Overview of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) with focus on Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) in relation to EU-Japan cooperation

Aleksandra SCHOETZ-SOBCZAK

Project Officer

Research Executive Agency - European Commission

Tokyo, 16th of September 2016

• MSCA

• RISE

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

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?

• Career opportunities

• Excellent working conditions

• 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 researcher 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.

ITN - Innovative Training Networks

• European Training Networks (ETN)

• European Industrial Doctorates (EID)

• European Joint Doctorates (EJD):

ITN - Innovative Training Networks

Who can apply:

• Organisation (universities, research centres or companies that proposes a research training network)

• Individuals (can apply for specific positions created by these networks -> EURAXESS)

ITN - Innovative Training Networks

What does ITN cover:

• recruitment and training

• research costs

• management and overhead costs

IF - Individual Fellowships

• European Fellowships • Global Fellowships

IF - Individual Fellowships

Who can apply:

• best, most promising individual researchers • experienced researchers only

IF - Individual Fellowships

What does IF cover:

• allowance to cover living, travel and family costs

• the research costs and overheads of the host organisation(s)

COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes • This action is for organisations that

fund or manage doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes for researchers.

COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes What does COFUND covers:

• allowance to cover living, travel and family costs

• the research costs and overheads of the host organisation(s)

Upcoming calls

ITN IF RISE COFUND Call just opened: 15/09/2016

Call will be opened: 11/04/2017

Called will be opened: 01/12/2016

Called opened: 14/04/2016

Deadline: 10/01/2017 17:00:00

Deadline: 14/09/2017 17:00:00

Deadline: 05/04/2017 17:00:00

Deadline: 29/09/2016

MSCA website:

http://ec.europa.eu/msca

MSCA on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Marie.Curie.Actions

Participant Portal:

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

EURAXESS European Researchers Mobility Portal:

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

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

- Joint research and innovation activities

- Academic and/or non-academic participants

- Secondment of staff (no recruitments)

- Mobility: trans-national and/or inter-sectoral

Opening research careers at European and international level

Enhanced business-academia collaboration and staff exchange

- Bottom-up approach, 8 evaluation panels

Purpose of RISE

Who can participate in RISE?

• All Countries

• Staff from all nationalities

• All institutions which fulfil the requirements of the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation

- EU Member States

- Overseas Countries and Territories linked to the MS (As defined on page 3 of General Annex A to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017)

- Horizon 2020 Associated Countries (In principle, the same as FP7, but subject to the adoption of

the association agreements)

- Third Countries listed (On page 3 of General Annex A to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017)

Academic Sector

- Higher education establishments (public or private)

- Non-profit research organizations (public or private)

- International European interest organizations (CERN, EMBL,…)

Non-Academic Sector

- All other organizations by default (SMEs, NGOs, museums, etc.)

All actors are classified in one of the two sectors on the basis of a validated Participant Identification Code (PIC) via URF (Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation).

Beneficiaries are established in a MS/AC

- Are responsible for the execution of the programme

- Signature of the Declaration of Honour

- Signature of the Grant Agreement

- Signature of the Consortium Agreement (mandatory from 2016 on)

- Claiming costs

Partner Organisations are established in a TC

- Do not sign the Grant Agreement and do not claim costs

- LR signs a letter of commitment (including financial commitment) at the proposal stage

! Partnership Agreement (between all participants) strongly recommended

Eligible Staff Members

- Actively engaged in or linked to research/innovation activities for at least 6 months prior to first secondment

- Types of staff members:

• ESR (no PhD and < 4 years experience)

• ER (PhD or > 4 years experience)

• Managerial staff

• Administrative or Technical staff

- In-built return mechanism

Minimum Eligibility Conditions

- At least 3 independent participants in 3 different countries

- At least 2 participants from 2 different MS/AC

- If all in MS/AC: at least 1 academic and 1 non-academic (intersectoral)

In practice, 2 possible minimum settings (or a combination of the 2):

Academic

MS/AC 1 MS/AC 2

Non-Academic

TC + + or

MS/AC 1 MS/AC 2 + + MS/AC 3

1.

2.

Non-academia

Non-academia

Academia Academia

MS/AC TC

Secondments from a TC to a MS/AC are not always eligible for EU funding.

!

MS/AC 1

MS/AC 2

VIVOIMAG 645757

NANOREMOVAS 645024

will develop and implement a pilot plant

for the remote treatment of arsenic polluted waters based

on the application of advanced multifunctional nanostructured materials,

already tested at the laboratory level. The project includes the

cooperation between the industry and academia of partners from Europe and

Argentina.

