Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions in Horizon 2020

Irish Marie Skodowska-Curie Office promotes research training and funding applications in Horizon 2020. RISE fosters knowledge transfer through staff exchange and collaboration across sectors and countries

• Marie Skodowska-Curie
• Horizon 2020
• Research Training
• Staff Exchange
• Knowledge Transfer

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1. MSC ITN & RISE Dr. Jennifer Brennan National Contact Point National Delegate Marie Sk odowska-Curie Actions

2. Marie Skodowska- Curie Actions, an Irish Success Story 97 million Ireland s Take from Horizon 2020 to-date 13.3 million Portion of this secured via MSCA Funding to support research training for postgraduate students 6.3 million <50 Successful Participations in MSCA (16%) 2 #2 performing MS in 2015 ITN Call Data based on Contracts signed as of March 2015

3. Irish Marie Skodowska-Curie Office Sponsored by the Irish Research Council Promote the Actions to Irish researchers and research organisations Support researchers in preparing funding applications Contribute to policy initiatives relevant to the Actions Two staff members: Dr. Suzanne Miller-Delaney (SFI Centres) Dr. Jennifer Brennan

4. Marie Skodowska Curie Actions in Horizon 2020: 6.2 billion budget Training In the Excellence Science Pillar Marie S-Curie Actions Funds ALL RESEARCH AREAS (no thematic calls or priorities) Career Mobility Implemented via Annual Calls for Proposals

5. Two Sectors Academic <-> Non-Academic Academic: consists of public or private higher education establishments awarding academic degrees, public or private non-profit research organisations whose primary mission is to pursue research, and international European interest organisations Non-Academic: includes any socio-economic actor not included in the academic sector and fulfilling the requirements of the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation. e.g. Industry (incl. SMEs), charities, NGOs, government/public bodies, national archives, libraries

6. RISE Research & Innovation Staff Exchange Funding for PIs/Research Orgs ITN Innovative Training Networks Co-financing fellowship or doctoral programmes with transnational mobility COFUND NIGHT European Researchers Night IF Individual Fellowships

7. RISE: Research & Innovation Staff Exchange Promoting transfer of knowledge between countries and sectors Research programme executed by: Secondment of staff between consortium members Networking activities Collaborate with any sector and any country worldwide Lasting up to 48 months 70% success rate (IE) in 2014 Call Staff = research students, postdocs, PIs, technical and managerial staff.

8. Consortium Requirements & Funding Model Minimum consortium 3 participants in 3 countries 1. 2 academic participants plus 1 non-academic (or vice versa) e.g. Irish HEI, UK HEI, French SME 2. 2 European participants plus 1 non-European participant e.g. Irish HEI, UK HEI, South African HEI Costs PER MONTH Top-up Allowance Research, Training, Networking Costs Management/ Indirect Costs MSCA-RISE 2000 1800 700

9. Secondment Requirements Staff must be active at their host for 6 months before secondment Must be reintegrated after secondment (no duration or mechanism specified) Duration 1 month to 1 year (split stays OK) All secondments within Europe (only) must be international & intersectoral

10. Non-European Countries Secondments from Europe to non-European countries are paid for Secondments from most non-European countries* to Europe are paid for, except: Secondments from high-income countries e.g. USA, Brazil must be financed by their own budget All countries are funded to participate in the project s networking/training events * Annex A to the General Work Programme provides a list of countries that can be fully financed by Horizon 2020

11. RISE 2014 Call All European Project WASTCArD - Wrist and arm sensing technologies for cardiac arrhythmias detection in long term monitoring. University of Ulster (UK/NI) WIT (IE) INSA Lyon (FR) Academic Non-Academic Southern Health and Social Care Trust (UK) SD Informatics Ltd. (Croatia) Intelesens Ltd. (UK) 4 countries (all Europe), 3 academic, 3 non-academic

12. RISE 2014 Call International Project IMIXSED - Integrating isotopic techniques with Bayesian modelling for improved assessment and management of global sedimentation problems University of Plymouth (UK) Ghent University (BE) University of Liverpool (UK) CSIC (ES) Europe No secondments within Europe (all academic) Not Europe No secondments between non-European countries Kathmandu University (Nepal) Jimma University (Ethiopia) Scripps Institute (US) 7 countries (3 outside Europe), No non-academic participants

13. RISE: Reasons to get involved Build Links with Research Groups and Industry Worldwide Entry Level to EU funding Build a consortium for future large Horizon 2020 proposals

14. RISE 2016 Opening Sep 2015 Closing Date April 2016

15. ITN: Innovative Training Networks Quality of Research Training Objective: to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative researchers A Research Training Programme for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) Less than 4 years research experience after undergrad

16. A Typical ITN Consortium of organisations from different countries and sectors Propose a joint research programme Recruit researchers across the consortium each researcher has an Individual Research Project Advanced research skills and transferable skills training Networking events Secondments for each researcher to another sector (academic to non-academic, or vice-versa)

17. Participants Two Types PO 1. Beneficiaries: recruit and train researchers 2. Partner Organisations: host short secondments and/or contribute to training activities B PO PO B B C B B B PO PO

18. Mobility Rule To be eligible to join a MSCA ITN a researcher cannot have resided in the country of host organisation for > 12 months in the last 3 years prior to the recruitment/Call deadline. No nationality/citizenship requirements

19. 3 ITN Modes European European Joint Doctorate (EJD) European Training Network (ETN) Industrial Doctorate (EID) Duration 48 Months 2 beneficiaries 2 countries 2 sectors 3 academic beneficiaries 3 countries 3 beneficiaries 3 countries Min. Partner Organisations from any sector (no min or max) ESRs funded 3 to 36 months 5 ESRs* / 15 ESRs 15 ESRs PhD No educational degree reqd. (PhD typical) (50% of time in non- academic sector) Joint/Double PhD * For a two-beneficiary project

20. Consortium Tips and Pitfalls 1 No maximum consortium size 6 to 10 beneficiaries is considered manageable Must have non-academic sector participating (beneficiaries) Ok to have more than one partner from same country but no more than 40% of the budget can go to one country ESRs must be recruited by a named beneficiary One Irish organisation cannot participate on behalf of other members of a Centre/Cluster and recruit the ESRs across the members of the Centre/Cluster All members of the Centre/Cluster must be Beneficiaries

21. Consortium Tips and Pitfalls 2 Ok to include many non-European countries as beneficiaries or partner orgs but high income countries (e.g. US, BRIC) are better off applying as partner orgs. Check to see if there are already funded ITNs in your area http://cordis.europa.eu/search/advanced_en. If there are, need to think what added value yours can bring.

22. 2015 Success Rates ETN EJD EID ALL Coordinator IE Success Rate 14.7% (5) 0.0% (0) 33% (2) 16.3% (7) EU Success Rate 6.3% (83) 9.2% (8) 9.6% (15) 6.8% (108) ETN EJD EID ALL Participant IE Success Rate 8.3% (13) 14.3% (1) 0% (0) 8.1% (14) EU Success Rate n/a n/a n/a n/a Cut off scores for funding typically 93 marks out of 100 (91-92 for EJD/EID)

23. DCU (IE) ITN 2014 Cranfield University (UK) T.E. Laboratories Funded ETN Project: REMEDIATE Improved decision-making in contaminated land site investigation and risk assessment IWW Zentrum Wasser Univ. Duisburg- Essen (DE) QUB (UK/NI) Tech. Univ. Dortmund (DE) Supren GMBH 3.9 million Univ. of Torino (IT) Copenhagen Univ. (DK) 13 Partner Organisations (1 each from US and CA)

24. ITN 2014 Funded EID Project: MET-A-FOR Metabolomic analysis for the forensic detection of drugs of abuse in performance and food producing animals Irish QUB (UK/NI) Laboratory Diagnostics Services Ltd. (IE) 820k No Partner Organisations

25. Bioatlantis Ltd. ITN 2014 (IE) Funded EID Project: CropStrengthen Genetic and molecular priming approaches to increase crop strength and stress tolerance All successful 3-Beneficiary EIDs involved 3 different countries Univ. Potsdam (DE) 1.3 million Enza Zaden R&D B.V. (NL) No Partner Organisations

26. Univ. ITN 2014 Complutense Madrid (ES) Funded EJD Project: EDEN European Dry Eye Network Univ. Valencia (ES) Optegra Mvz Gmbh (DE) Aston Univ. (UK) 2.5 million Wroclaw Polytechnic (PL) 3 Partner Organisations (incl. Bausch and Lomb)

27. Funding Model - ITN

28. Categories of eligible costs Costs of researchers (1) PER MONTH Institutional costs (2) PER MONTH Living allowance (a) Mobility allowance (b) Family allowance (c) Top-up allowance (d) Research, training and networking costs (a) 1 800 Management and indirect costs (b) Marie Sk odowska- Curie action ITN (100%) 3 110 600 500 -- 1 200 Stage Gross Salary (without family) Gross Salary (with family) ESR 39,000 p.a. 44,000 p.a. Max Budget ~ 3.75 million (RTN costs 970k, Management 650k)

29. ITN 2016 Opening Sep 2015 Closing Date Jan 2016

30. Proposal Structure RISE & ITN

31. Part B Administrative Forms (Proposal) http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-msca-itn-2015.html

32. Part B - Proposal Content Download from inside the online application system 1. Excellence 2. Impact 3. Implementation 4. Gantt Chart 5. Capacities of the Participating Organisations (tables) 6. Ethical Aspects 7. Letters of Commitment Overall page limit of 30 pages No section page limits

33. Evaluation RISE & ITN

34. Evaluation Panels Proposals are read by at least 3 disciplinary experts Distribution of budget across Panels is proportional to # of proposals received Chemistry (CHE) Physics (PHY) Mathematics (MAT) Life Sciences (LIF) Economic Sciences (ECO) ICT and Engineering (ENG) Social Sciences & Humanities (SOC) Earth & Environmental Sciences (ENV) ITN EID and EJD multidisciplinary ranking

35. Evaluation Criteria Criterion Weighting Priority (ex-aequo) Excellence 50% 1 Impact 30% 2 Implementation 20% 3 Overall threshold of 70% No individual thresholds

36. The Charter and Code and Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) Embedded in Evaluation Criteria for all MSCA Charter: researchers career management Code: open and transparent recruitment and appraisal If host has endorsed the C&C, include in proposal HRS4R: mainstreaming C&C in institutions Awarded the right to use HR Logo UCD, UL, NUIG, WIT, RCSI and UCC are awardees (to-date) If applicable, should be included in proposal http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/rights/index List of institutions: http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/rights/strategy4ResearcherOrgs

37. How the MSC Office can help www.iua.ie/mariecurie mariecurie@iua.ie Linkedin Email Distribution List (mariecurie@iua.ie) Marie Sk odowska-Curie Office Ireland on Linkedin Dedicated website www.iua.ie/mariecurie YouTube channel MarieCurieActionIre Twitter @mariescurie_ire Linkedin Information Training Webinars for specific Calls (recordings on website and YouTube) Proposal writing workshops for IF Partner Search via the MSCA NCP network worldwide Support

38. Thank you! mariecurie@iua.ie www.iua.ie/mariecurie Marie Sk odowska-Curie Office Ireland MarieCurieActionsIre @Mariescurie_ire cid:image001.png@01CDC329.EC1E8130