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ERA CHAIR 2020 TWINNING 2020 KRISTIN KRAAV
„SPREADING EXCELLENCE AND
WIDENING PARTICIPATION“
LAST CALLS IN HORIZON 2020
Call Opens Closes Budget
Twinning WIDESPREAD- 24 July 2019 14 November 69 M €
05-2020 2019
ERA Chairs WIDESPREAD- 24 July 2019 14 November 50 M €
06-2020 2019
Widening WF-02-2019 11 April 2019 11 Sept 2019 6M€
Fellowships WF-03-2020 8 April 2020 9 Sept 2019 7M€
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„WIDENING“ COUNTRIES IN H2020
ALL TOGETHER 27
• Composite Indicator of Research Excellence
(publications, top institutions, patents and ERC
grants) with a corrective threshold of 70% of the EU
average
• 15 Member States (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Slovakia and Slovenia)
• 12 Associated Countries (Albania, Armenia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, North Macedonia,
Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia,
Turkey and Ukraine)
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ERA CHAIRS
WIDESPREAD-06-2020 call
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ERA CHAIRS
SPECIFIC CHALLENGE
• persistent mobility barriers in
Widening countries (availability of
research funding, institutional
rigidities, access to resources)
• creation of appropriate conditions for
the mobility of high quality
researchers and managers
• willingness of the institutions to
achieve excellence in the chosen
scientific domain & modify their R&I
landscape
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ERA CHAIRS
SCOPE
Support for universities or research
organisations to hire an outstanding
researcher/research manager and their team
… and in parallel implement structural changes
to achieve excellence on a sustainable basis
… in any scientific field closely connected to the
ERA Chair holder activities and expertise
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ERA CHAIRS
PROPOSAL
• Based on a SWOT analysis
• Aimed at structural change in institution
• Putting in place conditions for excellent research
• Implement ERA priorities and Charter&Code
• open recruitment policy, gender balance, peer review, and
innovative doctoral training
• Describe investments and/or better use of existing
infrastructure
• Induce a positive change in current practices
• Describe ERA Chair roles, obligations and remuneration
package
• Include provisions for sustainability
• New: focus on strengthening research management skills
(separate WP or Task)
7ERA CHAIR HOLDER
• Will be appointed through an open, merit based competition
• The position must be open to all EU and non-EU nationals at
R3 – Established researcher or R4 – Leading researcher level
• The Chair holder will be an excellent researcher and research
manager in the given field, with a proven leadership record
• The Chair holder will establish ther own team, fully
integrated in the host
• The commitment should be for the whole duration of the
project and full-time
• The position should allow the Chair to make resource
allocation decisions, supervise team members, and apply for
research funding.
8ERA CHAIRS
ELIGIBLE COSTS NON-ELIGIBLE COSTS
Costs related to the Chair holder Infrastructure costs
and their team:
• Salaries
• Recruitment costs
• Administrative costs 2,5 M €
• Travel costs
Costs related to structural changes: 6 years
• Trainings
• Meetings
• Publications & IPR
Equipment and consumables: up to
10%
9ERA CHAIRS
EXPECTED IMPACT
• institutional changes allowing full participation in ERA
• increased attractiveness of the institution for internationally excellent and
mobile researchers (including compliance with ERA priorities)
• increased research excellence of the institution in specific field covered by
grant holder illustrated quantitatively and qualitatively through indicators
• improved capability to compete successfully for internationally
competitive research funding
• New: describe previous/current ERA Chair grants (if any) and demonstrate
clearly added value and impact of the proposal compared to already
funded project/s
10ERA CHAIRS
FREQUENT MISTAKES
• weaknesses and threats in SWOT analysis are not reflected - SWOT
justifies the proposal and structural changes should be motivated
by weaknesses and threats
• objectives (main and specific) should be described in detail, must
be measurable and address the needs adequately - down to the
level of WPs and tasks
• convincing strategic and long-term sustainability vision is missing
• ERA Chair: research topic is very broad, team is not defined in
terms of profiles and number
• interactions with national/regional authorities, research funders,
research bodies, stakeholders and private sector lack details
• RIS3 and compliance with ERA priorities are missing
• KPIs are not clearly explained and not defined appropriately
Source: NCP_WIDE.Net, Anna Vosečková, CZ
11ERA CHAIRS
MORE MISTAKES
• no convincing explanation on how attractiveness and international
recognition will be achieved
• IPR and data management procedures are insufficiently elaborated
though need to have such policy is recognized but only briefly
outlined
• effective communication channels have not been identified and
target groups are not clearly defined
• too many work packages with no interconnection
• deliverables are not in in line with tasks and objectives
• high travel costs are insufficiently justified, cost of conference
venues and speakers are overestimated
• distribution between the scientific and management tasks is not
appropriate as it is excessively biased towards the scientific
activities
Source: NCP_WIDE.Net, Anna Vosečková, CZ
12ERA CHAIRS
LESSONS LEARNED
• clearly define objectives towards institutional
changes
• demonstrate the role and autonomy of the ERA Chair
holder
• Work Packages should be consistent and contribute to
an overall Action Plan
• management structures need to be well defined and
simple
Source: European Commission REA
13ERA CHAIR APPLICATIONS
WHAT WORKS?
