European Research Council (ERC) and
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Eevi Laukkanen
University of Warwick, 21 November 2013
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The European Union’s funding instrument for research and innovation from
2014-2020
• Budget of EUR 70,2 billion
• From research to innovation – from basic research to bringing ideas to
the market
• Focus on societal challenges EU society is facing (e.g. health, clean
energy, food security, integrated transport)
• Concentration of resources on areas of high growth and innovation
potential
• Provides key measures to support industrial leadership, particularly
innovative SMEs
• Significant investment in excellence
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Horizon 2020 overarching priority:
Exiting the economic crisis through sustainable growth
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Total budget 30% of Horizon 2020
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Overall objective: “to strengthen the excellence of
European research”
• New research and ideas are drivers of competition
• Attract and retain high potential individuals
• Fund the most talented and creative researchers
• Develop and maintain world-class research infrastructures
Excellent
Science
Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
Health and Wellbeing
European Research
Council (ERC)
Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions (MSCA)
Research Infrastructures
Leadership in Enabling
and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) ICT, KETs, Space
Food security
Transport
Energy
Climate action
Access to Risk Finance
Societies
Security
Innovation in SMEs
Widening Participation; Science with and for Society
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology (EIT)
EURATOM
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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“The ERC shall provide attractive and flexible
funding to enable talented and creative individual
researchers and their teams to pursue the most
promising avenues at the frontier of science…..
scientific excellence shall be the sole criterion on
which ERC grants are awarded. The ERC shall
operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis without
predetermined priorities”.
Horizon 2020 proposal text
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The ERC seeks to fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals
submitted by excellent researchers in the area of their choice
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Will fund projects led by a Principal Investigator, if necessary
supported by a research team (no requirement for collaboration
or forming consortia across different EU countries)
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25 panels in 3 domains which proposals can be submitted to:
 Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE)
 Life Sciences (LS)
 Social Sciences and Humanities (SH)
Total ERC budget: €11.6bn
Starting Grants
2-7 years postdoc
Up to €1.5-2m for 5 years
Consolidator Grants
7–12 years postdoc
Up to €2-2.75m for 5
years
Advanced Grants
Leading researchers
Up to €3-3.5m for 5 years
Synergy Grants
2 – 4 PIs
Up to €15m for 6 years
Proof of Concept
ERC grant holders
€150k for up to 18 months
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ERC Advanced
Senior
Professor
ERC Consolidators
ERC Starters
Full Professor
Junior Professor/
Junior Researcher
Associate Professor
Marie Curie
Erasmus
Post-docs
Post
Graduates
Students
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Scientific excellence is the sole evaluation criterion
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Significant funding is provided to attract exceptional
research leaders
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Grants are awarded to the host institution that engages
and hosts the Principal Investigator – the PI will be
employed by the host institution
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The host institution guarantees the PI’s independence
and provides the research environment to carry out the
project and manage its funding
• Aim to support excellent researchers at the stage of starting or
consolidating their own independent research team or
programme
• Eligibility windows for PIs (same as for 2013 calls):
• Starting Grants: 2 to 7 years after the PhD award
• Consolidator Grants: 7 to 12 years after the PhD award
• This is measured from the publication date of the call, and
extensions are permitted only in a few strict cases (parental
leave, long-term illness, etc)
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Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants
• The ERC panel will evaluate the PI’s “intellectual capacity, creativity and
commitment”. This includes:
• ability to propose and conduct ground-breaking research and achievements
going beyond the state-of-the-art
• abundant evidence of creative independent thinking
• the ERC grant would contribute significantly to the establishment and/or
further consolidation of the PI's independence
• commitment to the project (minimum 50% of the PI’s total working time)
* please note that this is the wording from the 2013 ERC calls
Starting Grants
Who is a competitive candidate?
Must be able to show potential for excellence and evidence of maturity:
• expectation for at least one important publication without the participation
of the PhD supervisor
• promising track record of early achievements appropriate to field and
career stage, including:
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significant publications (as main author) in major international peerreviewed journals
and/or monographs
invited presentations, granted patents, awards, prizes etc
• good leadership potential and must convince the ERC panel that the PI
will be able to lead an ambitious ‘frontier research’ project
Consolidator Grants
Who is a competitive candidate?
