MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025
The MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025 program is a distinctive EU funding initiative designed to foster innovative international, inter-sectoral, and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation. It supports the exchange of staff and knowledge sharing across various organisations worldwide, aiming to transform novel ideas into impactful products, services, and processes. This program is unique in its focus on developing a shared culture of research that values creativity and entrepreneurship.
Who is Funded and Objectives
The MSCA Staff Exchanges program is designed to support a diverse range of participants and locations, fostering global collaboration in research and innovation. It targets various types of staff and organisations, with a clear focus on promoting international, inter-sectoral, and interdisciplinary mobility to achieve significant impacts on human capital and Europe's R&I landscape.
What is Funded
The MSCA Staff Exchanges program supports a wide array of research and innovation activities, ensuring that projects at any stage of technological readiness can receive funding. It outlines specific eligible and ineligible costs to guide participants.
Type and Scope of Funding
The program offers grants to support research staff exchanges, with specific financial limits per project and detailed conditions regarding the duration of secondments.
Conditions and Requirements
Applicants and beneficiaries must adhere to various conditions and requirements, ranging from application stipulations to consortium formation and broader regulatory principles like Open Science.
Application Procedure
The application process for MSCA Staff Exchanges involves a detailed step-by-step submission procedure and a merit-based evaluation to select the most impactful proposals.
Legal Basis
The MSCA Staff Exchanges program operates under a robust legal framework established by comprehensive EU regulations and work programmes, ensuring transparency and adherence to European research policies.
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Funding Overview
Funding Status:
Open
Maximum Amount:
1,803,600.00 € (for 360 person-months)
Allocated Budget:
97,713,523 € for 2025
Deadline:
08.10.2025
Open Until:
07.10.2025
Award Channel:
Framework Programme Call
Region:
The program promotes international collaboration involving organisations from EU Member States, Horizon Europe Associated Countries, and non-associated Third Countries. Secondments must involve physical mobility and occur between independent legal entities. While exchanges between organisations within EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries should primarily be inter-sectoral, same-sector exchanges are permitted if they are interdisciplinary. Interdisciplinarity is not required for same-sector exchanges with non-associated Third Countries. Secondments between institutions solely within the same EU Member State/Horizon Europe Associated Country or within non-associated Third Countries are not eligible for funding.
Sectors:
Research and Development, Other
Application Type:
Consortium Required
Funding Stages:
Basic Research, Applied Research, Experimental Development, Prototyping, Pilot Testing, Product Development, Process Optimization, Market Introduction, Scaling, Commercialization
Funding Provider
Program Level:
European Union
Funding Body:
European Commission
Managed By:
European Research Executive Agency (REA)
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