Build on strengths Align with national and
institutional priorities
Identify opportunities
Clear description of the
Structural change: have
clear targets and KPIs ERA Chair responsibilities,
requirements, and tasks
Recruitment, both of the
ERA Chair and the team, is Address risks and
a key issue
sustainability
14ERA CHAIRS
WIDESPREAD-06-2020 CALL
• Budget of the call: 50 M €
• Duration of the project: up to 6 years
• Budget of the project: up to 2,5 M €
• Call documents:
• Work programme text for 2020 is still under revision, expected
publication in June 2019:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/20
18-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-sewp_en.pdf
• Proposal template
• Various policy documents
• Thematic European and national strategies, white papers, etc.
• Principles of Innovative Doctoral Training
• The European Charter and Code for researchers
• …
15ERA CHAIRS
RESULTS OF 2014 CALL
Institution Country Proposals per Country in the main list
PT 4
EE 3+1
CY 2
PL 2
HR 1
RO 1
Total 13+1
16ERA CHAIRS
RESULTS OF 2017 CALL
Number of evaluated vs successful proposals
by country
PT PL SI EE CY CZ LT LV RS BG HR MT SK AL BA GE HU LU ME UA
17ERA CHAIRS
RESULTS OF 2019 CALL
Source: NCP_WIDE.Net, Kaspars Kalninš, LV
18 http://widening.viaa.gov.lv/ERA CHAIRS
ESTONIAN ERA CHAIR PROJECTS 2015-2017
TUTIC-Green (FP7) – green 2017
chemistry CUDAN – cultural data
analytics
2014 GasFermTec – gas
CEITER – educational innovation fermentation technologies
COEL – cognitive electronics cGEM – genomics,
SynBioTec – synthetic biology evolution, and medicine
TransGeno – translational VALORTECH – food
genomics valorisation
19ERA CHAIR HOLDERS
PROFILES
Nicholas Gathergood
Tobias Ley
Muhammad Mahtab Alam
Petri-Jaan Lahtvee
Alireza Fazeli
Kaspar Valgepea
Rajeev Bhat
20TWINNING
WIDESPREAD-05-2020 Call
21TWINNING
SPECIFIC CHALLENGE SCOPE
• enhance networking • enhance S&T capacity of
activities between Widening the linked institutions
research institutions and at with a principal focus on
least 2 internationally- Widening institution
leading counterparts from 2
different MS or AC • help raise the research
profile of the Widening
• break into the closed clubs
of research intensive institution as well as the
institutions cooperating research profile of its
among themselves staff
22TWINNING
PROPOSAL
• SWOT analysis
• scientific strategy for stimulating scientific excellence and innovation
capacity:
• arrangements for formulating joint research projects
• enlargement of the scope of research partnership
• set of activities (e.g. short-term staff exchange, expert visits, short-term
trainings, workshops, conference attendance, joint summer schools,
dissemination and outreach)
• dedicated WP or task targeting early stage researchers (MSCA definition)
from coordinating institution
• New: dedicated WP or task for improving research management and
administration skills as a concrete deliverable and setting up/upgrading a
special unit would be beneficial
23TWINNING
EXPECTED IMPACT
• increased research excellence of the coordinating institution in
particular field of research
• enhancing reputation, attractiveness and networking channels
• improved capability to compete successfully for national, EU
internationally competitive research funding
• illustrate quantitatively and qualitatively expected potential impact
based on indicators
• contribution of leading partners to providing new research
avenues, creativity, and acting as source for increased mobility
• benefits for leading partners should be substantiated
• New: describe previous/current TWINNING grants (if any) and