Must be able to show potential for excellence and evidence of maturity:
• it is expected that applicants will have produced several important
publications without the participation of their PhD supervisor
• promising track record of early achievements appropriate to field and
career stage, including:
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significant publications (as main author) in major international peerreviewed major scientific journals
and/or monographs
invited presentations, granted patents, awards, prizes etc
• good leadership potential and must convince the ERC panel that you will
be able to lead an ambitious ‘frontier research’ project
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• Aims to support excellent, leading researchers to pursue
groundbreaking research which opens up new directions in the
field of their choice
• Aims to “encourage substantial advances at the frontier of
knowledge; as well as new productive lines of enquiry, methods
and techniques”
• No eligibility requirement concerning a PhD, but the PI must
have an excellent track record of research achievements during
the last 10 years
Advanced Grants
• The ERC panel will evaluate the PI’s “intellectual capacity, creativity and
commitment” and their track record should be characterised by:
• groundbreaking research & achievements going beyond the state-of-the-art
• abundant evidence of creative independent thinking
• sound leadership in the training and advancement of young scientists
• commitment to the project (minimum 30% of the PI’s total working time)
* please note that this is the wording from the 2013 ERC calls
Advanced Grants
Who is a competitive candidate?
• track record of significant achievements in last 10 years:
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10 publications (as senior author) in major international journals
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or 3 major research monographs
• if appropriate to the research field, also:
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granted patents
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invited presentations
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led expeditions
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organised international conferences
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international recognition (awards, prizes)
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contributions to launching the careers of outstanding researchers
• an “exceptional leader in terms of originality and significance of research
contribution, with international recognition”
* please note that this the wording from the 2013 ERC calls
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• Pilot scheme which funds ambitious, groundbreaking proposals
submitted by a group of between 2 to 4 PIs (and their teams)
• Very low success rate for first call in 2012, and the 2013 call
results expected to be announced in late 2013
• No call is expected to be launched in 2014 /15 ……
• But the scheme could continue within Horizon 2020, as a limited
part of the ERC’s portfolio of schemes (tbc)
• Scheme for ERC grant holders to undertake further work to
establish the innovation potential of an idea developed during
the course of an ERC-funded project
• Maximum grant: €150,000
• Project duration: up to 18 months
• Original ERC grant must be either ongoing or have ended less
than 1 year before the publication date of the call
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Applications on line through the ECAS Participant
Portal
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Apply to specific discipline panel
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Applications are in three parts
• Part A: Admin forms
• Part B1: Information on applicant and extended synopsis (5
pages) of proposal
• Part B2: Detailed proposal (15 pages)
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Life Sciences
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LS1:Molecular and Structural
Biology and Biochemistry
LS2: Genetics, Genomics,
Bioinformatics and Systems
Biology
LS3: Cellular and
Developmental Biology
LS4: Physiology,
Pathophysiology and
Endocrinology
LS5: Neurosciences and
Neural Disorders
LS6: Immunity and Infection
LS7: Diagnostic Tools,
Therapies and Public Health
LS8: Evolutionary,
Population and
Environmental Biology
LS9: Applied Life Sciences
and Non-Medical
Biotechnology
Physical Sciences and
Engineering
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PE1: Mathematics
PE2: Fundamental
Constituents of Matter
PE3: Condensed Matter
Physics
PE4: Physical and Analytical
Chemical Sciences
PE5: Synthetic Chemistry
and Materials
PE6: Computer Science and
Informatics
PE7: Systems and
Communication Engineering
PE8: Products and Process
Engineering
PE9: Universe Sciences
PE10: Earth System Science
Social Sciences and
Humanities
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SH1: Individuals, institutions
and markets
SH2: Institutions, values,
beliefs and behaviours
SH3: Environment, space
and population
SH4: The human mind and
its complexity
SH5: Cultures and cultural
production
SH6: The study of the
human past
Proposals evaluated solely on the basis of excellence (excellence of
the PI and of the research project), and should address:
B1 Extended Synopsis (5 pages)
B2 Scientific Proposal (15 pages)
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To what extent does the proposed research address important challenges?
