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Welcome
Agenda
Time
Topic
Speaker
09:45
MSCA Opportunities for the Non-Academic Sector
Kamila Partyka, EC
10:30
T.E. Laboratories perspective on MSCA
Breda Moore, TE Labs
10:45
Intellectual Property Rights
Joe Doyle, EI
11:00
Bell Labs Ireland perspective on MSCA
Florian Pivit, Bell Labs
11:15 – 11:45 BREAK
11:45
Horizon 2020 Opportunities for SMEs
Sean Burke, EI
12:00
EURAXESS Services for Business
Magdalena Wislocka, EURAXESS
12:15
Enterprise Europe Network
Jan Gerritsen, EEN
12:30
Finding a Research Partner
Barry Fennell, KTI
12:45
Final Q&A
ALL
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
What are the Marie SkłodowskaCurie Actions?
• Part of the Horizon 2020 EU R&I Funding Programme
(2014 to 2020)
• Successor to FP7 (2007 – 2013)
• Formerly known as the “Marie Curie Actions”
• Funds all areas of research
Marie SkłodowskaCurie Actions
MET-A-FOR
European Industrial Doctorate
• Research in detection of drugs of abuse in
animals
• 2 partners from 2 countries, one ROI, one NI
• Training 3 students to PhD level
• Students spend min. 50% of time working in
the non-academic organisation
• Funding of €820k over 4 years
• Includes students’ salary, research & training
costs, management costs and overheads
EID
SAGE-CARE
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
• Research in e-health
• 4 partners from 4 countries, including 2
non-academic organisations
• Carrying out a joint research and/or
innovation project
• Exchanging their staff (secondments)
• Networking/training events
• Funding of €450k over 4 years
• Includes travel costs, research/training
costs, management costs and overheads
RISE
MARATONE
Training Network
• Mental health research
• 13 partners from 8 countries, including
4 non-academic organisations
• Training 13 students to PhD level
• Each partner takes on 1 student
• Students spend time at other partners
within the network (secondments)
• Funding of 3.6 M€ over 4 years
ITN
MSCA
Ireland
Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office
• Dr. Jennifer Brennan
― National Contact Point
• Dr. Suzanne Miller Delaney
― Programme Officer, SFI Centres
Information
Support
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Email Distribution List (mariecurie@iua.ie)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office Ireland Group on Linkedin
Dedicated website www.iua.ie/mariecurie
YouTube channel MarieCurieActionIre
New! Twitter @mariescurie_ire
• Advice on whether your concept ‘fits’ the MSCA
• Partner search via MSCA NCP network
• Training Webinars for specific Calls
(recordings on website and YouTube)
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