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Prof Paul Harrison Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation 4th February 2015

Opportunities for Research Horizon 2020

Key Points from Research Strategy

• Nurture our internationally excellent and world-leading research

• Engagement: Take benefits of our R&I to

our teaching, scholarship and other activities, to our students and the wider

community

• Culture of ambition and excellence: support the development of our researchers

• Partnerships: Maintain and further develop

Research Vision

• Research is part of our mission

• Intellectual and scholarly atmosphere in

which to work and study

• Research staff integrated into combined

research & teaching academic

departments

• Research-led/informed teaching

• Impact on the student experience

What we've done this year

• Strategic Research Investment Fund

• VC’s PhD Scholarships

• Increased research support in RIO

• Developing International Research

Collaborations Fund

• Career progression for researchers

• Managing Directors’ Club

REF 2014 Success

REF Results

• Ranked 5th out of Modern HEIs for quality

• 65% of our research is internationally excellent or world leading

• 72% of our research impact is internationally excellent or world leading - European funding underpinned three of our REF impact case studies

HIPIMS

Concrete

Infrastructure

GMPR 3D

Technologies

European Success

SHU grant income for 2013/4 - £'000

614

672

3,489

455

2,842

320

UK Research Council

UK Based Charities

UK Central Gov/LEA/Health

UK Industry/Commerce

EU Government Bodies

Other EU/Overseas

2013/14 - Total Research Income - £8,521,000

European Research Portfolio

• The University has a strong

portfolio of European projects

across a range of

programmes

• 23 live projects:

• 19 in ACES

• 3 in D&S

• 1 in H&W

• £7.7 million awarded in FP7

Growing External Research Income (GERI)

• Clear-day

• Red-weeks and sabbaticals

• Developing International Research

Collaborations (DIRC)

• Imagine

• Research Support Team

• Target of 10% year-on-year growth

in research & KT income

Take Home Message

• H2020 is the largest funding programme for research and

innovation in the world

• H2020 offers a platform to engage with research and

business partners across Europe and internationalise our

research

• SHU participated in 27 projects across FP7, producing

significant research outputs and impact - opportunities in all

areas of H2020

• Important to build on national and regional strengths /

networks

• Dedicated H2020 support in RIO

• 2 Successful H2020 applications - projects due to start late

Spring

• DIRC: https://staff.shu.ac.uk/enterprise/research/DIRC.asp

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A short introduction

• UK-based organisations have been awarded €6.6 billion of FP7 funding, (the second highest share by country, after Germany), equivalent to 13% of the programme’s overall budget.

• Academic organisations were awarded 67% of this share and around 13% went to SMEs.

• 16 723 UK organisations were involved in more than 8000 funded projects with the country’s success rate (22,7%) higher than the EU average (20,5%).

• The highest number of European Research Council grants went to the UK, with around 960 grants based at more than 80 host institutions.

• 573 ERC grantees from the UK received more than €1 billion in grants while 983 MSCA Fellows benefitted from EU contribution of €684 million.

Data collected by March 2014

� The European Union’s funding instrument for research and innovation from 2014-2020

• Budget of EUR 70.2 billion• From research to innovation – from basic research to bringing ideas to

the market• Focus on societal challenges EU society is facing (e.g. health, clean

energy, food security, integrated transport)• Concentration of resources on areas of high growth and innovation

potential• Provides key measures to support industrial leadership, particularly

innovative SMEs• Significant investment in excellence

� Horizon 2020 overarching priority:

Exiting the economic crisis through sustainable growth

� Response to Calls;

� In the first six months of Horizon 2020, more than 16,000

proposals were submitted, with a success rate lower than

FP7 of around 14%.

� The types of actions with the lowest success rates were:

Research and Innovation (10%); Marie Skłodowska-

Curie (15%) and Innovation Actions (14%).

� Some calls have recorded stable or even lower numbers

of proposals submitted, for example in Leading and

Enabling Industrial Technologies (LEITs) -Space.

� ERC Starting Grants flattening off in proposal numbers

� Feedback to Applicants and Implementation;

� There have been some concerns over the fact that experts no longer make recommendations.

� TTG “5+3 months”

� With regard to the Evaluation Summary Report (ESR) produced for each proposal, concern was raised regarding the different levels of feedback provided to applicants, in stage-one of two-stage calls.

� Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH);

� On average 37% of the topics in the Societal Challenges, LEITs, Science with and for Society, Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation, and Research Infrastructures combined had been flagged by the Commission as SSH-relevant in the 2014 and 2015 calls. In addition, within the Societal Challenge inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, 80% of topics are flagged for SSH.

� Evaluators

� Currently, 11% of the budget of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions and 17% of the European Research Council (ERC) budget is dedicated to SSH.

