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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in Horizon Europe

Towards Work Programme 2021-2022Focus on Postdoctoral Fellowships

EURAXESS Event Australia and New Zealand

27 April 2021Dr. Manuel GÓMEZ HERREROEuropean CommissionDirectorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and CultureUnit C2. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

MSCA Key Features• Support the mobility, training and career development of researchers

from all over the world through excellent doctorates, postdoctoral fellowships and collaborative projects

• Stimulating international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary cooperation

• For researchers at every stage of their career

• Promotion of attractive working and employment conditions (financing rate of up to 100%, Charter and Code)

• Support excellent research in all domains (bottom-up)

• Open to all organisations. Participation of non-academic sector strongly encouraged, especially industry and SMEs

• Impacting researcher careers, organisations, structures

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) key features

The information in this presentation is still subject to change

MSCA in H2020: key figures (2014-2020)

+65,000Researchers,

including 25,000 PhD candidates

50 % of all third countries’

participations in H2020

37% of researchers from outside of the

EU

6.2 billion €Under Horizon

2020

+1,000Doctoral

programmes

+4,500Companies supported

42%Female

researchers

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)(1996-2020)

FP7 Horizon 2020 Horizon Europe

2007

1996

2014 2021 2027

Nearly 145 000 researchers supported by MSCA since 1996

……

today

MSCA under Horizon Europe•Budget near EUR 6.6 bn•Nearly 65000 researchers to be supported


Horizon Europe: Preliminary structure

Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area

Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I systemWidening participation and spreading excellence

Pillar 1Excellent Science

European Research Council

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Research Infrastructures

Pillar 3Innovative Europe

European Innovation Council

European innovation ecosystems

European Institute of Innovation

and Technology

Pillar 2Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness

• Health• Culture, Creativity and

Inclusive Society • Civil Security for Society• Digital, Industry and Space• Climate, Energy and Mobility• Food, Bioeconomy, Natural

Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Joint Research Centre

Clu

ster

s

Excellent Science (Pillar 1): reinforcing and extending the excellence of the Union’s science base


Policy objectives of MSCA (Horizon Europe regulation)• Equip researchers with new knowledge and skills

through mobility and exposure across borders, sectors and disciplines

• Enhance training and career development systems• Taking into account the European Charter and Code• Help laying foundations of Europe’s excellent

research, contributing to boosting jobs, growth and investment and solving current and future societal challenges


Horizon Europe. MSCA 2021-2027

1. MSCA Doctoral Networks → networks training PhD candidates2. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships → postdoctoral researchers3. MSCA Staff Exchanges → any type of research(-related) staff4. MSCA COFUND → co-funding for training programmes5. MSCA and Citizens → public outreach events

Overall message: continuation


MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Main Objectives: • Foster excellence through implementation of research project• Enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers

holding a PhD (training on transferable skills & career development)

• Focus on i3 (international, inter-sectoral, interdisciplinary) mobility

• Bridges and exposure to the non-academic sector


MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships• Mono-beneficiary action to support postdoctoral research and careers

• Architecture simplification - Two types of Fellowships:• European Fellowships: researchers of any nationality moving within or coming to Europe• Global Fellowships: European nationals or long-term residents in Europe to do research abroad• Discontinuation of panels (Career Restart, Reintegration, Society and Enterprise) –

mainstreaming- replacement with incentives• Continue funding all research domains including areas covered by EURATOM

• Improved guidance towards career development (plan & supervision)

• Recruited researchers – Target groups• Mobility rule!!: must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the

country of the beneficiary (for EF), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for GF) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.

• In possession of PhD degree at the call deadline • Up to 8 years of research experience after PhD at the call deadline, with exceptions:

• Years outside research, career breaks, work outside Europe (for those reintegrating to Europe) will not be counted


MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships• Who applies?

• Single legal entity established in an EU Member State or HE Associated country (specific conditions for EURATOM areas), jointly with the researcher

• Duration• European Fellowships: 12-24 months• Global Fellowships: 24-36 months (12-24 outgoing + 12 months mandatory return phase

in Europe)• Secondments worldwide up to 1/3 of the fellowship duration (outgoing phase for Global

Fellowships)• Optional additional placement of up to 6 months in a non-academic European

organization, at the end of the fellowship (EF/GF) to build bridges between sectors• Seal of Excellence continues

• Calls (TBC):• 2021: 18 May – 15 Sept; 242 M€• 2022: 14 Apr – 14 Sept; 257 M€• Restrict resubmissions with score less than 70% to the following year (as of 2022)


MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships – Unit contributions

Contributions for recruited researchersPer person-month

Living allowance

EUR 5 080

Mobility allowance

EUR 600

Family allowance

(if applicable)

EUR 660

Long-term leave

allowance(if applicable)

EUR 5 680x

% covered by the

beneficiary

Special needs

allowance(if applicable)

Requested unit1

x(1/number of

months)

Institutional unit contributionsPer person-month

Research, training and networking contribution

EUR 1 000

Management and indirect contribution

EUR 650

1The pre-defined categories are as follows: EUR 3 000, EUR 4 500, EUR 6 000, EUR 9 500, EUR 13 000, EUR 18 500, EUR 27 500, EUR 35 500, EUR 47 500 and EUR 60 000.


