Title: Marie Curie Individual Schemes Fellowships and Reintegration Grants
1Marie Curie Individual Schemes Fellowships and
Reintegration Grants Dr. Dagmar M. Meyer Marie
Curie National Contact Point
www.iua.ie
2Outline of the presentation
- Marie Curie Actions
- Intra-European and International Outgoing
Fellowships for Career Development (IEF IOF) - International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
- European and International Reintegration Grants
(ERG IRG) - Individual fellowships in national programmes
COFUNDed by Marie Curie Actions
3General principles
- Focus is on the researchers career development
(exception IIF transfer of knowledge to European
host institution) - Open to all disciplines from Natural Sciences
to Social Sciences and Humanities - Bottom-up no pre-defined topics or priority
areas - Free choice of host institution from public or
private sector - No age limits what counts is level of
experience - Provisions for appropriate work/life balance
(split stays, maternity/parental leave etc.)
4Basic definitions individual actions
- Intra-European/International Fellowships and
Reintegration Grants are individual actions - Individual researcher applies jointly with host
institution - Duration at least 1 year for fellowships, 2 years
for reintegration grants - Grant agreement between Commission and host
institution, for fellowships then work contract
(or stipend agreement) between host and fellow - Fellowship/grant bound to individual (no
replacement)
5Basic definitions level of experience
- Experienced Researcher (ER)
- Either in possession of a doctoral degree
- Or at least 4 years of research experience
(full-time equivalent) since degree qualifying
them to embark on a doctorate - All Marie Curie Individual Actions are for
Experienced Researchers only! Relevant date is
deadline for submission of proposals.
6Basic definitions MS/AC/TC
- 27 Member States (MS)
- 11 Associated Countries (AC)
- Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Israel,
Switzerland, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Serbia,
Turkey, Albania, Montenegro - Third Countries (TC)
- More than 140 International Cooperation Partner
Countries (ICPC) - Other Third Countries (OTC)
7Basic definitions host institutions
- Organisations that are actively involved in
research - Universities/Institutes of Technology
- Private and public research institutes
- Companies big and small
- International Organisations (CERN, UNESCO, )
- The European Commissions Joint Research Centre
- NGOs
- Etc.
8Basic definitions mobility requirements
(fellowships)
- Fellow has not been resident in the host country
for more than 12 months within the last 3 years - Fellow does not have the nationality of the host
country. Special rules in case of - Dual citizenship
- European researcher returning from a third
country - Third Country researcher having resided in Europe
for a long time - International organisations as host institutions
9Intra-European Fellowships
- For the career development and competence
diversification of experienced researchers (with
or without PhD, from post-doc to senior
researcher) - Nationals of MS/AC or assimilated nationals
- Any topic, any host institution in a MS/AC (could
be a company!) - Transnational mobility is a must
- Duration 1 2 years
10International Outgoing Fellowships
- To reinforce the international dimension of the
career of experienced researchers who are
nationals of a MS/AC - Two phases (fellowship covers both phases)
- Outgoing phase (1 2 years) for training and
career development in any Third Country
institution - Mandatory return phase (1 year) in distinct legal
entity in MS/AC for reintegration and knowledge
transfer - Grant agreement is with the return host
(responsible for return of the fellow) - Transnational mobility is a must
11International Incoming Fellowships
- To reinforce scientific excellence of MS/AC by
attracting top-class experienced Third Country
researchers - Enhance possibility for future collaborations
- One or two phases
- incoming phase (1 2 years) in any MS/AC
(fellowship) - optional return phase in country of origin (max 1
year) if researcher is a national of an ICPC
country (15,000/year towards research costs) - Grant agreement with European and return host
- Transnational mobility is a must
12European Reintegration Grants
- Following a Marie Curie fellowship of at least 18
months duration (could be a host fellowship!)
application up to 6 months after end of initial
fellowship - For ERs from MS/AC or assimilated nationals
- Grants provide support to the longer-term
(re-)integration in any MS/AC institution - Contribution to the research and/or salary costs
during 2 3 years (15,000/year) - Host institution must provide adequate work
contract for at least the duration of the project - Mobility not mandatory
13International Reintegration Grants
- For ERs from MS/AC who have spent at least three
years outside MS/AC and not more than 12 months
within last three years in MS/AC - Grants provide support to the longer-term
(re-)integration in any MS/AC institution - Contribution to the research and/or salary costs
during 2 4 years (25,000/year) - Host institution must provide evidence that
researcher gets effectively reintegrated - Researcher should normally not yet have returned
to research in MS/AC (exceptions in well
justified cases)
14Success rates in first Marie Curie calls in FP7
- Intra-European Fellowships 25.3 (1701
proposals) - International Outgoing Fellowships 30 (341
proposals) - International Incoming Fellowships 23.3 (571
proposals) - European Reintegration Grants
- First cut-off 2007 93.5 (49 proposals)
- Second cut-off 2007 93.6 (68 proposals)
- First cut-off 2008 67 proposals
- International Reintegration Grants
- First cut-off 2007 89.8 (136 proposals)
- Second cut-off 2007 43.1 (180 proposals)
- First cut-off 2008 182 proposals
15Allowances to the researchers (fellowships)
- Living allowance (including all mandatory
deductions) basic rate submitted to
country-specific coefficient (IE113.3,
UK109.2, FR104.4, DE101.5, ES 95.5, EL90.1,
,US100.5, CA90.6, MX 70.2)
- Mobility allowance (500/800 monthly, depending
on family situation at deadline country
coefficient applies) - Travel allowance (250 - 2500 every 12 months,
depending on distance only for fellowships) - Career exploratory allowance (2,000 once, only
for IEF)
16Contribution managed by the host institution
(fellowships)
- Participation expenses of researchers managed
by host institution to cover research and
training activities of fellows (conference
attendance, training actions, research costs,
membership in professional associations, etc.) - 500 per fellow-months for non-laboratory based
projects - 800 per fellow-months for laboratory based
projects - does not apply to reintegration grants and return
phase of IIF
17Contributions to the host institutions
(fellowships)
- Management activities
- max. 3 of total Community contribution
- Overheads
- 10 of direct costs except subcontracting
18Indicative timetable for Individual Fellowships
19Indicative timetable for Reintegration Grants
20More information
- Official website of the FP7 People (Marie
Curie) programme on CORDIS - (information on calls, work programme, guide for
applicants, etc.) - http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/
21COFUNDed programmes
- Funding organisations from across Europe have
applied for cofunding of their schemes by Marie
Curie COFUND action - First information received by Irish proposers
very positive, but no definitive results yet
available - Watch the Irish FP7 portal for news!
www.fp7ireland.com