Excellent

Science

European Research

Council (ERC)

Future and Emerging

Technologies (FET)

Marie Skłodowska-

Curie Actions (MSCA)

Research

Infrastructures

Industrial

Leadership

Leadership in

Enabling and

Industrial

Technologies (LEIT) -

ICT, KETs, Space

Access to Risk Finance

Innovation in SMEs

Societal

Challenges

Health and Wellbeing

Food security

Energy

Transport

Climate action

Societies

Security

Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation, Science with and for Society, Fast Track

to Innovation

European Institute of

Innovation and Technology

(EIT)

Joint Research Centre

(JRC)EURATOM

Research & Innovation

Actions/

Innovation Actions

‘Traditional’ multi-national, multi-partner collaborative

projects.

Coordination and Support

Actions‘Traditional’ multi-national, multi-partner support actions

SME Instrument SMEs only – research can be subcontracted to HEIs

Fast track to innovation

instrument

Pilot in 2015. No more than 5 partners, bottom-up,

collaborative

ERA-NET Cofund

Research programmes run by network of national

funders in specific field part funded by EU from Horizon

2020. Issue research calls on their own funding regimes

Prizes All or nothing specific competitive calls – content varies

PCP: Pre-contractual

procurement

Public sector buys R&D to steer development of

solutions to its needs

PPI: Public procurement of

innovative solutions

Public sector acts as launching customer / early adopter

/ first buyer for innovative products and services

plus ERC frontier research actionsand training and mobility actions

� Description: “Action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution […]”

� Multi-beneficiary: minimum three legal entities each of which established in a different Member State or associated country

� Respond to challenges set in the Societal Challenges or Industrial Leadership pillars; bottom-up in FET Open (directed in FET Proactive)

� Description: “Action primarily consisting of activities directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. For this purpose they may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication […]”

� Multi-beneficiary: minimum three legal entities each of which established in a different Member State or associated country

� Respond to challenges set in the Societal Challenges or Industrial Leadership pillars

� Description: “Action consisting primarily of accompanying measures such as standardisation, dissemination, awareness-raising and communication, networking, coordination or support services, policy dialogues and mutual learning exercises and studies, including design studies for new infrastructure”

� Mono or Multi-beneficiary: minimum one legal entity established in a Member State or Associated Country

� Respond to direction given in the Societal Challenges or Industrial Leadership pillars, and in FET

� Total budget = €21.6 billion

� Brings the four programmes together for first time

� New Committee structure: one Programme Committee for ERC / MSCA / FET; one for RI

� Integration under one pillar should bring greater cohesion

� Overall objective: “to strengthen the excellence of European research.”

Excellent Science

European Research Council (ERC)

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Research Infrastructures

� The ERC seeks to fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals submitted by excellent researchers, with excellence as the singlepeer review criterion.

� Will fund projects led by a Principal Investigator, if necessary supported by a team (no need for pan-European collaboration).

� Will operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis, without pre-determined research priorities. 25 panels in 3 domains which proposals can be submitted to:

� Physical Sciences and Engineering

� Life Sciences

� Social Sciences and Humanities

Pillar 1 – Excellent Science

� Operates in a ‘bottom-up’ basis, open to all research and innovation areas

� Mobility is a key requirement

� Key areas supported:• Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of

researchers

• Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

• Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of knowledge

• Co-funding of activities


� Expanded from ICT

� New actor in S&T funding landscape:• Promote and support emergence of radically new technologies

• Initiate and shape development of European research and innovation eco-systems

• Turn Europe into the best environment for responsible and dynamic multi-disciplinary collaborations on future and emerging technologies

FET Open

Exploring Novel Ideas

•Individual research projects

•Early ideas

•Mostly Research & Innovation

actions, some Coordination and

support activities

FET Proactive

Developing topics & communities

•Topical clusters of research

projects

•Global Systems Science (GSS)

•Knowing, doing being: cognition

beyond problem solving

•Quantum Simulation

•Towards exascale high-

performance computing

(implementing part of the HPC

strategy)

FET Flagships

Addressing grand challenges

•Common research agendas

•Graphene

•Human Brain

•Support to Flagships

Open, light and agile Roadmap based research


Leadership in Enabling and Industrial

Technologies (LEIT) -ICT, KETs, Space


Innovation in SMEs

Industrial Leadership

� Emphasis on combining enabling technologies to find

solutions for societal challenges – particularly energy efficiency targets, sustainability and climate change objectives

