Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
under Horizon 2020
Alessandra Luchetti
Head of Unit, DG EAC.C3
Coimbra Group Meeting
Brussels, 16 October 2012
Education
and Culture
Date: in 12 pts
Agenda
Marie Curie achievements
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions:
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Objectives and rationale
Key features
New actions - Building on past
experience and recent developments
Education
and Culture
FP7 MCA Achievements
- 60 000 researchers financed since the
creation of the Marie Curie Actions
Bottom-up approach
Life Sciences
27%
- More than 10 000 PhD supported in FP7
- Marie Curie researchers coming from all
over the world
COFUND
8%
Economics 2%
Information Science
and Engineering
17%
- Marie Curie host organisations in more
than 80 countries
Mathematics
3%
Social Sciences
and Humanities
9%
Chemistry
10%
Environmental and
Geo-sciences
11%
Physics
13%
Budget distribution by scientific panel
in FP7 (bottom up approach)
- 46% of researchers coming to EU from
industrialised countries stay in Europe
after the end of the IIF fellowship
- 38% women participation in FP7 MCA,
close to the 40% target
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FP7 MCA Achievements
Ageing Population
€36m; 2%
Climate change
€106m; 6%
Energy shortage
€177m; 9%
Food supply
€77m; 4%
- SMEs play a major role: in IAPP and
ITN they account for more than 50%
of all businesses participating
- Bridging the academia-business gap:
~6.000 secondments / recruitments in
~350 FP7 MCA projects
Other
€911m; 49%
Health
€534m; 28%
Water supply
€32m; 2%
- More than 50% of the budget
dedicated to research on societal
challenges
Budget dedicated to societal challenges under
FP7 MCA (2007-2011)
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and Culture
Horizon 2020
Europe 2020 priorities
International cooperation
European Research Area
Shared objectives and principles
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes
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Simplified access
Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security, sustainable agriculture,
marine and maritime research, and the
bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw
materials
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
Industrial Leadership
 Leadership in enabling and industrial
technologies (ICT, nano, materials, bio,
manufacturing, space)
 Access to risk finance
 Innovation in SMEs
Excellent Science
 European Research Council
 Future and Emerging Technologies
 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions on skills, training and
career development
 Research infrastructures
Supporting the objectives:
European Institute for Innovation and Technology
Joint Research Centre
Dissemination &
knowledge transfer
MSCA Objective
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Main objective
Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s
intellectual capital in order to generate new skills and innovation
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Rationale
 Encourage new, creative types of training
 Identify excellent talents in research and innovation in
international competition
 Make best researchers in Europe and the world work together
across countries, sectors and disciplines
 Create a whole new mind-set in Europe, crucial for
entrepreneurship and innovation
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and Culture
MSCA – Key Features
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Bottom-up approach
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Supporting researchers careers
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Fostering key skills and competences
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Mobility, both trans-national and inter-sectoral
 Opening research careers at European and international level
 Enhanced business-academia collaboration and staff exchange
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Excellent employment and working conditions, in line with the EU Charter
and Code for Researchers
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Role model with pronounced structuring effect on regional, national and
other international programmes
Education
and Culture
MSCA – Key Features
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Broad definition of industry involvement: participation of businesses
(including SMEs) and other socio-economic actors
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Internal H2020 synergies with other part of Excellent Science, societal
challenges, industrial technologies, EIT
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Developing synergies with Erasmus for All programme
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Gender balance and equal opportunities
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Strong emphasis on outreach activities and communicating research
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and Culture
MSC Actions
ITN
(including EID and IDP)
IEF
IOF
IIF
CIG
IAPP
IRSES
COFUND
Action 1
Early-stage
Researchers
Doctoral and initial training of researchers
proposed by international networks of
organisations from public and private
sectors
Action 2
Experienced
Researchers
Individual fellowships for most promising
experienced researchers to develop their
skills through international or inter-sector
mobility
Action 3
Exchange of
Staff
Action 4
COFUND
Education
and Culture
International and inter-sector cooperation
through the exchange of research and
innovation staff
Co-funding of regional, national and
international programmes
Innovative Training
Networks (ITN)
MSCA - main EU programme for structured doctoral training
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Dedicated to early-stage researchers (no ER recruitment)
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Involving wide partnership of institutions from academic and
non-academic sectors
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Based on FP7 ITNs experience + support to joint doctorates
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Addressing triple 'i' dimension of mobility
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Combining scientific excellence with innovation-oriented
approach
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Developing entrepreneurship and skills matching research
labour market needs
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Enhancing employability of researchers
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Individual Fellowships
(IF)
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Opportunities for international and intersector mobility of ER to facilitate career
moves
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Enhance competences and creative potential
of best researchers, European and nonEuropean willing to work in the EU
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Encompass intra-European, incoming,
outgoing mobility and re-integration
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Possibility of inter-sector secondments
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Research and Innovation
Staff Exchange (RISE)
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New type of exchange of staff action to stimulate transfer of
knowledge
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Flexible inter-sector (within Europe) and international (with 3rd
countries) exchanges of highly skilled research and innovation staff
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No recruitment foreseen
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Single eligibility rule for partnership consortia
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Based on a common research project
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COFUND
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Stimulating regional, national and international programmes
to foster excellence
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Spreading best practices of MSCA in terms of international
mobility, research training, career development
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Extended to doctoral training and exchange of staff
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Building on experience from FP7 COFUND – evaluation
results available:
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COFUND is enhancing the international dimension of a number of national
and regionally-based fellowship programmes in ways that are not open to
Individual Fellowships
Modest positive impact on operational and administrative procedures of
host institutions (COFUND)
Contributing to a gradual ‘levelling up’ in employment conditions for
researchers
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Position of the Council
and the Parliament
Council Partial General Approaches on H2020 Regulation (May 2012) and Rules
for Participation (October 2012):
MSCA:
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Impact across the programme on the innovativeness of the private sector
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Mobility for European brain gain – importance of (re)integration
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Extension of co-funding, involve private sector
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Synergies with Erasmus for All, Structural Funds, KICs
EP draft reports on the H2020 package:
MSCA:
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Call for increase of budget
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Specific measures to remove obstacles to the mobility of female researchers
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Support for outgoing mobility followed by return to Europe
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"Seal of excellence" on positively evaluated projects (not funded)
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6 month limit on Time To Grant
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Committee vote at end of November 2012
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Marie Curie Actions Website
http://ec.europa.eu/mariecurieactions
Horizon 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
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