Education and CultureResearch Executive Agency

Research cooperation

Inter-national Mobility -Europe

Quality of Proposals

European Researchers‘ Night

Individual Fellowships - IF

For experienced researchers

European Fellowships:• Mobility within Europe / Back to Europe• To Europe from other parts of the world.

Global Fellowships• fund positions outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or

associated countries.• the researcher has to come back for one year to an organization based

in the EU or associated countries.

• All research areas

• Living, travel and family costs.

• Research proposal written jointly with the host organisation(s)

Individual Fellowships - IF

Research and Innovation StaffExchange - RISE

Develop skills while creating links between organizations

• Any nationality, any career level (from PhD preparation to experienced researchers / management)

• But engaged in or linked to research and innovation activities

• Exchanges of personnel from 1 month to 1 year

• Between academic, industrial and commercial organisations

• Throughout the world

• All research areas

• Salary top up to cover the costs

• Institutional costs

Co-Funding Programmes - COFUND

• Doctoral programmes

• Fellowship programmes

• Co-funded with:

• Government ministry / Regional authority / Funding agency

• University / Research organization / Enterprise

• All research areas

• Contribution to their living allowance and for the programme’s management costs.

• Researchers apply through Euraxess

Where to find the call information:

Marie Sklodowska Curie Website

Funding and Tenders Portal

Call Opening Closing Budget (m€)

ITN open 14/01/2020 530,13

IF 08/04/2020 09/09/2020 328

RISE 05/12/2019 28/04/2020 80

COFUND 08/04/2020 29/09/2020 100

Next H2020 calls

Novelties indicated here are under discussion and subject to change

Horizon Europe

The ambitious EU research and innovation framework programme (2021-2027)

to strengthen the EU's scientific and technological bases and the European Research Area (ERA)

to boost Europe's innovation capacity, competitiveness and jobs

to deliver on citizens' priorities and sustain our socio-economic model and values

The Commission proposes a budget of € 100 billion for Horizon Europe.

Horizon Europe: Preliminary structure

Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area

Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I systemWidening participation and spreading excellence

Pillar 1Excellent Science

European Research Council

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Research Infrastructures

Pillar 3Innovative Europe

European Innovation Council

European innovation ecosystems

European Institute of Innovation

and Technology

Pillar 2Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness

• Health• Culture, Creativity and

Inclusive Society • Civil Security for Society• Digital, Industry and Space• Climate, Energy and Mobility• Food, Bioeconomy, Natural

Resources, Agriculture and Environment

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Excellent Science (Pillar 1): reinforcing and extending the excellence of the Union’s science base

The MSCA in Horizon Europe

• Overall: evolution not revolution

• Investing in the people behind R&I, delivering talent and

improving careers

• Bottom-up, competition-based research programme

• Creating impact on researchers, institutions, systems

1. MSCA Doctorates networks training doctoral candidates2. MSCA Postdocs postdoctoral researchers3. MSCA Staff Exchanges any type of research(-related) staff4. MSCA COFUND co-funding training programmes5. MSCA and Citizens public outreach events

Evolution in the MSCA’s implementation

• Streamlined actions, clearer identity

• Simpler rules, fine-tuned definitions, harmonised conditions

• Demand management to maintain high-quality and attractiveness

• Strengthen structuring effects on host institutions

• More guidance on supervision and exposure beyond academia

• Improved internal coherence & reinforced external synergies

Novelties shown are possible solutions to respond to weaknesses in the current MSCA programme and are subject of discussion

1. MSCA Doctorates

• MSCA will continue to support doctoral candidates and programmes

• Integrating objectives of 3 sub-actions into a single action

• Incentives for industrial or joint doctorates

• Pre-agreement for joint degrees required

• Manage demand, improve success rates

• Reduce #fellow-months/project – restrict resubmissions below quality threshold

Novelties shown are possible solutions to respond to weaknesses in the current MSCA programme and are subject of discussion

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