What is the Marie Curie Fellows Association?
The Marie Curie Fellows Association is the Association of scientists who have once been awarded a Marie Curie fellowship or other European Community research training grant selected through a selection procedure. A Marie Curie fellowship is a grant within a harmonized scheme under one of the European RTD framework programmes to stimulate the training and mobility of researchers in the European Community.
Please find here a one page summary of the activities of the MCFA during the year 2002.
The Association is organised along hierarchical lines with both regional/local groups, national groups and on an international level. There are also horizontal structures such as committees and working groups.
History of the MCFA
The Association was launched at an inaugural seminar in Brussels in October 1996. This seminar was organized under the auspices of the European Commission. During its first three years the Association received a generous grant from the European Commission. At the same time the Marie Curie Fellowships Unit at the Direction Generale XII of the European Commission supported the Association with advice and logistical help. Today there are still tight links between the Association representatives and the European Commission.
The international administration of the MCFA
All activities of the MCFA are co-ordinated on the international level. The running of the Association lies in the hands of the Administrative Board that is elected by the members of the Association at the Annual General Meeting. The structure of the MCFA is laid down in the Statutes.
National groups
The National Groups are one of the pillars of the MCFA.
All national groups have their own co-ordinators for the various national activities. These activities include meetings, advice on contract problems, meetings with national government officials, marketing articles and the like. For a list of national co-ordinators and links to the national WWW pages, please have a look at our National Co-ordinators Page. The national co-ordinators form the local groups committee.
Regional group meetings are usually informal gatherings of fellows working in large institutions, or living in large cities or within one region. They are useful as social get-togethers, and for help with individual contract problems.
The MCFA aims at developing steady contacts with other European scientific and science policy organisations. In collaboration with other organisations we try to transmit the opinions and ideas of mobile high level researchers and the obstacles to mobility they experienced during their stay in different European countries.
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For its work in international collaboration, the MCFA was awarded the Niels Bohr Medal by the UNESCO.
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