Excellence Impact Quality and efficiency of the implementation

Quality and pertinence of the project’s research and innovation objectives(and the extent to which they are ambitious, and go beyond the state of the art)

Credibility of the measures to enhance the career perspectives and employability of the researcher and contribution to his/her skills development

Quality and effectiveness of the work plan, assessment of risks and appropriateness of the effort assigned to work packages

Soundness of the proposed methodology (including interdisciplinary approaches, consideration of the gender dimension and other diversity aspects if relevant for the research project, and the quality of open science practices)

Suitability and quality of the measures to maximise expected outcomes and impacts, as set out in the dissemination and exploitation plan, including communication activities

Quality and capacity of the host institutions and participating organisations, including hosting arrangements

Quality of the supervision, training and of the two-way transfer of knowledgebetween the researcher and the host

The magnitude and importance of the project’s contribution to the expected scientific, societal and economic impactsQuality and appropriateness of the

researcher’s professional experience, competences and skills

50% 30% 20%

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships: award criteria


MSCA Doctoral Networks• Multi-beneficiary action to set up innovative doctoral programmes, including:

• Industrial Doctorates Training in academia and industry Joint supervision

• Joint Doctorates Joint collaborations leading to a joint/double/multiple doctoral degree Joint selection, supervision and governance structure Pre-agreement for joint degrees required

• Target group• doctoral candidates, i.e. researchers without a doctoral degree at the date of the recruitment; mandatory

enrolment in a doctoral programme in at least 1 EU MS/AC (at least 2 for Joint Doctorates)

• Focus on career development plan, supervision, training: research and transferable skills

• Who applies?• consortia of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and

other socio-economic actors; each beneficiary to recruit at least 1 researcher• at least three independent legal entities, each established in a different MS or AC; minimum of 1 beneficiary

from a MS (on top of this minimum, any entity from any third country can join)The information in this presentation is still subject to change

• Multi-beneficiary action to support collaborative R&I activities through staff exchanges

• Target group: any type of staff at any stage of career contributing to research activities (researchers, administrative & managerial staff, technicians, infrastructure operators…)

• Focus on international, inter-sectoral, interdisciplinary secondments leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations and strengthening long-term collaborations. Emphasis on the added-value of the collaboration.

• Who applies?• consortia of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including

SMEs, and other socio-economic actors

• at least three independent legal entities in three different countries, two of which established in a different EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country.

• If all participating organisations are from the same sector (i.e. either only academic or only non-academic), there must be at least one organisation from a non-associated Third Country

MSCA Staff Exchanges


• Mono-beneficiary action to co-fund new or existing national, regional, institutional schemes for doctoral training and postdoctoral fellowships

• Target groups• Doctoral candidates, i.e. researchers without a doctoral degree at the deadline of the co-funded

programme's call; mandatory enrolment in a doctoral programme• Postdoctoral researchers, i.e. researchers with a doctoral degree at the deadline of the co-funded

programme's call

• Focus• Spread best practices of the MSCA by promoting high standards in the recruitment process and

excellent working conditions• Introduce sustainable structuring effects, by promoting excellent and sustainable research training• Encourage synergies with Cohesion policy funds as well as the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Programmes could focus on specific disciplines, notably when based on RIS3.

• Who applies?• Single legal entity established in an EU Member State or HE Associated country

• A minimum of three researchers must be recruited.

MSCA COFUND


MSCA WP 2021-2022 Calls, tbcCALL

2021CALL

2022openingclosing

budget (M€) openingclosing

budget (M€)

Doctoral Networks

18/05/2116/11/21

402,95 Doctoral Networks

03/05/2215/11/22

427,28

Postdoctoral Fellowships

18/05/2115/09/21 242

Postdoctoral Fellowships

13/04/2214/09/22 257

Staff Exchanges

07/10/2109/03/22 72,50

Staff Exchanges

06/10/2208/03/23 77,50

COFUND12/10/2110/02/22 89 COFUND

11/10/2209/02/23 95

NCP Coordination

18/05/2131/08/21

2Citizens

(EuropeanResearchers’

Night)

17/06/2107/10/21

14

InternationalCooperation

18/05/2109/09/21 2

Researchersat Risk

02/09/2106/01/22 1,5


Opening/closing dates still tbc

Your National Contact Points (NCP) can help you

National Contact Points: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/ncp

https://www.net4mobilityplus.eu/

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/ncp

https://www.net4mobilityplus.eu/

mailto:[email protected]


Australia and the MSCA (2014-2020)

https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/msca-numbers_en


New Zealand and the MSCA (2014-2020)



Links Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Websitehttps://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/node_en

MSCA Pocket Guide https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/758a6af6-82ad-11ea-bf12-01aa75ed71a1

Funding and Tenders Portal (applications, documents, partner search)https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/programmes/h2020

Euraxess (PhD and postdoctoral vacancies, more information)https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/

European Charter and Code for Researchers https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/euraxess/charter-code-researchers

MSCA Guidelines on Supervisionhttps://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2766/508311

MSCA Green Charterhttps://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2766/720690

MCAA (Marie Curie Alumni association)https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu

National Contact Pointshttps://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/ncp

Australia and New Zealand country pageshttps://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020_localsupp_australia_en.pdfhttps://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020_localsupp_new%20zealand_en.pdf

Become an Experthttps://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert

[email protected]

@MSCActions

@Marie.Curie.Actions

https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/node_en

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/758a6af6-82ad-11ea-bf12-01aa75ed71a1

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/programmes/h2020

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/euraxess/charter-code-researchers

https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2766/508311

https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2766/720690

https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu/

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/ncp

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020_localsupp_australia_en.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020_localsupp_new%20zealand_en.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert


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