Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions in Horizon 2020 Bodo Richter European Commission DG GW4 academic visit to UKRO, Brussels, 3 March 2016 Date: in 12 pts Outline - MSCA-Introduction - Achievements of Marie Curie actions - UK in the MCA - MSCA objectives and definitions - MSCA-Funding - MSCA-Calls - UK performance so far - MSCA-Actions 1
MSCA - INTRODUCTION MCA in FP7 2007-13: Achievements ~ 50 000 researchers financed in FP7 MCA, of 140 nationalities ~ 11 055 projects funded in FP7 ( 4.7 billion funding in total) > 85 countries with 22 200 participations of various host organisations > nearly 11% of participants are from the private sector, 21% in Initial Training Networks (ITN) All scientific areas covered: bottom-up approach 38% of MSCA participants are women (women represent 33% of EU researchers) 2
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MSCA MSCA Objective: Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe s intellectual capital in order to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation Budget 2014-2020: 6 162 million 756.5 million in 2016 for all calls together 4
Open to all domains of research and innovation from basic research up to market take-up and innovation services Entirely bottom-up MSCA - Key features Participation of non-academic sector strongly encouraged, especially industry and SMEs Mobility as the key requirement - funding on condition participants move from one country to another Promotion of attractive working and employment conditions Public engagement of supported researchers Particular attention to gender balance Definitions Academic sector: public or private HEI awarding academic degrees, public or private non-profit research organisations, international European interest organisations Non-academic sector: any socio-economic actor not included in the academic sector definition Beneficiaries signatories of the grant agreement Partner organisations not signing the grant agreement Full time research equivalent and mobility rule following MCA approach Staff members in RISE: researchers, managers, administrative and technical personnel supporting research and innovation activities of the project 5
Definitions Researchers In the MSCA, Europe means 28 EU Member States (MS) 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 13 Associated Countries (AC) to MSCA* Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, FYROM, Iceland, Israel, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine * on 1.12.2015 "Third Country" means any country not listed above 6
MSCA FUNDING Panels - overview Proposals are allocated to one of the 8 main 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) In ITN, separate multidisciplinary panels for industrial and joint doctorates In IF, separate multidisciplinary panels for the Career Restart (CAR), Reintegration (RI), and Society & Enterprise (SE). In COFUND, two panels: Doctoral programmes and Fellowship programmes. 7
Funding EU contribution based on unit costs calculated on the basis of the researcher-months Two broad dimensions of unit costs: researcher and institutional Allowances for the researcher (living, mobility and family allowance) Unit costs for research, training and networking Unit costs for management and indirect costs Country coefficients applicable only to living allowances in ITN and IF NIGHT: uses eligibility, award criteria and funding of the H2020 Coordination & Support actions EU contribution amounts Categories of eligible costs Costs of researchers/seconded staff member (1) Institutional costs (2) Marie Skłodowska- Curie action 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 3 110 600 500 -- 1 800 1 200 IF 4 650 600 500 -- 800 650 RISE -- -- -- 2 000 1 800 700 COFUND ESR: 1 855 ER: 2 625 -- -- -- -- 325 (indirect costs not covered) 8
MSCA CALLS Past Open & forthcoming 2014-5 MSCA funding awarded - top 10 MS/AC 9
Success rates of UK proposals to MSCA in 2014-5 Call UK success rate Overall success rate (all countries) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 8% 8% H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014 12% 12% H2020-MSCA-IF-2015 19% 14% H2020-MSCA-IF-2014 24% 18% H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 29% 27% H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014 51% 46% H2020-MSCA-COFUND- 2014 57% 32% Organisations in 2014-5 MSCA - top 6 MS/AC 10
Nationalities of MSCA European Fellows (top 10) Nationality of MSCA Global Fellows (top 10) 04/03/2016 Nationality of Individual Fellows (top 10) 350 300 European Fellowships 250 200 150 100 50 Global Fellowships 0 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 ES IT FR DE UK CN IN EL US NL ES IT DE UK FR NL IL BE IE CY PT EE EL DK ITN RISE IF COFUND 15/10/2015 12/01/2016 15/09/2016 10/01/2017 08/12/2015 28/04/2016 01/12/2016 05/04/2017 12/04/2016 14/09/2016 11/04/2017 14/09/2017 14/04/2016 29/09/2016 05/04/2017 28/09/2017 370 million 430 million 80 million 80 million 218.5 million 248 million 80 million 80 million 11
MSCA ACTIONS 12
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Objective Scope promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges foster a shared culture of research and innovation International and inter-sector transfer of knowledge and sharing of ideas Common research and innovation project Highly skilled research and innovation staff Within Europe: only inter-sector secondments No secondments between institutions located outside Europe or within the same MS/AC Expected Impact strengthen the interaction between organisations in the academic and nonacademic sectors, and between Europe and third countries 13
Individual Fellowships (IF) Objective enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge, work on research projects in a European context or outside Europe, resume a career or return to Europe Expected Impact release the full potential of researchers and to catalyse significant development in their careers in both the academic and non-academic sectors strengthen the contact network of the researcher and the host organisation For fellows coming to or moving within Europe (1) (2) For fellows from Europe going to Third countries and returning 14
Objective stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development Scope international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sector mobility of researchers, in line with Charter & Code and with EU principles for Innovative Doctoral Training opportunities for researchers from all countries open and transparent selection and recruitment Expected Impact COFUND exploit synergies between EU actions and those at regional, national, and international level leverage funding and combat fragmentation increase working / employment conditions of researchers 15
ALL MSCA projects that fund PhD or postdoctoral positions MUST advertise their vacancies on the European Researcher Mobility Portal EURAXESS http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/jobs 16
Innovative Training Networks (ITN) Objective Scope raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative earlystage researchers Triple 'i' dimension of mobility and particular focus on innovation skills European Training Networks (ETN) European Industrial Doctorates (EID) European Joint Doctorates (EJD) Expected Impact structure research and doctoral training in Europe trigger cooperation and exchange of best practice among participants enhance researchers' employability and provide them with new career perspectives 17
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