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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in H2020
Work Programme 2016-2017
Alessandra LUCHETTI
Head of Department – Excellent Science
European Commission – Research Executive Agency
Introduction :
• MSCA objectives,
• Key features & definitions
MSC Actions
MSCA in H2020 Work Programme 2016-2017:
Introduction
Calls 2016-2017
IT tool
Main novelties
MSCA rules' fine-tuning
Award criteria and other actions
MSCA main objective for H2020:
Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital in order to generate new skills and innovation
Total budget (2014-2020): € 6.126 billion (current prices)
MSCA objectives
Attract and retain research talent in Europe
Develop state-of-the-art, innovative training schemes, consistent with the requirements of R&I
Promote sustainable career development in R&I
Focus on delivering new knowledge and skills
Back up strong partnership with MS via co-funding mechanism
MSCA key features
Includes all domains of research and innovation
Strong accent on participation of industry, SMEs and non-academia overall
A global scope with trans-national mobility required and often cross-sector mobility as a key component
Level of involvement is proportional to the participant's needs
Academic sector: public or private HEI awarding academic degrees, public or private non-profit research organisations, international European interest organisations
Non-academic sector: any socio-economic actor not included in academic sector definition
Beneficiaries => signatories of GA
Partner organisations => not signing GA
Categories of researchers: ESR & ER – in line with FP7 approach
Full time research equivalent & mobility rule – following FP7 approach
Staff members in RISE: researchers, innovators, managers, administrative and technical staff
Definitions
Innovative Training Networks
ITN
Raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training
Train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers
Trigger cooperation and exchange of best practice among participants
Enhance researchers' employability and provide them with new career perspectives
Triple 'i' dimension of mobility and particular focus on innovation skills
European Joint
Doctorates (EJD)
European Training
Networks (ETN)
Objectives:
Academia Non-academia
Academia Non-academia
Country 1
Country 2 Country 3
Academia Non-academia
Academia Non-academia
Academia Non-academia
Academia Non-academia
Academia
Minimum 3 beneficiaries
3 countries (MS/AC)
Typical size: 6-10 participants (example)
Each beneficiary must recruit and host at least one researcher at its premises.
Participation of non-academic sector considered essential.
Max. 540 ReMo for the network.
Secondments up to 30% of the researcher recruitment period.
Joint supervision encouraged.
Max. 40% of total budget to one country.
Duration : 48 months
European Training
Networks (ETN)
Non-academia Academia
Country 2 Country 1
≥ 50%
Non-academia Academia
Academia Non-academia
Minim. 2 beneficiaries (MS/AC)
1 academic
1 non-academic
Max. 180 ReMo
PhD enrollment
> 50% of time at non-academic sector
Joint supervision
If > 2 beneficiaries,
same requirements apply,
additional beneficiaries any sector, any country
Max. 540 ReMo
Duration : 48 months
Country 1
Country 2 Country 3
Academia
Academia Academia
Academia Non-academia
Minim. 3 beneficiaries
3 MS/AC
All entitled to award doctoral degrees.
Additional beneficiaries or partner
organisations from any country, sector and
discipline. Participation of non-academic
sector encouraged
Mandatory enrollment of ESRs in the joint
doctoral programme
Mandatory provision of joint, double or
multiple degrees (letters of institutional
commitment signed by a legal
representative needed in the proposal)
Duration : 48 months
Max. 540 ReMo
ESR appointments from 3-36 months
Joint governance structure
Max. 40% of total budget to one country
European Joint
Doctorates (EJD)
Individual Fellowship IF
Enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers
Mono-beneficiary project
Focus on career development, not necessarily experience
Only for experienced researchers ( of any nationality, except RI and GF – MS, AC and long-term residents ) in possession of a doctoral degree, or have 4 years of full-time research experience at the time of the call deadline
Objectives:
Two types depending on the mobility of the researcher
Within Europe - European Fellowships
Outside Europe - Global Fellowships
Outgoing
Return
International mobility within or into Member States (MS) and Associated Countries (AC)
Mobility rule: Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the country of the host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline (for CAR, RI and ST panels - more than 3 years in the last 5 years)
Additional 3 or 6 month secondment option, within Europe & in another sector
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
RISE
Strengthen the interaction between academic and non-academic organisations, and between Europe and third countries, through research and innovation staff exchanges
International and inter-sector transfer of knowledge and sharing of ideas and of R&I culture
Common research and innovation project
Highly skilled research and innovation staff move for 1-12 months
Objectives:
Eligibility condition for staff members: 6 months at sending institution prior to first secondment
MS/AC 1
MS/AC 2
TC + +
Academic
Non-Academic
MS/AC 1
MS/AC 2
+ + MS/AC 3
Two different set-ups :
INTERNATIONAL
EUROPEAN
Co-funding of regional,
national and international
programmes
COFUND
Promote international, intersectoral and interdicisplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sector mobility of researchers at all stages of their career by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes
