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State of Play in the EU–CELAC Common Research Area
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Spanish, Italian, French and German). Brazil has the two regions in research and innovation. Overall
hosted the most MSCA researchers and innovation CELAC participation and engagement in MSCA is
staff members of all 33 CELAC countries (162), constantly improving. The European Commission
followed closely by Argentina (161) and Chile (121). is strongly committed to exploring new possi-
Furthermore, since 2014, 141 organisations bilities for cooperation and is ready to assist the
from CELAC countries have participated in 138 responsible authorities from CELAC countries in
MSCA-funded projects, hosting research and trai- their efforts to further promote and increase the
ning activities on 280 occasions. The distribution participation in the programme.
of MSCA participation per action is as follows: 245
participations relate to short-term RISE exchanges, At what stage of development is the EURAXESS
13 to IF Global Fellowships, 12 to doctoral-level CELAC?
ITN and 10 to doctoral and fellowship programmes
under COFUND. Out of the total 280 participa- EURAXESS is a European Commission initiative
tions of CELAC organisations in MSCA, Argentina focused on researcher mobility and career deve-
ranks first, with 77 participations, followed by Bra- lopment. In 2017, EURAXESS Brazil became
zil (66 participations) and Chile (51 participations). EURAXESS Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
CONICET (Argentina) is the best-performing CELAC A team of two dedicated people are based in
organisation (with 14 participations), followed by Brazil, and they support individual researchers in
the University of Buenos Aires (13 participations) LAC, helping them connect or remain connected
and the University of Chile (12 participations). The with the European Research Area.
vast majority of the CELAC organisations participa- The EURAXESS LAC website (http://lac.euraxess.
ting in MSCA are in the academic sector. org), publications and mailing lists provide infor-
Argentina, Brazil and Chile are in the top 10 mation on jobs and funding opportunities, as well
best-performing third countries in MSCA. Out of as recent developments of interest to the research
the total 1 887 individual instances of participation community and local events. The team also
as third countries to date, Argentina ranks fifth (with supports individual researchers with their interna-
77 instances), Brazil ranks sixth (66 instances) and tional mobility projects and institutions from the
Chile ranks eighth (with 51 instances). LAC region to make the most of EU funding for
research and innovation.
How has the establishment of a path towards Beginning in 2018, the EURAXESS LAC team
a Common Research Area influenced the can now perform missions and organise promo-
participation of CELAC countries in MSCA tional events on EURAXESS and EU funding for
and its participation in CELAC countries? mobility (MSCA and ERC), in Brazil, Argentina,
Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Virtual presentations
The Common Research Area is a stepping stone for (webinar or videoconference) can be done from
the overall EU–CELAC partnership. The progress any other LAC country.
made in the EU–CELAC Common Research Area
is being duly monitored at a higher political level, What is the role of MSCA NCPs in CELAC
with concrete action being adopted for each of its Countries?
three pillars.
In relation to the researcher mobility pillar, the The following 18 CELAC countries have dedicated
MSCA has widely benefitted from this policy fra- NCPs for MSCA at present: Argentina, Bolivia, Bra-
mework, which supports the cooperation between zil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El

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