MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025 call receives 363 proposals
The call will fund collaborative research projects and support groundbreaking research through international and intersectoral staff exchanges.
The fifth Staff Exchanges call of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funded under Horizon Europe closed on 8 October 2025.
The European Research Executive Agency received 363 proposals. Applicants requested a total budget close to €423.6 million. By comparison, 329 proposals were submitted in 2024 and 83 were eventually selected for funding.
Through this call, the European Union is expected to fund between 80 and 90 projects with an indicative budget of around €97.7 million.
Proposals submitted include the participation of 2757 different organisations in 134 countries, out of which around 17.4% are non-academic organisations.
Proposals are coordinated by organisations in 31 countries.
A bar chart showing the number of proposals submitted by country of coordinator. The top countries are Italy with 51 proposals, Spain with 49, the United Kingdom with 48, Greece with 28, France with 21, and Türkiye with 17.
Supporting collaborative projects through exchanges
The Staff Exchanges scheme funds short-term international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities of participating organisations.
Selected organisations will establish international research partnerships with leading institutions in the EU and beyond including the academic and non-academic sectors in particular small and medium-sized enterprises.
Exchanged staff benefit from new knowledge, skills and career development perspectives, while participating organisations increase their research and innovation capacities.
Indicative timeline
- October 2025 to February 2026: Evaluation by the European Research Executive Agency and external independent expert evaluators
- February 2026: Notification of call results to applicants
- Applicants will be able to access the results of the evaluation on their personal space of the Funding and Tenders Opportunities Portal
- An overview of the evaluation results, cut-off scores and statistics will be published on the page of the Staff Exchanges 2025 call
- June 2026: Expected signature of the grant agreement with the European Commission for successful projects
- September 2026: First EU-funded projects start
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