Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in H2020
June 2017
What are the Marie
Skłodowska Curie Actions?
Research projects aiming to ensure the optimum
development and dynamic use of Europe’s
intellectual capital to generate:
• new skills
• knowledge
• innovation
MSCA have supported 100,000 researchers so far
and have set standards in terms of working
conditions for researchers in Europe
• Budget 2014-2020: € 6.162 billion
Categories of organisations
participating in MSCA
actions
Academic sector
 public /private higher education establishments
awarding academic degrees
 public /private non-profit research organisations
whose primary mission is to pursue research
 international European interest organisations (e.g. CERN, EMBL)
Non-academic sector
 any entity not included in the academic sector:
 e.g. large companies, SMEs, NGOs, museums, hospitals
 international organisations (e.g. UN, WHO)
Standardised legal validation of entities is applied to determine
the category of each beneficiary
ITN – Innovative training
Networks
• International, multidisciplinary networks of organisations
• Any scientific domain*
• Recruiting of only Early-Stage Researchers who must
establish a Career Development Plan for their Training
together with their Supervisors
• Duration up to 48 months
* except areas of research covered by the EURATOM Treaty
ITN-
implementation modes
ETN
EID
EJD
European
Training
Networks
European
Industrial
Doctorates
European
Joint
Doctorates
Participants implement a joint
research training programme
Doctoral training with the
non-academic sector
Universities cooperate to
deliver joint degrees
370 M€
28 M€
32 M€
Min. 3 beneficiaries
from any sector
from 3 different
MS/AC
Min. 2 beneficiaries
from 2 different
MS/AC:
1 academic + 1 nonacademic sector
Min. 3 beneficiaries
from academic
sector, awarding
PhD from 3 different
MS/AC
ITN- Researchers
1. Only Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs):
≤ 4 years of research experience
no PhD yet (at the recruitment time)
2. Mandatory trans-national mobility
at the time of recruitment.
3. Any nationality
Contract of employment: 3 to 36 months
after the project starts
Researcher-months: requested in proposals
Marie
SkłodowskaCurie Action
ITN- Unit costs
Innovative
Training
Networks
Researcher unit cost
person/month
Living
allowance*
3,110
Mobility
allowance
600
Family
allowance
500
Institutional unit cost
person/month
Research,
Management
training and
and indirect
networking
costs
costs
1,800
1,200
IF 2017: Modes & Budget
EF
GF
European
Fellowships
Global
Fellowships
held in EU Member States or
Associated Countries
based on a secondment
to a third country
205M€
33 M€
Call Deadline:
Evaluation:
Launch Grant preparation:
Starting dates (estimation):
14 Sept. 2017
Oct. – Nov. 2017
Feb. 2018
1 Mar 2018 – 1 Sept 2019
Mobility Rule
• European Fellowships: 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
• For career restart, reintegration, Society & Enterprise specific conditions (36 months in 5 years)
• Global Fellowships: 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
CARD Career reintegration
The researcher must have undertaken a career break in research
i.e. must not have been active in research for at least 12
months immediately prior to the deadline for submission of proposals
(15/09/16-14/09/17).
Active in research: determined on the basis of :
A. fellowships or
B. employment contracts
Professional status to be clearly explained in the proposal, both in
part A and B: e.g. unemployment, parental/sick leave, no
fellowship/employment contract in research
Society & Enterprise Panel
D
(SE) panel
• The researcher may be of any nationality
• Mobility rule must be respected
• The beneficiary must be from the non-academic sector
•
•
Exemple IF
An Italian
researcher who has
lived in Romania for
10 months
Eligible for a
fellowship in
Romania
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual
Fellowship
IF –unit costs
* Living allowance subject to country correction coefficient
§
Amount quoted is gross amount before deductions
The RISE scheme
supports
Projects which
promote staff
exchanges between:

MS/AC and TC
(international)

Intra European
(MS/AC) intersectorial (academic
and non-academic
sectors)
What is a typical
project in RISE?
• Typical RISE partnership has 8-10 organisations,
but no upper limit
• Project is:
• Built on joint research and innovation activities
• Implemented through secondment of staff (i.e. NOT
recruitment)
• Maximum 4 year duration
What does RISE fund?
• Eligible Secondments for staff member:
• Minimum of 1 month and maximum 12 months
• Can be split into several stays over granting period
• Maximum 540 person months
Staff member
• Engaged/linked to research & innovation
activities of sending organisation
• "Staff" for 6 months before the secondment
• Committed to return to complete knowledge
transfer activities to sending organisation