{"id":8794,"date":"2026-07-07T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:36:12","slug":"30-years-of-msca-from-mobility-to-frontier-research-creating-synergies-with-the-european-research-council-erc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/2026\/07\/07\/30-years-of-msca-from-mobility-to-frontier-research-creating-synergies-with-the-european-research-council-erc\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of MSCA \u2013 From Mobility to Frontier Research, creating synergies with the European Research Council (ERC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 30<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the MSCA, Xjenza Malta will host a dedicated conference to celebrate the three decades of fostering researcher mobility, innovation and scientific excellence across Europe, with the participation of Dr Stefaan Hermans, Director for Policy, Strategy &amp; Evaluation at DG EAC, with the European Commission. The workshop will also host Prof Maria Leptin, the ERC President as guest speaker. The event includes discussions from key stakeholders, a showcase of successful Maltese MSCA projects and will highlight the support offered by the European Research Council. Attendees will include researchers and representatives from Xjenza Malta, which plays a vital role in connecting Malta\u2019s scientific community with MSCA programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 will come to a close with a stakeholder consultation and discussion session with Prof Maria Leptin, on the value of fundamental research funding through the European Research Council.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 30th Anniversary of the MSCA, Xjenza Malta will host a dedicated conference to celebrate the three decades of fostering researcher mobility, innovation and scientific excellence across Europe, with the participation of Dr Stefaan Hermans, Director for Policy, Strategy &amp; Evaluation at DG EAC, with the European Commission. The workshop will also host<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ri-expo-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xjenzamalta.mt\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}