MSCA in HE - General Overview and Proposals for Change
- 1. The Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions in Horizon Europe November 2018
- 2. Reminder: MSCA in Horizon 2020 (2018-2020) European Researchers' Night • Supporting researcher training and career development • Funding excellent research, bottom-up • Promoting researcher mobility • Stimulating international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary cooperation • Impacting researcher careers, organisations, structures
- 3. MSCA in Horizon 2020 EUR 6.16 billion Support for 65,000 researchers, among them 25,000 PhDs More than 30,000 participations
- 4. H2020 Interim Evaluation Assessment of MSCA • attractive, efficiently run • providing real EU added value (on careers, institutions, society) • open to the world, gender-balanced • widely appreciated, systematically oversubscribed Several recommendations already taken on board in H2020
- 5. MSCA – who participates? • Complementarity: ITN > ESR, IF > ER, RISE & COFUND > all • MSCA for young researchers below 40 years • Gender balance – almost there… ESR = early-stage researcher ER = experienced researcher
- 6. MSCA – promoting researcher mobility (I) • Increase in variability and strength of flows • Regional imbalances remain - North-West vs. South-East • United Kingdom – a special case today and tomorrow
- 7. MSCA – promoting researcher mobility (II) • MSCA fellows 'returning' to their country of origin after a stay abroad
- 8. Horizon 2020’s most international programme • Strong integration of Associated Countries • More than half of all Third Country participations in H2020 • 80% of all US participations • MSCA funding for 140 nationalities • ¼ of MSCA fellows from beyond EU MS/AC • Imbalances between Third Countries remain
- 9. MSCA – bridging the intersectoral gap • MSCA projects increasingly linking academic to non-academic partners • 25% of MSCA participations (beneficiary and partner) by private companies. • ITN and RISE creating strong links, IF mainly in Higher Education
- 10. MSCA – bottom up and interdisciplinary • Even distribution of panels – a question of awareness? • MSCA a leading support for Social Sciences and Humanities • Increasing number of interdisciplinary projects, but potential for growth
- 11. MSCA - impacts On Researchers On Institutions On Structures • Boost for scientific career • New professional skills • Perspectives for non-academic career paths • Opportunities for new scientific networks • Resources for fostering research excellence • New links between academia and private sector • Opening up to global exchanges of scientific excellence • Catching up to global standards and best practices (i.a. Charter & Code) • Impetus for national policies on career management and intersectoral exchanges
- 12. MSCA in Horizon 2020 – lessons learned • Remain focussed on scientific excellence, mobility, career development • Keep the bottom-up approach • Support novelty and innovation • Address demand management • Increase synergies with other programmes • Clarify, simplify, ensure internal coherence Let’s do something about it in Horizon Europe!
- 13. MSCA and HE - Objectives
- 14. HORIZON EUROPE objectives and structure Foster all forms of innovation and strengthen market deployment Strengthen the impact of R&I in supporting EU policies Support the creation and diffusion of high-quality knowledge Optimise the Programme’s delivery for impact in a strengthened ERA Strengthening the European Research Area Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I systemSharing excellence Pillar 1 Open Science European Research Council Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Infrastructures Pillar 3 Open Innovation European Innovation Council European innovation ecosystems European Institute of Innovation and Technology Pillar 2 Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness • Health • Inclusive and Secure Society • Digital and Industry • Climate, Energy and Mobility • Food and natural resources Joint Research Centre Clusters A EUR 100 billion package investing in research and innovation for seven years (2021-2027), including Euratom
- 15. MSCA in Horizon Europe • Investing in the people behind R&I, delivering talents and improving careers • Overall: continuation • Bottom-up, competition-based research programme • Creating impact on researchers, institutions, structures • 5 broad lines of activity: • mobility of researchers • training of researchers • strengthening human capital across the ERA • facilitating synergies • promoting public outreach
