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Marie Curie Co-funding of
regional, national and international
fellowship programmes (COFUND)
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Marie Curie Actions - introduction
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COFUND:
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Objectives
Principles and rules
Evaluation and selection procedure
State-of-play: results of previous calls
Best practises: examples of co-funded
Fellowship Programmes
Further information
FP7 (2007-2013)
FP7 = EU’s research funding instrument
Budget : Billion €50.5
4 Programmes: Cooperation, Ideas, People, Capacities
FP7 breakdown
(€ + Euratom)
(+ Joint Research
Centre
million)
Ideas: B €7.51
Cooperation:
B€ 32.5
People : B €4.75
Marie Curie Actions
JRC:
€1.75
JRC : M€B
1750
Euratom: B €2.75
Nuclear research
Capacities: B €4.1
Marie Curie Actions
A dedicated programme for structuring training, mobility
and career development
Objectives:
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Human resources potential in R&D in Europe
Stimulate people to enter into the profession of researcher
Encouraging researchers to stay in Europe
Attracting researchers from around the world
One main condition to be eligible: Mobility
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Employment contracts with full social rights
Addressed to researchers at all stages of their careers
Adequate working conditions and attractive salaries
Peer-reviewed international evaluation
European (and international) prestige
Geographical
Sectorial
“People” Programme ~€4.75 Billion
= Marie Curie Actions
Initial training (~40% budget)
Initial Training Networks (ITN)
Life-long training and career development (~25-30% budget)
Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)/ Career Integration Grants (CIG)
Co-funding of regional/national/international programmes (COFUND);
Industry dimension (~5-10% budget)
Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)
World fellowship (~25% budget)
International Outgoing & Incoming Fellowships (IOF & IIF); International
Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
Policy support actions (~1% budget)
Mobility and career enhancement actions
Marie Curie Actions
Applicants
Profile of recruited
researchers
Individual
researchers
OIF
> 10 years
IIF
Post-docs (ER)
ERG
> 4 years
IRG
< 4 years
*MER: More Experienced Researcher
Research
funding bodies
IEF
Senior Post-docs
(MER*)
Post-graduates
(ESR)
Industry/Research
Institutions
IAPP
IRSES
ITN
COFUND
Initial Training Networks (ITN)
Aims to improve career perspectives of early stage researchers in both
public & private sector
International networks of participants from public & private sector
Joint research training programme
Complementary skills acquisition: entrepreneurship, management, IPR, grant writing,
communication
Eligible researchers : Nationals from any country
Mainly Early-Stage Researchers (ESR): > 80% - less than 4 years experience in research
Experienced researchers (ER):< 20% - more than 4 years experience in research
Community Contribution
Attractive salaries of recruited researchers
Research and networking costs
Organisation of short training events (workshops, seminars, summer schools and conferences)
Industry–Academia
Partnerships & Pathways (IAPP)
Foster research collaboration between non-commercial (public)
research organisations & commercial enterprises
Based on common research project
Intersectoral mobility & skills exchange
Staff secondments & recruitments of experienced researchers
Funding for research costs & networking activities
Eligible researchers
Staff exchange – secondments : 2 to 24 months
Recruitment (optional) : 12 to 24 months
Community contribution
Staff secondments and recruitment of experienced researchers (optional)
Research and networking costs
Specific small equipment for SMEs: <10% total contribution
International Research Staff
Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
Participant rules :
At least 2 independent research organisations in two different MS/AC
One or more organisations in TC
Additional partners from any sector and from any other country welcome
Joint multi-annual programmes of 24-48 months
Eligible researchers :
Research staff mainly, but also technical and management staff
Min. 1 month - max. 12 months/researcher
Staff is seconded (not recruited)
Community contribution :
Balanced exchange of EU/International researchers
Subsistence/travel allowance for outgoing European researchers € 1800/month per researcher
Case by case: subsistence/travel allowance incoming ICPC/ENP
Life Long Training and Career
Development
Intra-European Fellowships for career development (IEF)
12 to 24 months (full-time) period
Any nationals working/living in MS*/AC** moving to another MS/AC
Mobility requirement at the deadline of the call (definition)
Career Integration Grants (CIG)
Financial contribution of 25 000 €/year during 2-4 years
Host institution within MS/AC, including country of origin
Research costs, including salary of researchers or assistants
MS*: Member States
AC**: Associated Countries with science and technology cooperation agreements that involved contributing to the
framework programme budget
World Fellowships
International Outgoing Fellowships for career development (IOF)
12-24 months period in a TC plus 12 months of compulsory return phase in MS/AC
For Nationals of MS/AC
International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
12-24 months period in MS/AC
Third country nationals coming from outside Europe
Possible return phase to country of origin (12 months)
COFUND
Global objective
COFUND supports existing and new regional,
national and international fellowship
programmes
– to increase transnational mobility for training
and career development of experienced researchers
– to improve the working and employment
conditions of researchers in Europe.
