Marie Curie Individual Schemes Fellowships and Reintegration Grants

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Marie Curie Individual Schemes Fellowships and
Reintegration Grants Dr. Dagmar M. Meyer Marie
Curie National Contact Point
www.iua.ie
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Outline 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

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General 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.)

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Basic 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)

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Basic 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.

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Basic 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)

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Basic 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.

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Basic 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

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Intra-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

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International 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

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International 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

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European 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

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International 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)

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Success 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

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Allowances 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)

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Contribution 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

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Contributions to the host institutions
(fellowships)

• Management activities
• max. 3 of total Community contribution
• Overheads
• 10 of direct costs except subcontracting

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Indicative timetable for Individual Fellowships
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Indicative timetable for Reintegration Grants
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More 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/

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COFUNDed 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