The 'People' Specific Programme of the Seventh
Framework Programme (2007 to 2013) acknowledges that one of the main
competitive edges in science and technology is the quantity and quality of its
human resources.
The Programme aims to strengthen,
quantitatively and qualitatively, the human potential in research and
technology in Europe, by stimulating people to take up the profession of a
researcher, encouraging European researchers to stay in Europe, and attracting
to Europe the best researchers from the entire world.
The Marie Curie Actions are open to all domains of
research and technological development addressed under the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union. Research fields are chosen freely by the
applicants. However projects that can be covered by the Euratom Treaty are
excluded from funding.
This work programme seeks to make Europe more
attractive for researchers, to further enhance doctoral training in line with
the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training, and to establish a balanced
"brain circulation" within the EU as well as with third countries.