To what extent are the objectives ambitious and beyond the state of the art?
How much is the proposed research high risk/high gain?
To what extent is the outlined scientific approach feasible?
• To what extent is the proposed research methodology appropriate to achieve
the goals of the project?
• To what extent does the proposal involve developing novel methodology?
• To what extent are the proposed timescales and resources necessary and
properly justified?
* please note that this is the wording from the 2013 ERC calls
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Evaluation on excellence of PI and excellence of
project
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One stage application, two stage peer review
evaluation
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First stage evaluation looks only at Part B1
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StG and CoG interview at second stage
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There are rules limiting re-submission
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Step 1 evaluation applicants notified:
• A: sufficient quality to pass to step 2 of the evaluation
• B: high quality but not sufficient to pass to step 2
• C: not sufficient quality to pass to step 2 of the evaluation
Step 2 evaluation applicants notified:
• A: fully meets the ERC’s excellence criterion and is
recommended for funding if sufficient funds are available
• B. meets some but not all elements of the ERC’s excellence
criterion and will not be funded.
Projects funded in ranking order – not all “A” projects funded
• Single beneficiary nature of projects
• Innovative/unconventional/invention/new/emerging research
• High risk/high gain
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No nationality or mobility requirements
Pursuit of questions at or beyond the frontiers of knowledge
Any field of research (except nuclear)
Interdisciplinary proposals encouraged
Grants portable
Max grant amounts/ max length of project / min PI time
A change in balance of funding between schemes:
• Indicative budgets for 2014:
 Starting Grants €485m (22% increase over 2013)
 Consolidator Grants €713m (36% increase over 2013)
 Advanced Grants €450m (32% decrease over 2013)
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Overhead rate 25% not 20%
• Note that maximum grant levels have not changed.
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Open access to be the norm: “the terms and conditions laid down in
the ERC Model Grant Agreement will address how scientific publications
must be made available through open access”
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Different resubmission rules
• Applicants scoring A = will be able to resubmit to the next
year’s call
• Applicants scoring B = will not be able to resubmit to the next
year’s call
• Applicants scoring C = will not be able to resubmit to the next
two years’ calls
• Takes effect from 2015. Existing rule applies for 2014.
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Different call timetable
Call identifier
Publication date
Deadline
ERC-2014-StG
11 December 2013
25 March 2014
ERC-2014-CoG
11 December 2013
20 May 2014
ERC-2014-AdG
17 June 2014
21 October 2014
ERC-2014-PoC
11 December 2013
1 April 2014
1 October 2014
ERC-2015-StG
?
3 February 2015
ERC-2015-CoG
?
12 March 2015
ERC-2015-AdG
?
2 June 2015
ERC-2015-PoC
?
23 April 2015
1 October 2015
Call budget, €M
(estimated number
of grants)
485
(370)
713
(400)
450
(200)
15
(100)
411
(315)
603
(340)
640
(285)
15
(100)
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ERC allocated around €12.7 billion for Horizon 2020 (compares to the
allocation of €7.5 billion for FP7). Highest amount of funding to go to the
Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants schemes.
