GADCAP is funded by the EU Marie Curie Actions – Research Fellowship Programme, which is part of the ‘People’ Specific Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme (2007 to 2013). Whit this programme it is acknowledged that one of the main competitive edges in science and technology is the quantity and quality of its human resources. The Specific 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 ‘People’ programme is implemented by systematic investments in people, mainly through a coherent set of Marie Curie Actions, particularly taking into account the European added value in terms of their structuring effect on the European Research Area. The mobility dimension of the actions, enhancing international cooperation and transfer of knowledge between research
organisations and enterprises of different countries is another key characteristic of the programme. These actions address researchers at all stages of their careers, in the public and private sectors, as well as knowledge transfer between sectors, and with the rest of the 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.
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