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Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions
- 1. Marie Slodowska Curie Actions Sofia, 13 December 2017 Mirko VARANO
- 6. • Innovative Training NetworksITN • Research & Innovation Staff ExchangeRISE • Co-financing fellowship or doctoral programmes with transnational mobilityCOFUND • European Researchers’ NightNIGHT • Individual FellowshipsIF Funding for PIs
- 7. • Innovative Training Networks (ITN): Innovative doctoral-level training providing a range of skills in order to maximise employability • Individual Fellowships (IF): support for Experienced Researchers undertaking mobility between countries, optionally to the non-academic sector • Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE): International and intersectoral collaboration through the exchange of research and innovation staff • Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND): Co-financing high-quality fellowship or doctoral programmes with transnational mobility The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions website can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/ The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions:
- 8. Inter-Sectoral Co-operation Academic Non-Academic • Academic: consists of public or private higher education establishments awarding academic degrees, public or private non-profit research organisations whose primary mission is to pursue research, and international European interest organisations • Non-Academic: includes any socio-economic actor not included in the academic sector and fulfilling the requirements of the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation. e.g. Industry (incl. SMEs), charities, NGOs, government/public bodies, national archives, libraries…………
- 9. Individual Fellowships • A personal fellowship to support a period of mobility • For Experienced Researchers • Post-PhD or equivalent • No upper experience limit • No age limits • Fully-funded fellowships • Supports Career Restart and Reintegration into Europe • Optional secondment during fellowship
- 10. • Aim at enhancing the creative and innovative potential of Experienced Researchers who wish to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and inter-sectoral mobility. • Support is foreseen for individual, trans-national fellowships awarded to the best or most promising researchers for employment in EU Member States or Associated Countries. • The researcher must be an Experienced Researcher: s/he must, at the deadline for the submission of proposals, be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. MSC Individual Fellowships: scope
- 12. • MSCA European Fellowships (EFs): üThe researcher may be of any nationality. üThe researcher must move or have moved (transnational mobility) from any country to the MS or AC where the beneficiary is located. • MSCA Global Fellowships (GFs) üThe researcher must be national or long-term resident of a MS or AC. üLong-term residents are researchers who spent a period of full-time research activity of at least 5 consecutive (without breaks in research) years in one or more Member States or Associated Countries. üThe researcher must move or have moved (transnational mobility) from any country to the partner organisation located in the TC. üGlobal Fellowships are composed of: a) an outgoing phase during which the researcher undertakes a secondment to a partner organisation in a Third Country, and b) a mandatory 12-month return period to a host organisation (the beneficiary) located in a Member State or Associated Country. Two types of fellowships
- 13. • Between 12 and 24 months. • Global Fellowships only: • a first outgoing phase between 12 and 24 months • an additional mandatory 12 months return phase • the total duration of this type of fellowship is between 24 and 36 months. Duration
- 14. • Mobility: • considered by the European Commission essential for the personal and career development of researchers • It allows the enhancement of collaboration, and the acquisition of new skills and knowledge which contribute to increased creativity, efficacy and performance. It is an eligibility criterion for receiving Marie Skłodowska-Curie funding. • For each type of IF a specific mobility rule applies. • Training activities: • write in the proposal a concrete plan of training-through research at the host organisation’s premises. • aim to reach a realistic and well defined objective in terms of career advancement or resuming a research career after a break. • The action’s final outcome is to develop and significantly widen the competences of the Experienced Researcher, particularly in terms of multi/interdisciplinary expertise, inter-sectoral experience and transferable skills. • All Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions have a bottom-up approach, i.e. research fields are chosen freely by the applicants. • Career Development Plan: • The Career Development Plan must be produced by the Experienced Researcher and the supervisor prior to the start of the fellowship. • In addition to research objectives, this plan comprises the researcher’s training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, planning for publications and participation in conferences. Key factors for success