Mono-beneficiary: organisation funding or managing doctoral or post-doctoral programmes
Leverage funding and combat fragmentation (possible synergies with ESIF)
Spread MSCA best practices
Doctoral Programmes
Early stage researchers
Fellowship Programmes
Experienced researchers
Objectives:
Duration of projects: maximum 5 years
Duration of Fellowships: minimum 3 months
EU contribution to cover living allowances for researchers and management costs
50% co-funding for established unit costs
Minimum living allowance fixed in the WP
European Researchers' Night
NIGHT
Bring researchers closer to the general public
Increase awareness of research and innovation activities
Yearly event, typically on the last Friday of the month of September (10th anniversary celebrated this year)
Involvement of researchers funded by Horizon 2020
Call under Coordination and support action
Beneficiaries: any legal entity in the EU Member States and Associated Countries
Objectives:
Financial dimension
MSCA Financial Overview
Research, networking, training costs
800 €
Management and indirect costs
500 €
Living allowance* 4650 €
Mobility allowance 600 €
Family allowance 500 €
Research, networking, training costs
1800 €
Management and indirect costs
700 €
Top-up allowance 2000 €
Management costs 325 €
Living allowance Early-stage researchers
1855 €
Living allowance Experienced researchers
2625 €
Research, networking, training costs
1800 €
Management and indirect costs
1200 €
Living allowance* 3110 €
Mobility allowance 600 €
Family allowance 500 €
MSCA WP 2016-2017
MSCA WP 2016-2017
Adopted on 13 October 2015 (Commission Decision C (2015)6776)
Strong continuity of 2014-2015 approach
Key features remain unchanged
Yearly calls in each MSCA funding scheme (except for NIGHT covering again 2 editions)
2016 budget of MSCA comparable to 2015 level (759 million EUR)
2017 budget: 10.5% increase, 841 million EUR
Funding
scheme Call opens Call closes Budget
ITN 15/10/2015
15/09/2016
12/01/2016
10/01/2017
370 mEUR
430 mEUR
IF 12/04/2016
11/04/2017
14/09/2016
14/09/2017
218.5 mEUR
248 mEUR
RISE 08/12/2015
01/12/2016
28/04/2016
05/04/2017
80 mEUR
80 mEUR
COFUND 14/04/2016
05/04/2017
29/09/2016
28/09/2017
80 mEUR
80 mEUR
NIGHT 15/10/2015 13/01/2016 8 mEUR
MSCA – 2016-2017 calls
IT tool for the WP
Increased coherence: standard structure and format for the WP
Published information on PP is the same as in the adopted WP (single source for both)
Minor modifications of the MSCA WP structure was necessary, e.g.
• Introducing a 'virtual' topic covering the entire call
• Clarifying types of actions
• Moving the duration of projects from call conditions to the annexes
MSCA WP 2016-2017 Main Novelties
An explicit link to the Responsible Research and Innovation
Link to the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
Elements of Open Science in the training of researchers
Better definition of expected impact (at researcher, organisation and ERA level)
Gender aspects explicitly indicated under the Excellence award criterion
Further involvement of the non-academic sector in IF – new Society and Enterprise Panel
Society and Enterprise Panel - Rationale
Only 2.7% of IF 2014 beneficiaries were from the non-academic sector
0.4% of IF 2014 beneficiaries were SMEs
IF 2014 success rates by sector
Average success rate:
16.8%
Society and Enterprise Panel - Main Features
Multidisciplinary panel in EF
Dedicated budget - EUR 10 million
Open to organisations from the non-academic sector
Research and innovation-related projects can be funded
Relaxed mobility rule to apply (like in CAR and RI)
Fine-tuning of the MSCA rules
ITN:
More flexibility for EID consortia: they should be composed of at least one beneficiary from the academic sector and at least one beneficiary from the non-academic sector
EJD: adding definitions of joint, double and multiple doctoral degrees
Mandatory consortium agreement for all modalities
Evaluation process: the consensus score for each award criterion may be the average of the corresponding scores attributed by the individual expert evaluators
Fine-tuning of the MSCA rules
IF:
Clarifying that only one application per researcher will be evaluated in an IF call
Evaluation process: the consensus score for each award criterion may be the average of the corresponding scores attributed by the individual expert evaluators
RISE:
Secondments should take place between legal entities independent from each other
Mandatory consortium agreement
Fine-tuning of the MSCA rules
COFUND:
Clarifying the mobility rules in case of COFUND
COFUND return phase for outgoing fellowships not longer than 50% of the total duration of the research training activity
EU contribution - introducing directly the rates to be paid to the selected programmes
NIGHT:
Status of associated events clearly spelled out
Award criteria
Linking better the impact criterion to the expected impact statements
Introducing the innovation aspects in IF criteria
Clarifying dissemination and communication elements
Aligning the MSCA framework to the overall H2020 modifications
Other actions
Alumni with new features on supervisor platform
MSCA interim evaluation to feed H2020 mid-term assessment and MFF review
4 studies to be launched (industry participation, entrepreneurship, interdisciplinarity, supervision)
Campaign to communicate research and to disseminate results of the MSCA-funded projects to the general public
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Website
http://ec.europa.eu/msca
Horizon 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
Participant Portal (applications)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal
Thank you for your attention!