� Cross-cutting themes:• Integration of technologies

• Demonstration of capacity to make and deliver innovative products and services

• User and customer pilots to prove feasibility and added value

Pillar 2 – Industrial Leadership

Energy Challenge

Health Challenge

Food Challenge

IIRChallenge

TransportChallenge

Climate Challenge

SecurityChallenge

Pillar 3 – Societal Challenges

� Introduction: context, aims, focus areas, horizontal themes

� 18 sections: self contained, objectives, calls, topics• Complemented by ERC and Euratom work programmes

� Topics: challenge, scope and expected impacts

� General annexes: support information – eg eligibility criteria / funding rates

� One funding regime – 100% + 25% indirects

� One application process

� One easy access source of information

� Strong partnership with Member States

• Push to maximise impact / minimise overlap of all funding available in Europe

� Strong push to leverage private investment

� State any specific requirements: e.g. international component, involvement of SME/other stakeholder, use of specific data source (eg GMES), open access/open data pilot

� Suggest budget required to do the action• E.g. “The Commission considers that proposals requesting a

contribution from the EU of between EUR 3 and 5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts”.

� State type of action� Explain any unusual evaluation criteria� Say whether it is a one or two-stage application

process

� Main entry point for EU research and innovation funding• Info on calls (including updates)

• Proposal submission via Participant Portal

• Will also be used for grant preparation, project management, evaluators, reference documentation…

• Reference documents (Work Programmes, MGA, Annotated MGA, proposal templates, etc.)

• Support and guidance (Online Manual, FAQ, Helpdesk)

� New features include: • Simpler and more user-friendly presentation of calls

• Improved search function (including keywords) for specific calls and topics

• ‘Context-related’ presentation of call documents

� Allows for updated proposals to be submitted at any time prior to the deadline

Funding Opportunities

By call

Search

• Existing contacts

• FP7 Projects

• http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html

• EU conferences (including events on the calls) and project evaluation

• Networks of Excellence

• European Technology Platforms http://cordis.europa.eu/technology-platforms

• Commission websites including Participant Portal

• Partner searches:

• NCPs

• CORDIS

• Enterprise Europe Network

• Social Media? (Linked-in etc)

Participation and Financial

� Minimum conditions:• For Research and innovation actions/Innovation actions:

3 legal entities established in different Member States/Associated Countries

• For ERC, SME instrument, CSAs and training and mobility actions: 1 legal entity (in MS/AC)

� Additional conditions may be set out in work

programme/plan

� Automatically eligible:• Any legal entity in Member State/Associated Country

• International European interest organisation

• Legal entity in third country identified in the work programme

� Others if:• Funding explicitly foreseen in call text

• Provided for under bilateral agreement between Union and

third country/international organisation (e.g. bilateral in Health)

• Participation deemed essential for carrying out the action by

the Commission or the relevant funding body

� Legal entities established in:• EU Member States or linked Overseas Countries and Territories

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

• Associated Countries (similar list to FP7 expected)Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands*, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland**, Turkey

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en.pdf (see link for full details, as at 26 February 2014)

• Third countries (funding will depend on income status)List of eligible third countries in Horizon 2020 ‘General Annexes’: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2014_2015/annexes/h2020-wp1415-annex-ga_en.pdf

NB: BRIC + Mexico no longer automatically eligible for funding

� International organisations, the majority of whose members are Member States or Associated Countries, and whose principal objective is to promote scientific and technological cooperation in Europe

� Experts read the proposal and evaluate against the evaluation criteria:• without discussing with others• as submitted, not on potential if certain changes were to be

made

� Excess pages marked with a watermark (experts instructed to disregard).

� Check degree to which proposal is relevant to call/topic

� Experts complete Individual Evaluation Report (IER)• Give view on operational capacity• Give comments and scores for all evaluation criteria• Do not recommend substantial modifications

� Panel will review all the proposals within a call, or part of a call to:• ensure consensus groups have been consistent in their evaluations• if necessary, propose new set of marks or comments• resolve cases where a minority view was recorded in consensus report

� Panel report includes ‘Evaluation Summary Report’ (ESR) for each proposal and ‘Panel ranked list’

� If necessary, priority order for proposals with same score• Highest priority to proposals addressing topics not otherwise covered by

more highly-ranked proposals• Highest excellence score*; then highest impact score*; then size of

budget for SMEs; then gender balance in project team

* For Innovation actions, this order is reversed

A different approach

� Challenge-based, aims to allow freedom to come

up with innovative solutions

� Fewer topics but broader, less prescriptive topics

� Cross-cutting issues embedded (e.g. social

sciences, gender, INCO)

� Simplified presentation (“common look and feel”)

� Aim to be relevant to wider range of participants

and to provide easy access to newcomers

� Two-year work programmes for 2014-15

� Harmonised structure across all EC Directorate-

Generals

� Strategic Programme defines overall focus areas

� Topics structure: “Specific challenge”, “Scope”,

“Expected Impact”

