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Overview of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) with focus on Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) in relation to EU-Japan cooperation
Aleksandra SCHOETZ-SOBCZAK
Project Officer
Research Executive Agency - European Commission
Tokyo, 16th of September 2016
• MSCA
• RISE
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
What are the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions?
A European Union funded programme for structuring researcher
training, mobility and career development
Objectives
Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation
Budget 2014-2020: € 6.162 billion
What do the MSCA offer you?
• Career opportunities
• Excellent working conditions
• Very competitive salaries
• Opportunities to work and train with the best researchers in Europe and worldwide
• Whole career training: complementary skills
• Access to top level conferences, professional associations & Marie Curie Alumni
Who, what and where?
• Who: All levels of research experience from PhD researcher upwards – there are actions for different levels of experience.
• What: All areas of research are supported: bottom-up approach
• Where: Anywhere: any research performing organisation, public or private worldwide - there are actions for European and international mobility.
ITN - Innovative Training Networks
• European Training Networks (ETN)
• European Industrial Doctorates (EID)
• European Joint Doctorates (EJD):
ITN - Innovative Training Networks
Who can apply:
• Organisation (universities, research centres or companies that proposes a research training network)
• Individuals (can apply for specific positions created by these networks -> EURAXESS)
ITN - Innovative Training Networks
What does ITN cover:
• recruitment and training
• research costs
• management and overhead costs
IF - Individual Fellowships
• European Fellowships • Global Fellowships
IF - Individual Fellowships
Who can apply:
• best, most promising individual researchers • experienced researchers only
IF - Individual Fellowships
What does IF cover:
• allowance to cover living, travel and family costs
• the research costs and overheads of the host organisation(s)
COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes • This action is for organisations that
fund or manage doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes for researchers.
COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes What does COFUND covers:
• allowance to cover living, travel and family costs
• the research costs and overheads of the host organisation(s)
Upcoming calls
ITN IF RISE COFUND Call just opened: 15/09/2016
Call will be opened: 11/04/2017
Called will be opened: 01/12/2016
Called opened: 14/04/2016
Deadline: 10/01/2017 17:00:00
Deadline: 14/09/2017 17:00:00
Deadline: 05/04/2017 17:00:00
Deadline: 29/09/2016
MSCA website:
http://ec.europa.eu/msca
MSCA on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Marie.Curie.Actions
Participant Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/
EURAXESS European Researchers Mobility Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
- Joint research and innovation activities
- Academic and/or non-academic participants
- Secondment of staff (no recruitments)
- Mobility: trans-national and/or inter-sectoral
Opening research careers at European and international level
Enhanced business-academia collaboration and staff exchange
- Bottom-up approach, 8 evaluation panels
Purpose of RISE
Who can participate in RISE?
• All Countries
• Staff from all nationalities
• All institutions which fulfil the requirements of the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation
- EU Member States
- Overseas Countries and Territories linked to the MS (As defined on page 3 of General Annex A to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017)
- Horizon 2020 Associated Countries (In principle, the same as FP7, but subject to the adoption of
the association agreements)
- Third Countries listed (On page 3 of General Annex A to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017)
Academic Sector
- Higher education establishments (public or private)
- Non-profit research organizations (public or private)
- International European interest organizations (CERN, EMBL,…)
Non-Academic Sector
- All other organizations by default (SMEs, NGOs, museums, etc.)
All actors are classified in one of the two sectors on the basis of a validated Participant Identification Code (PIC) via URF (Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation).
Beneficiaries are established in a MS/AC
- Are responsible for the execution of the programme
- Signature of the Declaration of Honour
- Signature of the Grant Agreement
- Signature of the Consortium Agreement (mandatory from 2016 on)
- Claiming costs
Partner Organisations are established in a TC
- Do not sign the Grant Agreement and do not claim costs
- LR signs a letter of commitment (including financial commitment) at the proposal stage
! Partnership Agreement (between all participants) strongly recommended
Eligible Staff Members
- Actively engaged in or linked to research/innovation activities for at least 6 months prior to first secondment
- Types of staff members:
• ESR (no PhD and < 4 years experience)
• ER (PhD or > 4 years experience)
• Managerial staff
• Administrative or Technical staff
- In-built return mechanism
Minimum Eligibility Conditions
- At least 3 independent participants in 3 different countries
- At least 2 participants from 2 different MS/AC
- If all in MS/AC: at least 1 academic and 1 non-academic (intersectoral)
In practice, 2 possible minimum settings (or a combination of the 2):
Academic
MS/AC 1 MS/AC 2
Non-Academic
TC + + or
MS/AC 1 MS/AC 2 + + MS/AC 3
1.
2.
