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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges

MSCA

What is the MSCA SE?

MSCA SE promotes international and inter-sectoral collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges, sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market and vice-versa. The scheme fosters a shared culture of R&I that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps to turn creative ideas into innovative products, services or processes. See more details ine MSCA SE 2025 summary  .

Who can apply for the MSCA SE?

Consortium of at least 3 (usually 6–10) independent legal entities (academic and non-academic institutions) from at least 3 different countries (group leaders, senior researchers, junior researchers, project managers). Above this minimum, the participation of organisations from any country is possible. If all participating organisations are from the same sector (academic or non-academic), at least one must be from a non-associated third country.

Why to apply for the MSCA SE?

  • Bottom-up approach, research fields are chosen freely by the consortium.
  • International, inter-sectoral, and inter-disciplinary mobility of senior & junior researchers, Ph.D. students, administrative, managerial and technical staff.
  • Strengthening existing & building new international research collaborations.
  • Project team members can spend 1–12 months on research visits in abroad.
  • Project team members can develop their professional career & improve their skills.
  • Up to 360 person-months of secondments can be realised during 4 years.
  • Lump sum of 5100 € for each person-month is available: 2710 € staff member unit costs, 1300 € research & training costs, 1000 € management & indirect costs.

When to apply for the MSCA SE?

The nearest call deadline MSCA SE 2025 is on Wed 8 Oct 2025 17:00 Brussels time (IOCB deadline is on 1 Oct 2025).


  Please inform the Project Office about your intention.  
  Do not hesitate anytime to contact us for consulting, discussion or help.  

How to apply for the MSCA SE?

  1. Find and read programme guidelines.
  2. Identify relevant project partners and further team members you would like to work with. Negotiate and justify roles, activities and responsibilities of all partners in the project. Designate the main Project Coordinator of the consortium.
  3. Plan secondments: sending institution => hosting institution:
    1. Academic in MS/AC => non-academic in MS/AC or organisation in TC
    2. Non-academic in MS/AC => academic in MS/AC or organisation in TC
    3. Organisation in TC => academic in MS/AC or non-academic in MS/AC
    4. Up to 1/3 of the total secondments can be within the same sector (academic of non-academic)
  4. Contact the host institutions and negotiate the institutional support. For IOCB official approval please complete form in the Electronic Project Proposal Approval system. Please, contact the Project Office.
  5. Create or use your account on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal and activate your access to the call.
  6. Select one of the 8 panels which is the most relevant to the field of your research: Chemistry (CHE), Economic Sciences (ECO), Information Science and Engineering (ENG), Environmental and Geosciences (ENV), Life Sciences (LIF), Mathematics (MAT), Physics (PHY), Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC).
  7. Fill in your online Administrative form (Part A) on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
    • General information & declarations & 3–5 descriptors & Abstract;
    • Data of participating organisations - Researchers involved in the proposal, 5 publications, previous projects, infrastructures;
    • Gender Equality Plan (YES/NO);
    • Budget;
    • Ethics & security table.
  8. Together with all project partners complete the MSCA SE offline Proposal part B1 (use proposal template  , max 32 pages) and make a PDF from the final version. Visual figures, tables and graphs are highly recommended in the proposal. Discuss the proposal with all project partners, Project Office and the Czech national contact point.
    • Start page;
    • Table of content (max 1 page);
    • Excellence;
    • Impact;
    • Quality and efficiency of the implementation: Work packages, Deliverables, Milestones.
  9. Together with all project partners complete the MSCA SE offline Proposal part B2 (use proposal template, no page limit) and make a PDF from the final version. Discuss the proposal with all project partners, Project Office and the Czech national contact point.
    • Participating organisations (max 1 page per Beneficiary, half a page per associated Partner);
    • Ethics Issues;
    • Letters of Commitment for associated Partners organisations (use template, sign by legal representative).
  10. Finalise the application on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
    • Administrative form Part A (applicant & partners & Project Office)
    • Proposal Part B1 (upload in PDF) (applicant & partners & Project Office)
    • Proposal Part B2 (upload in PDF) (applicant & partners & Project Office)
    • Letters of Commitment (upload in PDF, sign by legal representatives) (Project Office & Director & partners)
  11. Validate the application. Use the functionality 'Validate form' button to check the validity and completeness of your data. Any warning or error will be listed at the end of the validated form. Once there is a consolidated version of the proposal, the “SUBMIT” button must be pressed. You may submit your proposal with warnings (marked in yellow), but it is not possible to submit a proposal until all errors (marked in red) are corrected. Please note that the electronic checks by the submission system do not replace the formal eligibility review and do not confirm that the contents of these files respond to the requirements of the call.
  12. Submit the application before Wed 8 Oct 2025 17:00 Brussels time (IOCB deadline is on Wed 01 Oct 2025). Submit the application in advance to avoid server overload. You will receive a confirmation e-mail with the summary data of the submitted proposal. You may continue to modify the proposal and submit revised versions overwriting the previous one right up until the call deadline.

Final evaluation results will be announced to applicants in Jan – March 2026.

The grant start date is expected to be between Apr/Jun 2026 and Apr/Jun 2027.


European Commission Horizon Europe
NCP: Technology Centre CAS, Lyudmila Tysyachna: Lyudmila Tysyachna, ☎: +420 607 006 110

Other MSCA Grants


IOCB

IOCB participation (1) in MSCA SE:

  • Petr CÍGLER: FLORIN – FLuorescent nanO-agents for super-Resolution Imaging and seNsing (2022-2026, MSCA Postdoctoral CORDIS