Excellent

Science

European Research

Council (ERC)

Future and Emerging

Technologies (FET)

Marie Skłodowska-

Curie Actions (MSCA)

Research

Infrastructures

Industrial

Leadership

Leadership in

Enabling and

Industrial


ICT, KETs, Space


Innovation in SMEs

Societal

Challenges


Food security

Energy

Transport

Climate action

Societies

Security

Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation, Science with and for Society, Fast Track

to Innovation

European Institute of

Innovation and Technology

(EIT)

Joint Research Centre

(JRC)EURATOM

• The UK was the most successful country in applying to the ERC in FP7:

Over 880 grants based in around 85 different

UK institutions

Around 15% success rate for proposals submitted by UK

institutions (about 11% average overall)

Around 20% of all ERC grants based in the UK

Slightly higher success rates for Advanced Grants – normally

around 12% to 13%

• See here for the details of funded projects: http://erc.europa.eu/erc-funded-projects

� The ERC seeks to fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals submitted by excellent researchers, with excellence as the single peer review criterion.

� Will fund projects led by a Principal Investigator, if necessary supported by a team (no need for pan-European collaboration).

� Will operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis, without pre-determined research priorities. 25 panels in 3 domains which proposals can be submitted to:

� Physical Sciences and Engineering� Life Sciences� Social Sciences and Humanities

� ERC allocated around €12.7 billion for Horizon 2020 (compares to the allocation of €7.5 billion for FP7). Highest amount of funding to go to the Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants schemes.

� But due to the progressive increases in the annual ERC budget until 2013, budget allocations won’t exceed 2013 levels until 2016 calls.

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Starting GrantsStarting GrantsStarting GrantsStarting Grants (for PIs 2-7 years since PhD, up to €2 million for 5 years)

Consolidator Grants Consolidator Grants Consolidator Grants Consolidator Grants (for PIs 7-12 years since PhD, up to €2.75 million for

5 years)

AdvancedAdvancedAdvancedAdvanced Grants Grants Grants Grants (for leading researchers, up to €3.5 million for 5 years)

Synergy Grants Synergy Grants Synergy Grants Synergy Grants (for 2 to 4 PIs, up to €15 million for 6 years) – no call in 2015

ProofProofProofProof of Conceptof Conceptof Conceptof Concept (for ERC grant holders only, up to €150,000 for 18 months)

� Central to the grant and review criteria

� Must have the potential to be a future independent research leader in their own right…

� Has the power to assemble a research group of team members & freedom to chose the research topic

� Expected to lead their team and be fully engaged in the running of the grant

� Can be of any age, nationality or current location

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Starting Grants and Consolidator GrantsStarting Grants and Consolidator GrantsStarting Grants and Consolidator GrantsStarting Grants and Consolidator Grants

• The ERC panel will evaluate the PI’s “intellectual capacity, creativity and commitment”. This includes:

• ability to propose and conduct ground-breaking research and achievements going beyond the state-of-the-art.

• abundant evidence of creative independent thinking.

• the ERC grant would contribute significantly to the establishment and/or further consolidation of the PI's independence.

• commitment to the project (minimum 50% of the PI’s total working time for StG, 40% for CoG).

* please note that this is the wording from the 2013 ERC calls* please note that this is the wording from the 2013 ERC calls* please note that this is the wording from the 2013 ERC calls* please note that this is the wording from the 2013 ERC calls

Starting GrantsStarting GrantsStarting GrantsStarting Grants

Who is a competitive candidate?

Must be able to show potential for excellence and evidence of maturity:

• expectation for at least one important publication without the participation of the PhD supervisor

• promising track record of early achievements appropriate to field and career stage, including:

• significant publications (as main author) in major international peer-reviewed journals

• and/or monographs• invited presentations, granted patents, awards, prizes etc

• good leadership potential and must convince the ERC panel that the PI will be able to lead an ambitious ‘frontier research’ project

Consolidator GrantsConsolidator GrantsConsolidator GrantsConsolidator Grants


Must be able to show potential for excellence and evidence of maturity:

• it is expected that applicants will have produced at least several important publications without the participation of their PhD supervisor

• promising track record of early achievements appropriate to field and career stage, including:

• significant publications (as main author) in major international peer-reviewed major scientific journals

• and/or monographs• invited presentations, granted patents, awards, prizes etc

• good leadership potential and must convince the ERC panel that you will be able to lead an ambitious ‘frontier research’ project

Advanced GrantsAdvanced GrantsAdvanced GrantsAdvanced Grants

• Aims to support excellent, leading researchers to pursue groundbreaking research which opens up new directions in the field of their choice.

