111 project applicants from 36 countries have applied for funding under the HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01 call for proposals. The selection results will be announced in February 2022.
On 6 October, at the EU-Western Balkans Brdo Summit, the leaders of the European Union and its Member States, together with Western Balkans leaders launched the ‘Western Balkans Agenda on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport’, a comprehensive, long-term cooperation strategy of the European Union and the Western Balkans.
2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners enter the gallery of MSCA scientists and supervisors who have received the high-profile award.
In September, the new semester for the next cohort of labelled students started. The EIT RawMaterials Day, a physical induction day, was held for SINReM on 15 September 2021 in the City of Ghent and for EMerald on 17 September 2021 in Liege.
In the R&I Framework Programme, project funding is so far based on the reimbursement of actual costs. Despite simplified rules and improved IT support, this system remains complex and error-prone. One of the Commission’s initiatives with high potential to overcome this problem, and to simplify further, is the wider use lump sums.