EU Programme: Info Day held on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) and Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

Today, on 12 February 2018, the Ministry of Science held an Info Day in its premises, on two calls for applications within the framework of Marie Curie Actions, which began by marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Participants were welcomed by Branka Žižić, NCP Coordinator for Horizon 2020, EU Research and Innovation Programme, who briefly reflected on Montenegro’s participation in this programme, focusing on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and presenting the network of national contact persons (NCPs) in Montenegro.

The current call for Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) was presented by Joana Silva, representative of the Research Executive Agency (REA) in the European Commission. Mrs. Silva familiarized the participants with the application requirements for this call, the manner of budget preparation, examples of RISE projects, as well as the new Partner Search instrument.

Deadline for submission of project proposals for this call is 21 March 2018.

The application requirements for the call for applications within Individual Fellowships (IF), types of scholarships, ways of searching for the host institution, financial aspects of the project application and parts of the application were presented by Marijeta Barjaktarović Lanzardi and Filip Petrović, NCP for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. The call opens on 12 April 2018, while the deadline for submission of applications is 12 September 2018.

Presentations held on the Info Day are available HERE.

MSCA-IF-2018.pdf

RISE Montenegro.pdf

We use this opportunity to inform all relevant stakeholders that the RISE Coordinators' Day was held in Brussels on 18 and 19 January 2018. The materials from this event are available on the following website: https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/events/research-and-innovation-staff-exchange-rise-coordinators-day-18-and-19-january-2018_en