• Aims to “encourage substantial advances at the frontier of knowledge; as well as new productive lines of enquiry, methods and techniques”.

• No eligibility requirement concerning a PhD, but the PI must have an excellent track record of research achievements during the last 10 years.

Advanced GrantsAdvanced GrantsAdvanced GrantsAdvanced Grants


• track track track track record of significant achievements in last 10 record of significant achievements in last 10 record of significant achievements in last 10 record of significant achievements in last 10 years:years:years:years:• 10 publications (as senior author) in major international

journals • or 3 major research monographs

• iiiif f f f appropriate to appropriate to appropriate to appropriate to the the the the research field, research field, research field, research field, also: also: also: also: • granted patents • invited presentations• led expeditions• organised international conferences • international recognition (awards, prizes)• contributions to launching the careers of outstanding

researchers

•an “exceptional leader in terms of originality and significance of research contribution, with international recognition”

* please note that this the wording from the 2013 ERC calls* please note that this the wording from the 2013 ERC calls* please note that this the wording from the 2013 ERC calls* please note that this the wording from the 2013 ERC calls

Proposals evaluated solely on the basis of excellence (excellence of the PI and of the research project), and should address:

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• To what extent does the proposed research address important challenges?

• To what extent are the objectives ambitious and beyond the state of the art?

• How much is the proposed research high risk/high gain?• To what extent is the outlined scientific approach feasible?

• To what extent is the proposed research methodology appropriate to achieve the goals of the project?

• To what extent does the proposal involve developing novel methodology?

• To what extent are the proposed timescales and resources necessary and properly justified?

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Step 1 (Part B1 of proposal)

• A. is of sufficient quality to pass to Step 2 of the evaluation;

• B. is of high quality but not sufficient to pass to Step 2 of the

evaluation; and

• C. is not of sufficient quality to pass to Step 2 of the

evaluation.

Applicants scoring B or C told the ranking range of their proposal out

of those evaluated by the panel

Step 2 (full proposal)

• A. fully meets the ERC's excellence criterion and is

recommended for funding if sufficient funds are available;

and

• B. meets some but not all elements of the ERC's excellence

criterion and will not be funded.

• Panels may review the level of the requested budget and suggest

adjustments

• Applicants told the ranking range of their proposal out of the

proposals evaluated by the panel

� All PIs whose proposals are retained for Step 2 of the peer review process will be interviewed by the peer review panel

� Takes place in Brussels (travel costs reimbursed), and must attend in person

• except in exceptional cases (i.e. pregnancy, immobility due to illness, out in

research fieldwork) video or telephone interview can be arranged

� Interview lasts approximately 30 minutes (depending on panel)

• Start with a presentation by the PI on the outline of the research project

• Followed by a question and answer session

� Not formally weighted, but the panel will take into account the results of the interview alongside the individual reviews.

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First Stage

A – 20% (through to Stage 2)

B – 45% (don’t get through, can’t apply in 2015)

C – 35% (don’t get through, can’t apply in 2015 OR 2016)

Second Stage (% given out of those that pass stage 1)

A and on funding list – 40%

A and on reserve list – 5% (no resubmission restrictions)

A and not on funding / reserve list – 20% (no

resubmission restrictions)

B – 35% (can’t apply in 2015)

2015 Calls2015 Calls2015 Calls2015 Calls StGStGStGStG CoGCoGCoGCoG AdGAdGAdGAdG PoCPoCPoCPoC

Published 7 Oct 2014 13 Nov 2014 10 Feb 2015 7 Nov 2014

Deadline 3 Feb 2015 12 Mar 2015 2 June 2015

5 Feb 2015, 28 May 2015, 1 Oct 2015

Budget EUR 430m (c. 330grants)

EUR 585m (c. 330 grants

EUR 630m (c. 280 grants)

EUR 15m

� UKRO subscriber web pages on the ERC:

http://www.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber/fp7/erc/Pages/index.aspx

� ERC website:

http://erc.europa.eu/

� EU’s Cordis website for summaries of funded projects:

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html

� UKRO UK ERC National Contact Point helpdesk:

http://www.ukro.ac.uk/erc/Pages/helpdesk.aspx

Victoria Hayward

UK Research Office

[email protected]

Excellent

Science

European Research

Council (ERC)

Future and Emerging

Technologies (FET)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Actions (MSCA)

