Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA)

The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) is a global network of researchers, who have benefited from or are benefitting from the Marie (Sklodowska) Curie Actions. MCAA supports, and contributes to, the advancement of knowledge for a global, diverse, and informed society. MCAA enhances the flow of knowledge across different countries, sectors of the economy, and scientific disciplines. By encouraging networking, cooperation, and mutual understanding among MCAA members and external stakeholders, MCAA serves as a forum of debate between researchers and society. The key focus of MCAA is to promote career development, offer networking and science policy. Since the establishment in 2014, MCAA has contributed in shaping the future science policy in Europe, providing different career development opportunities and supporting the wider research community on topics affecting research and researchers' lives. Currently, MCAA has over 22,000 members from 150+ countries. MCAA has 37 geographical chapters and 11 thematic working groups.

In addition, MCAA is well established in the EU research policy landscape. MCAA member is part of ERA Forum, Coalition for Advancement of Research Assessment (CoARA) and chaired the EU Science Diplomacy Alliance. MCAA is also a member of the International Science Council (ISC), the Initiatives for Science in Europe (ISE). MCAA is also committed to several ERA Actions, such as ERA Actions 3 - Research Assessment, ERA Action 4 - Promote attractive research careers, ERA Action 9 - Promote a positive environment and level playing field for international cooperation based on reciprocity ERA Action 14 - Bring science closer to citizens, ERA Action 16 - Improve EU-wide access to excellence, ERA Action 17 - Enhance the strategic capacity of Europe’s public research performing organisation Enhance public research institutions' strategic capacity, ERA Action 19 - Establish an efficient and effective ERA monitoring mechanism