- 15. • Primarily, training-through-research under the direct supervision of the supervisor and other members of the scientific staff of the host organisation by the means of an individual personalised action; • Hands-on training activities for developing scientific (new techniques, instruments etc.) and transferable skills (entrepreneurship, proposal preparation to request funding, patent applications, management of IPR); • Management, task coordination, supervising and monitoring, take up and exploitation of research results etc.); • Inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge (e.g. through secondments); • Taking part in the research and financial management of the action; • Organisation of scientific/training/dissemination events; • Communication, outreach activities and horizontal skills; • Training dedicated to gender issues. Typical training activities in MSCA IFs may include:
- 16. • The financial support for Marie Skłodowska-Curie IFs takes the form of a grant covering up to 100% of the costs. • Funding is calculated exclusively based on the unit costs set out in the work programme. • The European Union contribution and rates under this action are set out in Part 3 of the Work Programme and cover: • the recruitment of the researcher to be trained; • research, training and networking costs; • management and indirect costs. • Typical EU contribution • IF 24 months €150,000 • GF 36 months €250,000 Financial aspects
- 17. European Fellowships Global Fellowships IF – European and Global – visual summary 1 – 2 years 2 – 3 years (incl. 12 months back in Europe) 1. Standard 2. Reintegration 3. Career Restart 4. Society/ Enterprise Mobility Rule: Cannot apply for a fellowship in a country where you have lived or worked/studied for > 12 months in the 3 years prior to the Call deadline For Reintegration/Career Restart/Society-Enterprise Panel: no more than > 3 years in the 5 years prior to the Call deadline
- 18. IF Call 2018 CALL Opening Date Closing Date Call Budget* H2020-MSCA-IF-2018 12-Apr-2018 12-Sep-2018 €273 million H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 Apr-2019 Sep-2019 ??? • Results the following February • Commence the following May • Postpone for up to 12 months • Success rates: EF ~ 18%; GF ~ 11%
- 19. RISE: Research & Innovation Staff Exchange “Staff” = research students, postdocs, PIs, technical and managerial staff. Promoting transfer of knowledge between countries and sectors • Research programme executed by: • Exchange of “staff” around the consortium (Duration 1 month to 1 year) • Networking Activities • Collaborate with any sector and any country worldwide • No Mobility Rule • Per Researcher/Month: • €2000 for travel costs • €2500 networking, management, etc.
- 20. RISE Requirements • Project duration 48 months • Minimum consortium 3 participants in 3 countries 1. 2 academic participants plus 1 non-academic (or vice versa) 2. 2 European participants plus 1 non-European participant • Secondments: • “Staff” must be active at their host for 6 months before secondment • Must be reintegrated after secondment (no duration or mechanism specified) • All secondments within Europe must be international & intersectoral • Secondments between Europe and outside can be international only • Secondments between most European countries and non-European countries are eligible for funding: exception is high-income countries e.g. USA, Canada, BRIC
- 21. RISE 2014 Call – A practical example “All European” Project ‘WASTCArD’ - Wrist and arm sensing technologies for cardiac arrhythmias detection in long term monitoring. University of Ulster (UK/NI) INSA Lyon (FR)WIT (IE) SD Informatics Ltd. (Croatia) Intelesens Ltd. (UK/NI) Southern Health and Social Care Trust (UK/NI) 4 countries (all Europe), 3 academic, 3 non-academic Academic Non-Academic
- 22. RISE 2014 Call – Example of International Project IMIXSED - “Integrating isotopic techniques with Bayesian modelling for improved assessment and management of global sedimentation problems” University of Plymouth (UK) University of Liverpool (UK) Ghent University (BE) Jimma University (Ethiopia) Scripps Institute (US) Kathmandu University (Nepal) 7 countries (3 outside Europe), No non-academic participants CSIC (ES) Europe Not Europe No secondments within Europe (all academic) No secondments between non-European countries
- 23. RISE Calls 2018 CALL Opening Date Closing Date Call Budget H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 22-Nov-2017 21-Mar-2018 €80million H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 ??? ??? ??? • Success rate: approx. 25%