Research Infrastructures

Industrial

Leadership

Leadership in Enabling

and Industrial


ICT, Key Enabling

Technologies, Space


Innovation in SMEs

Societal

Challenges


Food security

Transport

Energy

Climate action

Societies

Security

Widening Participation; Science with and for Society

European Institute of Innovation

and Technology (EIT)Joint Research Centre (JRC)EURATOM

FP7FP7FP7FP7 Horizon 2020Horizon 2020Horizon 2020Horizon 2020

ITN ITNITNITNITNInnovative Training Networks

(Early Stage Researchers)

IEF

IFIFIFIFIndividual Fellowships(Experienced Researchers)

IOF

IIF

CIG

IAPPRISERISERISERISE

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

(Exchange of Staff)IRSES

COFUND COFUNDCOFUNDCOFUNDCOFUNDCofunding or regional, national and

international programmes

Early Stage

Researcher

(ESR)

At the time of recruitment (ITN) or secondment (RISE) by the host

organisation, be in the first 4 years (full-time research experience) of their

research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree

Experienced

Researcher

(ER)

At the time of the call deadline (IF) or secondment (RISE) by the host

organisation, be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least 4 years

of full-time equivalent research experience

Academic

sector

Includes universities (public and private), higher education institutions

(public and private), non-profit research institutions (public and private),

research foundations, research institutions associated to foundations,

international European interest organisations

Non-

academic

sector

Includes any socio-economic actor not included in the academic sector

‘Standard’ mobility ‘Standard’ mobility ‘Standard’ mobility ‘Standard’ mobility

ruleruleruleruleAt the time of the relevant deadline for submission of proposals, or

recruitment/secondment by the host organisation, depending on the action,

researchers shall not have resided or carried out their main activity (work,

studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 12 12 12

months in the 3 years immediately prior months in the 3 years immediately prior months in the 3 years immediately prior months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date.

RISE specificRISE specificRISE specificRISE specific Secondments in RISE are notnotnotnot subject to the mobility rules.

‘Career ‘Career ‘Career ‘Career

Reintegration‘ and Reintegration‘ and Reintegration‘ and Reintegration‘ and

‘Career Restart’ ‘Career Restart’ ‘Career Restart’ ‘Career Restart’

rule in Individual rule in Individual rule in Individual rule in Individual

FellowshipsFellowshipsFellowshipsFellowships

Researchers shall not have resided or carried out their main activity in the

country of their host organisation for more than 3 years in the 5 years more than 3 years in the 5 years more than 3 years in the 5 years more than 3 years in the 5 years

immediately prior to the immediately prior to the immediately prior to the immediately prior to the relevant deadline for submission of proposals.

No restrictions on nationality!

Cofunding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)COFUND aims to stimulate regional, national and international programmes to foster excellence in international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary researcher training, mobility and career development through the co-funding of new or existing programmes. Support is for the part-funding of multi annual doctoral or fellowship programmes run at regional, national or international level.

COFUND

http://www.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber/Pages/140725_msca_cofund_map.aspx

Education

and Culture

COFUND –Funding model

� Minimum amounts for monthly

living + mobility allowances:

• ESR: € 2597

• ER: € 3675

� Other cost items may be funded

through other resources

(including ESIF funds)

Cost itemTotal cost [€ per person-month]

EU contribution [€ per person-month]

Living allowance 4800 2625

Mobility allowance

500

Research costs 500

Management costs

600 325

Indirect costs 600

Total 7000 2950

Example (Fellowship programme – ER)

� EU contribution to living allowance for contracts with full social security:

• Early stage researchers (ESR): € 1855 per person-month

• Experienced researchers (ER): € 2625 per person-month

� EU contribution to management costs: € 325 per person-month

€ 3675 <

Next call opens 14th April 2015 –

Deadline 1st

October 2015

� Mobility rule for the Career re-start and Reintegration panels “researchers shall not have

resided or carried out their main activity in the country of their host organisation for more than

3 years in the 5 years immediately prior to the relevant deadline”

� Career Restart applicants must not have been research active in the 12 months preceding the

deadline.

European Fellowships

•12-24 months

•From any country to MS/AC

•Host country is subject to the

MSCA mobility rule

•Separate multi-disciplinary panels

for Career re-start and

Reintegration

•(Reintegration Fellowship only)

mobility to Europe, researcher

must have been previously active

in Europe for at least 5

consecutive years

Global Fellowships

•12-24 months plus 12 month

return phase

•Secondment from MS/AC to third

country

•Mandatory 12 month return phase

in Europe (not subject to mobility

rule)

Researcher unit cost [person/month]Researcher unit cost [person/month]Researcher unit cost [person/month]Researcher unit cost [person/month] Institutional unit costInstitutional unit costInstitutional unit costInstitutional unit cost[person/month][person/month][person/month][person/month]

