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AgreenSkills Plus Annual Meeting

Julie SAINZ DG Education and Culture Barcelona, 12 October 2015

AgreenSkills Plus is an FP7 Marie Curie COFUND project

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• Attract and retain research talent
• Develop state-of-the-art, innovative training schemes
• Promote sustainable career development in research and

innovation

• Focus on delivering new knowledge and skills
• Contribute to a strong partnership with MS via the co-funding

mechanism

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)

• Objectives -

• Open to all domains of R&I: from basic research up to market

take-up and innovation services

• Bottom-up
• Participation of non-academic sector
• International mobility
• Attractive working and employment conditions
• Gender balance
• Public engagement of supported researchers

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)

• Key Features -

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

Budget for 2 0 1 4 -2 0 2 0 under Horizon 2 0 2 0

the Principles set out in the European Charter for Researchers & the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers

Charter and Code

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/brochure_rights/am509774CEE_EN_E4.pdf

MSCA support researchers to establish themselves on a more stable career path and to ensure that they can achieve an appropriate work/life balance, taking into account their family situation. The principles of the “European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers”, promoting open recruitment and attractive working and employment conditions, are

recommended to be endorsed and applied by all the funded participants.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

Eligible Researchers

EU contribution based on unit costs, calculated on the basis of the researcher-months

What can be funded under MSCA?

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

W HI CH MSCA should you choose?

• enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced

researchers

• catalyse significant developm ent in their careers in both sectors
• provide opportunities to acquire new know ledge, w ork on

research projects in a European context or outside Europe

• strengthen the netw ork of the researcher and the host
• rganisation
• Duration: 2 years (Global Fellowships: 3 years)
• Budget for 2016 call: € 2 1 8 .5 Million (Global Fellowships: 29 Mio)

I F - I ndividual Fellow ships

Outgoing phase – 2 years

I F - I ndividual Fellow ships

Return phase – 1 year

RI SE

Research and I nnovation Staff Exchange

• Common research and innovation project
• International and inter-sector transfer of know ledge and sharing of

ideas and of R&I culture

• Staff m em ber – at least 6 months at the sending institution
• Secondm ents from 1 to 12 months
• Project duration up to 4 years
• Maximum 5 4 0 person-months
• Budget for 2016 call: € 8 0 Million

RI SE – 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

+ +

Third Country Other sector

• r

I TN

I nnovative Training Netw orks

• Raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training
• Trigger cooperation and exchange of best practice among

participants

• Enhance researchers' em ployability and provide them with new

career perspectives

• Only for early stage researchers
• Fellowships of 3 -3 6 m onths
• Project duration up to 4 years
• Maximum 5 4 0 person-months (EID: 180)
• Budget for 2016 call: € 3 7 0 Million (EID: 25 Mio, EJD 28 Mio)

COFUND

• Co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international

program m es ( doctoral or postdoctoral)

• Mono-beneficiary: organisation funding or managing doctoral or

post- doctoral programmes

• Leverage funding and combat fragmentation (possible synergies

with ESIF)

• Promote

international, intersectoral and interdicisplinary mobility while providing

• pen

recruitm ent and attractive w orking conditions

• EU contribution to co-fund living allowances for researchers and

management costs

• Budget for 2016 call: € 8 0 Million (Doctoral Programmes: 30 Mio)

MSCA Workflow

Find a Call Find Partners or Apply as Individual Create your account on the

Participant Portal

Register your

• rganisation

Identify or get a PIC

Submit your proposal

Application Grant Agreement Reporting

NCP

New structure of GA: legal provisions all in 1 document Electronic signature of GA via the Participant Portal Periodic Report: technical and financial

and/or

Final Report: technical and financial

Evaluation

For successful applicants : TIME-TO-GRANT = 8 MONTHS 3 to 4 independent experts

MSCA Calls 2016-2017

Responsible Research and Innovation

Public engagement Open Access / Open Science Gender Ethics Science Education

Open Access

What is Open Access to Publication? Online access at no charge to the user to peer-reviewed scientific publications

"green open access": depositing articles in an online repository and granting open access after an embargo period; "gold open access ": paying scientific publishers a fee upfront to provide open access on publication

• Zenodo http:/ / zenodo.org/ (OpenAI RE)
• List of publications repositories: http:/ / www.opendoar.org/
• List of publisher policies: http:/ / www.sherpa.ac.uk/ romeo/
• Directory of OA journals: https:/ / doaj.org/

Open Access

What is Open Access to Research Data? Online access at no charge to the user to research data (possibility to re-use)

List of research data repositories: http:/ / www.re3data.org/

Keep it in mind for the future : “RESAVER”

What is it?

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/rights/resaver

• the European Commission is supporting a

consortium of employers, through Horizon 2020, in creating a single European pension arrangement (RESAVER), tailor-made for research organisations and their employees.

• it will enable employees to remain affiliated to

the same pension vehicle when moving between different countries and changing jobs.

• first contributions to be transferred as of 2016

Fellows who have completed a research period within one

• f the FP7 Marie Curie actions

may request, through their project contact person

at the coordinating institution,

a Marie Curie Award Certificate.

http://ec.europa.eu/rea/secure/mc_certificates_en.htm

Your Marie Curie Award Certificate

Useful Links

MSCA website http://ec.europa.eu/msca Participant Portal (applications, documents) http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal acebook.com/Marie.Curie.Actions

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