Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Innovative Training Networks
Thorbjørn Gilberg & Per Magnus Kommandantvold
NTNU 03.02.2014
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Horizon 2020
Excellent Science
Competitive
Industries
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Pillar 1: Excellent Science
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Key features
 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
 Focus on training and career development
 Particular attention to gender balance
 2014-2015: 10 calls foreseen
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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
 Early stage researcher (ESR)/Experienced researcher (ER)
 Staff members in RISE
 Mobility rules maintained (new Reintegration Panel
incorporated in the rules)
 Portability of IF grants (secondments)
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
Main EU programme for structured doctoral training
Objective
 to raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training
 to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative
early-stage researcher
Scope
 European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates
(EID) or European Joint Doctorates (EJD)
 Triple 'i' dimension of mobility and particular focus on innovation
skills (International, Inter-sectoral, Intradisciplinary)
 Support to ESR for 3-36 months
 Minimum eligibility condition: network of 3 participants (exception:
EID with 2 participants only)
Expected Impact
 to enhance researchers' employability and provide them with new
career perspectives
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Typical ITN activities
 Research and training activities
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Research training
Courses and workshops
Network activities
Visiting researchers
Transferrable skills (!)
Participation by researcher in organisation of activities
Secondments are encouraged. Max. 30%
Networking
Communication, dissemination
Public engagement
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Key aspects
 Project duration 48 months, recruitment period 3-36
months for ESR (EID and EJD 36 months only)
 540 researcher months maximum per project
(180 in EID with only two beneficiaries)
 Dedicated budget for EID (25,5) and EJD (30). 405 in
total.
 8 panels (EJD/EID will be ranked in multidisciplinary
panels)
 Max. 40 % of budget to one country
 Mobility rule: The recruited researcher cannot have had
his/her main activity in host country for more than 12
months during the last 36 months at
deadline/recruitment date
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Key aspects continued
 Supervisory board (all beneficiaries +) NB! Gender
balance + ESR repr.
 Consortium agreement (EID required)
 Charter and Code
 Personal Career Development Plans
 Training follows EU Principles for Innovative
Doctoral Training
 Max 30 pages
 Remember to read both WP and GfA
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Initial training networks where NTNU
participate or coordinate:
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http://www.wavetrain2.eu/
http://research.ncl.ac.uk/sushgen/sushgen.html
wind_in_sea itn
http://www.iiios.eu/
http://www.euro-impact.eu/
http://www.itn-lcg.psy.unibe.ch/content/index_eng.html
NETADIS ITN
http://www.marewint.eu/
http://www.spinicur.org/
http://www.ntnu.edu/lanpercept
http://www.itk.ntnu.no/tempo/
ABYSS ITN
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Example of a European Training Network
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Host and secondment
training
1/2
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Project management
Communication skills
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Research training
schools
Career development
Conferences
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Example of a European Training Network
2/2
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Example of a European Industrial doctorate
Joint
selection
Joint
training
Joint
supervision
≥ 50 %
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Example of a European Joint doctorate
Joint
Selection,
supervision,
Assesment
Governance
structure
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Evaluation/award criteria
 In line with all other programmes in H2020
 Set out in Art. 14 of the Horizon 2020 Rules for
Participation
 3 award criteria:
 Excellence (50% weighting)
 Impact (30% weighting)
 Implementation (20% weighting)
 All elements of the criteria similar for all MSCA, identical
wording for impact towards the programme objectives
 More clarifications in the Part B of the Guide for
Applicants for each action
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Evaluation/award criteria (ITN)
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Remuneration: 100% acc.to unit costs
Researcher unit cost**
Institutional unit cost**
person/month
person/month
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SkłodowskaCurie Action
Living
allowance*
Innovative
Training
Networks
Individual
Fellowships
Mobility
allowance
Family
allowance
Research, Management
training and and indirect
networking
costs
costs
600
500
1 800
1 200
600
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800
650
3 110
(NO: 4105)
4 650
* A country correction coefficient applies to the living allowance. This coefficient is the one applicable
to the country of the researcher’s host organisation as listed in Table 4.
** These unit costs will be subject to a funding rate of 100% (Article 22.4 Rules for Participation).
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
 Objective
 to promote international and inter-sector collaboration through
research and innovation staff exchanges
 to foster a shared culture of research and innovation
 Scope
 International and inter-sector collaboration and transfer of
knowledge
 Joint research and innovation project
 Secondments of staff members for 1-12 months
 Minimum eligibility condition: participants in 3 different countries (at
least 2 MS/AC)
 Within Europe: only inter-sector secondments
 No secondments between institutions located outside Europe or
within the same MS/AC
 Expected Impact
 to strengthen the interaction between organisations in the academic
and non-academic sectors, and between Europe and third countries
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RISE – Exchanges
MS/AC
MS/AC
Academia
Academia
Nonacademia
Nonacademia
TC
Academia
Nonacademia
Remuneration RISE: 100% staff member u.c.
Institutional unit cost**
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SkłodowskaCurie Action
Staff member unit cost**
Top-up allowance
person/month
Research and
Innovation
Staff Exchange
person/month
2 000
Research,
training and
networking
costs
Management
and indirect
costs
1 800
700
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Calls 2014
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And calls coming in 2015
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How to apply?
 2014 call published on the new call page
Participants Portal
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PES2020: support to write applications for
H2020
Budget in 2014: NOK 39 mill
Support is limited to 50% of incured costs
From NOK 15 000 – 300 000
Minimum requirement is an eligible application
Additional support for the best applications over
threshold and for contract negotiations
 NTNU has a lump sum for PES2020
 http://www.forskningsradet.no/pes2020
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REA: Web-streamed training on ITN and
RISE
 Web–streaming from Wednesday 15. January 2014
is still available on:
 http://scic.ec.europa.eu/streaming/index.php?es=
2&sessionno=e6cc48e3a8db9b618592a86a579601
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Relevant web pages
 Calls:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opp
ortunities/index.html
 MSCA:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020section/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-actions
 Funding for researchers:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/area/fundingresearchers
 EURAXESS:
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/general/index
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions:
Contacts:
 Thorbjørn GILBERG,
Division of Science
[email protected], ph. 22037433
 Per Magnus KOMMANDANTVOLD,
International staff,
[email protected], ph. 22037459
@MarieCurie_NCP
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