Scheme Living allowance*

Mobility allowance Family allowance

Research,training and networking costs

Management and overheads

IF 4650 600 500 800 650

� * A correction co-efficient will apply to these costs (see MSCA Work Programme table

4)

� Differences to FP7

FP7FP7FP7FP7 2013 WP 2013 WP 2013 WP 2013 WP Person/monthPerson/monthPerson/monthPerson/month

Horizon 2020 2014/15Horizon 2020 2014/15Horizon 2020 2014/15Horizon 2020 2014/15 WPWPWPWPPerson/monthPerson/monthPerson/monthPerson/month

ResearcherResearcherResearcherResearcher allowancesallowancesallowancesallowances

LivingLivingLivingLiving allowanceallowanceallowanceallowanceERsERs over 10 years

€4875*€7292*

€4650*Abolished

UK Country coefficientUK Country coefficientUK Country coefficientUK Country coefficient 134.4% 120.3%

Mobility allowanceMobility allowanceMobility allowanceMobility allowanceSingleFamily

€700*€1000*

€600 for all participants

Family allowanceFamily allowanceFamily allowanceFamily allowance €500 if applicable

Institutional allowancesInstitutional allowancesInstitutional allowancesInstitutional allowances

Research, training and Research, training and Research, training and Research, training and networkingnetworkingnetworkingnetworkingIF

€800 €800

IF overheadsIF overheadsIF overheadsIF overheads €700* €650

*Country co-efficient applied

� Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) – Aug 2013• 4,939 proposals received• Success rate: 12.4%• UK success rate: 16%• UK host for 226 fellowships (out of 614 funded)

� International Incoming Fellowships (IIF) – Aug 2013• 1,959 proposals received• Success rate: 9.4%%• UK success rate: 12.2%• UK host for 78 fellowships (out of 184 funded)

� International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) – Aug 2013• 1,225 proposals received• Success rate: 12.4%• UK success rate: 22.2%• UK return host for 36 fellowships (out of 152 funded)

2014 results out this month2014 results out this month2014 results out this month2014 results out this month–––– UK hosts submitted highest number with UK hosts submitted highest number with UK hosts submitted highest number with UK hosts submitted highest number with 1753 (23% of total)1753 (23% of total)1753 (23% of total)1753 (23% of total)

Publication date 12 March 2014 12 March 2015

Deadline 11 September 2014 CLOSED

10 September 2015

Budget EUR 240.5 million

(EUR 211.5 million for European Fellowships)(EUR 29 million for Global Fellowships)

EUR 213 million

(EUR 186 million for European Fellowships(EUR 27 million for Global Fellowships)

Duration European 12-24 monthsGlobal 24-36 months

European 12-24 monthsGlobal 24-36 months

� “Aim to promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa) for the advancement of science and development of innovation”

� Should involve institutions from the academic and non-academic sectors (particularly SMEs) based in MS/AC and/or third countries

� Development of partnerships in the form of joint research and innovation activities between the participants

� Knowledge sharing via international and/or inter-sector mobility through two way secondments of staff with built-in return mechanism – no recruitment of new staff!

• Exchanges between MS/AC only: secondments must be inter-sectoral

• Exchanges between MS/AC and third countries: secondments can be same sector and/or intersectoral

� Early-Stage Researchers (ESR), Experienced Researchers (ER) + managerial, technical, administrative staff supporting the research and innovation activities of the project

� Have been actively engaged in or linked to research and/or innovation activities at the sending institution for at least 6 months (full-time equivalent) prior to the first period of secondment

� After the secondment period(s), the exchanged staff members should be reintegrated again into the sending organisation

� At least 3 independent participants in 3 different

countries

� At least 2 participants from 2 different MS/AC

� If all in MS/AC: at least 1 academic and 1 non-

academic

RISERISERISERISE

TC

MS/ACMS/AC

RISERISERISERISE

MS/ACMS/ACMS/ACMS/AC

MS/AC

Non-

Academic

MS/AC

Academic


Scheme Staff member unit costTop-up allowanceperson/month



RISE 2000 1800 700

• Funding based fully on unit costs, multiplied by requested person months spent on secondments

• Automated calculation of budget when secondment months filled into application

• Institutional costs can be moved between beneficiaries and redistributed to partners (needs to be agreed in the Consortium Agreement)

• No detailed financial reporting but need to report on completed secondment months

� Excellence

• Quality, innovative aspects and credibility of the research, including inter/multidisciplinary aspects

• Clarity and quality of knowledge sharing among the participants in light of the research and innovation objectives

• Quality of the interaction between the participating organisations

RISE 2014 Success Rates

� Publication date: 06 January 2015

� Call deadline: 28 April 2015 (17:00 Brussels time!)

