Marie
SkłodowskaCurie Actions
Your research career in
Europe
EU Research Executive Agency
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training
Networks
What are the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions?
A European Union funded programme for structuring researcher
training, mobility and career development
Objectives
Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s
intellectual capital
to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation
Budget 2014-2020: € 6.162 billion
What do the MSCA offer you?
• Prestigious career opportunities
• Excellent working conditions: employment contracts, full social
security etc.
• Very competitive salaries
• Opportunities to work and train with the best researchers in
Europe and worldwide
• Whole career training: complementary skills
• Access to top level conferences, professional associations & Marie
Curie Alumni
Who, what and where?
• Who: All levels of research experience from PhD student
upwards: there are actions for different levels of experience.
• What: All areas of research are supported: bottom-up
approach
• Where: Anywhere: any research performing organisation,
public or private worldwide - there are actions for European and
international mobility.
Why?
As a researcher I want to…
 Undertake a project in Europe
 Spend my time at leading labs in Europe
 Be part of a well-established and prestigious
programme
 Benefit from good working conditions
Marie
SkłodowskaCurie Actions
Why?
I want to…
 Work with businesses
 Be part of a short-term exchange
 Bring a researcher from Europe at no cost to my
employer
Marie
SkłodowskaCurie Actions
Why?
Excellence
Training
Research
Innovation
Knowledge
Skills
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions
Mobility
> € 6.1 billion
in 2014-2020
Optimum development and dynamic use
of Europe’s intellectual capital
Where?
Mobility to …
28 EU Member
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Germany,
Greece, Finland, France,
Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta,
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
•
12 Associated Countries*
•
•
•
•
•
Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Faroe Islands, FYROM, Iceland,
Israel, Moldova, Montenegro,
Norway, Serbia, Switzerland,
Turkey
•
* on 17.12.2015
Marie
SkłodowskaCurie Actions
Why?
Employability
Short-term employability
• MC fellowships very effective in
improving fellows’ short-term
employability.
• MC fellows are more likely (+8%) of
•
obtaining a permanent position after
the fellowship.
MC fellows are more likely to obtain
an ERC grant
MC fellows
100%
80%
34%
60%
6%
10%
4%
86%
40%
61%
20%
other
unemployed
employed
0%
Before
Six-months after
Retention by hosts
•MC fellows more likely to be retained by hosts, especially after long fellowships
(+11% prob.)
Marie Curie researchers and their long-term career development: a comparative study (2014)
What actions?
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Innovative
Training
Networks
Individual
Fellowships
Research and
Innovation
Staff
Exchange
Co-funding of
programmes
ITN
early-stage
researchers
(< 4 years)
Doctoral and initial training: European Training
Networks, European Industrial Doctorates,
European Joint Doctorates
IF
Support for experienced researchers to undertake
international and inter-sector mobility, incl. career
restart and reintegration
RISE
International and inter-sector cooperation through
the exchange of staff
experienced
researchers
(> 4 years)
COFUND Co-funding of regional, national and international
programmes:
- doctoral programmes (ESR)
- fellowship programmes (ER)
How to apply?
