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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Special Needs Lump Sum (SNLS)

Oscar Barreiro Research Executive Agency Unit A4

Purpose:

• To support through additional costs the recruited or

seconded researchers/staff members with disabilities whose long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments are such that their participation in MSCA would not be possible without extra financial support. Total 2019 budget (2 deadlines): € 1 million

How does it work:

• Eligible MSC actions: ITN, IF, RISE and COFUND.
• The Proposal can be submitted only by the MSCA

beneficiary.

• One proposal per recruited researcher / seconded

staff member with special needs / disabilities.

• If there is more than 1 researcher with special

needs in the same beneficiary – a separate proposal for each researcher has to be submitted.

Eligible applicants:

• MSCA beneficiaries.
• The

applicant must comply with the following cumulative criteria:

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At the time of the SNLS deadline, it must be a beneficiary in an ongoing H2020 MSCA grant, or its proposal must be in the Grant Agreement Preparation stage (GAP) for a future MSCA grant agreement.

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It has recruited/seconded (or for a proposal in GAP, will recruit/second) the researcher(s)/staff member(s) with disabilities in the framework of an MSCA action.

Eligible researchers:

• To be eligible for the SNLS, the researcher

must comply with the following cumulative criteria:



He/she is eligible under the main MSCA grant (ITN, IF, RISE or COFUND).

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His/her disability is such that his/her participation would not be possible without an extra financial support.

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His/her disability is officially recognised by the relevant national legislation.

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Proposal duration:

• The duration of the SNLS is limited to the duration of

the main linked MSCA.

• It can be shorter but cannot be longer than the main

MSCA grant.

• If necessary, the duration of the SNLS will be adjusted

by the Project Officer during the Grant Agreement Preparation phase.

Financial support:

• Max 60 000 EUR per researcher with special needs.
• The budget will be subjected to evaluation by the expert

evaluators.

• In the case the amount needed to cover the special

needs is higher than EUR 60 000, the remainder shall be covered from

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sources. The applicants should provide details of the additional funding in the Part B.

Award criteria:

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Excellence Impact Quality and Efficiency

• f the implementation

Appropriateness and relevance of the proposed measures [or special needs items or services] that are necessary for the researcher/staff member to carry out the work in the linked MSCA action Effectiveness of the proposed measures with respect to the work in the linked MSCA action Appropriateness of the resources deployed

Structure of the proposal:

Part A

• General information about the proposal (title, abstract, etc.)
• Administrative data of the beneficiary
• Budget (only the total amount requested is to be inserted in

Part A)

• Call specific questions

Structure of the proposal:

Part B – max 3 pages:

• 1. EXCELLENCE
• Description of the type of special needs of the researcher
• Appropriateness, relevance and necessity of the items/services requested by

the applicant

• 2. IMPACT
• How the requested items/services will facilitate the work of the researcher.
• Information of the duration of the support
• 3. QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION
• Explain the details of the requested items/services
• Estimated breakdown of the requested budget

Consent form (not counted towards the page limit)

Proposal acronym:

• The SNLS grant will be linked to the main running MSCA,

therefore acronym of the SNLS proposal must be the same as the acronym of the main MSCA grant.

• In case more researchers with disabilities are from the

same linked MSCA grant, all SNLS proposals must have the same acronym.

NB: The proposal number will be different as it is given automatically by the IT system, therefore it is important to introduce the same acronym.

Submission in 2019:

SNLS is a “Call to Identified Beneficiaries”

• Deadline 1 – 24 April 2019 at 17:00:00 (Brussels time)
• Deadline 2 – 7 November 2019 at 17:00:00 (Brussels time)

• Average requested budget: 28,200 €
• The lowest budget:

956.25 €

• The highest budget:

60,000 €

• All evaluated proposals were above thresholds
• Some proposals had budget cuts, not all requested items were

relevant to the type of disability

SNLS 2019 1st Cut-off

Eligible proposals Main list proposals Success rate 1st Cut-off 10 10 100%

Number of Main list proposals per action and per country

SNLS 2019 1st Cut-off

Budget distribution in the Main list proposals

SNLS 2019 1st Cut-off

115 081,25 108 750,00 27 385,00 24 612,00 3 367,00 3 037,00 0,00 20 000,00 40 000,00 60 000,00 80 000,00 100 000,00 120 000,00 140 000,00

UK IT IE BG FR SE

Budget in € per country

Remaining Budget for the 2nd Cut-off: 717,767.75 € 14 proposals received 2nd Cut-off: 7 November 2019 Evaluation: 25 – 27 November 2019 Launch Grant preparation (expected): 15 January 2020

SNLS 2019 2nd Cut-off

Thank you for your attention!