Call for Proposals - Marie Curie - Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND Closed!
Objectives
The COFUND action supports existing or new regional, national and international fellowship programmes (to open up to and provide for transnational mobility). COFUND aims to increase the transnational mobility for training and career development of Experienced Researchers, in line with the objectives set out in the activity heading "Life-long training and career development" of the "People" 2013 Work Programme. The purpose of this action is to help regional, national or international fellowship programmes to increase the transnational mobility of researchers and/or to improve the working and employment conditions of researchers.
Actions
The project should be shaped in order to develop and widen the competences of the researcher significantly, in particular in terms of multi- or interdisciplinary expertise, intersectoral (private-public) experience and complementary skills. Such training/career development activities may include:
- Primarily, training-through-research under supervision by means of an individual personalised project;
- Hands-on training activities for developing scientific (new techniques or instruments, etc.) and complementary skills (communication techniques, proposal preparation to request funding, patent applications, project management, task coordination, technical or scientific staff supervision, etc.);
- Intersectoral (private/public sector) or interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge;
- Developing capacity to build collaborations, in particular through participation in conferences;
- Taking active part in the management (including financial management) of research projects;
- Developing organisational skills through organisation of training or dissemination events;
- Ethics issues.
European community funding
The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:
- 115,00 Million EUR (Orientation of the budget)
All the important deadlines
- 05 December 2012 - 8 years ago (Deadline for the presentation of proposals)
Further information about the call
Official webpage of the call
Useful documents
Organisations eligible to participate
Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:
- Universities
- Any legal organisation
- Non profit organisations
- Non-governmental organization
Covered areas
Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:
- European Union (EU)
Directorate-Generale responsible
Directorate-General for Research
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