Depends on experience and type of mobility
Experience: Support for 2 categories of researchers:
Early Stage Researcher: Less than 4 years of research experience*, and
without a doctoral degree ("pre-doc")
Experienced Researcher: In possession of a doctoral degree or at least 4
years of res. experience* ("post-doc")
*counted from the time when the researcher is entitled to embark on a
doctoral degree
Support for two types of mobility:
European:
moving from outside Europe into Europe
moving within Europe
Global:
moving from Europe to outside of Europe –
NB. compulsory return phase of one year (fully funded)
2 ways to be supported:
Apply for your own fellowship
or
Apply to a project
1. Apply for your own fellowship
Directly to the
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
with a hosting institution
 Experienced researchers
In possession of a doctoral degree, or have 4 years of full-time
research experience at the time of the call deadline
Individual Fellowships
Individual trans-national post-doctoral
fellowships for the best and most promising
experienced researchers
Two types depending on the mobility of the
researcher
Within or into Europe - European Fellowships
Outside Europe - Global Fellowships
IF Topics
European and Global
For fellows coming to or moving
within Europe (12-24 months)
Any Experienced Researcher may
submit only one proposal to this
call for proposals
For fellows from Europe going to Third countries
(12-24 months) and returning (12 months)
Main Features
• Mobility: Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main
activity in the country of the host organisation for more than 12 months
in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline
• Any scientific domain: 8 scientific panels covering all possible
research subjects: CHE, ECO, ENG, ENV, LIF, MAT, PHY, SOC
• Duration of projects: 1-2 years
• Focus on career development
• Open to hosts from both academic and non-academic sectors
• Secondments to / from the non-academic sector: 3 – 6 months
• Strengthening networking capabilities both for researchers and for
organisations involved
• Separate multidisciplinary panels for Career Restart and
Reintegration
Reintegration Panel
Return and reintegration of researchers into a longer term
research position in Europe
•
Separate multi-disciplinary reintegration panel (RI)
•
Researchers must be a national or long-term resident of a Member
State (MS)/Associate Country (AC)
•
Long term resident: at least 5 consecutive years of research activity
in one or more MS/AC
•
Mobility rule different: Applicants must not have resided or carried out
their main activity in the country of the host organisation for more than 36
months in the 5 years immediately prior to the call deadline
•
Mobility into Europe is essential
The Financial Dimension
Monthly rates
Research,
networking,
training costs
800 €
Management and
indirect costs
650 € Family allowance
Living allowance*
4650§ €
Mobility allowance
600§ €
500§ €
* Living allowance subject to country correction coefficient
§
Amount quoted is gross amount before deductions
Next call: March 2015
Opens: 12 March 2015
Closes: 10 September 2015 @ 17:00:00
Brussels time
Budget: €215m
Are you eligible?
 Experienced researcher of any nationality
 International mobility within or into EU Member States
(MS) and Associated Countries (AC)
 Meet the mobility rule: Applicants must not have
resided or carried out their main activity in the country
of the host organisation for more than 12 months in the
3 years immediately prior to the call deadline
 NB: check different mobility rules for Career Restart and
Reintegration panels.
To prepare:
 Look for a host institute and supervisor (you can only
submit one application per call)
 Design your research project
 Consider appropriate secondment options
 Think about the proposal in the context of the
Evaluation Criteria (see Work Programme available
on the Participant Portal and Guide for Applicants for
the most recent call
Guide for Applicants published with the Call
2. Apply to a project
 Doctoral student level
Innovative Training Networks
• Research training for obtaining a PhD
• transnational network in multi/interdisciplinary & emerging
fields
• training
primarily
through
research
on
individual,
personalised research projects
• complemented by substantial training modules in key
transferable skills
• Exposure to the non-academic sector as elementary part of
the training
• Working with the best
internationally
• Fellowships of 3-36 months
researchers
in
Europe
and
Main Features
• Exposure to the non-academic sector as elementary part of
the training
• Joint supervision with business (including SMEs) or other
non-ac. partners
• Project of up to 4 years duration and fellowships of 3-36
months
Research,
networking,
training costs
1800 €
Management and
indirect costs
1200 €
Living allowance
3110 €
Mobility
allowance
600 €
Family allowance
500 €
How to apply for a fellowship
• All projects publish their vacancies on the Marie Curie website,
Euraxess, NatureJobs, etc.
• !!! Check the MSCA website frequently !!!
• Funding levels defined by the MSCA - employment contracts with full
social security
• Duration: 3 year PhD training; max 24 months for post docs
2. Apply to a
Cofunded Call
doctoral student and post-doc
Cofunding of regional, national and
international doctoral and fellowship
programmes
Why: to stimulate the regional, national or international programmes to
foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career
development i.e. to spread the best practices of the MSCA
-
Opportunities for researchers from all countries
Researchers comply with the mobility rules of the MSCA
Open and transparent: calls/vacancies widely publicised
How to apply
for a doctoral position or a fellowship
• Known calls are always listed on EURAXESS, Nature Jobs and of course,
in the MSCA Website! !!! Check the MSCA website frequently !!!
