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Marie Skłodowska -Curie Actions under Horizon 2020

Education and Culture

Barbara RhodeHead of S&T Section, EU Delegation in Japan

Sapporo, 29 October, 2013

Nobel Prize Physics 1903 and Chemistry 1 911

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• Bottom-up approach

• Supporting researchers careers and fostering key skills and competences

• Mobility , both trans-national and inter-sectoral

� Opening research careers at European and international level

� Enhanced business-academia collaboration and staff exchange

• Excellent employment and working conditions , in line with the EU Charter and Code for Researchers

• Gender balance and equal opportunities

• Emphasis on outreach activities and communicating research

• Role model with pronounced structuring effect on regional, national and other international programmes

MSCA – Key Features

28 countries = European Union500 Million population

together they form the largest economy

28 EU Member States

FP7 + Associated States = 40• Iceland• Norway

• Switzerland• Liechtenstein

•Turkey• Albania

• FYROM (Macedonia)• Montenegro

• Serbia• Bosnia Herzegovina

• Israel• Faroer Islands

Associated Countries contributing t o FP7

7th EU Research Framework Programme

Excellence

Research

Training

Careers

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M(S)CA

implemented....To be

implemented....on a

voluntary basis

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EUROPE

Mid-long term outgoing Japanese researchers by region (data from MEXT)

2010

1952: ECSC treaty; first projects started March 1955

1957: Euratom treaty; Joint Research Centre set up

1983: ESPRIT programme <------ New technologies

1984: First Framework Programme (1984-1987)

1987: ‘Single European Act’ – science becomes a Community responsibility; Second Framework Programme (1987-1991)

1990: Third Framework Programme (1990-1994)

1993: Treaty on European Union;

role of RTD in the enlarged EU

1994: Fourth Framework Programme (1994-1998)

1998: Fifth Framework Programme (1998-2002)

2000: European Research Area

2002: Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006)

2007: Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013; 2007-2011 for Euratom)

2013: end of FP7 and start of Horizon2020 ( 2013-2020)

EU research: the story so far

What is Horizon 2020

• €70 billion for research and innovation funding programme (2014-2020);

• A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union & European Research Area

• Following the 7th Framework Programme (FP7)

MSCA in Horizon 2020

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and Culture

• MCA will continue as the MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions)

• Funding levels ~maintained

• Broad schemes ~maintained

• Simplification in implementation

• Broader definition of industry involvement: participation of businesses (including SMEs) and other socio-economic actors

• Synergies with other parts of H2020 and with E4A

1. Initial training:•Initial Training Networks (ITN)

3. Industry dimension :• Industry-academia partnership and pathways (IAPP)

2. Life long training and career development: • Intra European Fellowships (IEF)

•European Reintegration Grants (ERG)• Co-funding of national/regional/international progr ammes

4. International dimension : • International Outgoing fellowships (IOF)

•Career reintegration grants (IRG)• International Incoming fellowships (IIF)

•International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES )(S&T, ENP)

FP7 “People ” = Marie Curie building blocks

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Action 1 Early-stage

Researchers

Action 2 Experienced Researchers

Action 3 Exchange

of Staff

Action 4 COFUND

Innovative Training Networks

Training Networks, European Industrial

Doctorates, Joint Doctorates

Individual Fellowships

Support for experienced researchers

undertaking international and inter-

sector mobility

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

International and inter-sector

cooperation through the exchange of

staff

Co-funding of regional, national and

international programmes:

- doctoral programmes

- fellowship programmes

ITN

IEFIOFIIFCIG

IAPPIRSES

COFUND

MSCA in Horizon 2020

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Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

� Dedicated to early-stage researchers (no ER recruitment)

� Involving wide partnership of institutions from academic and non-academic sectors

� Based on FP7 ITNs + EMJD experience

� Addressing triple 'i' dimension of mobility

� Combining scientific excellence with innovation-oriented approach

� Developing entrepreneurship and skills matching research labour market needs

� Enhancing employability of researchers

MSCA - main EU programme for structured doctoral training

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Individual Fellowships(IF)

� Opportunities for international and inter-sector mobility of ER to facilitate career moves

� Enhance competences and creative potential of best researchers, European and non-European willing to work in the EU

� Encompass intra-European, incoming, outgoing mobility and re-integration

� Possibility of inter-sector secondments

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Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

� New type of exchange of staff action to stimulate transfer of knowledge

� Flexible inter-sector (within Europe) and international (with 3rd

countries) exchanges of highly skilled research and innovation staff

� No recruitment foreseen

� Single eligibility rule for partnership consortia

� Based on a common research project

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COFUND

� Stimulating regional, national and international programmesto foster excellence

� Spreading best practices of MSCA in terms of internationalmobility, research training, career development

� Extended to doctoral training

� Building on experience from FP7 COFUND

European Research Council (ERC)

Frontier research by the best individual teams 13 095

Future and Emerging Technologies

Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation

2 696

Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)

Opportunities for training and career development 6 162

Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure)

Ensuring access to world-class facilities 2 488

Proposed funding (€ million, 2014-2020)*

All funding figures in this presentation are subject to the pending Multiannual Financial Framework Regulation by the EP and the Council

Bottom-up nature

Topics

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1. EURAXESS Mobility Portal

2. EURAXESS Service (ERA-More Network)3. EUEAXESS (ERA) LINK for the diaspora4. Scientific Visa5. EURAXESS rights -The European Charta and the

Code of conduct

EURAXESS = Specific actions to remove obstacles

and enhancing career perspectives

� ERA-MORE, the EURAXESS Network of Mobility Service Centres. � The network is displayed on the portal� As a researcher you have free access to a Europe wide customised

assistance service offered by ERA-MORE� These 200 centres in 32 countries assist researchers in all matters

relating to professional and daily life, including

– information on legal issues, – social security, – health and – taxes, – everyday life – as well as family support.

� Click on the country you are interested in to contact the local Mobility Centre.

2. EURACESS Service CENTRES“Help Desk and Customised assistance”

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

mariecurieactions/

FP6 and FP7 vacancies

Marie Slodowska Curie Actions Websitehttp://ec.europa.eu/mariecurieactions

Horizon 2020http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020

Barbara.Rhode@eeas.europa.eu+81 (0) 3 5422 6050

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