Marie Skłodowska-Curie Funding – Individual Fellowships

Dr.-Ing. Sandra Haseloff National Contact Point Mobility, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Garching, 3 July 2014

Contents

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in Horizon 2020

• General Information & Eligibility Criteria

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships

• Funding

• Further Information

Excellent Science

Industrial Leadership

Societal Challenges

1) European Research Council

2) Future and Emerging Technologies

3) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

4) Research Infrastructures

1) Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

2) Access to risk finance 3) Innovation in SMEs

1) Health, demographic change and wellbeing

2) Bio-economic challenges 3) Energy 4) Transport 5) Climate, resources and

raw materials 6) Inclusive, innovative and

reflexive societies 7) Secure societies

European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Science with and for society Widening Participation

Horizon 2020 – Structure

Budget 2014-2020

6.2 bn € +30%

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Objectives

• Initial training

• Career development

• Transnational mobility

• Intersectoral transfer of knowledge

To make Europe more

attractive for

researchers

Overview of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

• Innovative Training Networks (ITN): Research Training of Early-Stage Researchers

• Individual Fellowships (IF): Career Development of Experienced Researchers

• Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE): Cooperation by Means of Staff Exchange

• Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND): Co-Funding of Doctoral or Fellowship Programmes

• Researchers’ Night (NIGHT): Pan-European Event to Promote Research Careers

General Information

• No pre-defined research topics (»bottom-up«)

• Funded researchers in individual actions: Experienced Researchers – doctoral degree or – at least 4 years‘ research experience

(full-time equivalent) after graduation at the deadline for submission

• Joint application: Host institution together with individual researcher

• Conditions: Generally full-time employment contract

Countries and Mobility

• Countries − EU Member States (MS) − Associated Countries (AC) − Third countries

• Mobility rule Researchers must not have resided or carried out

their main activity in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the previous three years.

Individual Fellowships – Objectives

• Career development of experienced researchers

• Widening of the competences of the researcher (scientific and non-scientific) – international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral experience

• Transfer of knowledge to the host institution

• Support returnees to Europe and researchers resuming a scientific career after a break

Individual Fellowships – Types

• European Fellowships (EF): Research stays in Europe

• Global Fellowships (GF): Research stays outside of Europe (with return)

European Fellowships

• One to two-year research stay in Europe (MS/AC)

• Experienced researchers of any nationality (➜ mobility rule)

• Host institution: active in Research & Development, e.g. university, research organisation, company, NGO, …

• Separate panels for returnees to research and returnees to Europe (modified mobility rule)

Global Fellowships

• One to two-year research stay outside of Europe (➜ mobility rule), mandatory one-year return phase in Europe (MS/AC)

• Experienced researchers with MS/AC nationality or MS/AC long-term residence (at least five consecutive years)

• Two host institutions – in a third country (partner organisation) – in MS/AC (return phase),

contractual partner of the EU

Individual Fellowships – Secondments

• Optional secondment phase in MS/AC, preferably intersectoral

• Dividable into several shorter stays

• Significant contribution to the fellowship‘s impact

• To be justified in the proposal

Fellowship duration Secondment duration

≤ 18 months ≤ 3 months > 18 months ≤ 6 months

Individual Fellowships – Funding

• Only unit costs

Researcher unit cost [person/month]

Institutional unit cost [person/month]

Living allow-ance

Mobility allow-ance

Family allow-ance

Research, training and networking

Manage-ment and overheads

IF 4 650 € 600 € 500 € 800 € 650 €

Individual Fellowships – Funding

• Living Allowance is multiplied by correction coefficient of the host country (DE: 98,8%)

• Allowances are employer‘s gross amounts

Researcher unit cost [person/month]

Institutional unit cost [person/month]

Living allow-ance

Mobility allow-ance

Family allow-ance

Research, training and networking

Manage-ment and overheads

IF 4 650 € 600 € 500 € 800 € 650 €

Individual Fellowships (IF) – Call Timetable

Call Budget Deadline

IF 2014 240.5 m €,

of which 29 m € for Global Fellowships

11 September 2014

IF 2015 213 m €,

of which 27 m € for Global Fellowships

10 September 2015

Participant Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal Call for proposals, documents, access to submission service

Further Information

• EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie websites ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-actions/

ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions

• German Horizon 2020 portal www.horizont2020.de

• Expert registration ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/experts/index.html

National Contact Point Mobility

Information and advice concerning the mobility actions of the EU Framework Programmes

Services offered: • Information on funding opportunities and application

deadlines • Advice during the entire project lifecycle • Proof reading of proposals and tips on optimisation • Information events • Provision of additional information, analyses and

statistics www.nks-mobilitaet.de

EURAXESS Germany

National Coordination Point in the EU-wide EURAXESS network facilitating international researcher mobility

Information and personal advice for mobile researchers and their host institutions: • Funding programmes, jobs • Immigration and residence • Social security, taxation, etc.

www.euraxess.de

National Contact Point Mobility – Contact

Initial consultation Birgit Kirchner 0228 / 833-420

Individual actions Felix Beckendorf 0228 / 833-164

Host-driven actions Dr. Martina May 0228 / 833-474

Cross-cutting issues Dr. Sandra Haseloff 0228 / 833-268

E-Mail: mariecurie@avh.de Internet: www.nks-mobilitaet.de