As you may already know, Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) covering three main pillars:

• Excellent Science
• Societal Challenges
• Industrial Leadership

If you want to learn more about Horizon 2020 and the up-coming Horizon Europe (2021–2027) programmes, here are some useful resources:

Horizon 2020 – https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020 

Horizon Europe – https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_1676 

Within the Excellent Science pillar, one type of bottom-up actions are Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) that provide grants (over €6 billion from 2014 to 2020) for all stages of a researcher’s career. One of the most attractive types of MSCA grants are Individual Fellowships (IFs) available to experienced researchers from all over the world and for research in any area.

If you want to read more about MSCA and IFs, you will find useful information below:

MSCA – https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/ 

MSCA-IF – https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en 

GREEN-FRC is an Individual Fellowship. As such, it has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 836270.

You can find the official Fact Sheet for the GREEN-FRC project in EU’s CORDIS database: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/836270