PEOPLE Specific Programme: The Marie Curie Actions in FP7

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• PEOPLE Specific Programme The Marie Curie
  Actions in FP7
• General Information and Participation Tips
• Elizabeth Kokozila,
• Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
• Mobility-NCP Northern Greece
• Sofia, 31 October 2008

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FP7 Specific Programmes

• Cooperation Collaborative research

Ideas Frontier Research
People Human Potential
Capacities Research Capacity

Joint Research Centre
EURATOM (nuclear research)
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The policy context Human Resources in RD

• Mobility of researchers across the 33 countries
  associated to the FP is a condition to make the
  European Research Area (ERA) functioning
• Europe needs to build excellent research careers
  and link them to EU research initiatives
• From the traditional concept of brain drain
  versus brain gain to the acknowledgement of the
  fact that excellent science careers are
  international - brain circulation or brain
  exchange
• From a Mobility programme to an active career
  development programme acquiring additional
  qualifications and targeted trainings through
  transnational mobility

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FP7 overview (2007-2013)

• FP7 is EUs main instrument for funding research
• FP7 breakdown ( million)

Total EC budget M 50 5210
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PEOPLE Programme

• A dedicated programme for structuring training,
  mobility and
• career development
• Objectives
• Strengthening the human potential in RD in
  Europe
• Stimulate people to enter into the profession of
  researcher
• Encouraging researchers to stay in Europe
• Attracting researchers from around the world
• Addressed to researchers at all stages of their
  careers

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Marie Curie Actions FP7 vs FP6

• FP7 4 750 million over 7 years (50 average
  increase compared to FP6)
• FP6 human resources and mobility 1580 million
  over 5 years
• Continuity of FP6
• with focus on structuring impact
• increased private sector participation
• Strengthened international dimension
• Balanced gender objective

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FP7 vs. FP6 Main points of difference
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PEOPLE Programme

• Main characteristics
• Open to all domains of research (bottom-up
  approach)
• Application through calls for proposals
• Selection criteria
• ST quality
• Quality of participants / (Training)
• Impact
• Implementation
• Trans-national and intersectorial (IAPP) mobility
• Budget covers mainly salaries of researchers

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Marie Curie Actions

• Five Schemes
• Initial training of researchers
• Life-long training and career development
• Industry-academia pathways and partnerships
• World Fellowships (former International
  dimension)
• Specific actions

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Participants from which countries ?
• 4 categories of countries
• EU Member States (MS)
• Associated Countries (AC) Iceland,
  Liechtenstein, Norway, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey,
  FYROM, Switzerland, Israel
• International Cooperation Partner Countries
  (ICPC)based on three categories according to
  income per capita (low-income Angola,
  lower-middle-income China -, or
  upper-middle-income - Russia).
• Other (non-AC, non-ICPC) Third Countries (OTC)

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7
Applicants
Individual researchers
Industry/Research Institutions
Research funding bodies
Senior Post-docs gt 10 years
IEF IOF IIF
Senior Post-docs gt 10 years
Visiting Scientists
COFUND
ITN
COFUND
ERG IRG
Post-docs lt 4-10 years
Profile of researchers
ITN IAPP IRSES
ITN IAPP IRSES
Secondment of any kind of researcher Optional
recruitment of ERs
Post-graduates lt 4 years
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The Greek Participation in PEOPLE Programme (1st
call)
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Participation Tips

• Evaluation Criteria
• Scientific and technological excellence
  interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary aspects
  of the proposal, research methodology,
  timeliness, originality and innovative nature,
  host scientific expertise, quality of the members
  of the group
• Quality of training provided complementary
  skills offered, clarity and quality of the
  research training objectives, host expertise in
  training
• Researcher experience, research results,
  independent thinking and leadership qualities,
  reaching a position of professional maturity,
  acquisition of new knowledge, match between the
  fellows profile and the project
• Potential impact career development/
  professional integration, benefit of the mobility
  to the ERA, contribution to European
  competitiveness and excellence, creation of
  long-term collaborations, transfer of knowledge,
  enhance intersectoral cooperation
• Quality and efficiency of the implementation and
  management quality of infrastructures,
  practical arrangements, feasibility and
  credibility of the project, administrative
  arrangements, support to the fellow, capacities
  of the host, exploitation of existing synergies,
  appropriateness of management plans

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Participation Tips

• Since the proposals is requested to be limited in
  size, it
• is important to
• Reply to the evaluation criteria/ Coherence of
  the proposal
• Explain clearly the aim and the content of the
  research project
• Apply the reimbursement rates provided by the
  Commission (monthly living allowances, correction
  coefficient rates, amount of benefits, travel
  expenses etc.)
• IMPORTANT
• Prefer employment contracts to researchers with
  full social security coverage vs. fixed amount
  fellowships with minimum social security coverage
• Clearly mention in the proposal that the
  selection of researchers (ITN) will be based on
  open, transparent and internationally comparable
  selection and recruitment procedures according
  to the principles applied by the European Charter
  for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the
  Recruitment of Researchers

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• Thank you for your attention

Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas Nationa
l Contact Point for PEOPLE Specific Programme
HELPDESK Elizabeth Kokozila, tel.
30-2310-498203, e-mail ekokoz_at_certh.gr