COFUND
Impacts
– Numerical impact and leverage effect
• 2.5 x more individual Marie Curie fellowships
• Creation of new fellowship programmes
– Encourages regional and national fellowship
programmes to open for transnational mobility
– Structuring the European Research Area (ERA):
• selection processes based on competition, transparent
selection criteria, composition of selection committee,
international peer review
• Improved working conditions for researchers (employment
contracts with full social rights)
COFUND
Charter and Code
– Working conditions of
researchers
– Transparency of
recruitment processes
– Career development
COFUND
Who can apply?
– Public bodies
– Private bodies with public mission
– International organisations
responsible for funding and managing fellowships or
research training programmes
For example: ministries, research academies, research
funding agencies, universities
COFUND
What are the 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
COFUND
What are the 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
COFUND
What does the funding cover?
– EU contribution: 40% of fellowship costs
– Max. € 10 million per organisation per call
– Duration: 24-60 months
– Supported fellowship programmes receive label co-
funded by Marie Curie actions
– Researchers selected by fellowship programmes are
Marie Curie Fellows
COFUND
Which 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)
COFUND
Evaluations of fellowship programmes
– 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
COFUND
Evaluation criteria (1)
– Quality of the selection process for the
fellows under the programme (30% weight)
• Transparency of selection process*
• Composition and organisation of selection
committee*
• Criteria and merit of judging merit*
*see Charter and Code
COFUND
Evaluation criteria (2)
– Implementation - Management of the
programme (30% weight)
• Appointment conditions of selected fellows*
• Quality of the programme management
• Client-friendliness towards applicant
researchers
• Administrative capacity to implement the
programme
• Appropriateness of the scale of the programme
• Future development of the programme
*see Charter and Code
COFUND
Evaluation criteria (3)
– Relevance and Impact to “Life long training
and Career development” (40% weight)
• Openness of programme to transnational mobility
• Contribution to diverse career development of
researchers (broadening or deepening)
• Career development support for fellows*
• Equal opportunities (including possibility to resume
research career after break)*
• Relevance for ERA of research field covered by
programme’s calls
• Impact of programme to development of researchers’
careers in the ERA
*see Charter and Code
COFUND
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
COFUND
state of play
Call
Budget
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N° of eligible
proposals
N° of proposals
retained for funding
Success
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Co-funded
Fellowships
FP7-PEOPLE2007-2-3COFUND
65
45
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53.3%
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FP7-PEOPLECOFUND-2008
75
35
26
74.3%
~1800
(estimated)
FP7-PEOPLE2010-COFUND
75
53
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~56.6%
~1800
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COFUND Programmes – Examples
regional funding agencies (1)
– 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
COFUND Programmes – Examples
regional funding agencies (2)
– 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
COFUND Programmes – Examples
national funding agencies (1)
– Austria: FWF
– Belgium:
• Belgian Science Policy Office
• F.W.O.
– Germany:
• Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
• Gerda Henkel Stiftung
• Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
– Estonian Science Foundation
– Hungary: National Office for Research and
Technology
COFUND Programmes – Examples
national funding agencies (2)
– Ireland:
• Health Research Board
• Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Techn.
• Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sci.
