Call for proposals: Marie Curie Research Training Networks
Issued by: European Commission, DG Research
Deadline: 28/09/2005
Overall Budget: € 220 million
Average Budget: between 1,500,000 € and 3,000,000 € (based on first call) with number of contractors ranging from 6 and 14.
Assessment: If this call is of interest to you, take a further look to the documentation online and feel free to get in contact with Bart Neerscholten (bart.neerscholten@eabis.org), EABIS' Research Manager. Members are encouraged to build consortia under the EABIS umbrella with e.g. an academic member taking the lead with the support of EABIS. If there is an interest by several members to hand in a collective proposal, EABIS can provide opportunities to put different members in contact with each other and create the necessary infrastructures for further debate and collaboration.

Description/object of the call for proposals:
The European Commission has recently launched a number of Marie Curie Calls as part of the Human resources and mobility activity area. All open calls can be viewed here. Focus of this message is on the Research Training Network (FP6-2005-Mobility-1).

The Marie Curie Research Training Networks provide training and research experience for researchers of any age or nationality by giving them the opportunity to spend between three months to three years in another country as part of an international high-quality research project. The networks contribute to the transfer of knowledge through the promotion of multidisciplinary research. The schemes also support the interaction and exchange of all research staff working on the project.

The size of the network varies according to the nature of the research activity, but will involve at least three partners from three different countries.

Marie Curie Research Training Networks Universities, research centres, enterprises and international organisations in an EU or Associated State or any other country of the world making up the proposed network apply together to the European Commission for funding. The Commission then selects the successful proposals and signs a contract with the research institutions involved.

This action concentrates on measures to support the organisation of coherent series of training courses and/or conferences with a specific training value, as well as the funding of the participation of eligible researchers in these events.

Address from which all documentation may be obtained:
Overview
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