EU funding
Funding under FP7
Funding under People program
The People program provides funding for Marie Curie Actions, which promote training and mobility of researchers at all stages of their careers. The 'Marie Curie Actions' have long been one of the most popular and appreciated features of the Community Framework Programmes and are the main source of funding opportunities for the mobility of bothEuropean and non-European researchers.
Actions of particular interest for researchers outside of Europe are :
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development |
This action provides financial support for advanced training and trans-national mobility, for a period of up to 3 years, for individual projects presented by experienced researchers who are nationals of Member States or Associated countries in liaison with a host organisation from a Member State or Associated country. The project includes a coherent research programme for the total duration of the contract, of which an initial outgoing phase, of between 1 and 2 years, is to be spent in a distinct legal entity in a third country which is not a Member State or Associated country and a mandatory reintegration phase of 1 year within the contracting organisation in a Member State or Associated country. |
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (IIF) |
This action is open to experienced researchers of any nationality. The researcher must demonstrate mobility from a third country, which is not a Member State or Associated country, to a Member State or Associated country. It provides financial support to individual research projects presented by the incoming experienced researchers in liaison with a legal entity ('host organisation') in a Member State or an Associated country, as well as possibly a 'return host organisation' if the researcher's country of origin is an International Cooperation Partner Country. The contracts will be concluded with the host organisations of the Member States or Associated countries for a total duration of between one and two years. The possible return phase would have a duration of one year. |
Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) |
The Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme is an action aimed at strengthening research partnerships through staff exchanges and networking activities between European research organisations and organisations from third countries with which the Community has an S&T agreement. Compared to existing Marie Curie actions, which provide mobility possibilities to individual researchers, this action will provide support to research organisations to establish or reinforce long-term research co-operation through a coordinated joint programme of exchange of researcher staff for short periods. |
Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIG) |
For researchers of any nationality with at least 4 years' full-time research experience or a doctoral degree, this new action replaces the previous actions (Reintegration Grants "RG") actions and provides grants for a period of 2 to 4 years, the funding being handed to the organization hosting the researcher during this period. The host organization must be located in Europe and researchers benefiting from this fellowship cannot have carried out their work in the country of the host organisation for more than twelve months over the last three years. |
Marie Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes (COFUND) |
This action is addressed to organisations that finance and manage fellowship programmes. Participants will submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing regional, national or international programmes to be co-funded by the European Commission.
For a list of programmes that are currently being funded under this action and who may be offering individual fellowships, please refer to COFUNDED Calls page. |
There are currently 5 open calls (Marie-Curie Actions) under this program.
Funding under Ideas program
The Ideas program has been established to encourage and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research on the basis of scientific excellence as sole evaluation criterion. Applications may be made in any field of research, including social sciences and humanities. Proposals of an interdisciplinary nature which cross the boundaries between different fields of research, proposals in new and emerging fields and “high-risk, high-gain” proposals are encouraged.
The Ideas program is implemented through the European Research Council (ERC).
ERC Grants support projects which are carried out by individual teams, headed by a single “Principal Investigator” (PI) of any nationality.
Two types of grants are available:
- the ERC Starting Grants for excellent researchers, located in or moving to the EU, who are at the stage of starting or consolidating their own independent research team or their independent research programme;
- the ERC Advanced Grants, for researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders who propose highly ambitious, pioneering and unconventional research.
There is currently 1 open call under this program.
Funding under Capacities program
The Commission’s proposals for the FP7 Capacities program aim to enhance research and innovation capacities throughout Europe and ensure their optimal use.
The European Commission launched on 30 July 2009 new calls for research proposals under this program in the following areas, with some of them open to third countries like China:
- Research for the benefit of SMEs
- Research Infrastructures
- Activities of international cooperation
- Research potential
- Science in society
- Regions of knowledge
There is currently no open call under this program.
Funding under Cooperation program
The Cooperation program supports all types of research activities carried out by different research bodies in trans-national cooperation and aims to gain or consolidate leadership in key scientific and technology areas.
Chinese research institutions, universities and industry are invited to join research proposals under this program.
The European Commission launched on 30 June 2009 new calls for research proposals in the following areas:
- Energy
- Security
- Space
- Health
- Environment (including climate change)
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Nanoscience, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies
- Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
- Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities
- Transport
- Cross-disciplinary topic: The Ocean of Tomorrow: Joining research forces to meet challenges in ocean management
There are currently 6 open calls under this program.
Funding under Euratom program
FP7 Euratom aims to address the major issues and challenges in nuclear research and to contribute to the further consolidation of the European Research Area in the nuclear energy sector. It also supports existing Community policies while at the same time responding to new policy requirements.
FP7 Euratom is composed of two programmes, one managed by the Commission's Directorate-General for Research (DG RTD) covering actions in the fields of fusion energy research and nuclear fission and radiation protection, the other covering actions in the nuclear field undertaken by the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). The JRC is also a partner in many of the consortia implementing actions in the fission area.
There is currently no open call under this program.
Other EU Funding programs
Science & Technology Fellowship Programme China (STF China)
The Science & Technology Fellowship Programme China (STF China) promotes the mobility of EU researchers towards the Chinese research and development area by offering 30 selected researchers from EU member states 6-month tailor-made Chinese language and research culture training in Beijing and 18-month practical research period in a Chinese host organisation.
The call for proposal of the 2nd intake has closed on January 4, 2010.
Erasmus Mundus
Erasmus Mundus (2009-2013) is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education that aims to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through cooperation with third countries.
The program supports joint masters and doctoral degrees as well as mobility partnerships between European and non-European higher education institutions (HEI), including Chinese HEIs.
5 mobility partnerships projects exclusively targeted at China have been selected for the whole 2009-2013 period and 4 joint degrees programs (2 masters and 2 doctorates) including Chinese HEIs have already been selected to be supported.
Other calls for proposals not exclusively targeting China but nonetheless open to partnerships with China are and will be published on a regular basis.
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