MSCA Staff Exchanges 2026
Funds secondments of staff between partner organisations worldwide so researchers and R&I staff gain cross-sector, cross-country and cross-discipline experience.
This is a single-stage call that closed for applications on 16 April 2026, with an EUR 97.9 million budget; no per-proposal award range is published. Secondments must involve physical mobility between independent legal entities — virtual mobility doesn't count — and the project should include networking activities like workshops and conferences to share knowledge across the partnership. Applicatio…
This topic funds staff exchanges between academic and non-academic organisations, including SMEs, from across the globe, built around secondments where staff physically relocate to a partner organisation. Exchanges can be international, inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary, and the collaboration should exploit complementary competences between organisations to generate or strengthen long-term partnerships beyond any prior collaboration.
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