Marie Curie Actions: Marie Curie Actions: Opportunities for AllOpportunities for All

Dr Jennifer BrennanDr Jennifer Brennan

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Marie Curie Actions = People Programme

FP7 Overview (2007-2013)

FP7 breakdown (€ million)

Collaborative research

10 thematic areas

Frontier Research

ERC

Capacities : € 4097

People : € 4750

Marie Curie Actions

Research

Capacity

Cooperation :

€ 32 413

JRC : € 1751

Euratom : € 2751

Nuclear research

Ideas :

€ 7510

FP6 (2002-2006)Marie Curie Actions€ 1580 million

Marie Curie Actions, an Irish Success Story

Data as of December 2011

What are the Marie Curie

Actions?

• Intellectual Capital– Enter the Researcher

Profession– Stay in Europe– Attracting international

researchers• Knowledge Transfer

– International & Inter-Sectoral Cooperation

“Bottom-Up”• Chemistry• Physics• Mathematics• Life Sciences• Economic Sciences• ICT and Engineering• Social Sciences & Humanities• Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Applications are assessed in these 8 Panels• Call success is equalised across the Panels

Five Activities

Host-Driven Actions

* Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Georgia, India, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, New Zealand, Palestinian administrated areas, Rep. of Korea, Russia, South Africa, Syrian Arab Rep., Tunisia, Ukraine, United States.

Individual Actions

* Europe = Member States plus associated countries e.g. Switzerland, Israel

Eligible Host Organisations

Mobility Rule

In general, at the relevant deadline,* participating researchers must not have resided or had their main

activity in the country of the host organisation for > 12 months in the last 3 years

* For host-driven actions, the deadline is the date when the researcher is recruited into the project. For individual actions, the deadline is the closing date for submission of proposals .

What does the EU funding cover?

Personnel Costs• Living Allowance*

– Students €38k p.a.– Researchers €58k p.a.– Researchers with > 10 years

experience €87.5k p.a.• Mobility & Travel

Allowance*– €700 per month or– €1000 per month

Additional Costs – varies by ActionFor Example:•Research/Training/Networking Costs•Overheads

– ~ 10% of direct costs•Management Costs

– ~ 10% of total•Small equipment expenses for SMEs

– Max. 10% of total contribution to SME

*Correction Coefficients apply; IE = 109.1

For ITN, IAPP, IxF (IEF, IIF, IOF):

What does the EU funding cover?

• CIG– €25,000 per annum

• IRSES– €1900 per researcher, per month

• COFUND– 40% of the cost of the programme

For CIG, COFUND, IRSES: Flat Rates apply

For NIGHT: Coordination and Support Action

• Up to 100% of Direct Costs, plus 20% Indirect Costs

Evaluation Process

* Evaluated by at least 3 international experts** Distribution across 8 panels proportional to # of proposals received

~ 3 months

ITN: Initial Training

NetworksQuality of Doctoral Training•Research Training Programme for Doctoral Students

– Improve career prospects– Broad range of research and transferable

skills– Mobility (international and inter-sectoral)

•Promote industry-academia collaboration in PhD training

Multi-ITN•Large consortium•10 to 15 partners (Full and Associated)•Public and Private Sectors•Success Rates 2011:

• Europe – 9%• Ireland – 3.5%

EID (new in 2012!)•Two partners•One academic, one commercial•PhD students spend 50% of time in each sector•Projected success rate of 35% for 2012

IDP •Previously “mono-partner-ITN”•One Full Partner plus Associated partners•Structured Doctoral Programme, e.g. GREP

ITN Call – 3 types of ITN

• “Disability Rights Expanding Accessible Markets”

• Funded in 2010• 7 Full Partners in 7 Countries,

plus Associated Partners in public and private sector

• Recruiting and training 14 doctoral students for 3 years

• Budget M€3.72 over 4 years

“DREAM” – Multi-ITN

Facts and Figures

2013 ITN Call Deadline: Dec 2012

Budget M€452 (M€30 for EID)

Project Duration up to 4 years

Typical Project Budget M€3 – 5

(M€0.5 for EID)

IAPP: Industry-Academia Partnerships and

Pathways

Enhancing Industry-Academia Collaboration •Exchange of knowledge via exchange of people•Building diverse research careers

How does it work?

