H2020 – WP 2014/15

Part 3 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Education and Culture

MSCA Objective

Ensure the optimum development and dynamic useof Europe’s intellectual capital in order to generatenew skills, knowledge and innovation

Budget 2014-2020: 6 162 million €

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MSCA - strategic programming approach

Attract and retain research talent

Develop state-of-the-art, innovative training schemes, consistent with the highly competitive and increasingly inter-disciplinary requirements of research and innovation

Promote sustainable career development in research and innovation

Focus on delivering new knowledge and skills, in line with the key driver identified in the strategic programming approach

Contribute to a strong partnership with MS via the co-funding mechanism

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Key features of the MSCA part Open to all domains of research and innovation from basic research up

to market take-up and innovation services

Entirely bottom-up

Participation of non-academic sector strongly encouraged, especially industry and SMEs

Mobility as the key requirement - funding on condition participants move from one country to another

Promotion of attractive working and employment conditions

Particular attention to gender balance

Public engagement of supported researchers

2014-2015: 9 calls foreseen -> one call per each MSC action per year + one call covering 2 years of European Researchers' Night

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Simplification• Clear definitions of participants

Two sectors: academic/non-academic

Two groups: beneficiaries and partner organisations

• Broader understanding of industry involvement: participation of businesses (including SMEs) and other socio-economic actors

• Streamlined definitions of supported researchers

ESR/ER

Staff members in RISE

• Mobility rules ~maintained (new Reintegration Panel incorporated in the rules)

• Portability of IF grants

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MSCA in H2020 Innovative Training Networks

ITN Doctoral and initial training

Individual Fellowships

IF Support for experienced researchers undertaking international and inter-sector mobility

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- fellowship programmes

Support and policy actions European Researchers' Night (NIGHT)Non call-based activities

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Innovative Training NetworksMain EU programme for structured doctoral training• Objective

o to raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training

o to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researcher

• Scope o European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates (EID) or

European Joint Doctorates (EJD)

o Triple 'i' dimension of mobility and particular focus on innovation skills

o Support to ESR for 3-36 months

o Minimum eligibility condition: network of 3 participants (exception: EID with 2 participants only)

• Expected Impact o to enhance researchers' employability and provide them with new career

perspectives

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Individual Fellowships• Objective

o to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers

o to provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge, work on research projects in a European context or outside Europe, resume a career or return to Europe

• Scope o Individual, trans-national fellowships awarded to the best or most promising

researchers

o European Fellowships (12-24 months) or Global Fellowships (12-24 months + mandatory return phase of 12 months)

o Career Restart Panel and Reintegration Panel

o Secondments, notably in the non-academic sector, embedded in the career development

• Expected Impact o to release the full potential of researchers and to catalyse significant

development in their careers in both the academic and non-academic sectors

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Research and Innovation Staff Exchange• Objective

o to promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges

o to foster a shared culture of research and innovation• Scope

o International and inter-sector collaboration and transfer of knowledge

o Joint research and innovation project

o Secondments of staff members for 1-12 months

o Minimum eligibility condition: participants in 3 different countries (at least 2 MS/AC)

o Within Europe: only inter-sector secondments

o No secondments between institutions located outside Europe or within the same MS/AC

• Expected Impact o to strengthen the interaction between organisations in the academic and non-

academic sectors, and between Europe and third countries

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COFUND• Objective

o to stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development

• Scope o Co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to

open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdicisplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sector mobility of researchers at all stages of their career

o Possibilities of synergies with structural funds

o Doctoral Programmes (for ESR) and Fellowship Programmes (for ER)

o Researchers to comply with the mobility rules of the MSCA

o Minimum support for researchers: 3 months

o Implemented by a sole beneficiary• Expected Impact

o to exploit synergies between European Union actions and those at regional, national, and international level, and leverage funding

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European Researchers' Night• Objective

o to bring researchers closer to the general public

o to increase awareness of research and innovation activities• Scope

o Yearly event, typically on the last Friday of the month of September

o Focus on the general public, addressing and attracting people regardless of the level their scientific background

o Special focus on pupils and students

o Promotion of the European dimension and gender balance in research and innovation

o Involvement of researchers funded by Horizon 2020• Expected Impact

o to raise awareness of the importance of research careers

o in the long term, to encourage young people to embark on scientific careers