Marie Curie: Action!
She was born Maria Skłodowska, in Warsaw, in 1867 and would die as Marie Curie, in Paris, in july the fourth 1934 with two Nobel prizes and having been the first woman to receive one, ever.
Marie Curie
But today the Marie Curie we’re busy with is from a totally different sort. Back in 2003 the EU approved a project meant to be the cure for the barin drain Europe had been –still is?- suffering. Now it’s been on for more than 5 years and has survived two Framewrok Programmes (now relocated in the People chapter of the 7th FP). The Marie Curie Action’s objectives are:
Strengthening, quantitatively and qualitatively, the human potential in R&D in Europe, by:
- stimulating people to enter into the researcher’s profession;
- encouraging European researchers to stay in Europe; – attracting researchers from the entire world to Europe;
- making Europe more attractive to the best researchers.
Increasing participation of women researchers, by:
- encouraging equal opportunities;
- ensuring achievement of an appropriate work/life balance;
- facilitating the resumption of a research career after a break.
A coherent set of ‘Marie Curie actions’ will address researchers, from initial training to life-long learning and career development in the public and private sectors.
For the most part, we –the Youth Conference on European Life Sciences Careers (YCELSC)- share its goals.
Do you? Have you or any of your colleages had any experience in the Marie Curie Actions? What would you say to the EU representants at YCELSC?
The marie curie actions has really been useful to life scientists. It is a form of encouragement for research. I know a friend that was funded under the marie curie action at masters level. The funding really helped her work and she is a better life scientists now hoping to launch herself into the industry.