18 Jun 2025
MSCA opens €16.3 million call for 'MSCA and Citizens'
The 2025 call for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and Citizens opened on 17 June 2025 and will close on 22 October 2025. This call will dedicate €16.25 million to fund over 40 projects organising
- two successive editions of the European Researchers’ Night in 2026 and 2027
- the implementation of Researchers at Schools activities over the course of two consecutive years.
MSCA and Citizens brings research and researchers closer to the public at large, with a focus on families, pupils and students, and social groups that do not have easy access to and thus are less inclined to engage in STEAM fields (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) or research activities.
The EC points out that this call includes important novelties.
- The ceiling amount per project has been increased to reflect inflation and rising costs for organising events.
- The call reflects the bottom-up nature of the MSCA and no longer prescribes specific political topics to be covered during the events.
- A new evaluation procedure will strengthen the European dimension of this action.
In the first round, the best projects per eligible country will be selected, granted that they pass the excellence threshold. The remaining budget will then be allocated to the best projects regardless of the country they reside in during the second phase.
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