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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.

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Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.

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Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.

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Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.

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Pays public authorities, social partners, universities and research bodies to improve cross-border cooperation and information on posted workers' rights.

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Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

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Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.

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Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

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Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.

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Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.

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Funds a group of 3-6 cities to jointly run a year-long 'Science comes to town' public-engagement programme, including the EUCYS and EU TalentOn competitions.

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Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.

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Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.

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Funds city and regional authorities to run living labs that scale up circular-economy solutions across Europe.

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Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring MSCA-funded scientists face to face with the public and pupils.

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Funds individual support to a single ESFRI Landmark or European Research Infrastructure Consortium to strengthen, evolve or sustain a pan-European research infrastructure.

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Pays a postdoctoral fellowship for researchers who move to a host organisation in an EU widening country, building research careers outside Europe's traditional science hubs.

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Funds research into the structural causes of Europe's 15-year decline in youth maths, reading and science skills.

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Funds research turning crafts, heritage buildings, food traditions or design into practical circular-economy models.

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Funds research on closing the employment gap and fixing social-protection benefit traps for people with disabilities.