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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in H2020

Work Programme 2016-2017

Alessandra LUCHETTI

Head of Department – Excellent Science

European Commission – Research Executive Agency

Introduction :

• MSCA objectives,

• Key features & definitions

MSC Actions

MSCA in H2020 Work Programme 2016-2017:

Introduction

Calls 2016-2017

IT tool

Main novelties

MSCA rules' fine-tuning

Award criteria and other actions

MSCA main objective for H2020:

Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital in order to generate new skills and innovation

Total budget (2014-2020): € 6.126 billion (current prices)

MSCA objectives

Attract and retain research talent in Europe

Develop state-of-the-art, innovative training schemes, consistent with the requirements of R&I

Promote sustainable career development in R&I

Focus on delivering new knowledge and skills

Back up strong partnership with MS via co-funding mechanism

MSCA key features

Includes all domains of research and innovation

Strong accent on participation of industry, SMEs and non-academia overall

A global scope with trans-national mobility required and often cross-sector mobility as a key component

Level of involvement is proportional to the participant's needs

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 academic sector definition

Beneficiaries => signatories of GA

Partner organisations => not signing GA

Categories of researchers: ESR & ER – in line with FP7 approach

Full time research equivalent & mobility rule – following FP7 approach

Staff members in RISE: researchers, innovators, managers, administrative and technical staff

Definitions

Innovative Training Networks

ITN

Raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training

Train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers

Trigger cooperation and exchange of best practice among participants

Enhance researchers' employability and provide them with new career perspectives

Triple 'i' dimension of mobility and particular focus on innovation skills

European Joint

Doctorates (EJD)

European Training

Networks (ETN)

Objectives:

Academia Non-academia


Country 1

Country 2 Country 3





Academia

Minimum 3 beneficiaries

3 countries (MS/AC)

Typical size: 6-10 participants (example)

Each beneficiary must recruit and host at least one researcher at its premises.

Participation of non-academic sector considered essential.

Max. 540 ReMo for the network.

Secondments up to 30% of the researcher recruitment period.

Joint supervision encouraged.

Max. 40% of total budget to one country.

Duration : 48 months

European Training

Networks (ETN)

Non-academia Academia

Country 2 Country 1

≥ 50%

Non-academia Academia


Minim. 2 beneficiaries (MS/AC)

1 academic

1 non-academic

Max. 180 ReMo

PhD enrollment

> 50% of time at non-academic sector

Joint supervision

If > 2 beneficiaries,

same requirements apply,

additional beneficiaries any sector, any country

Max. 540 ReMo


Country 1

Country 2 Country 3

Academia

Academia Academia


Minim. 3 beneficiaries

3 MS/AC

All entitled to award doctoral degrees.

Additional beneficiaries or partner

organisations from any country, sector and

discipline. Participation of non-academic

sector encouraged

Mandatory enrollment of ESRs in the joint

doctoral programme

Mandatory provision of joint, double or

multiple degrees (letters of institutional

commitment signed by a legal

representative needed in the proposal)


Max. 540 ReMo

ESR appointments from 3-36 months

Joint governance structure

Max. 40% of total budget to one country

European Joint

Doctorates (EJD)

Individual Fellowship IF

Enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers

Mono-beneficiary project

Focus on career development, not necessarily experience

Only for experienced researchers ( of any nationality, except RI and GF – MS, AC and long-term residents ) in possession of a doctoral degree, or have 4 years of full-time research experience at the time of the call deadline

Objectives:

Two types depending on the mobility of the researcher

Within Europe - European Fellowships

Outside Europe - Global Fellowships

Outgoing

Return

International mobility within or into Member States (MS) and Associated Countries (AC)

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 (for CAR, RI and ST panels - more than 3 years in the last 5 years)

Additional 3 or 6 month secondment option, within Europe & in another sector

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

RISE

Strengthen the interaction between academic and non-academic organisations, and between Europe and third countries, through research and innovation staff exchanges

International and inter-sector transfer of knowledge and sharing of ideas and of R&I culture

Common research and innovation project

Highly skilled research and innovation staff move for 1-12 months

Objectives:

Eligibility condition for staff members: 6 months at sending institution prior to first secondment

MS/AC 1

MS/AC 2

TC + +

Academic

Non-Academic

MS/AC 1

MS/AC 2

+ + MS/AC 3

Two different set-ups :

INTERNATIONAL

EUROPEAN

Co-funding of regional,

national and international

programmes

COFUND

Promote international, intersectoral and interdicisplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sector mobility of researchers at all stages of their career by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes

Mono-beneficiary: organisation funding or managing doctoral or post-doctoral programmes

Leverage funding and combat fragmentation (possible synergies with ESIF)

Spread MSCA best practices

Doctoral Programmes

Early stage researchers

Fellowship Programmes

Experienced researchers

Objectives:

Duration of projects: maximum 5 years

Duration of Fellowships: minimum 3 months

EU contribution to cover living allowances for researchers and management costs

50% co-funding for established unit costs

Minimum living allowance fixed in the WP

European Researchers' Night

NIGHT

Bring researchers closer to the general public

Increase awareness of research and innovation activities

Yearly event, typically on the last Friday of the month of September (10th anniversary celebrated this year)

Involvement of researchers funded by Horizon 2020

Call under Coordination and support action

Beneficiaries: any legal entity in the EU Member States and Associated Countries

Objectives:

Financial dimension

MSCA Financial Overview

Research, networking, training costs

800 €

Management and indirect costs

500 €

Living allowance* 4650 €

Mobility allowance 600 €

Family allowance 500 €


1800 €


700 €

Top-up allowance 2000 €

Management costs 325 €

Living allowance Early-stage researchers

1855 €

Living allowance Experienced researchers

2625 €


1800 €


1200 €

Living allowance* 3110 €

Mobility allowance 600 €

Family allowance 500 €

MSCA WP 2016-2017

MSCA WP 2016-2017

Adopted on 13 October 2015 (Commission Decision C (2015)6776)

Strong continuity of 2014-2015 approach

Key features remain unchanged

Yearly calls in each MSCA funding scheme (except for NIGHT covering again 2 editions)

2016 budget of MSCA comparable to 2015 level (759 million EUR)

2017 budget: 10.5% increase, 841 million EUR

Funding

scheme Call opens Call closes Budget

ITN 15/10/2015

15/09/2016

12/01/2016

10/01/2017

370 mEUR

430 mEUR

IF 12/04/2016

11/04/2017

14/09/2016

14/09/2017

218.5 mEUR

248 mEUR

RISE 08/12/2015

01/12/2016

28/04/2016

05/04/2017

80 mEUR

80 mEUR

COFUND 14/04/2016

05/04/2017

29/09/2016

28/09/2017

80 mEUR

80 mEUR

NIGHT 15/10/2015 13/01/2016 8 mEUR

MSCA – 2016-2017 calls

IT tool for the WP

Increased coherence: standard structure and format for the WP

Published information on PP is the same as in the adopted WP (single source for both)

Minor modifications of the MSCA WP structure was necessary, e.g.

• Introducing a 'virtual' topic covering the entire call

• Clarifying types of actions

• Moving the duration of projects from call conditions to the annexes

MSCA WP 2016-2017 Main Novelties

An explicit link to the Responsible Research and Innovation

Link to the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity

Elements of Open Science in the training of researchers

Better definition of expected impact (at researcher, organisation and ERA level)

Gender aspects explicitly indicated under the Excellence award criterion

Further involvement of the non-academic sector in IF – new Society and Enterprise Panel

Society and Enterprise Panel - Rationale

Only 2.7% of IF 2014 beneficiaries were from the non-academic sector

0.4% of IF 2014 beneficiaries were SMEs

IF 2014 success rates by sector

Average success rate:

16.8%

Society and Enterprise Panel - Main Features

Multidisciplinary panel in EF

Dedicated budget - EUR 10 million

Open to organisations from the non-academic sector

Research and innovation-related projects can be funded

Relaxed mobility rule to apply (like in CAR and RI)

Fine-tuning of the MSCA rules

ITN:

More flexibility for EID consortia: they should be composed of at least one beneficiary from the academic sector and at least one beneficiary from the non-academic sector

EJD: adding definitions of joint, double and multiple doctoral degrees

Mandatory consortium agreement for all modalities

Evaluation process: the consensus score for each award criterion may be the average of the corresponding scores attributed by the individual expert evaluators


IF:

Clarifying that only one application per researcher will be evaluated in an IF call

Evaluation process: the consensus score for each award criterion may be the average of the corresponding scores attributed by the individual expert evaluators

RISE:

Secondments should take place between legal entities independent from each other

Mandatory consortium agreement


COFUND:

Clarifying the mobility rules in case of COFUND

COFUND return phase for outgoing fellowships not longer than 50% of the total duration of the research training activity

EU contribution - introducing directly the rates to be paid to the selected programmes

NIGHT:

Status of associated events clearly spelled out

Award criteria

Linking better the impact criterion to the expected impact statements

Introducing the innovation aspects in IF criteria

Clarifying dissemination and communication elements

Aligning the MSCA framework to the overall H2020 modifications

Other actions

Alumni with new features on supervisor platform

MSCA interim evaluation to feed H2020 mid-term assessment and MFF review

4 studies to be launched (industry participation, entrepreneurship, interdisciplinarity, supervision)

Campaign to communicate research and to disseminate results of the MSCA-funded projects to the general public

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Website

http://ec.europa.eu/msca

Horizon 2020

http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020

Participant Portal (applications)

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal

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