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But due to the progressive increases in the annual ERC budget until 2013,
the amount allocated for the 2014 calls will in fact be lower than in 2013:
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
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• The UK was the most successful country in applying to the ERC in
FP7:
Over 800 grants based
in around 75 different
UK institutions
Around 15% success
rate for proposals
submitted by UK
institutions (about 11%
average overall)
Around 20% of all ERC
grants based in the UK
6 of the 11 Synergy
Grants projects funded
in 2012 feature at least
one UK-based PI
• See here for examples of funded projects: http://erc.europa.eu/ercfunded-projects
Excellent
Science
Industrial
Leadership
Societal
Challenges
Health and Wellbeing
European Research
Council (ERC)
Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions (MSCA)
Research Infrastructures
Leadership in Enabling
and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) ICT, KETs, Space
Food security
Transport
Energy
Climate action
Access to Risk Finance
Societies
Security
Innovation in SMEs
Widening Participation; Science with and for Society
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology (EIT)
EURATOM
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
“.. Ensure excellent and innovative research
training as well as attractive career and
knowledge-exchange opportunities through
cross-border and cross-sector mobility of
researchers to best prepare them to face current
and future societal challenges”
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Operates in a ‘bottom-up’ basis
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Open to all research and innovation domains – from basic
research to market take-up
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Mobility is a key requirement
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Aim: develop new knowledge / enhance skills of people
behind research and innovation
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Dissemination and public engagement through public
outreach activities
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Total budget: €6.2bn (compared with €4.7bn in FP7)
Early Stage
Researcher
(ESR)
At the time of recruitment (ITN) or secondment (RISE) by the host organisation,
must be in the first 4 years (full-time research experience) of their research careers
and have not been awarded a doctoral degree
Experienced
Researcher
(ER)
At the time of the call deadline (IF) or secondment (RISE) by the host organisation,
must be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least 4 years of full-time
equivalent research experience
Academic
sector
Includes universities (public and private), higher education institutions (public and
private), non-profit research institutions (public and private), research foundations,
research institutions associated to foundations, international European interest
organisations
Nonacademic
sector
Includes any socio-economic actor not included in the academic sector
Mobility Rule:
At the time of the relevant deadline for submission of proposals, or
recruitment/secondment by the host organisation, depending on the action,
researchers shall not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc)
in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years
immediately prior to the reference date.”
FP7
ITN
Horizon 2020
ITN
Innovative Training Networks
(Early Stage Researchers)
IEF
IOF
IIF
IF
Individual Fellowships
(Experienced Researchers)
CIG
IAPP
IRSES
COFUND
RISE
COFUND
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
(Exchange of Staff)
Cofunding or regional, national and
international programmes
Also: Researchers’ Night
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“Aim to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative
researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert
knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social
benefit”
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Competitively selected joint research training/doctoral programmes
implemented by partnerships of universities, research institutions,
businesses, SMEs and other socio-economic actors from different
countries across Europe (and beyond).
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Focus on scientific/ technological knowledge through research on
individual/personalised projects
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Exposure to non-academic sector
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Transferable skills training e.g. communication, research management,
IP, ethics, societal outreach, entrepreneurship
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The ITN scheme consists of 3 strands:
European Training
Networks (minimum of 3
participants)
European Joint
Doctorates (at least 3
academic participants
who can deliver a
doctoral degree)
European Industrial
Doctorates (1 academic
and 1 non-academic
partner)
Other new features:
• Participants defined as ‘academic’ and ‘non-academic’
• Early stage researchers (ESRs) only
• Innovative Doctoral Programme strand only through COFUND
Beneficiaries (Participants level 1)
• Signatory to the grant agreement
• Full partner of a network
• Contribute directly to the implementation of the joint
training programme by supervising, hosting and
training ESRs
• Provide secondment opportunities
Partner organisations (Participants level 2)
• Do not sign the grant agreement
• Provide training and host ESRs during secondments
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Four year programme (max three year support for each ESR)
Activities include:
European Training Networks
