Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Your research career in Europe

"Destination Europe"

San Jose, 12 February 2015

Klaus-Günther BARTHEL

Head of Unit

EU Research Executive Agency

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks

What are the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions?

A European Union funded programme for structuring researcher

training, mobility and career development

Objectives

Ensure the optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital

to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation

Budget 2014-2020: € 6.162 billion

What do the MSCA offer you?

• Prestigious career opportunities

• Excellent working conditions: employment contracts, full social security etc.

• Very competitive salaries

• Opportunities to work and train with the best researchers in Europe and worldwide

• Whole career training: complementary skills

• Access to top level conferences, professional associations & Marie Curie Alumni

Who, what and where?

• Who: All levels of research experience from PhD student upwards: there are actions for different levels of experience.

• What: All areas of research are supported: bottom-up approach

• Where: Anywhere: any research performing organisation, public or private worldwide - there are actions for European and international mobility.

As a researcher I want to…

Undertake a project in Europe

Spend my time at leading labs in Europe

Be part of a well-established and prestigious programme

Benefit from good working conditions

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Why?

I want to…

Work with businesses

Be part of a short-term exchange

Bring a researcher from Europe at no cost to my employer

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Why?

Excellence

Research

Training

Innovation

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Optimum development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital

Knowledge Skills

> € 6.1 billion in 2014-2020

Mobility

Why?

Mobility to …

28 EU Member

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*

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

• * on 17.12.2015

Where?

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

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MC fellows Short-term employability

• MC fellowships very effective in improving fellows’ short-term employability.

• MC fellows are more likely (+8%) of obtaining a permanent position after the fellowship.

• MC fellows are more likely to obtain an ERC grant

Retention by hosts • MC fellows more likely to be retained by hosts, especially after long fellowships

(+11% prob.)

Marie Curie researchers and their long-term career development: a comparative study (2014)

Why? Employability

# of US host organisations (International Outgoing Fellowships): 732

# of US participations in International Research Staff Exchange Schemes: 193

1097 727

~540

~1712

Results 2007-13

Global Fellowships

European Fellowships

Reintegration Fellowships

Fellowships to gain PhD

1-12 month staff

exchanges

1-12 month staff

exchanges

2014 results to come

Includes all domains of research and innovation

No nationality restriction; open to researchers at all career stages

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

Level of involvement is proportional to the participant's needs

> 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)

What actions?

Innovative Training Networks

ITN early-stage researchers (< 4 years)

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

Individual Fellowships

IF experienced researchers (> 4 years)

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

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

RISE International and inter-sector cooperation through the exchange of staff

Co-funding of programmes

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

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

How to apply?

Depends on experience and type of mobility 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 res. experience* ("post-doc") *counted from the time when the researcher is entitled to embark on a doctoral degree

Support for two types of mobility: European: moving from outside Europe into Europe moving within Europe Global: moving from Europe to outside of Europe – NB. compulsory return phase of one year (fully funded)

2 ways to be supported:

Apply for your own fellowship

or

Apply to a project

1. Apply for your own fellowship Directly to the

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions with a hosting institution

Experienced researchers

In possession of a doctoral degree, or have 4 years of full-time

research experience at the time of the call deadline

Individual Fellowships

Individual trans-national post-doctoral fellowships for the best and most promising

experienced researchers

Two types depending on the mobility of the researcher

Within or into Europe - European Fellowships

Outside Europe - Global Fellowships

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 Topics European and Global

• 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

• Any scientific domain: 8 scientific panels covering all possible

research subjects: CHE, ECO, ENG, ENV, LIF, MAT, PHY, SOC

• Duration of projects: 1-2 years

• Focus on career development

• Open to hosts from both academic and non-academic sectors

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

• Strengthening networking capabilities both for researchers and for

organisations involved

• Separate multidisciplinary panels for Career Restart and

Reintegration

Main Features

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 a Member State (MS)/Associate Country (AC)

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

in one or more MS/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§ €

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

The Financial Dimension

Monthly rates

* Living allowance subject to country correction coefficient

§ Amount quoted is gross amount before deductions

Next call: March 2015

Opens: 12 March 2015

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

Budget: €215m

Are you eligible?

Experienced researcher of any nationality

International mobility within or into EU Member States (MS) and Associated Countries (AC)

Meet the mobility rule: 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

NB: check different mobility rules for Career Restart and Reintegration panels.

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

Think about the proposal in the context of the

Evaluation Criteria (see Work Programme available

on the Participant Portal and Guide for Applicants for

the most recent call

Guide for Applicants published with the Call

2. Apply to a project

Doctoral student level

• Research training for obtaining a PhD

• transnational network in multi/interdisciplinary & emerging fields

• training primarily through research on individual, personalised research projects

• complemented by substantial training modules in key transferable skills

• Exposure to the non-academic sector as elementary part of the training

• Working with the best researchers in Europe and internationally

• Fellowships of 3-36 months

Innovative Training Networks

• Exposure to the non-academic sector as elementary part of the training

• Joint supervision with business (including SMEs) or other non-ac. partners

• Project of up to 4 years duration and fellowships of 3-36 months

Main Features

Research, networking, training costs

1800 €

Management and indirect costs

1200 €

Living allowance 3110 €

Mobility allowance

600 €

Family allowance 500 €

How to apply for a fellowship

• All projects publish their vacancies on the Marie Curie website,

Euraxess, NatureJobs, etc.

• !!! Check the MSCA website frequently !!!

• Funding levels defined by the MSCA - employment contracts with full

social security

• Duration: max 3 year PhD training

2. Apply to a

doctoral student and post-doc

Cofunded Call

Cofunding of regional, national and

international doctoral and fellowship

programmes

Why: to stimulate the regional, national or international programmes to

foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career

development i.e. to spread the best practices of the MSCA

- Opportunities for researchers from all countries

- Researchers comply with the mobility rules of the MSCA

- Open and transparent: calls/vacancies widely publicised

for a doctoral position or a fellowship • Known calls are always listed on EURAXESS, Nature Jobs and of course,

in the MSCA Website! !!! Check the MSCA website frequently !!!

• Future calls will be advertised there also

• Eligibility depends on the call - consult the documentation carefully

• The financial dimension: what is the minimum which hosting institutions

should pay their COFUND fellows:

*minimum total costs related to the employment of the fellows

Management costs 325 €

Remuneration* costs Early-stage

researchers

2597 €

Remuneration costs Experienced

researchers

3675 €

How to apply

Meet our fellows

Marie Curie ITN: CREAM Joint doctorate: Free 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 regarding 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.

Brennan Bailey

"What exactly has made my research experience in Europe so wonderful? A combination of things, including the collaborative spirit of the project I am working within, the ease of travel from country to country, the willingness of colleagues to invite me into their countries and homes, the challenge of a new culture and language, and the freedom and challenge to design and execute a research project in a new lab setting. This experience has enabled so many new and exciting adventures in my work and in my life!"

• From Texas • Doing a postdoc at École Polytechnique Fédérale

(EPFL) in Lausanne • Research: Studying how to fabricate electrically

conductive epoxy capable of restoring electrical conductivity, and mechanical and barrier properties upon damage.

• Marie Curie project: Superior www.superior-network.eu

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"

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Participant Portal:

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

EURAXESS European Researchers Mobility Portal:

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