole evaluation due care was applied to identify and manage any conflicts of interest.
This year's assessment procedures presented in narrative text rather than as a simple list of strengths and weaknesses, offering clearer and more nuanced justifications for scores. Additionally, the integrated quality checks early in the consensus process has resulted in more informative reports that consistently meet expected standards. The measures adopted ensured a fair and transparent treatment of all proposals.
Key to the success of this exercise was the extensive preparation and the role of the SE REA Team, both before and during the evaluation. The overall quality of the evaluation was very good. All experts and VCs followed procedures which were clearly described in guidance documents and precisely explained during several briefings. The transparent, impartial, fair, and confidential process of the assessment was perfectly supported by the verification procedure of high quality which was applied to all Consensus Reports – in such a way that the complete consistency among reports has been achieved. This resulted in the high-quality Evaluation Summary Reports (ESRs) which provide applicants with the clear, accurate and fair assessment of their proposals. In addition, experts were distinctly expressing and sharing the positive feedback related to the benefits originating from having face-to-face meetings and having the consensus phase in the on-site form. In their opinion, such an approach allows them to share their assessments in an open-minded way and reach consensus through fruitful and constructive exchange of opinions, including scientific views. Also, the quality of the assessment was positively impacted, as on-site actions boost engagement and focus.
List of proposals selected for funding (as of 12 May 2025): link
Please note that this list reflects the results of the evaluation before the Grant Agreement Preparation and formal selection decision.