Research and Research and Research and Research and Innovation Staff Innovation Staff Innovation Staff Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE): Exchange (RISE): Exchange (RISE): Exchange (RISE): Information Information Information Information EventEventEventEventThursday, 22 January Thursday, 22 January Thursday, 22 January Thursday, 22 January 2015201520152015

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http://www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie/events/Pages/ise.aspx

� Major differences compared to FP7• Participants defined as ‘academic’ and ‘non-academic’

• Early stage researchers (ESRs) only

• The Innovative Doctoral Programme strand moved to the COFUND scheme

� The ITN scheme consists of 3 strands

European Training European Training European Training European Training

NetworksNetworksNetworksNetworks (minimum of 3

participants)

European Joint DoctoratesEuropean Joint DoctoratesEuropean Joint DoctoratesEuropean Joint Doctorates

(at least 3 academic

participants who can

deliver a doctoral degree)

European Industrial European Industrial European Industrial European Industrial

DoctoratesDoctoratesDoctoratesDoctorates (1 academic

participant and 1 non-

academic participant)

European Training Networks

•At least three beneficiaries

from different MS/AC

•Doctoral programme

enrolment optional

•Maximum 540 researcher-

months

European Joint Doctorates

•At least three beneficiaries

from different MS/AC


enrolment mandatory

•Joint governance, admission,

selection, supervision,

monitoring and assessment

mandatory

•Award of joint, double or

multiple doctoral degree

mandatory

•Maximum 540 researcher-

months

European Industrial

Doctorates

•At least one academic and

one non-academic partner

(primarily enterprises)


enrolment mandatory

•Joint governance, admission,

selection, supervision,

monitoring and assessment

mandatory

•With 2 partners, the

maximum is 180 researcher-

months

•With 3+ partners the

maximum is 540 researcher

months.


Scheme Living allowance*

Mobility allowance Family allowance



ITN 3110 600 500 1800 1200

� * A correction co-efficient will apply to these costs (see MSCA Work Programme table

4)

� Differences to FP7

FP7FP7FP7FP7 2013 WP 2013 WP 2013 WP 2013 WP Person/monthPerson/monthPerson/monthPerson/month

Horizon 2020 2014/15Horizon 2020 2014/15Horizon 2020 2014/15Horizon 2020 2014/15 WPWPWPWPPerson/monthPerson/monthPerson/monthPerson/month

ResearcherResearcherResearcherResearcher allowancesallowancesallowancesallowances

LivingLivingLivingLiving allowanceallowanceallowanceallowanceESRs €3167* €3110*

UK Country coefficientUK Country coefficientUK Country coefficientUK Country coefficient 134.4% 120.3%

Mobility allowanceMobility allowanceMobility allowanceMobility allowanceSingleFamily

€700*€1000*

€600 for all participants

Family allowanceFamily allowanceFamily allowanceFamily allowance €500 if applicable

Institutional allowancesInstitutional allowancesInstitutional allowancesInstitutional allowances

Research, training and Research, training and Research, training and Research, training and networkingnetworkingnetworkingnetworkingITN (multi)ITN (EID)

€1800€1200

All ITNs €1800

ITNITNITNITN managementmanagementmanagementmanagement 10%Replaced by management/indirects of €1200

ITN overheadsITN overheadsITN overheadsITN overheads 10%

*Country co-efficient applied

Evaluated

proposals

Retain List

ThresholdReserve List

Threshold

Success

Rate

LIF 93.2 92 9.2%

ENG 92.6 92 9.6%

PHY 93.8 92.4 8.8%

CHE 91.6 91 10.3%

ENV 91 90.6 9.5%

SOC 94.8 93.2 9.2%

MAT 90 87.4 6.3%

ECO 95 84.2 9.1%

EID 87 86 18.8%

EJD 85.2 83.8 15.4%

Average 10.62%

Publication date

11 December 2013 2 September 2014

Deadline 9 April 2014 (closed) 13 January 2015 (closed)

Budget EUR 405.18 million

(EUR 349.68 million for ETNs)(EUR 25.5 million for EIDs)(EUR 30 million for EJDs)

EUR 370 million

(EUR 317 million for ETNs)

(EUR 25 million for EIDs)(EUR 28 million for EJDs)

Duration 4 years 4 yearsUK NCP Helpdesk: ITN Info events: October 2014:

www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie

� UKRO Subscriber factsheet on Marie Curie Actionswww.ukro.ac.uk/subscriber/funding/excellent_science/Documents/140717_factsheet_msca.pdf

� Commission’s Marie Curie Actions websites ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions and ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions

� UK NCP HelpdeskEmail: [email protected]: + 32 2 230 0318Website: www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie