Mobility and skills development
for researchers in the EU
Bodo Richter
Deputy Head of Unit, DG EAC.C3
Marie Curie Actions
CESAER Seminar 2012
Delft, 18 October 2012
Education
and Culture
Date: in 12 pts
Agenda
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Marie Curie Actions in FP7
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Marie Curie achievements
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The EU programme for researcher skills
development and mobility
CESAER participation
Evolution of number of submissions &
grants
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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Objectives and rationale
Key features
New actions - Building on past experience
and recent developments
CESAER position on Horizon 2020 proposal
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Basics
Marie Curie Actions
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Significant series of EU fellowship programmes for researchers’
mobility since 1990 (FP3)
Marie Curie label since 1996 (~60.000 fellows to date)
Actions aimed at structuring training, mobility and career
development for researchers
Under FP7, implemented through the People Programme (20072013)
Pierre and Marie Curie honeymoon, 1895
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Key features
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Bottom-up approach
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Mobility, both transnational & intersectoral
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Main EU programme providing structured doctoral training,
including industrial doctorates
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Opening research careers at European & international level
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Enhanced business-academia collaboration & staff
exchange
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Excellent employment & working conditions, in line with
the EU Charter and Code for Researchers
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MCA &
EU2020 Strategy
Europe 2020 Flagship Initiatives
Innovation
Union
• 1 million more researchers
• Attract and train young
people to become
researchers
• Improve quality of doctoral
training
• Involve businesses in
doctoral training
Youth
On the
Move
Agenda
for New
Skills and
Jobs
• Attractiveness of European
universities
• Equip researchers
with relevant skills
that will match both
public and private
sector needs
• Stronger links between
education, research and
innovation
• Improve career
prospects of doctoral
candidates
• Promote researchers
mobility across sectors,
countries and disciplines
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MCA in FP7
Marie Curie Action
Initial training
of researchers
(1900 M€)
Life-long
training
and career
development
(1170–1400 M€)
Industry
dimension
(250-450 M€)
International
dimension
World fellowships
(1170–1400 M€)
Objective
Initial Training Networks (ITN)
Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)
Career Integration Grants (CIG)
Co-funding of regional, national,
international programmes (COFUND)
Industry-Academia Partnerships and
Pathways (IAPP)
International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)
International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
International Research Staff Exchange
Scheme (IRSES)
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Improve career perspectives of
early stage researchers (ESR) in both
public & private sector
Career development of experienced
researchers (ER) (e.g. diversification of
skills/competencies; integrate a stable
position after mobility)
Open and foster dynamic pathways
between public research
organisations and private research
commercial enterprises
Reinforce the extra-European
dimension of the European Research
Area (ERA) through mobility, training,
knowledge transfer and cooperation
MCA in FP7
Profile of recruited
researchers
Who can
apply to what?
Senior Post-docs
(MER*)
> 10 years
Individual
researchers
Research
funding bodies
IEF
IOF
IAPP
IIF
Post-docs (ER*)
> 4 years or PhD
Research
Organisations
CIG
IRSES
ITN
Post-graduates
(ESR*)
< 4 years + no PhD
*ESR: Early Stage Researcher / ER: Experienced Researchers / MER: More Experienced Researcher
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COFUND
MCA in FP7
WP 2013 Calls for Proposals Last Calls of FP7
Total budget ~M€ 960
• ITN
10/07/2012 - 22/11/2012
M€471
• COFUND
10/07/2012 - 05/12/2012
M€115
• IAPP
02/10/2012 - 16/01/2013
M€81
• IRSES
10/07/2012 - 17/01/2013
M€30
• CIG
18/10/2012 - 07/03 + 18/09/2013
M€40
• IEF
14/03/2013 - 20/08/2013
M€134
• IOF
14/03/2013 - 20/08/2013
M€45
• IIF
14/03/2013 - 20/08/2013
M€45
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/
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MCA in FP7
Current opportunities for
researchers
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EURAXESS mobility portal
 http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index_en.cfm
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Evolution of MCA
participation
Host-driven Actions
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Evolution of MCA
participation
Individual Fellowships
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CESAER participation
Regarding the members of CESAER
Directors Board (14 institutions):
• 36.5 million EUR, 127 grants in
Engineering & Information
Sciences
• Including the following three
examples…
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Two networks
One individual fellowship
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CESAER participation
2007 ITN: WAVETRAIN 2
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Initial training network for wave energy
research professionals
From October 2008 until June 2012
EU contribution: 3.6 million EUR
Coordinator - WAVE ENERGY CENTRE CENTRO DE ENERGIA DAS ONDAS PORTUGAL
12 participants, including:
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TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT (0.3 million EUR)
AALBORG UNIVERSITET( 0.24 million EUR)
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CESAER participation
2009 IAPP: TIRE-DYN
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Experimental and Numerical Analyses of the
Dynamic Behavior of Rolling Tires in order to
Improve the Tire Modeling Accuracy
From September 2010 until August 2014
EU contribution: 0.7 million EUR
Coordinator - KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
LEUVEN (0.2 million EUR)
2 participating firms in Luxembourg &
Belgium
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CESAER participation
2008 IIF: DAPOMAN
• Directed assembly of polymeric
materials nanofabrication
• From June 2009 until November 2010
• EU contribution: 0.16 million EUR
• Coordinator - UNIVERSIDAD
POLITECNICA DE MADRID
• Fellow was an American citizen
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FP7 MCA Achievements
- 60 000 researchers financed since the
creation of the Marie Curie Actions
Bottom-up approach
Life Sciences
27%
- More than 10 000 PhD supported in FP7
- Marie Curie researchers coming from all
over the world
COFUND
8%
Economics 2%
Information Science
and Engineering
17%
- Marie Curie host organisations in more
than 80 countries
Mathematics
3%
Social Sciences
and Humanities
9%
Chemistry
10%
Environmental and
Geo-sciences
11%
Physics
13%
Budget distribution by scientific panel
in FP7 (bottom up approach)
- 46% of researchers coming to EU from
industrialised countries stay in Europe
after the end of the IIF fellowship
- 38% women participation in FP7 MCA,
close to the 40% target
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FP7 MCA Achievements
Ageing Population
€36m; 2%
Climate change
€106m; 6%
Energy shortage
€177m; 9%
Food supply
€77m; 4%
- SMEs play a major role: in IAPP and
ITN they account for more than 50%
of all businesses participating
- Bridging the academia-business gap:
~8.000 secondments / recruitments in
~750 FP7 MCA projects
Other
€911m; 49%
Health
€534m; 28%
Water supply
€32m; 2%
- More than 50% of the budget
dedicated to research on societal
challenges
Budget dedicated to societal challenges under
FP7 MCA (2007-2011)
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
Horizon 2020
Europe 2020 priorities
International cooperation
European Research Area
Shared objectives and principles
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes
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Simplified access
Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security, sustainable agriculture,
marine and maritime research, and the
bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw
materials
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
Industrial Leadership
 Leadership in enabling and industrial
technologies (ICT, nano, materials, bio,
manufacturing, space)
 Access to risk finance
 Innovation in SMEs
Excellent Science
 European Research Council
 Future and Emerging Technologies
 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions on skills, training and
career development
 Research infrastructures
Supporting the objectives:
European Institute for Innovation and Technology
Joint Research Centre
Dissemination &
knowledge transfer
MSCA Objective
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Main objective
Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s
intellectual capital in order to generate new skills and innovation
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Rationale
 Encourage new, creative types of training
 Identify excellent talents in research and innovation in
international competition
 Make best researchers in Europe and the world work together
across countries, sectors and disciplines
 Create a whole new mind-set in Europe, crucial for
entrepreneurship and innovation
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MSCA – Key Features
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Bottom-up approach
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Supporting researchers careers
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Fostering key skills and competences
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Mobility, both trans-national and inter-sectoral
 Opening research careers at European and international level
 Enhanced business-academia collaboration and staff exchange
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Excellent employment and working conditions, in line with the EU Charter
and Code for Researchers
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Role model with pronounced structuring effect on regional, national and
other international programmes
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MSCA – Key Features
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Broad definition of industry involvement: participation of businesses
(including SMEs) and other socio-economic actors
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Internal H2020 synergies with other part of Excellent Science, societal
challenges, industrial technologies, EIT
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Developing synergies with Erasmus for All programme
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Gender balance and equal opportunities
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Strong emphasis on outreach activities and communicating research
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MSC Actions
ITN
(including EID and IDP)
IEF
IOF
IIF
CIG
IAPP
IRSES
COFUND
Action 1
Early-stage
Researchers
Doctoral and initial training of researchers
proposed by international networks of
organisations from public and private
sectors
Action 2
Experienced
Researchers
Individual fellowships for most promising
experienced researchers to develop their
skills through international or inter-sector
mobility
Action 3
Exchange of
Staff
Action 4
COFUND
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International and inter-sector cooperation
through the exchange of research and
innovation staff
Co-funding of regional, national and
international programmes
Innovative Training
Networks (ITN)
MSCA - main EU programme for structured doctoral training
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Dedicated to early-stage researchers (no ER recruitment)
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Involving wide partnership of institutions from academic and
non-academic sectors
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Based on FP7 ITNs experience + support to joint doctorates
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Addressing triple 'i' dimension of mobility
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Combining scientific excellence with innovation-oriented
approach
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Developing entrepreneurship and skills matching research
labour market needs
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Enhancing employability of researchers
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Individual Fellowships
(IF)
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Opportunities for international and intersector mobility of ER to facilitate career
moves
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Enhance competences and creative potential
of best researchers, European and nonEuropean willing to work in the EU
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Encompass intra-European, incoming,
outgoing mobility and re-integration
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Possibility of inter-sector secondments
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Research and Innovation
Staff Exchange (RISE)
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New type of exchange of staff action to stimulate transfer of
knowledge
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Flexible inter-sector (within Europe) and international (with 3rd
countries) exchanges of highly skilled research and innovation staff
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No recruitment foreseen
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Single eligibility rule for partnership consortia
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Based on a common research project
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COFUND
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Stimulating regional, national and international programmes
to foster excellence
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Spreading best practices of MSCA in terms of international
mobility, research training, career development
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Extended to doctoral training
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Building on experience from FP7 COFUND – evaluation
results available:
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COFUND is enhancing the international dimension of a number of national
and regionally-based fellowship programmes in ways that are not open to
Individual Fellowships
Modest positive impact on operational and administrative procedures of
host institutions (COFUND)
Contributing to a gradual ‘levelling up’ in employment conditions for
researchers
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Position of the Council
and the Parliament
Council Partial General Approaches on H2020 Regulation (May 2012) and Rules
for Participation (October 2012):
MSCA:
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Impact across the programme on the innovativeness of the private sector
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Importance of (re)integration
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Extension of co-funding, involve private sector
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Synergies with Erasmus for All, Structural Funds, EIT KICs
EP draft reports on the H2020 package:
MSCA:
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Call for increase of budget
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Specific measures to remove obstacles to the mobility of female researchers
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Support for outgoing mobility followed by return to Europe
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"Seal of excellence" on positively evaluated projects (not funded)
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6 month limit on Time To Grant
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Committee vote at end of November 2012
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Position of CESAER
on Horizon 2020
Points relating to MSCA
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'CESAER stresses the importance to strengthen the complementarity with
the ERC'
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FP6 MARIE CURIE GRANTEES HAVE A BETTER-THAN-AVERAGE SUCCESS RATE
IN ERC GRANTS
'The budget for the Marie Curie Actions (MCA) is by far too moderate and
does not adequately consider the key role of the MCA and the continued
strong demand this scheme is enjoying'
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THE COFUND SCHEME IS LIKELY TO BE EXTENDED, THUS MORE RESEARCHERS
WILL BE GIVEN HIGH-QUALITY TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
'An adequate balance has to be ensured between the budgets of the EIT
that still has to prove its potential and other important programme lines
such as the Marie Curie Actions that have a proven long-term track record'
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EIT AND MSCA WILL HAVE SYNERGIES – FOR EXAMPLE, A KNOWLEDGE AND
INNOVATION COMMUNITY COULD APPLY TO MSCA TO SUPPORT A DOCTORAL
TRAINING PROGRAMME
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Marie Curie Actions Website
http://ec.europa.eu/mariecurieactions
Horizon 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
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