INTI

UNMDP INNOVA BIC

KTH

UAB 9

36

2

8

5

2 3

1

3

8

AERIS 3

17

12

13

6 6

5

2 4

2

6

• Total EC Contribution = 688,500 EUR / 48 months

• Total eligible researcher months = 153

Obligations towards staff (article 32 of GA): Reminder of some obligations:

- Respect of European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the

Recruitment of Researchers

- Rights and obligations shall remain unchanged during secondment (ex: salary)

- Mandatory re-integration after secondment

- Medical insurance and working conditions

- Information about rights and obligations linked to the secondment

- Assistance in administrative procedures

- Full use of staff member costs to cover their travel /subsistence costs

Best practice: inform/instruct the staff thouroughly

before the secondment

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Horizon 2020 - Grant Agreement

Article 38:

- The beneficiaries must promote the action and its results, by providing targeted information to multiple audiences (including the media and the public) in a strategic and effective manner.

- Before engaging in a communication activity expected to have a major media impact, the beneficiaries must inform the Commission/Agency.

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Communication in the H2020 project lifecycle

Proposal

• Work package for communication (or in another work package)

• Comprehensive communication plan

Evaluation

Taken into consideration as part of the criterion "impact"

Reporting

Overview of the progress must also describe the communication activities

Project Management

Beneficiaries: need to inform Agency prior to activity with major media impact

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Horizon 2020 - Grant Agreement

Acknowledgement of EU funding (Article 38.1.2)

Use EU emblem

http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/flag/

Use text as indicated in GA

This project has received funding from the [European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme][Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018] under grant agreement No [number].

EU Contribution

Marie

Skłodowska-Curie

Action

Staff member unit

cost *

person/month

Top-up allowance

Institutional unit cost *

person/month

Research, training

and networking

costs

Management

and indirect

costs

Research and

Innovation Staff

Exchange

2.000 1.800 700

Unit costs per researcher per month of eligible secondment

*These unit costs are subject to a funding rate of 100% and no country coefficients apply.

Not reimbursed

- Secondments between institutions located within the same MS/AC or the same TC

- Secondments between two academic or between two non-academic organisations located in different MS/AC

- Secondments between organisations located in different TC

- Secondments to a MS/AC from organisations located in a TC not eligible for funding according to the Annex A to the Work Programme

- In practice, the unfunded countries are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, United States

Secondments from Japan to EU

- Secondments to a MS/AC from organisations located in Japan are not eligible for funding according to the Annex A to the Work Programme

Secondments from EU to Japan

- Japanese partners are allowed to receive a contribution covering the “institutional costs” incurred during a secondment from a EU beneficiary to a Japanese partner

- Institutional costs correspond to 2.500 EUR per person/month subject to the internal agreements concluded by the Japanese partners and the EU beneficiaries of the project

- This amount shall be transferred to the Japanese partner by the EU beneficiaries and not directly by REA

- The Japanese partners are invited to negotiate clear governing rules with the EU beneficiaries to define the timing and the modalities under which the “institutional costs” will be transferred to them

Examples

- EU beneficiaries transfer to Japanese partners the share of institutional costs prior to each secondment

- EU beneficiaries transfer to Japanese partners the share of institutional costs after each secondment

- EU beneficiaries transfer to Japanese partners the share of institutional costs in different instalments

- EU beneficiaries can also agree to retain part of the institutional costs to finance general networking events linked to the project in Japan

Administrative requirements for Japanese partners - PIC - Participant Identification Code

- Up-to-date letter of commitment, signed by the legal

representative, to demonstrate a real and active participation in the proposed network including a financial commitment

- No grant agreement signature necessary

- Partnership agreement strongly recommended

Participation of Japan

in RISE projects

- statistics

Conclusion about RISE - More global interactions

- More knowledge and ideas converted into products and services

- Enhanced cooperation and transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines

- More inter-sector employment, e.g. between academia and industry

- Improved personnel mobility and employment

- Equal opportunities

- Pleasant working environment

Results of the evaluation: 5 months after the call deadline Signing of grant agreements: 8 months after the call deadline

Call deadlines

RISE

Called will be opened: 01/12/2016

Deadline: 05/04/2017 17:00:00

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Website

http://ec.europa.eu/mariecurieactions

Horizon 2020

http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020

Participant Portal (applications)

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html

Aleksandra.SCHOETZ-SOBCZAK@ec.europa.eu