The MSCA is a prestigious grant for experienced researchers who want to work on an independent research project of their choice in another country. The scholarship is funded by the EU research programme Horizon 2020.
- The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships have a duration of up to two years.
- The funds are available as a postdoctoral fellowship to researchers with more than four years of research experience, or a PhD degree.
- The Individual Fellowships grant is a two-way transfer of knowledge, from researcher to host institution, and from host institution to researcher.
INTIMAL– Interfaces for Relational Listening
Ximena Alarcón Diaz explores the body as an “interface” for keeping and transforming the memory of place in migratory contexts. The aim is to develop and explore a physical-virtual “embodied system” for relational listening.
Readers as observers
The project focuses on the strategic engagement of readers as observers in contemporary German- and English-language multimodal novels. Natalia Igl brings together cognitive narratology, multimodality research and historical perspectives.
NEW WAY: New speakers and use of Russian in Northern Norway
Olga Solovova aims to map out ‘new speakerness’ of Russian and Norwegian by identifying trajectories of linguistic actors as well as historical, political and ideological processes at play in the political economy of Northern Norway around the Russian-Norwegian border.
Language-affect interface in parent-infant communication
Europe is changing towards a complex social environment, with interactions between languages and cultures. Liquan Liu hopes to contribute to a better understanding of infant culture-specific affectual development in various linguistic contexts with his research.
Women writing Saints in Counter-Reformation Italy
Clara Stella is exploring the depiction of female sanctity and the impact and continuities of the Reformation era in hagiographical representations.