MSCA programme in HE

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fund excellent research and innovation and equip researchers at all stages of their career with new knowledge and skills, through mobility across borders and exposure to different sectors and disciplines. The MSCA help build Europe’s capacity for research and innovation by investing in the long-term careers of excellent researchers.

The MSCA also fund the development of excellent doctoral and postdoctoral training programmes and collaborative research projects worldwide. By doing so, they achieve a structuring impact on higher education institutions, research centres and non-academic organisations.

The MSCA promote excellence and set standards for high-quality researcher education and training in line with the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the recruitment of researchers.

There are 5 types of MSCA targeting different objectives.

  • Doctoral Networks (DN)
    Supporting programmes to train doctoral candidates in academic and non-academic organisations.
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF)
    Supporting career perspectives and excellence of postdoctoral researchers.
  • Staff Exchanges (SE)
    Encouraging collaborations between organisations through staff exchanges.
  • COFUND
    Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes.
  • MSCA and Citizens
    Bringing research and researchers closer to the public at large.

More information on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions is available here.

MSCA Doctoral Networks (DN) Projects

CONTRABASS - zero-CO2 cemeNt ThRough cArBonation of cAlcium Silicates and aluminateS

Specific programme: HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Coordinator
UPV/EHU PI: Hegoi Manzano

Project start: 01/01/2024
Project end: 31/12/2027

Brief description: We live in a world of concrete. According to the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) cement is consumed at a rate of ~150 tonnes each second, and it accounts for approximately 8% of all CO2 emissions and 7% of industry energy use. In order to mitigate the negative environmental impacts of concrete, Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) is the best available strategy: the GCCA estimates that CCU technologies will represent up to 42% of the CO2 reductions necessary to reach the net zero industrial objective in 2050.

The CONTRABASS MSCADN will act in this framework, in the pathway towards the zero-CO2 cement and concrete production, building a high-quality doctorate network (DN) to investigate the fundamental physico-chemical processes governing the Carbonation of the clinker phases and the cement paste, as well as the subsequent formation of Calcium Carbonate Cements (CCCs). The carbonation ability of clinker and cement is well known, yet for a full implementation of CCCs by 2050, there is an urgent need of fundamental knowledge on the carbonation process. In this scenario, the CONTRABASS DN aims to contribute to the global reduction of CO2 emissions by accelerating the implementation of Calcium Carbonate Cements, developing fundamental knowledge, practical know-how, and a generation of well-trained specialists to overcome the main challenges identified by our industrial and academic partners. CONTRABASS has 5 main objectives:

  1. To identify the carbonation mechanisms of the clinker components, specially calcium aluminates
  2. To understand the carbonation processes of the C-S-H gel and the cement paste
  3. To unravel the factors that govern CaCO3 polymorphism, nucleation and growth rates
  4. To build databases for thermodynamic and reactive-transport modelling of carbonation
  5. To communicate effectively the benefits of CCCs to society, media and policy makers.

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) projects

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MSCA Staff Exchanges (SE) projects

MSCA COFUND projects

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MSCA and Citizens projects