Non-academia
Non-academia
Academia Academia
MS/AC TC
Secondments from a TC to a MS/AC are not always eligible for EU funding.
!
MS/AC 1
MS/AC 2
VIVOIMAG 645757
NANOREMOVAS 645024
will develop and implement a pilot plant
for the remote treatment of arsenic polluted waters based
on the application of advanced multifunctional nanostructured materials,
already tested at the laboratory level. The project includes the
cooperation between the industry and academia of partners from Europe and
Argentina.
INTI
UNMDP INNOVA BIC
KTH
UAB 9
36
2
8
5
2 3
1
3
8
AERIS 3
17
12
13
6 6
5
2 4
2
6
• Total EC Contribution = 688,500 EUR / 48 months
• Total eligible researcher months = 153
Obligations towards staff (article 32 of GA): Reminder of some obligations:
- Respect of European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the
Recruitment of Researchers
- Rights and obligations shall remain unchanged during secondment (ex: salary)
- Mandatory re-integration after secondment
- Medical insurance and working conditions
- Information about rights and obligations linked to the secondment
- Assistance in administrative procedures
- Full use of staff member costs to cover their travel /subsistence costs
Best practice: inform/instruct the staff thouroughly
before the secondment
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Horizon 2020 - Grant Agreement
Article 38:
- The beneficiaries must promote the action and its results, by providing targeted information to multiple audiences (including the media and the public) in a strategic and effective manner.
- Before engaging in a communication activity expected to have a major media impact, the beneficiaries must inform the Commission/Agency.
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Communication in the H2020 project lifecycle
Proposal
• Work package for communication (or in another work package)
• Comprehensive communication plan
Evaluation
Taken into consideration as part of the criterion "impact"
Reporting
Overview of the progress must also describe the communication activities
Project Management
Beneficiaries: need to inform Agency prior to activity with major media impact
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Horizon 2020 - Grant Agreement
Acknowledgement of EU funding (Article 38.1.2)
Use EU emblem
http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/flag/
Use text as indicated in GA
This project has received funding from the [European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme][Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018] under grant agreement No [number].
EU Contribution
Marie
Skłodowska-Curie
Action
Staff member unit
cost *
person/month
Top-up allowance
Institutional unit cost *
person/month
Research, training
and networking
costs
Management
and indirect
costs
Research and
Innovation Staff
Exchange
2.000 1.800 700
Unit costs per researcher per month of eligible secondment
*These unit costs are subject to a funding rate of 100% and no country coefficients apply.
Not reimbursed
- Secondments between institutions located within the same MS/AC or the same TC
- Secondments between two academic or between two non-academic organisations located in different MS/AC
- Secondments between organisations located in different TC
- Secondments to a MS/AC from organisations located in a TC not eligible for funding according to the Annex A to the Work Programme
- In practice, the unfunded countries are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, United States
Secondments from Japan to EU
- Secondments to a MS/AC from organisations located in Japan are not eligible for funding according to the Annex A to the Work Programme
Secondments from EU to Japan
- Japanese partners are allowed to receive a contribution covering the “institutional costs” incurred during a secondment from a EU beneficiary to a Japanese partner
- Institutional costs correspond to 2.500 EUR per person/month subject to the internal agreements concluded by the Japanese partners and the EU beneficiaries of the project
- This amount shall be transferred to the Japanese partner by the EU beneficiaries and not directly by REA
- The Japanese partners are invited to negotiate clear governing rules with the EU beneficiaries to define the timing and the modalities under which the “institutional costs” will be transferred to them
Examples
- EU beneficiaries transfer to Japanese partners the share of institutional costs prior to each secondment
- EU beneficiaries transfer to Japanese partners the share of institutional costs after each secondment
- EU beneficiaries transfer to Japanese partners the share of institutional costs in different instalments
- EU beneficiaries can also agree to retain part of the institutional costs to finance general networking events linked to the project in Japan
Administrative requirements for Japanese partners - PIC - Participant Identification Code
- Up-to-date letter of commitment, signed by the legal
representative, to demonstrate a real and active participation in the proposed network including a financial commitment
- No grant agreement signature necessary
- Partnership agreement strongly recommended
Participation of Japan
in RISE projects
- statistics
Conclusion about RISE - More global interactions
- More knowledge and ideas converted into products and services
- Enhanced cooperation and transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines
- More inter-sector employment, e.g. between academia and industry
- Improved personnel mobility and employment
- Equal opportunities
- Pleasant working environment
Results of the evaluation: 5 months after the call deadline Signing of grant agreements: 8 months after the call deadline
Call deadlines
RISE
Called will be opened: 01/12/2016
Deadline: 05/04/2017 17:00:00
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Website
http://ec.europa.eu/mariecurieactions
Horizon 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
Participant Portal (applications)
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html