• Joint Research Project plus training activities• Compulsory Inter-Sectoral Secondment

– Includes Management & Technical Staff, PhD students and Post-PhD researchers

• Optional Recruitment of post-PhD Researchers• High success rates (Ireland’s average success rate 53%)

Commercial Partner in one

MS/AC

Non-Commercial Partner in another

MS/AC

Optional: Additional Participants from anywhere in the

world

+

“MedCast”

• Aim: “Development of foundry casting methods for cost-effective manufacture of medical implants”

• Funding: 1.5 M€ for 4 years• Partners: 2 partners in 2 countries (one MNC, one academic)

“TFE – Task Furniture in Education”• Aim: Creating innovative design

solutions for learning environments

• Funding: 0.48 M€ over 4 years• Partners: 6 partners from 4

countries• 3 commercial partners and 3

academic institutions• Coordinated by NCAD

www.tferesearch.com

Facts and Figures

Next Deadline 19th April 2012 Budget 80 M€

Project Duration 3 – 4 years

Typical Project Budget

0.5 – 2 M€

IEF Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development

“Research Career Development”

18% success rate (2011)

IIF International Incoming Fellowships*

“From the World to Europe”

14% success rate (2011)

IOF International Outgoing Fellowships**

“From Europe to the World”

19% success rate (2011)

Marie Curie Individual Fellowships

* Can include a 12-month reintegration if you reintegrate back into an International Cooperation Partner Country** Includes a mandatory 12-month reintegration

How does it work?

Eligible Researcher

Eligible Host Organisation

applies with

Who is an IxF award suitable for?•Experienced Researchers

– Have a PhD or equivalent (degree plus 4 years of research experience - the degree that would allow you to begin PhD studies in either the country in which the degree was awarded or the country where the proposed fellowship would be hosted).

•More Experienced Researchers– Researchers with > 10 years research experience

Remember the Mobility Rule!

• PhD in Plant Physiology from University of California-Davis

• Faculty Member at University of Maryland• Moved to Kennedy Space Centre in 1992

to work on NASA Life Science Support Contract– PI on plant research projects– Conducted spaceflight experiments

on-board Space Shuttle and International Space Station

• Started a collaboration with LIT in 2002• Moved to LIT on Marie Curie IIF awarded

in 2010

Prof. Gary Stutte Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow

Facts and Figures

Next Deadline 16th August 2012

Budgets IEF: 120 M€IIF: 40 M€IOF: 40 M€

Project Duration IEF: up to 24 monthsIIF: 24 to 36 months

IOF: 24 to 36 months*

Budget ~€100k per annum

* Includes a mandatory 12-month reintegration

CIG: Career Integration Grants*

Encouraging Researchers to establish themselves in Europe**•Attracting and retaining the best talents in Europe•Improving their prospects for long-term integration in Europe•Counteracting “brain drain”

* Amalgamation of previous ERG and IRG programmes** i.e. a Member State or associated country (e.g. Switzerland, Israel – see http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/who_en.html for a full list)

How does it work?

Eligible Researcher

Eligible Host Organisation

applies with

Who is a CIG award suitable for?• The awardee must have an employment contract to cover at least the

duration of the award, therefore the award is suitable for:– Researchers (postdoctoral and equivalent)– New Academic Staff

• Mobility Rule Applies• Success rate ~30%

Facts and Figures

Rolling Call – two evaluation deadlines:

•6th March 2012•18th September 2012

Budget 40 M€

Project Duration up to 4 years

Contribution to Budget of €25k per annum

IRSES - International Research Staff Exchange Scheme• Host-Driven Action• To strengthen research partnerships

between Europe and countries that have or will have an S&T agreement with Europe*

• Staff exchanges and networking activities

Next Call: January 2013

Budget M€30(Project Budgets

vary €16k to €3.5M!)

