The Irish Universities Association and the Irish Research Council operate the Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office and provides advice and support on preparing applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie funding and the management of Marie Skłodowska-Curie awards.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are the European Union’s reference programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training. They contribute to excellent research, boosting jobs, growth and investment by equipping researchers with new knowledge and skills, and foster research cooperation across borders, sectors and disciplines.
MSCA fund research training as well as career development and knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and cross-sector mobility of researchers, to better prepare them for current and future societal challenges.
Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. As the first of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.
This funding aims to reinforce cooperation between academia and all types of non-academic organisations (companies, CSOs, hospitals, public bodies etc.) in terms of research training, career development and knowledge transfer.
If you have any questions relating to the Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office please contact Yvvonne Halpin, Head of the Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office, yvonne.halpin@iua.ie or 01 799 6028
The IUA is a beneficiary in the Net4Mobility+ project, funded by the European Commission, which aims to facilitate transnational cooperation and the sharing of best practices among MSCA National Contact Points.
