Co-funding of regional research fellowship programmes by FP7 Marie Curie Actions

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1 1 Co-funding of regional research fellowship programmes by FP7 Marie Curie Actions FP7 Research Potential and Regions of Knowledge programmes, Brussels, 22/09/2012 Martin Lange Policy Officer DG Education and Culture Unit C3, Marie Curie Actions European Commission

2 Total FP7 budget : M 50 521 FP7 breakdown (

413 M 7510 Collaborative research 10 thematic

Research Capacity People : M 4750 JRC : M 1751

2 2 Total FP7 budget : M FP7 breakdown ( million) Cooperation : Ideas : M M 7510 Collaborative research 10 thematic areas Frontier Research ERC Marie Curie Actions Research Capacity People : M 4750 JRC : M 1751 Capacities : M 4097 Euratom : M 2751 Nuclear research

3 3 Some basic about Marie Curie Actions: Addressed to researchers at all stages of their careers Open to all domains of research (bottom-up) Mobility (international, intersectoral, interdisciplinary) Application through competitive calls for proposals Budget covers generally: salary, mobility and research budget for the researcher

4 4 Initial training of researchers (1900 M ) Marie Curie Action Initial Training Networks (ITN) Objective Improve career perspectives of early stage researchers in both public & private sector Life-long training and career development ( M ) Industry dimension ( M ) International dimension World fellowships ( M ) Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Career Integration Grants (CIG) Co-funding of regional, national, international programmes (COFUND) Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) International Incoming Fellowships (IIF) International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) Career development of experienced researchers by e.g.: diversification skills/competencies; integrate a stable position after mobility Open and foster dynamic pathways between public research organisations and private commercial enterprises Reinforce extra-european dimension of the ERA through mobility through training, knowledge transfer and cooperation

5 Researchers On the Move 1996-2010 50 000 Marie Curie Researchers Pierre and Marie Curie honeymoon, 1895 35000 30000 25000 20000

5 5 Researchers On the Move Marie Curie Researchers Pierre and Marie Curie honeymoon, researchers from over 120 nationalities since % women

6 6 Public bodies Private bodies with public mission International organisations COFUND: Who can apply? responsible for funding and managing fellowships or research training programmes For example: ministries, research academies, research funding agencies, universities

7 7 COFUND: eligibility criteria (1) Fellowship Programmes can only fund experienced researchers; they must be either doctorate holders or have >4 years research experience Researchers have to show transnational mobility: incoming from another country outgoing to another country (re)integration into research employment in Europe after period of transnational mobility

8 8 COFUND: eligibility criteria (2) Beneficiaries must be established in a EU Member State or Associated Country to FP7 COFUND allows: Creation of new transnational fellowship programmes Opening of existing programmes to transnational mobility Increasing number of transnational fellowships currently awarded by an existing programme Improving working/research conditions of fellows

9 9 COFUND: What does the funding cover? EU contribution: 40% of fellowship costs Max. 10 million per organisation per call Duration: months Supported fellowship programmes receive label cofunded by Marie Curie actions Researchers selected by fellowship programmes are Marie Curie Fellows

10 10 COFUND: What topics can be funded? Bottom-up approach: all domains of research and technological development are eligible Fellowship programmes can cover several or all fields of research or can be restricted to a specific domain However, programmes should have sufficient impact in the specific scientific field(s)

11 11 COFUND: Evaluation and selection Organisations managing fellowship programmes send application to yearly call for proposals Proposals are evaluated in independent peer review, based on pre-established criteria Proposals are evaluated in two separate panels: Panel A: existing transnational fellowship programmes (including those opening for the first time for transnational mobility) Panel B: new transnational fellowship programmes

12 12 COFUND: Evaluation criteria Quality of the selection process for the fellows under the programme Implementation - Management of the programme Relevance and Impact to Life long training and career development

13 13 What happens after the evaluations? If proposals are selected for funding, Research Executive Agency (REA) negotiates yearly flat-rate EU contribution per fellow-year Organisations sign grant agreement with REA Organisations run co-funded fellowship programmes independently from EC and REA, with own application/selection rules and financial contribution rates to fellows Co-funded programmes report annually to REA Financial reporting exclusively based on flat-rates, not on actual costs

14 14 COFUND - overview Call Call closure date Call budget M Eligible proposals Proposals retained for funding Success rate Co-funded fellowyears Cofunded fellows FP7-PEOPLE COFUND FP7-PEOPLE- COFUND FP7-PEOPLE COFUND FP7-PEOPLE COFUND 13/3/ % /2/ % /2/ /2/ (some still in negotiation) 19 (in negotiation) 60.4% 29.7% 2803 (prelim.) 2355 (prelim.) 1613 (prelim.) 1132 (prelim.) Total %

15 # selected fellowship programmes 15 Participation of regional organisations universities research organisations non-research organisations regional organisations national organisations international organisations

16 # fellow-years 16 Participation of regional organisations international organisations national organisations regional organisations (incl universities) call

17 17 Examples regional COFUND programmes Czech Republic: South Moravian Region Spain: Catalonia (AGAUR) Bizkaia (Bizkaia:xede) Galicia Aragón Basque (IKERBASQUE) Italy: Provincia Autonoma di Trento UK: Royal Society of Edinburgh

18 18 Examples regional COFUND programmes TRENTINO Fellowship Programme: Existing fellowship programme since 2003 (only incoming) COFUND allowed: increase in number of incoming fellowships (30 Fellow-years) introduction of outgoing (65 Fellow-years) and reintegration scheme (25 Fellow-years) improve the fellows' working conditions (employment contracts) EU contribution: 2.66 Mio

19 19 Examples regional COFUND programmes Belgium: VIB Switzerland: Zürich-Basel plant Science Center Spain: Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Ciber de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabolicas Asociadas August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques Institute for Research in Biomedicine Universitari Vall D Hebron Italy: Fondazione Bruno Kessler Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor Istituto Superiore di Sanità

20 20 FP7-PEOPLE-2012-COFUND Date of publication: 19 October 2011 Deadline: 15 February 2012 Budget: EUR 110 million COFUND next call

21 21 List of COFUND Fellowship Programmes: More information ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cofund Information on Marie Curie Actions: ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/

22 22 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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