Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Your research career in Europe

Paul Harris

&

Kaisa Hellevuo

European Commission Destination Europe

Boston, 20 February 2015

As a researcher I want to…

undertake a project in Europe, in an academic or

other (e.g. business) setting

spend my time at the leading labs in Europe

be part of a well-established and prestigious

European Union programme

benefit from good working conditions

Excellence

Research

Training

Innovation

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital

Knowledge Skills

> € 6.16 billion in 2014-2020

(€ 745 million

in 2015)

Mobility

Mobility to …

28 EU Member States (MS)

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,

Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Estonia, Germany,

Greece, Finland, France,

Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,

Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta,

Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,

Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,

Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

• 12 Associated Countries (AC) to MSCA*

• Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, • Faroe Islands, FYROM, Island, • Israel, Moldova, Montenegro, • Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, • Turkey

• * on 17.12.2015

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

1097 f. 727 f.

540 on

staff exchange

1712 on

staff exchange

# Individual Fellowships: 727 US and 1097 EU

# Projects: more than 867

# Participating organisations: more than 932

# Staff exchanges: 193 organisations in 130 projects, 540 US and 1712 EU exchanged staff (based on seconding location, not on nationality)

How many?

2007-2013

Includes all domains of research and innovation

> 10.600 projects funded (2007-2013)

> 50 000 researchers of 141 nationalities – 23% from Third Countries (2007-2013)

> 84 countries - 49 non MS/AC (2007-2013)

> 19 700 participations of various host organisations – 7.5% from the private sector (2007-2013)

Any nationality

A global scope with international and cross-sector mobility as key components

Open to researchers at all career stages

What actions?

Individual Fellowships

IF experienced researchers 'post-Doc'

Support for experienced researchers to undertake international and inter-sector mobility, incl. career restart and reintegration

Innovative Training Networks

ITN early-stage researchers

'pre-Doc'

Doctoral and initial training: European Training Networks, European Industrial Doctorates, European Joint Doctorates

Co-funding of programmes

COFUND 'pre-Doc'

or 'post-Doc'

Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes: - doctoral programmes (ESR) - fellowship programmes (ER)

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

RISE 'pre-Doc'

or 'post-Doc'

International and inter-sector cooperation through the exchange of staff

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Depends on research experience Experience: Support for 2 categories of researchers: Early Stage Researcher: Less than 4 years of research experience*, and without a doctoral degree ('pre-doc') Experienced Researcher: In possession of a doctoral degree or at least 4 years of research experience* ('post-doc') *counted from the time when the researcher is entitled to embark on a doctoral degree

How to apply?

Post-doc level:

1. Apply for your own fellowship (IF)

or

2. Apply for a position in a programme (COFUND)

1. Apply for your own fellowship (IF)

Directly to the annual IF call for proposals

with a hosting institution in EU or AC that will manage the grant

Experienced researchers

In possession of a doctoral degree, or have 4 years of full-time research experience at the time of the call deadline

For fellows from Europe going to Third countries (12-24 months) and returning (12 months)

Any Experienced Researcher may submit only one proposal to this

call for proposals

For fellows coming to or moving within Europe (12-24 months)

IF European Fellowships - Main Features

Mobility: 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

Evaluated with 8 scientific panels: CHE, ECO, ENG, ENV, LIF, MAT, PHY, SOC

Duration of projects: 1-2 years

Focus on career development, not necessarily experience

Open to hosts from both academic and non-academic sectors

Secondments to / from the non-academic sector: 3 – 6 months

Separate multidisciplinary panels for Career Restart and Reintegration

IF Reintegration Panel

Return and reintegration of researchers into a longer term research position in Europe

Separate multi-disciplinary reintegration panel (RI)

Researchers must be a national or long-term resident of EU or AC

Long term resident: at least 5 consecutive years of research activity

in one or more EU Member State or AC

Mobility rule different: Applicants must not have resided or carried out

their main activity in the country of the host organisation for more than 36

months in the 5 years immediately prior to the call deadline

Mobility into Europe is essential

Research, networking, training costs

800 €

Management and indirect costs

650 €

Living allowance* 4650§ €

Mobility allowance 600§ €

Family allowance 500§ €

The Financial Dimension (IF)

Monthly rates

* Living allowance subject to country correction coefficient

§ Amount quoted is gross amount before deductions

For the researcher For the hosting

organisation

Next IF call: March 2015

Opens: 12 March 2015

Closes: 10 September 2015 @ 17:00:00 Brussels time

Budget: €215m

Apply at Horizon 2020 Participant Portal:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/

To prepare:

Look for a host institute and supervisor (you can only submit one application per call)

Design your research project

Consider appropriate secondment options

Make sure you address all of the Evaluation Criteria in your proposal

Guide for Applicants published when Call opens

Another option: COFUND MSCA COFUND projects offer 'post-doc' positions similar

to the IF

Minimum which hosting organisations should pay their COFUND fellows:

All positions are advertised on the European Researcher Mobility Portal EURAXESS

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/jobs

Remuneration costs Experienced researchers

3675 €

Oliver Schmidtke

• IIF Marie Curie Project: "Migration Policy"

• Professor of Political Science and History, Director of Global Studies,

• Involved in collaborative international research projects focusing on different aspects of immigration and integration in North American and European societies, www.cultural-capital.net).

"I am proud that my Marie Curie IIF fellowship contributed to advancing research partnerships between continents"

Doctoral candidate level

Apply for a position in a programme (ITN or COFUND)

• Job opportunities in a research/doctoral training programme offered by an international network of organisations

• All research domains: CHE, ECO, ENG, ENV, LIF, MAT, PHY, SOC

• Multidisciplinary approach

• Possibility for an industrial doctorate or a joint doctorate

Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

• Training primarily through research on individual, personalised research projects

• Key transferable skills training

• Exposure to the non-academic sector

• Working with the best researchers in Europe and internationally

• Fellowships of 3-36 months

Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

The Financial Dimension (ITN)

Monthly rates

* Living allowance subject to country correction coefficient

§ Amount quoted is gross amount before deductions

For the researcher For the hosting

organisation

Living allowance* 3110§ €

Mobility allowance 600§ €

Family allowance 500§ €

Research, networking, training costs

1800 €

Management and indirect costs

1200 €

Another option: COFUND

MSCA COFUND projects offer PhD candidate-level positions similar to those in an ITN programme

Minimum monthly rate which hosting organisations should pay their COFUND fellows:

Remuneration costs Early-stage researchers

2597 €

All ITN and COFUND positions are advertised on the European Researcher Mobility Portal EURAXESS

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/jobs

Marie Curie ITN: CREAM Joint doctorate: Vrije University of Amsterdam

and the University of Potsdam Research: working on linking chemical stress

measured on individuals to effects at the population level

Now at University of California Santa Barbara.

Ben Martin

• The Marie Curie Fellowships are probably the best funded fellowships for PhD students and postdocs I know of, especially regard mobility. And

the emphasis on mobility is incredibly useful for establishing and maintaining collaborations with the international leaders in your field. Thus, I established collaborations with researchers across Europe and

even back in the United States. • Also, the opportunity to experience living and working in Europe was

one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I think that it is a pretty common experience for graduate students to feel like their PhD will never

end, but for me it went by too fast, like most good holidays.

Thank you

for

your attention!

MSCA website: http://ec.europa.eu/msca

MSCA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Marie.Curie.Actions paul.harris@ec.europa.eu kaisa.hellevuo@ec.europa.eu