• Science Foundation Ireland
– Iceland: The Icelandic Centre for Research
– Italian Association for Cancer Research
– Luxemburg: National Research Fund
– The Netherlands: N.W.O
– Portugal: Fundação para a Ciência e a tecnologia
COFUND Programmes – Examples
national funding agencies (3)
– Schrödinger Fellows (FWF, Austria):
• Largest Outgoing Programme in Austria for basic research
at postdoc level open to all disciplines and destinations.
• 117 Fellow-years outgoing researchers, fellowships up to 2
years
• COFUND funding used to introduce reintegration phase (25
Fellow-years), fellowships up to 1 year, research cost
indicative contribution of € 8.000 year
• Total EU contribution € 2.4 Mio
COFUND Programmes – Examples
regional research organisations (1)
– 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
COFUND Programmes – Examples
regional research organisations (2)
– BIOTRACK Programme of IDIBAPS:
• IDIBAPS: biomedical research centre located at University
of Barcelona's School of Medicine and Hospital Clínic
• 72 incoming Fellow-Years
• 35 outgoing Fellow-Years
• 20 re-integration Fellow-Years
• EU contribution: € 2.9 Mio
COFUND Programmes – Examples
national research organisations (1)
– Switzerland: EMPA – Eidgenössische
Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt
– Spain:
• TECNALIA
• Fundación CNIC Carlos III
– France: CEA
– Ireland: National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform
– Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica
COFUND Programmes – Examples
national research organisations (1)
– Eurotalents Fellowship Programme of the
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies
alternatives (CEA), France
• Scientific fields: Energy, environment and climate change,
Life sciences and biotechnology, Microelectronics,
nanosciences and nanotechnologies, high performance
computing, high energy physics, high energy density
physics and physics of the universe.
• Incoming fellowships: 129 fellow-Years
• Outgoing fellowships: 14 fellow-years
• EU contribution: € 5 Mio
COFUND Programmes – Examples
international organisations (1)
– European Respiratory Society (ERS)
– Central European Initiative (CEI)
– European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
– European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM)
– European Southern Observatory (ESO)
– European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
– International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
– European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
– European Institutes for Advanced Study
COFUND Programmes – Examples
international organisations (2)
– RESPIRE Programme of the European Respiratory
Society (ERS):
• ERS promotes research into respiratory diseases, including
asthma, cystic fibrosis, COPD, lung cancer
• Existing fellowship programme in pneumology and
respiratory science since 1998
• COFUND used to increase number of fellowships to 18
over three years period
• EU contribution: € 290 k
COFUND Programmes – Examples
international organisations (3)
– European Southern Observatory Fellowship
Programme for the Atacama Large
Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA)
• Incoming fellowships: 24 fellow-years
• Outgoing fellowships: 24 fellow-years
• Re-integration fellowships: 21 fellow-years
• EU contribution: € 1.79 Mio
COFUND Programmes – Examples
universities (1)
– Belgium: Université Catholique de Louvain
– Switzerland:
• Universät Bern
• Université Genève
• ETH Zürich
– Germany: FU Berlin
– Spain:
• Universidad de Malaga
• Universidad de Murcia
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
COFUND Programmes – Examples
universities (2)
– France:
• Université Européenne de Bretagne
• UniverSud Paris
– Sweden:
• Karolinska Institutet
– UK
• University of Durham
COFUND Programmes – Examples
universities (2)
– International Fellowship Program on Integrative
Kidney Physiology and Pathophysiology, Universität
Bern
– Programme supports postdocs to conduct research
at one of the five medical university faculties in
Switzerland (Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and
Zürich) for two years.
– EU contribution: € 1.26 Mio
COFUND in WP 2011
– Next call (indicative): FP7-PEOPLE2011-COFUND
• Date of publication: 20 October 2010
• Deadline: 17 February 2011
• Budget: EUR 90 million
COFUND
more information
List of COFUND Fellowship Programmes:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/cofund_en.html
Information on Marie Curie Actions:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/
NEW: EURAXESS Fellowship
Programmes Portal
– http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess
-> go to “Jobs”
– “Fellowship Programmes“
Portal: database of regional,
national and international
research fellowship
programmes
– Possibility to search for
fellowship opportunities
according to specific criteria
How are the Marie Curie
actions implemented?
The Research Executive Agency
Evaluation of the proposals
day to day management of FP7 Marie Curie projects
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