• Future calls will be advertised there also
• Eligibility depends on the call - consult the documentation carefully
• The financial dimension: what is the minimum which hosting institutions
should pay their COFUND fellows:
Management costs
325 €
Remuneration*
costs Early-stage
2597 €
Remuneration
costs Experienced
3675 €
researchers
researchers
*minimum total costs related to the employment of the fellows
Experts wanted!
MSCA website:
http://ec.europa.eu/msca
MSCA on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Marie.Curie.Actions
HORIZON 2020:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
Participant Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/
EURAXESS European Researchers Mobility Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
RISE
The RISE scheme supports
• projects which
promote staff
exchanges between:
•
MS/AC and TC
(international)
•
Intra european
(MS/AC) inter-sectoral
(academic and nonacademic sectors)
General Aspects
- All Countries can participate in RISE
- All nationalities can participate in RISE
- All institutions fulfilling the requirements of the Horizon
2020 Rules for Participation can participate in RISE
Project
Main Aspects
- Project built on joint research and innovation activities
- Project implemented through the secondment of staff
(no recruitments)
- Each staff member seconded for a period of 1 to 12 months
- The maximum size for a project is 540 person months
- No minimum size explicitly defined for the project,
but substantial impact is expected
- Maximum project duration is 4 years
Some example from
RISE 2014
Average
MAX
MIN
EC Contribution
783.933
2.430.000
144.000
Secondments
174
540
32
Participants
7
24
3
Success Rate in RISE 2014
Evaluated proposals
Retain List
Threshold
Reserve List
Threshold Success Rate
Chemistry
82.6
76.2
50%
Economic Sciences
70.6
70
33.3%
Information Science and Engineering
78.6
75.6
40.7%
Environment and Geosciences
78.4
75.8
45.8%
Life Sciences
78.2
76.4
45.5%
Mathematics
76.4
n/a
25%
Physics
81.4
79
32%
Social Sciences and Humanities
77.2
75.2
47.6%
Average
42%
Participants in RISE
- Beneficiaries
• Sign the Grant Agreement and claim costs
• Are responsible for the execution of the programme
• Are established in a MS/AC
- Partner Organisations
• Do not sign the Grant Agreement and do not claim costs
• Must include a letter of commitment in the proposal
• Are established in a TC
Sectors
The sector of an organisation is defined automatically
- Academic Sector
• Higher education establishments (public or private)
• Non-profit research organisations (public or private)
• International European interest organisations
- Non-Academic Sector
• Any socio-economic actor not included in the academic sector and
fulfilling the requirements of the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation
(typical examples: multinationals, NGOs, museums, etc.)
Staff Members
- Actively engaged in or linked to research/innovation
activities for at least 6 months prior to first secondment
- Types of staff members:
•
•
•
•
ESR (no PhD and < 4 years experience)
ER (PhD or > 4 years experience)
Managerial staff
Administrative or Technical staff
- In-built return mechanism
Minimum
Eligibility Conditions
- At least 3 independent participants in 3 different countries.
(At least 2 participants from 2 different MS/AC)
- If all in MS/AC: at least 1 academic and 1 non-academic
In practice, 2 possible minimum settings:
MS/AC
1
+
MS/AC
1
Academic
+
MS/AC 2
+
TC
+
MS/AC
3
or
MS/AC 2
NonAcademic
Countries Eligible
For EU Funding
- EU Member States
- Overseas Countries and Territories linked to the MS
(As defined on page 3 of General Annex A to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014-2015)
- Horizon 2020 Associated Countries
(In principle, the same as FP7, but subject to the adoption of the association agreements)
- The Third Countries listed
(On page 3 of General Annex A to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014-2015)
Countries Not Eligible
For EU Funding
Countries not listed previously are not eligible for EU funding
In practice, those countries are mainly: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan,
Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, United States.