- 24. ITN: Innovative Training Networks Quality of Research Training • Objective: to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative researchers • A Research Training Programme for Early- Stage Researchers (ESRs) • Less than 4 years’ research experience after undergrad • Mobility rule applies
- 25. A Typical ITN • Consortium of organisations from different countries and sectors 1. Beneficiaries: recruit researcher(s) for up to 36 months 2. Partner Organisations: host secondments/provide training • Propose a joint research programme – 48 months long • Recruit researchers across the consortium– each researcher has an Individual Research Project • Researchers must not have lived in the country of their host for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to recruitment (Mobility Rule) • Advanced research skills and transferable skills training • Networking events • Secondments for each researcher to another sector (academic to non-academic, or vice-versa)
- 28. Funded EID Project: MET-A-FOR – “Metabolomic analysis for the forensic detection of drugs of abuse in performance and food producing animals ” €820k No Partner Organisations QUB (UK/NI) Irish Laboratory Diagnostics Services Ltd. (IE)
- 30. ITN Calls 2018/19 CALL Opening Date Closing Date Indicative Budget H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 17-Oct-2017 17-Jan-2018 ETN = €375M EJD = €35M EID = €32M H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 13-Sep-2018 15-Jan-2019 ETN = €400M EJD = €35M EID = €35M Success rates: • ETN 7% • EJD 9% • EID 9%
- 31. COFUND COFUND began in FP7: • Co-funded over 175 Fellowship programmes • Horizon 2020 offers co-funding for: Doctoral programmes (30M) and Fellowship programmes (30M) Upcoming Calls: • 2018: Opens April 12th 2018; Closes September 27th 2018. • 2019: Opens April 4th 2019; Closes September 26th 2019. • Success rate 25% All COFUND Programmes are listed at http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/other/cofund.html
- 32. NIGHT European Researchers’ Night • A European-wide public and media event to promote research careers • 4th Friday of September each year • Full or part-funding available for 1 or 2 years • Current Call opened 7-nov – closing 14-Feb-2018
- 34. Funding Model Categories of eligible costs Marie Skłodowska-Curie action Costs of researchers/seconded staff member PER MONTH Institutional costs PER MONTH Living allowance (a) Mobility allowance (b) Family allowance (c) Top-up allowance (d) Research, training and networking costs (a) Management and indirect costs (b) ITN (100%) 3 110 600 500 -- 1 800 1 200 IF (100%) 4 650 600 500 -- 800 650 RISE (100%) -- -- -- 2 000 1 800 700 COFUND (50%) ESR: 3 710 ER: 5 250 -- -- -- -- 650 NIGHT: Coordination and Support Action (100% eligible direct costs, 25% indirect costs)
- 35. Criterion Weighting Priority (ex-aequo) Excellence 50% 1 Impact 30% 2 Implementation 20% 3 Evaluation Criteria Overall threshold of 70% No individual thresholds
- 38. • Excellence 50% ü Quality , innovative and credibility of research proposal ü Clarity and Quality of transfer of knowledge /Training ü Quality of the supervision and hosting arrangements ü Capacity of the researcher to reach professional maturity in research • Impact 30% ü Enhancing research and innovation skills of the fellow. ü Effectiveness of the communication and results disseminiation measures. • Implementation 20% ü Overall coherence and effectiveness of the work plan ü Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures ü Appropriateness of the host institution infrastructure ü Competence , experience and complementarity of the participating labs ü Commitment of host institution Evaluation criteria
- 39. • Each proposal will be assessed independently by at least three experts chosen by the REA • An expert will be designated as the proposal "rapporteur" and will assume additional responsibilities at the end of this phase and in the following phases of the evaluation session. • The proposal will be evaluated against the IF evaluation criteria applying weighting factors, both set out in the Work Programme. • Proposals will not be evaluated anonymously. • Proposals may be evaluated remotely. • Evaluation scores will be awarded for each of the three criteria. • All of the separate elements of each criterion will be considered by the experts in their assessment. Evaluation of the proposals
- 40. Evaluation Panels • Chemistry (CHE) • Physics (PHY) • Mathematics (MAT) • Life Sciences (LIF) • Economic Sciences (ECO) • ICT and Engineering (ENG) • Social Sciences & Humanities (SOC) • Earth & Environmental Sciences (ENV) Distribution of awards across Panels is proportional to # of proposals received Results communicated 5 months after Call deadline From Call deadline to Grant Agreement Signature – 8 months max.