Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Individual Fellowships (IF)

Nicosia, 5 December 2016

European Programmes Conference Week –Ideas and Networking 2016

MSCA Workshop

Bodo Richter, Deputy Head of UnitDG Education and Culture

Outline of presentation

The 4 types of IF: mobility possibilities and eligibility (e.g. career restarters, refugees)

Data on grant-holders

Considerations for applicants

A non-academic fellowship?

An optional secondment?

Multidisciplinary research?

Policy objectives of IF: expected impact of a) projects and b) the programme

Includes all domains of research and innovation

Open to any nationality, 15 000 non-Europeans expected to be funded by 2020 out of 65 000 researchers in total

Mobility between countries is required (or has happened recently), and mobility to/from academia is often a key component

Strong accent on participation of non-academic organisations:

Businesses (including SMEs), governments, hospitals, non-profit or charitable organisations (NGOs, trusts, foundations), cultural institutions, etc.

Individual Fellowships

IFexperiencedresearchers'post-Doc'

Support for experienced researchers to undertake international and inter-sector mobility, incl. career restart and reintegration

Innovative Training Networks

ITNearly-stage researchers

'pre-Doc'

Doctoral and initial training: European Training Networks, European Industrial Doctorates, European Joint Doctorates

Co-funding of programmes

COFUND'pre-Doc'

or'post-Doc'

Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes: - doctoral programmes (ESR)- fellowship programmes (ER)

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

RISE'pre-Doc'

or'post-Doc'

International and inter-sector cooperation through the exchange of staff

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Forthcoming IF call: April 2017

Opens: 11 April 2017

Closes: 14 September 2017 @ 17:00:00 Brussels time

Budget: €248m

Individual Fellowships (IF)

Apply in conjunction with a hostinstitution in Member State orHorizon 2020 Associated Countrythat will manage the grant

Only for Experienced Researchers

In possession of a doctoral degree, or have 4 years of full-time research experience at the time of the call deadline

For fellows from Europe going to Third countries (12-24 months) and returning (12 months)

Any Experienced Researcher may submit only one proposal to the call

for proposals in any given year

For fellows coming to or moving within Europe (12-24 months)

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

• 16 Associated Countries (AC) to MSCA

• Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina,

• Faroe Islands, FYROM, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Moldova, Montenegro,

• Norway, Serbia, Switzerland*,• Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine

• * partial association with only parts of H2020 (incl. MSCA)

IF Main Features

Researcher proposes a project to undertake, in conjunction with the supervisor(s) in the host organistion(s)

Focus on career development, not necessarily experience

Open to hosts from both academic and non-academicsectors

Can include 3 – 6 months at another organisation anywhere in Europe ("on secondment")

European Fellowships: separate multidisciplinary panels for Society & Enterprise (€10m earmarked budget), Career Restart, and Reintegration

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European Fellowship Global Fellowship

205 million EUR 33.7 million EUR

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Pre-allocation of 2017 Call Budget:Pre-allocation of 2017 Call Budget:

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non-academic sector

Mobility rule: in host country maximum

3 years in last 5 years

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European Fellowship

Research,networking, training costs

800 €

Management and indirect costs

650 €

Living allowance* 4650§ €

Mobility allowance 600§ €

Family allowance 500§ €

IF Financial Dimension

Employment contracts with full social security

Monthly rates

* Living allowance subject to country correction coefficient:

CY=91.8%

§ Amount quoted is gross amount before deductions

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Examples of MCA fellows who went on to obtain an ERC grant (positions as of

early 2015): Björn Schumacher, Professor,

Chair for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease CECAD Forschungszentrum, Germany

Claire Belcher, Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, University of Exeter, UK

Part 2: Considerations for applicants

A non-academic fellowship?

An optional secondment?

Multidisciplinary research?

Common mistakes?

Policy objectives of IF: expected impact of a) projects and b) the programme

Secondments

Include a secondment only if it significantly increases the impact of your proposal

The choice therefore depends on the nature of your research

In IF 2014, one-third of submitted proposals included secondments, and one-third of main list proposals included secondments

Example: Designing Next-Generation Aircraft via High-Fidelity Computational Models (NextGen Airliners)

European Fellow at INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPACE (France) has a secondment at Airbus

"The proposed research is expected to make a lasting impact at Airbus"

Multidisciplinarity

IF 2016, award criterion Excellence: "Quality and credibility of the research/innovation project; level of novelty, appropriate consideration of inter/multidisciplinary and gender aspects"

In EF 2015, one-third of submitted proposals were multidisciplinary, and one-third of main list proposals were multidisciplinary

Panels with highest share of multidisciplinary proposals on main list (EF 2015): ENG (50%), ENV, (40%), PHY (40%)

European Research Council grants: 42% are multidisciplinary

Nature (September 2015): more than one-third of the references in scientific papers now point to other disciplines

Expected impact of IF projects

Horizon 2020 Work Programmehttp://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-msca_en.pdf

Page 13: At researcher level, increased: research and other skills,

career prospects, research/innovation output, contribution to society

At organisation level, stronger: networks, transfer of knowledge, R&I capacity

At system level: more researcher mobility, more well-trained and entrepreneurial researchers, results better communicated to society, increased attractiveness of Europe, improve the quality of research and innovation

Expected impact of the IF action overall

IF in the Horizon 2020 regulation:http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/legal_basis/fp/h2020-eu-establact_en.pdf

Nurturing excellence by means of mobility

Enhance creative and innovative potential

Opening attractive career opportunities

Enhance the innovativeness of the private sector

European Research Area (ERA) Roadmap 2015-2020:http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-1208-2015-INIT/en/pdf

ERA priority 3 - an open labour market for researchers:

"Improving inter-sectoral mobility between public and private sector research bodies in both directions and at all

career stages"

Information package for MSCA Fellows

• Information package for Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows:

• http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/documentation/publications/msca-fellows-information-package_en.pdf

• Complementary Information Note for MSCA IF Fellows:

• http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/documentation/publications/msca-if-fellows-note_en.pdf

Thanks for your attention

bodo.richter@ec.europa.eu