Horizon 2020Marie Skłodowska-Curie ActionIndividual Fellowship

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

• Horizon2020 pillar: Excellence Science

• Improving European ‘Human Research Potential’

• Creating and strengthening European Research Area

• All research topics

• ‘Light up your research career!’

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Individual Fellowships (IF) in a nutshell

• Individual, trans-national fellowships

• For ‘experienced’ researchers (PhD or 4yrs research experience)

• Awarded to the best or most promising researchers

• Employment in EU Member States or Associated Countries

• Based on joint application by researcher and host organisation

• In academic or non-academic sector

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• Aimed at researcher mobility

‘Considered essential for personal and career development of

researchers’

• Aimed at career development

‘Enhancing your creative and innovative potential’

• Aimed at transfer of knowledge

‘Strenghten contact network of both researcher and host’

• Aimed at ‘experienced researchers’

‘Wishing to diversify their individual competence’

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Aims MSCA Individual Fellowship

Two IF variants

European Fellowship

European Fellowship: Fellow goes to host organisation in Europe

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Global Fellowship

Global Fellowship: Fellow goes to partner organisation outside Europe and comes back to host organisation in Europe

European Fellowship

What?

• 1-2 year Fellowship within EU

Who?

• Researchers going from one EU country to another

• Researchers from non-EU country coming to EU

Why?

• Career development

• Diversify skills

• Transfer of knowledge6

Global Fellowship (GF)

What?

• 1-2 year secondment phase outside EU

• Followed by 1 year return phase in EU

Who?

• EU researcher going to non-EU country and coming back to EU

• Beneficiary located in EU

• Partner organisation in Third Country

Why?

• Career development

• Diversify skills

• Transfer of knowledge

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Rules and eligibility

• Mobility rule: in 3 yrs preceding call deadline, <12

months in country of destination

• Experienced Researchers: > 4 yrs research experience

or in posession of PhD

• Researcher can have any nationality

• But, for GF: EU national or previously long-term EU

resident (>5 yrs)

• EU Host Institute applies in collaboration with MC fellow

• Appliciation to one of 8 disciplinary panels

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Extra panels for European Fellowship

In case of ‘Career Restart’ and ‘Reintegration’

• Separate multi-disciplinary panels

• Different mobility conditions

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Career Restart Panel• To resume research after

career break of at least 12m prior to deadline

• CAR mobility rule: not more than 36m in last 5 yr in the EU country where you apply

Reintegration Panel• To return and reintegrate in

EU (move from TC to EU)• For EU nationals / long term

residents• RI mobility rule: not more

than 36m in last 5 yr in the EU country where you apply

Funding model

• Note: living allowance is gross gross amount

• Ask your host institution what your salary will be

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Submitting

• Participant Portal: your gateway

to Horizon 2020• Succes rate 2014: 17, 6% (EU)

20,9% (NL)

• Call open: 12 March 2015

• Deadline: 10 September 2015

• Call budget: €215 million

(of which €27 million for GF)

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Your local EU support office

National Contact Point for Marie Skłodowska-Curie ActionsAnna Goedhart, Doenja Koppejan and Lieke Michiels van Kessenich

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www.rvo.nl/horizon2020

horizon.mariecurie@rvo.nl

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