Press Release: EU’s Marie Curie programme funds its 50,000th researcher

The European Union's Marie Curie Actions programme, which provides funding for some of the world's best young researchers, celebrated a special milestone on 9 December 2010 with a conference in Brussels to mark its 50,000th beneficiary. The event was opened by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, together with European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek and Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, who has overall responsibility for the Marie Curie programme. Since its launch in 1996, the Marie Curie programme has supported training for researchers of 100 different nationalities working in 70 countries.

European Commission: Speech/10/745: Opening speech by President Barroso at the High level Conference on Marie Curie Actions http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/745&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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