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

ENERCAP - European Network to Empower Research on CAPacitors

Specific programme: HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: Eider Goikolea

Project start: 01/10/2023
Project end: 30/09/2027

Brief description: Supercapacitors are a promising solution for fast charging and regenerative energy acquisition, with potential market applications in the near future, incl. e-vehicles and space applications. A deep analysis of the supercapacitor technology and market state of the art was undertaken by ENERCAP as a sound basis for a training network that meets academic and industrial needs. The results revealed that the lack of novel materials and electrolytes that meet the industrial requirements of higher energy densities and the lack of new industrially compatible materials, processes and prototypes are major challenges towards a successful market introduction of the supercapacitor technology. It became evident that Europe currently lags behind the USA and Asia in supercapacitor innovation and market performance due to the lack of intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration between academia and industry, a clear barrier for technology transfer and bringing innovation to the market. As a response to these challenges, ENERCAP gathered for the first time the most renowned academic players in the field together with driving force companies in order to create a European Network to Empower Research on the field of CAPacitors, ensuring technology transfer. Furthermore, ENERCAP aims to, by means of an innovative training network, create a critical mass of future top-class researchers able to respond to innovation challenges in the field of supercapacitors. ENERCAP is devoted to provide future researchers with the skills to produce innovative ideas that can be transferred to market applications. Through a comprehensive training programme driven by the needs of industry, ESRs will not only be provided with necessary interdisciplinary knowledge and research techniques but become entrepreneurially spirited researchers who own a broad range of transferable skills and are able to envisage the needs of markets and end-users while being at the frontier of research.

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