INTREPID “Employment Relations in Multinational Companies: Cross National Comparative Analysis”•UL award in 2008 IRSES Call•Prof. Patrick Gunnigle•Partners in the UK, Spain, Canada and Mexico

• Host-Driven Action• A European-wide public and

media event to promote research careers

• 4th Friday of September each year

• Full or part-funding available

NIGHT – Researchers Night

Next Call: January 2013

Budget M€4(Typical Project

Budget €40 – 200K )

• Host-Driven Action• Increasing the mobility options for

post-PhD researchers• Participants are any bodies that can

manage a programme for Experienced Researchers

– Research funders– International Organisations e.g. CERN– Research-Performing Organisations,

i.e., Universities, Research Centres/Schools within Universities (many Spanish and Italian co-funded projects run by individual centres within Universities)

• Receive 40% co-funding for the programme

COFUND – Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes

Next Call: December 2012

Budget M€115(Up to M€10 per

award)

Award Holder

Programme

IRCSET INSPIRE, ELEVATE (new)

HRB HRB/Marie Curie post-doctoral mobility fellowship scheme

RCSI The NBIPI career enhancement mobility programme (DCU are partners)

IRCHSS CARA

SFI SIRG

Projects Search

http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html

“Charter & Code”•40 principles•Charter: framework for career management for researchers•Code: promotes open and transparent recruitment and appraisal•Embedded in Evaluation Criteria for all MC Actions

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/rights/index

Human Resources Strategy for Researchers• “Next-step” - encourage

mainstreaming of C&C in research entities’ policies

• 5-Step Procedure• Results in Commission

acknowledgment (permission to use HR Excellence logo)

• Irish HEIs taking part to-date are UCD, RCSI, UCC, UL, DCU and WIT

Action Call ID Opening Date Closing DateCIG Career Integration Grants 1st deadline FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG 20 October 2011 06 March 2012IAPP Industry –Academia Partnerships and Pathways FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP 19 October 2011 19 April 2012

IxF Individual Fellowships FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF/IIF/IOF

13 March 2012 16 August 2012

CIG Career Integration Grants 2nd deadline FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG 20 October 2011 18 September 2012

Marie Curie Calls 2012 Work Programme

Marie Curie Calls 2013 Work Programme (t.b.c.)

Last Calls for these MC Actions in FP7!!

Marie Curie Actions in Horizon 2020:

Marie Curie Actions in the « Excellent Science » Priority

Main objective - to ensure optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital in order to generate new skills and innovation

Marie Curie Actions = excellent researchers’ training, mobility and career development

MCA: Horizon 2020 vs. FP7

IAPP

IRSES

IEF

IOF

IIF

CIG

COFUND

Research networks supporting doctoral training

Action 1 Doctoral

Researchers

ITN

Action 2 Experienced Researchers

Support for experienced researchers undertaking mobility

Action 3

Exchange of Staff

International and inter-sector cooperation through the exchange of research and innovation staff

Action 4 COFUND

Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes covering actions 1, 2 and 3

How the MC Office can help

• Keeping you informed– Email Distribution List

• Supporting your application– Training Webinars for specific Calls– Advice on whether your concept ‘fits’ the Call

www.iua.iemariecurie@iua.ie

Suggestions for Finding a Partner(s)

www.fp7ireland.com

• ‘One-stop-shop’ centralised support on issues related to mobility

• For ALL researchers• Linked to central EU

EURAXESS Site• Advertise job

opportunities (linked to Nature Jobs)

www.euraxess.euwww.euraxess.ie

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