In very exceptional cases, partners from those countries might be funded. But the
following conditions have to be fulfilled:
a) This partner has competences/expertise that no organisation in MS/AC has
b) The relevant transfer of knowledge can only be done via a secondment in
the direction TC
MS/AC
c) Points a) and b) must be endorsed by the expert evaluators
d) The experts' endorsement (point c) must be confirmed by the REA
EU Contribution
Unit costs per researcher per month of secondment
For secondments eligible for funding
Staff member unit cost *
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Institutional unit cost *
person/month
person/month
Action
Research and Innovation
Staff Exchange
Research, training and
Management
networking costs
and indirect costs
2 000
1 800
700
*These unit costs are subject to a funding rate of 100% and no country coefficients apply.
EU contribution
The Staff member unit cost is
intended to support the travel,
accommodation and subsistence
costs linked to the respective
secondments. Participants are
expected to continue paying the
salary of the seconded staff during
the period of exchange.
Ensure that the EU contribution is
fully used for the benefit of the
seconded staff members.
EU contribution
It can be:
•paid directly to the seconded staff
member or
•managed centrally by the
beneficiary according to the specific
needs of the secondment.
Detailed arrangements for the use of the
contribution may also be agreed internally
between beneficiaries and partner
organisations, to address the specific
financial needs of each secondment.
EU contribution
The Research, training and
networking costs cover the costs of
research and innovation related
activities of the project such as
purchasing of consumables,
laboratory costs, participation to
conferences, workshops,
coordination and review meetings,
and networking activities.
EU contribution
Management and indirect costs cover
all general costs connected with the
organisation and implementation of
the secondments (administrative and
financial management, logistics,
ethics, human resources, legal
advice, documentation, etc.).
EU contribution
The beneficiaries, as grant recipients,
are responsible for the management of
the project. Each beneficiary will
report to the REA the person-months
of its own staff seconded to another
organisation, plus the secondments
from TC partners to its organisation.
The payment of each categories is
linked to the implementattion of the
secondment. If the secondment is not
implemented none of the 3 categories
is paid.
Split Secondments
The minimum length of 1 month is reached if either:
a. The secondment starts on day n of a month (month N) and
ends on day n-1 of the next month (month N+1) – If there is
only 1 period of secondment (or several consecutive ones)
or
b. The duration of the several secondments periods adds up
to 30 days – If there are at least 2 non-consecutives periods
of secondment
Evaluation
Evaluation Panels:
-- Chemistry (CHE)
-- Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
-- Economic Sciences (ECO)
-- Information Science and Engineering (ENG)
-- Environment and Geosciences (ENV)
-- Life Sciences (LIF)
-- Mathematics (MAT)
-- Physics (PHY)
Evaluation Criteria:
-- Award Criteria
-- Selection Criteria
Award Criteria
Selection Criteria
- Operational capacity has to be checked
- Proposals must include a description of:
• The profile of the people who will be primarily
responsible for carrying out the proposed work
• Any significant infrastructure or major items of
technical equipment, relevant to the proposed work
• Any partner organisations (not beneficiaries)
contributing towards the proposed work
Proposal Part A
- Section 1: General information (including abstract)
- Section 2: Information on participants
- Section 3: Budget and Secondments tables
- Section 4: Ethics table
Proposal Part B
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
(including data for non-academic beneficiaries)
30 pages limit
RISE Calls
Next call:
- H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015
- Opened 06 January 2015
- Deadline: 28 April 2015
Results of the evaluation: 5 months after the call deadline
Signing of grant agreements: 8 months after the call deadline
Thank you for
your attention
Mr Sanopoulos Dimitrios
Centre for Research and
Technology Hellas (CERTH)
sanopoul@certh.gr