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Marie Curie Initial Training Networks

UK NCP for Marie CurieCecilie HansenNicholas [email protected]

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• Website:• with information on programmes, FAQs &guidance http://www.ukro.ac.uk

• Information services • email updates (& searchable database)

• Enquiry service • Annual visit from an UKRO European Advisor• Specialist training courses and information events• Annual conference for European officers

• Meeting room in Brussels

• Monthly publication - British Council ‘European RTD Insight’• National Contact Points (Marie Curie and ERC)

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Marie Curie NCP - helpdesk

• Web, email, telephone, visits• Advice on applying for MC actions:

• Eligibility• Application help• Results• Contractual issues

• Advice to those with MC contracts:• Social security and tax• Model agreements between host and fellow• Contractual issues

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Marie Curie General Introduction


FP7 Specific Programmes

Co-operation – Collaborative Research

European Research Council

Marie Curie Actions

Capacities – Research Capacity

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JRC EURATOM

EU-27Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria , Cyprus, Czech Republic,Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Associated Countries (FP7)Albania, Croatia, Iceland*, Israel*, Liechtenstein*, Montenegro, FYR Macedonia*, Norway*, Serbia,Switzerland, Turkey Bosnia Herzegovina (in the process of associating to FP7) *except Euratom

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Objectives and Policy Context:

• Make Europe more attractive to researchers• Structuring effect on the European Research Area

through transnational and intersectoral mobility in order to create a European labour market for researchers

• Strengthen human potential by:• Encouraging people to become researchers• Encouraging researchers to carry out their research

in Europe

• Trans-national and inter-sectoral mobility• €4.7 Billion

Marie Curie Actions F

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Principles

• Skills and competence development at all stages of researchers career

• Open to all research areas addressed under the Treaty plus possibility of targeted calls

• Strong participation from enterprises• Reinforce international dimension• Appropriate gender and work/life balance• Good working environment, transparent

recruitment and career development

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Host Actions Individual Actions

Initial Training Networks

Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways

NEW - International Research Staff Exchange Scheme

Intra- European Fellowships

International Incoming Fellowships

International Outgoing Fellowships

European Reintegration Grants

International Reintegration Grants

Also funded: Researcher’s Night, CO-FUND

MCA - Deadlines

Industry-Academia Partnerships & Pathways (IAPP)

25 March 2008

NEW - International Research Staff Exchange Scheme

28 March 2008

European Reintegration Grants (ERG)

International Reintegration Grants (IRG)

3 April and 8 October

Intra- European Fellowships (IEF)

International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)

International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)

19 August 2008

Initial Training Networks (ITN) 2 September 2008

One stage proposal

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Definition of researchers

Early-Stage researchers 0 - 4 years (FTE)

from obtaining degree that qualified them to embark on a doctorate

Experienced researchers i) in possession of a PhD

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Transnational Mobility Requirements• Must not have been resident in host country for more

that 12 months in the last 3 years immediately before reference date [time of appointment for MCNs, and IAPP, application deadline for all other actions]

• Cannot be a national of host country unless

• European researcher working outside EU for 3 of the last 4 years

• Dual nationality and have not resided in a country of nationality for the last 5 years

• International organisation

• Return and reintegration grants

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Marie Curie Initial Training Networks


What is an ITN?F

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• An ITN aims to : • Strengthen Early Stage Training at EU level

• Attract people to scientific careers

• Improve career perspectives by development of broad skills (including needs of industry)

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• By:• Offering a series of fellowships to ESR and EXR

through a Joint Training Programme including complementary skills modules

• And, as an option, hold short training events open to researchers outside the network

• As an option, recruit ‘visiting scientists’

• ITNs are in:• Defined scientific fields as well as inter-disciplinary, new

and emerging supra-disciplinary fields

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• At least 3 different research groups from Member or Associated States

• BUT ALSO it can be single or twin sites (in Member or Associated States) if the international context is strong

• Third country partners are eligible, in addition to the minimum requirements. International Co-operation Partner Countries (ICPC) may receive funding, whilst those in non-ICPCs may receive funding if absolutely essential for the project

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• An ITN has both industrial and academic partners. Industry must be in involved at one of three levels:• As a full partner• Provider of specific training or secondment

opportunities• On the Advisory Board

• An ITN must have• Coherent quality standards and mutual recognition of

training/ diplomas

Private sector participation

• Industry = any commercial or socio-economic actors

NOT JUST TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION INDUSTRIES

• Private sector should be on supervisory board to ensure researchers develop skills to maximise their employment opportunities

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• An ITN supports researchers: • With up to 5 years FTE • From all over the world• For periods of 3 - 36 months (ESRs)• For periods of 3 – 24 months (EXRs)

• As well as visiting scientists (optional)• To carry out teaching and supervisory work• For a period of at least 1 month

The size of an ITN

• The size of the network should reflect your needs and the aim of the project, but• Indicative number of partners (Guide for Applicants):

