After finishing the GRAMMY Museum Research Grant funds in August 2025, it is now time to finish the MSCA-funded period. Since the MSCA postdoctoral fellow will start a new job next month, the SMART MSCA-funded period has to be terminated (no other full-time job is compatible with MSCA grants) 10 months before the original plan.
With this early termination of the MSCA grant, there is a 5-month period from the Returning Phase that will not be completed, and a non-academic 6-month placement opportunity that will not take place in the end. Nonetheless, data analyses, publication of results and other communication and dissemination efforts are expected to be continued during the next 12-24 months, in order to share with the research, education, policy and general public stakeholders our results and conclusions. Moreover, collaboration with all member of the scientific and teaching artists teams will continue and new avenues for joint projects are being seek.
The fellow, LV, is absolutely grateful for the opportunity that the EU Commission and the Horizon Europe funding scheme granted her to develop her ideas and acquire all this specific training and acquisition of experience in project management, career development, science communication and other technical and soft skills.
LV is already registered as a member of the MSCA Alumni Association and will continue to be involved in the community and in the research field. Her career path change will now involve tasks related to equity and diversity in research and science policy, and this comes as a perfect result of everything she has learned from the MSCA fellowship application process, to implementing and carrying out all the tasks of this project.
Thanks GRAMMY Museum Foundation and Horizon Europe / EU Commission for believing in our ideas and making this socially-just interdisciplinary innovative research and career developing project possible!
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