Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Your research career in Europe

"Destination Europe"

Canada, 8-10 September 2014

What are the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions?

A European Union funded programme for structuring researcher

training, mobility and career development

Objectives

Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital

to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation

Budget 2014-2020: € 6.162 billion (≈ CAD 8.8 billion)

What do the MSCA offer you?

• Prestigious career opportunities

• Excellent working conditions: employment contracts, full social security etc.

• Very competitive salaries

• Opportunities to work and train with the best researchers in Europe and worldwide

• Whole career training: complementary skills

• Access to top level conferences, professional associations & Marie Curie Alumni

Who, what and where?

• Who: All levels of research experience from PhD researcher upwards – there are actions for different levels of experience.

• What: All areas of research are supported: bottom-up approach

• Where: Anywhere: any research performing organisation, public or private worldwide - there are actions for European and international mobility.

As a researcher I want to…

Undertake a project in Europe

Spend my time at leading labs in Europe

Be part of a well-established and prestigious programme

Benefit from good working conditions

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Why?

I want to…

Work with businesses

Be part of a short-term exchange

Bring a researcher from Europe at no cost to my employer

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Why?

Excellence

Research

Training

Innovation

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital

Knowledge Skills

> € 6.1 billion in 2014-2020

(> $ 8.4 billion)

Mobility

Why?

Mobility to …

28 EU Member

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 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Associated Countries

Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina,

Faroe Islands, FYROM, Island,

Israel, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia,

Turkey

Where?

# Projects: more than 140

# Participating organisations: more than 145

# Participations in the International Research Staff Exchange Schemes (IRSES): 52 organisations, 243 CA and 534 EU IRSES secondments/months

175 270

How many? (FP7)

Innovative Training Networks

ITN early-stage researchers (< 4 years)

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

Individual Fellowships

IF experienced researchers (> 4 years)

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

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

RISE International and inter-sector cooperation through the exchange of staff

Co-funding of programmes

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

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

How?

Depends on experience and type of mobility Experience: Support for 2 categories of researchers: Early Stage Researcher: Less than 4 years of research experience*, and without a doctoral degree ("pre-doc") Experienced Researcher: In possession of a doctoral degree or at least 4 years of res. experience* ("post-doc") *counted from the time when is entitled to embark on a doctoral degree

Support for two types of mobility: European: moving from outside Europe into Europe moving within Europe Global: moving from Europe to outside of Europe – NB. compulsory return phase of one year (fully funded)

2 ways to be supported:

Apply for your own fellowship

or

Apply to a project

1. Apply for your own fellowship

Directly to the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions

Post Doc level

Research, networking, training costs

800 €

Management and indirect costs

650 €

Living allowance 4650 €

Mobility allowance

600 €

Family allowance 500 €

Next call: March 2015

Closes: 12 September 2015

@ 17:00:00 Brussels time

To prepare:

Look for a host institute and supervisor (you can only

submit one application per call)

Design your research project

Consider appropriate secondment options

Think about the proposal in the context of the

Evaluation Criteria (see Work Programme available

on the Participant Portal and Guide for Applicants for

the current call

Guide for Applicants published with the Call

1. Apply for your own fellowship

Apply to a Cofunded Call

Post Doc level

2015 onwards: post doc and pre-doc

Management costs 325 €

Living allowance Early-stage researchers

1855 €

Living allowance Experienced researchers

2625 €

2. Apply to a project

PhD level

(limited opportunities currently available for first post-doc also)

Research, networking, training costs

1800 €

Management and indirect costs

1200 €

Living allowance 3110 €

Mobility allowance

600 €

Family allowance 500 €

ec.europa.eu/msca

Andrew Musser

"Marie Curie Actions is an excellent programme. It is impressive and humbling to be in such an international network with leading scientists whose work I read during my studies."

• Doing a PhD at Cambridge University (UK) • Studying physical processes with the potential to

improve solar cell performance leading to energy efficiency gains.

• Marie Curie Initial Training Network: Superior www.superior-network.eu

• Working for the Italian National Research Council in Venice

• Researches biomass burning recorded in ice over centuries and demonstrates the environmental impact of human activity thousands of years ago.

• Marie Curie Incoming Fellowship - Paleofire

Dr Natalie Kehrwald

"The Marie Curie fellowship allowed me to incorporate new analytical techniques into my research. My working experience in Europe prepared me to better address my research challenges."

Dr Oliver Schmidtke

Professor of Political Science and History at UVic.

Since 2005 involved in two collaborative international research projects focusing on different aspects of immigration and integration in Canadian and European societies:

The project Cultural Capital in

Migration addresses issues related to the labour market of highly skilled immigrants in selected European countries and Canada (see for more details: www.cultural-capital.net).

The project Giving New Subjects a

Voice: Cultural Diversity in the Health Care Sector analyzes the processes and effects of intercultural dialogue and multicultural policies in the field of health care.

"I am proud that my Marie Curie IIF fellowship contributed to advancing research partnerships between continents"

Thank you for your

attention!

MSCA website:

http://ec.europa.eu/msca

MSCA on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Marie.Curie.Actions

Participant Portal:

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

EURAXESS European Researchers Mobility Portal:

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/