European Industrial
Doctorates
European Joint Doctorates
•At least three beneficiaries
from different MS/AC
•At least three beneficiaries
from different MS/AC
•Doctoral programme
enrolment optional
•Doctoral programme
enrolment mandatory
•Maximum 540 researchermonths
•Joint governance,
admission, selection,
supervision, monitoring
and assessment mandatory
•Award of joint, double or
multiple doctoral degree
mandatory
•At least one academic and
one non-academic partner
from different MS/AC
•Doctoral programme
enrolment mandatory
•Joint governance,
admission, selection,
supervision, monitoring
and assessment mandatory
•Maximum 180 researchermonths
•Maximum 540 researchermonths
Publication date 11 December 2013
2 September 2014
Deadline
9 April 2014
13 January 2015
Budget
EUR 405.18 million
EUR 370 million
(EUR 349.68 million for
(EUR 317 million for ETNs)
ETNs)
(EUR 25.5 million for EIDs) (EUR 25 million for EIDs)
(EUR 30 million for EJDs)
(EUR 28 million for EJDs)
Duration
4 years
4 years
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“Aim to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced
researchers wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of
skill acquisition at multi- or interdisciplinary level through advanced
training, international and intersectoral mobility”
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Supports Experienced Researchers only
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Opportunities to acquire new knowledge and work on research in a
European context, or outside Europe
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Specific support for return and reintegration of researchers to Europe who
have previously worked here
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Supports career restart for individuals with high potential
European Fellowships
•12-24 months
•From any country to MS/AC
•Host country is subject to the MSCA
mobility rule
•Separate multi-disciplinary panels for
Career re-start* and Reintegration
Global Fellowships
•12-24 months plus 12 month return
phase
•Secondment from MS/AC to third
country
•Mandatory 12 month return phase in
Europe (not subject to mobility rule)
•(Reintegration Fellowship only)
mobility to Europe, researcher must
have been previously active in Europe
for at least 5 consecutive years
Mobility rule for CAR and RIG: “researcher has not resided or carried out their main
activity in the country of their host organisation for more than 3 years in the 5 years
immediately prior to the relevant deadline”
*) And for CAR: “researcher has not been active in research for at least 12 months”
• Optional intersectoral secondment that should significantly add
to the impact of the research project
• Must take place in a MS/AC
• Must occur during the fellowship
• Secondment phase can be a single period or divided into shorter
mobility periods
 For a fellowship > 18 months, secondment phase may be up to 6
months
 For a fellowship ≤ 18 months, secondment phase may be up to 3
month
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Publication date
12 March 2014
12 March 2015
Deadline
11 September 2014
10 September 2015
Budget
EUR 240.5 million
EUR 213 million
(EUR 211.5 million for
European Fellowships)
(EUR 29 million for
Global Fellowships)
(EUR 186 million for
European Fellowships
(EUR 27 million for
Global Fellowships)
2 years
(IF Global: 3 years)
2 years
(IF Global: 3 years)
Duration
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“Aim to promote international and inter-sector collaboration through
research and innovation staff exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and
ideas from research to market (and vice-versa) for the advancement of
science and development of innovation”
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Should involve institutions from the academic and non-academic sectors
(particularly SMEs) based in MS/AC and/or third countries
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Development of joint research and innovation project partnerships
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Knowledge sharing via international and/or inter-sector mobility through
two way secondments of (ESRs /ERs/support staff) with built-in return
mechanism
• Exchanges between MS/AC only: secondments must be inter-sectoral
• Exchanges between MS/AC and third countries: secondments can be same sector and/or
intersectoral
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Participants must be from at least three different countries, at least two of
which are MS/AC
If all participants in same sector one participant country must be a third
country
Secondment period - 1 to 12 months- does not need to be continuous
Activities of the programme
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Publication date
11 December 2013
6 January 2015
Deadline
24 April 2014
28 April 2015
Budget
EUR 70 million
EUR 80 million
Duration
4 years
4 years
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“Aims at stimulating regional, national or international
programmes to foster excellence in researchers’ training,
mobility and career development, spreading the best
practices of MSCA”
Supports new or existing programmes for international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training and
transnational and cross-sector mobility of researchers
Two streams
Doctoral
programmes
Doctoral programmes
Fellowship
programmes
Fellowship programmes
• Supports ESRs
• Supports ERs
• Doctoral enrolment
mandatory
• Not open to permanent
employees of the host
organisation
• Training and secondment
opportunities with partners,
particularly the nonacademic sector will be
advantageous
• Regular selection rounds
allowing fair competition
• Cross-sectoral mobility
encouraged
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Publication date
10 April 2014
14 April 2015
Deadline
2 October 2014
1 October 2015
Budget
EUR 80 million
(EUR 50 million for
Fellowship programmes)
(EUR 30 million for
Doctoral programmes)
EUR 80 million
(EUR 50 million for
Fellowship programmes)
(EUR 30 million for
Doctoral programmes)
Duration
Between 3-5 years
Between 3-5 years
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“Aims to bring the researchers closer to the public at large and to
increase public awareness of the research and innovation activities
and the impact of researchers’ work”
European Researchers’ Night takes place on the last Friday of
September annually
Events can start on early Friday afternoon and last until early
Saturday morning
Participants can be any legal entity in MS/AC and/or a partnership
at regional, national or international level
Funding will cover two editions of the Night (2014 and 2015) but
funding for one edition only may be considered
Involvement of researchers funded by FP7/Horizon 2020
encouraged
Publication date
11 December 2013
Deadline
4 March 2014
Budget
EUR 8 million
Duration
2 years
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Applications on line through the ECAS Participant Portal
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Apply to specific discipline panel
Evaluation panels
• Chemistry (CHE)
• Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
• Economic Sciences (ECO)
• Information Science and Engineering (ENG)
Additional multidisciplinary
panels for ITNs
• European Industrial
Doctorates (EID)
Additional multidisciplinary
panel for IFs
• Career Restart Panel
• Reintegration Panel
• European Joint Doctorates
(EJD)
• Environment and Geosciences (ENV)
• Life Sciences (LIF)
• Mathematics (MAT)
• Physics (PHY)
Excellence
(50%)
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Impact
(30%)
Total score is subject to a threshold of 70%
Proposals ranked
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Excellence
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(20%)
Evaluation scores awarded for each criteria from 0 to 5
Each award criterion has a weighting
Proposals funded in ranking order
Evaluation summary reports provided
No restrictions on re-application
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Implementation
Quality, innovative aspects and credibility of the research programme
Quality and innovative aspects of the training programme
Quality of supervision
Quality of the proposed interaction between participating organisations
Impact
• Enhancing research and innovation related human resources, skills and working conditions to realise
the potential of individuals and provide new career perspectives
• Contribution to structuring doctoral/ESR training at the European level and to strengthening European
innovation capacity
• Effectiveness of proposed measures for communication and dissemination of results
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Implementation
• Overall coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including appropriateness of the allocation of
tasks and resources
• Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures including quality management and risk
management
• Appropriateness of infrastructure and operational capacity of participating organisations
• Competences, experience and complementarity of participating organisations and their commitment to
the programme
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Excellence
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• Quality, innovative aspects and credibility of the research
• Clarity and quality of transfer of knowledge/training
• Quality of supervision and hosting arrangements
• Capacity of the researcher to reach/reinforce a position of professional maturity in research
Impact
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• Enhancing research and innovation related human resources, skills and working conditions to realise
the potential of individuals and to provide new career perspectives
• Effectiveness of proposed measures for communication and results dissemination
Implementation
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• Overall coherence and effectiveness of work plan
• Appropriateness of management structures and procedures
• Appropriateness of institutional environment
• Competences, experiences and complementarity of participating organisations and institutional
commitment
Researcher unit cost [person/month]
Scheme
Living allowance*
Mobility allowance
Institutional unit cost
[person/month]
Family allowance
Research,
training and
networking
costs
Management
and overheads
ITN
3110
600
500
1800
1200
IF
4650
600
500
800
650
RISE
2000
COFUND
1800
ESRs
3710
ERs
5250
700
650
* A correction co-efficient will apply to these costs
For COFUND: Unit costs are subject to a co-funding rate of 50% as established in the
grant agreement. Unit costs are reduced by 50% in case researchers are recruited
under fixed-amount fellowships.
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FP7 2013 WP
Person/month
Horizon 2020 2014/15 WP
Person/month
Living allowance
ESRs
ERs
ERs over 10 years
€3167*
€4875*
€7292*
€3110*
€4650*
Abolished
UK Country coefficient
134.4%
120.3%
Mobility allowance
Single
Family
€700*
€1000*
€600 for all participants
Differences to FP7
Researcher allowances
Family allowance
€500 if applicable
Institutional allowances
Research, training and networking
ITN (multi)
ITN (EID)
IF
€1800
€1200
€800
ITN management
10%
ITN overheads
10%
IF overheads
€700*
All ITNs €1800
€800
Replaced by management/indirects of €1200
€650
*Country co-efficient applied
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