- 16. MSCA in Horizon Europe, supporting: 1. Doctoral Training Networks PhD students 2. Postdoctoral Fellowships postdocs 3. Staff Exchanges any type of research staff 4. Synergies co-funding training programmes 5. Science Festivals public outreach events
- 17. MSC Actions in HE – Proposed Changes
- 18. Evolution in the implementation • Streamlined actions • Continuation of simplified form of grants • Simpler rules, fine-tuned definitions, harmonised conditions • Demand management • Internal coherence & external synergies
- 19. Managing the demand • Highly attractive programme, systematically oversubscribed • Success rates decrease (7% for ITN in 2017) • Number of applications increase (>9,800 for IF in 2018) • Consequently: • Increasing number of top quality applications remain unfunded (ITN, IF) • Increasing complexity to manage the proposal evaluation (IF) • Exploring options to better manage the demand
- 20. Reminder: Innovative Training Networks (ITN) Budget for 2018 call: ETN: €375 M EID: €32 M EJD: €35 M ≥ 3 partners from MS/AC, joint research programme duration: 48 months ~ 15 PhD students Exposure to non-academic sector is strongly encouraged Secondments possible up to 6 months European Industrial Doctorate ≥ 2 partners from different sectors; fellows ≥50% in non- academic sector European Joint Doctorate ≥ 3 partners from MS/AC Joint, double, or multiple doctoral degree as deliverable
- 21. 1. Doctoral Training Networks in HE • MSCA will continue to support doctoral candidates • Clarify and simplify • Integrating objectives into a single action • Manage demand, improve success rates
- 22. Reminder: Individual Fellowships (IF) Budget for 2018 call: EF: €228 M; GF: €45 M European Fellowships Global Fellowships For fellows coming to or moving within Europe duration: 12-24 months (exceptionally to 36 months) For fellows from Europe going to Third Country (12-24 months) & returning to Europe (12 months) 1 host in Europe 1 host in Europe + 1 partner organisation in Third Country
- 23. 2. Postdoctoral Fellowships in HE • Continue supporting post-doctoral researchers • Introduce focus on the scientifically younger generation • Clarify and simplify, single action • Deliver highly-skilled talents • Contribute to closing the R&I divide
- 24. Reminder: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Budget for 2018 call: €80 M • Two possible set-ups Academic Non- Academic MS/AC 1 MS/AC 2 + + MS/AC 3 MS/AC 1 MS/AC 2 TC+ + "European" Secondments must be inter-sectoral "International" Secondments can be intra- or inter-sectoral
- 25. • Continue supporting staff exchanges, open to any type of staff • Emphasis on the added-value of the collaboration itself • Lean and flexible tool to support collaboration • I³ approach 3. Staff Exchanges in HE
- 26. Reminder: COFUND • Co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international doctoral and post-doctoral training & mobility programmes • Mono-beneficiary action • Aim: leverage funding and combat fragmentation Budget for 2018 call: Postdoctoral Programmes: €50 M Doctoral Programmes: €30 M
- 27. • Continue co-funding national, regional, institutional schemes for • Increase in total EU contribution • Greater focus on new beneficiaries and new training programmes • Facilitating synergies with Structural Funds 4. Synergies in HE
- 28. Internal coherence and external synergies • Synergies with other parts of Horizon Europe • Linking with global challenges • Facilitating access to innovation/entrepreneurial activities • Strengthening the ERA • Synergies with other EU programmes • Structural Funds • Education policies
- 29. 5. European Researchers' Festivals • Continuation of the European Researchers' Night • Extension • Supporting also other science festivals and outreach events with EU-added value
- 30. Sharing excellence • Maintain competition-for-excellence principle • Contribute to strengthening the ERA • Seal of Excellence • Widening Fellowships pilot 2018-2020 • Suggested novelty: brain circulation fellowship
- 31. Thank you ! #HorizonEU © European Union, 2018. | Images source: © darkovujic, #82863476; © Konovalov Pavel, #109031193; 2018. Fotolia.com http://ec.europa.eu/horizon-europe