6 – 10Average number of partners in 2007: 9

• FP6 indicative number of researcher months:EST: 72 – 999 (average 300) (last call)

• FP7 Call 1, stage 2 submitted proposals: average 539 researchers months

• 80/20 EST / ER split

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Chemistry 9.5

Economic Sciences 5.5

Social Sciences 9

Life Sciences 8.9

Environmental Sciences 9

Engineering 10.6

Mathematics 8

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Av. number of partners per panel

ITNs – result of call 1

PANEL Evaluated proposals

Evaluated proposals at stg 2

Funded proposals

LIF 229 51 19

ENG 183 38 14

PHY 152 37 10

CHE 115 26 8

ENV 95 17 8

SOC 78 16 5

MAT 29 5 2

ECO 21 6 2

TOTAL 902 196 68

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Tips on writing your ITN proposal


Your project is mainly defined in ….

…PART B of the proposal forms

• PART B addresses the evaluation criteria• …which vary according to MCA• …and have different weightings and thresholds

• General structure of Part B for ITNs and IAPPs is:• Cover Page, Table of Contents• S & T Quality • Training/Transfer of Knowledge • Implementation • Impact

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Weighting Threshold

Scientific quality of the project

30% 3

Training and/or TOK activities

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Implementation 20% 3

Impact 20% n/a

Overall threshold of 70% applies

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S & T Quality criteria

• S&T objectives of the research programme, including in terms of inter/multi-disciplinary, intersectoral and/ or newly emerging supra-disciplinary fields

• Scientific quality of the research programme • Appropriateness of research methodology• Originality and innovative aspect of the

research programme. Knowledge of the state-of-the-art

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S&T Quality tips (positive)

• Excellent overview of state-of-the-art in this research area

• Precise and detailed research work plan• Scientific quality and originality of the

proposal are excellent• Research method is appropriate and well

described• The project is timely and novel• A series of well defined and relevant project

objectives• The multidisciplinary is well demonstrated

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S&T Quality Tips (negative)

• Interdisciplinary aspect of the project is not very strong

• Clear references to state-of-the-art and scientific originality are missing

• The final research outputs and the practical results of the training programme should be more clearly described

• Role of the industrial partners is not well explained

• A precise description of the research methodology is missing

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Training criteria

• Quality of the training programme; • Consistency with the research programme • Complementary skills offered: Management,

Communication, IPR, Ethics, Grant writing, Commercial exploitation of results, Research Policy, entrepreneurship, etc. .

• Importance and timeliness of the training needs (e.g. multidisciplinary, intersectoral , and newly emerging supra-disciplinary fields)

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Training criteria

• Multi-site proposals: Adequate combination of local specialist training with network-wide training activities

• Mono-site/twinning proposals: Adequate exploitation of the international network of the participants for the training programme

• Appropriateness of the size of the requested training programme with respect to the capacity of the host

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Training Tips (positive)

• The training programme is very well structured and is fully consistent with the research programme

• Local and network wide training will be provided

• Complementary skills training is well thought of

• The training topics are well identified and defined

• The role of the participants are well described and exploitation of the network potential is adequately considered and discussed

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Training Tips (negative)

• The role of the Supervisory Board should be better defined

• Reason for the need of Visiting Scientist should be given

• Description of the training project for each researcher is too vague

• Average number of ESRs per partner seems exaggerated

• The role of the associate partners and their participation in the training events should be more clearly defined

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Quality of training - suggestions

• Training in research methods and techniques• Personal Development Plan• Complementary skills training – ethics, research management• Transferable skills training – cf Roberts • Graduate School Provision – including RC courses• Conferences, seminars, public fora etc•Any others?

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Implementation criteria

• Capacities (expertise / human resources / facilities /infrastructure) to achieve the research and adequate task distribution and schedule

• Appropriateness of industry involvement • Adequate exploitation of complementarities

and synergies among partners in terms of research and training

• Non-ICPC participation – essential to the objectives of the research training programme?

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Implementation criteria

• Appropriateness of the overall management of the training programme (responsibilities, rules for decision-making)

• Networking and dissemination of best practice among partners. Clarity of the plan for organising training events (workshops, conferences, training courses)

• Also: consider the clarity of the recruitment strategy

• Competitive international recruitment• Equal opportunities• Coherence with ‘Code of conduct for recruitment of

researchers’

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Implementation tips (positive)

• The type and frequency of meetings seem appropriate

• The industrial partners play an essential and active role both in the training and research and aspects of the proposal

• The recruitment strategy is clearly defined• The management structure is clear and

appropriate to the proposed project• The plan for dissemination of project results is

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Implementation tips (negative)

• The industry involvement is poor in comparison to the industrial importance of the project theme and potential results

• Description of a research PhD theme for each ESR is not provided

• More details should be provided on the milestones and deliverables within the workplan

• Limited rules for decision making

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Impact criteria

• Contribution of the proposed training programme to the career prospects of the fellows

• Provision to establish longer term collaborations and/or lasting structured training programme between the partners’ organisations, including between private and academic partners

• Where appropriate, justification of the training events open to external participants and their integration in the training programme

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Impact criteria

• Where appropriate, mutual recognition of the training acquired by multi-partner hosts

• Where applicable, relevance of the role of the visiting scientist with respect to the training programme

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Impact tips (positive)

• Clear impact of the involvement of visiting scientists

• Good prospects for potential long term collaborations

• The involvement of industrial partners will be mutually beneficial for the companies and for the ESRs/ERs

• The project can offer great career opportunities to both ESR and ER involved

• The training proposed by the network is such that probably no single institution in Europe would be capable of providing it on its own.

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Impact tips (negative)

• The proposed impact, as described [in the field of science] is not convincing

• The number of visiting scientists is too high and not appropriate for the proposed programme

• The impact could have been addressed more thoroughly

• The lack of training in an industrial context is a major drawback

• The description of the impact n the scientific community outside the network should be elaborated upon

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ITNs – key issues

• Ratio ESR/ER:- ‘The total amount of ESRs and ERs should be

reasonable and in line with what is recommended in the Guide for Applicants’ (80/20)

• Visiting Scientists:- Exceptional and duly justified in the context of the

training programme

• Conferences:- ‘should be proportionate to the proposed research

training programme’ - ‘is an opportunity for the recruiter researchers to

exchange knowledge with more experienced researchers from outside the network’.

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ITNs – key issues

• Role of the Visiting Scientists• Addressed under training & impact

• Industrial participation• Addressed under all four criteria

• Conferences and events• Addressed under training, implementation, impact

Aspects that are assessed under more than one evaluation criteria will count under each of these criteria

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Additional information


Definition of Fellow’s Allowances• These are all flat rates• Living

• Basic salary • Varies according to research experience

• Mobility • Relocation costs including language courses• Varies according to family situation

• Travel • Every 12 months travel from location of origin to fellowship location

• Career exploratory• Fellowships at least 1 year to spend on career development

activities

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Researcher Salaries for ITNs

Experience Stipend(€/yr)

Employment contract (€/yr)

Early-Stage researchers

17,250 34,500

Experienced researchers (< 5yrs)

26,500 53,000

Visiting Scientist (4 - 10 yrs experience)

34,450 68,900

VS (> 10 yrs experience)

51,675 103,350

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Salaries are inclusive of all compulsory deductionsCorrection factor applied for cost of living (UK Coefficient 109.2%)

• Travel costs – depending on distance€ 250 - €2500

• Mobility allowance Without family: €500 per monthWith family: €800 per month Correction factor applied for cost of living

• Career Exploratory allowance€ 2000 for stays of more than one year

• Training / research costs of eligible researchers • Lab-based research: € 600 per month• Non-lab-based research: €300 per month

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Allowance rates

Benefits for the institution – ITNs

• Research Training• €600 (ITN) per month

• Organisation of international conferences etc• €300 per researcher per day for those outside ITN

• Management Activities maximum 7% (ITN) of the total EC contribution

• Contribution to overheads • 10% of direct costs except for subcontractors

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IAPPs and IRSES

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• Partnership – at least one commercial and one non-commercial entity

• Staff exchange – early stage or experienced researchers (and possibly technical staff and research managers!) for between 2 months and 2 years

• Recruit experienced researchers for between 2 months and 2 years

• Organise common workshops/conferences• Inter-sectoral mobility possible, within framework of

whole project, in same country up to a maximum of 30% of total researcher months

• For SMEs, a contribution towards small equipment costs (up to 10% of project total)

IRSES

• Two-way staff secondments between institutions in EU/AC and eligible third countries

• At least two participants from two different MS/AC and one partner from an eligible third country

• Secondment between 0 – 12 months• Project duration of 24 – 48 months• Commission contribution: EUR

1800/researcher/month for EU/AC secondments

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Who can participate in IRSES?

• Eligible staff include researchers, technical and management staff

• Eligible countries: EU Member States and Associated Countries

• Countries in the European Neighbourhood Policy: Armenia, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Palestinian-administered areas, Syrian Arab Rep., Tunisia, Ukraine

• Countries that have an S&T agreement with the EU: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, Egypt, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, United States

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Links

• UK National Contact Point for Marie Curie• http://www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie

• CORDIS• http://cordis.europa.eu/mariecurie-actions/

• The Charter and the Code• http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/europeancharter/

• UK HE Sector analysis:• http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/news/gapanalysis.htm

• European Researchers’ Mobility Portal• http://ec.europa.eu/eracareers/index_en.cfm

• Marie Curie Vacancies• http://mc-opportunities.cordis.lu/

• Queries• [email protected] F

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