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Marie Curie Individual Fellowships - Call Open for 2019

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Join the more than 100 thousand MSCA funded researchers and apply for your own fellowship!

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships (IF) support the mobility of experienced researchers (in possession of a doctoral degree or with at least four years of research experience). The Fellowships provide an excellent opportunity for China-based researchers to conduct research and a university, research institute, or company in Europe (it can also be used by a Chinese institution to get a European researcherto come to China, with a 1-year compulsory return to Europe period). The call is now open and will close on 11 September 2019.

Please visit the Horizon 2020 Portal for Call information here.

Go to Apply

Check also the MSCA IF Guide for Applicants here

 

EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP

China → Europe

 

  • For postdoctoral research stays in a EU Member State or an associated country.
  • Last from one to two years.
  • Can help to restart research careers after a break such as parental leave.
  • Can also help reintegrate researchers coming back to Europe.
  • Mainly provides an opportunity for individual Chinese researchers to do research in Europe

GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP

Europe → China

 

  • For postdoctoral research stays (one to two years) outside Europe for researchers based in a EU Member State or an associated country.
  • There is a mandatory one year return period to Europe.
  • This fellowship provides opportunity to Chinese universities, institutes and companies to host European postdoctoral or more senior European researchers at their laboratory.
     

 

Find Hosting Offers

To apply for the fellowship the researcher has to be in cooperation with a research organisation in Europe that is willing to host the researcher. If you don't have a partner organisation in Europe already you can go to here to search for organisations open to hosting foreign researchers:

 

Examples of recent hosting offers in Europe from our database:

Are you a Chinese university looking to host a European Marie Curie Fellow in China?

Sign up your organisation for EURAXESS account and put in an hosting offer here:

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs

 

Support for your Application

For researchers interested in applying for the MSCA-IF there are a variety of tools available to support you in the application process.

 

How-to pieces/ hints and tips/ training

There are materials from various sources from the past few years:

MSCA IF Guide for Applicants 2017

Net4Mobility's 'Survival guide to MSCA IF'

About the MSCA IF and RISE programmes (4.45 MB)

How to find a host institution in Europe for your MSCA-IF proposal (2.96 MB)

How to write a competetive MSCA-IF proposal (4.45 MB)

The presentation from the 2017 EURAXESS China Marie Curie Individual Fellowship's Brain Storming Meeting

 

 

National Contact Point Network

The network of National Contact Points (NCPs) is the main structure to provide guidance, practical information and assistance on all aspects of participation in Horizon 2020. China-based researchers can contact the National Contact Points in the country where their research host is located or where there would like to undertake their MSCA IF. The NCPs offer the following services:

  • Guidance on choosing relevant H2020 topics and types of action
  • Advice on administrative procedures and contractual issues
  • Training and assistance on proposal writing
  • Distribution of documentation (forms, guidelines, manuals etc.)
  • Assistance in partner search

The EU funded Net4Mobility project has put togther a map with the contact details for NCPs across Europe and beyond here

 

 

FAQ

Here is a link to a FAQ-Blog specialised on MSCA (call, proposal, administrative issues, etc): https://mariecurieactions.blogspot.de/

 

Events for Chinese Researchers on Marie Curie Individual Fellowships

EURAXESS China organizes the Grants in Practice events with more information on how to apply to these grants.

This year we will be going to several cities around China to introduce the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship.

Stay up to date with our announcements to see when we will have an event close to you.

See a recording of our 2018 meeting in Beijing.
The National Contact Point for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in Germany (NCP MSC) will be holding a webinar on how to prepare a successful application for an Individual Fellowship (IF) on Tuesday, 23 April 2019. The webinar will be in English and is intended for international researchers who recently moved to Germany and are not yet fluent in German, as well as at researchers from abroad who are planning to submit an IF application with a German host institution.