demonstrate clearly added value and impact of the proposal
compared to already funded project/s
24TWINNING
FREQUENT MISTAKES
• Proposal lacks proper SWOT analysis
• Objectives are too generic/vague
• Clear scientific strategy is missing
• Roles of the leading research institutes are not clear
• Interactions with stakeholders not well described
• Expected impacts replaced by actions and outputs
• No measurable indicators
• IPR management missing
• WPs not in line with objectives
• Management responsibilities not specified
• Complementarity of partners not described
• Tasks are not adequately distributed to partners
See also Anna Vosečková’s article on NCP_WIDE.Net website
25TWINNING
LESSONS LEARNED
• clear definition of the scientific strategy towards
excellence in the relevant research field
• better illustration of the scientific qualities of
"advanced" partners and their added value to the
project
• outline the expected impact of the twinning
exercise on the institution in the Widening
country (and even at the national/regional level)
based on specific indicators
Source: European Commission REA
26TWINNING
ELIGIBLE COSTS NON-ELIGIBLE COSTS
Administration Infrastructure
Coordination
Training
Networking
Management
Travel
New: Equipment and
consumables: up to 10%
27TWINNING
WIDESPREAD-05-2020 CALL
• Budget of the call: 69 M €
• Duration of the project: up to 3 years
• Budget of the project: up to 0,9 M €
• Call documents:
• Work programme text for 2020 is still under revision, expected
publication in June 2019:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/20
18-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-sewp_en.pdf
• Proposal template
• Various policy documents
• Thematic European and national strategies, white papers, etc.
• Principles of Innovative Doctoral Training
• The European Charter and Code for researchers
• …
28TWINNING RESULTS
80 77 2015
70
62
60 56
Proposals evaluated: country of coordinator
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Total proposals submitted: 552
50 Total proposals evaluated: 546
40
32
28 27 26 26
30
23 22 21 21 20 18
20
10 6 6 5 5 3 3 3 2 1
0
PT PL CZ RO EE SK RS CY HR LV SI BG HU LT TR MD UA BA MT AL LU MK ME FO
Funded: 65 projects
Success rate: 12%
https://edukad.etag.ee/?t=H2020-TWINN-2015&p=H2020
29TWINNING RESULTS
2017 Proposals
received: 482
inadmissible: 1
Evaluated vs successful proposals ineligible: 4
by country of Coordinator evaluated: 477
Main list: 30
(success rate: 6.3%)
Reserve: 2
No money: 280
Below thresh.: 165
PT PL RO CZ SK LT RS CY HR TR EE LV HU BG UA SI TN AM AL GE ME MK MT BA MD LU
30TWINNING RESULTS
2018 Proposals received: 460
Evaluated: 456
Evaluation Outcome Selected: 37
Success rate: 8%
Below
Threshold
30% Mainlist
9% 37 Reserve
Above Threshold 5
70%
Above Threshold 31
Below Threshold Mainlist ReserveTWINNING RESULTS
2019
Coordinators in Main List by Widening Country
3,00 € 8
Millions
7
2,50 € Estonia
Submitted: 20
6
Funded: 5
Number of Proposals in the Main List
2,00 €
Success rate 25% 5
1,50 € 4
3
1,00 €
2
0,50 €
1
0,00 € 0
TN
LV
HR
TR
LU
HU
LB
RO
LT
BA
PT
EE
RS
PL
BG
CZ
CY
UA
MT
ME
MK
MD
AM
SK
SI
AL
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Sum of Req_Fund_Mainlist Sum of COO_MainlistWIDENING FELLOWSHIPS
2019 and 2020 MSCA Individual Fellowship Calls
33WIDENING FELLOWSHIPS NEW!
NEW INITIATIVE
• Aim: to combat brain drain and support researchers to
undertake their fellowship in a Widening country
• All non-funded European Fellowship applications that pass all
evaluation thresholds (70%) will be automatically passed on
to the Widening Fellowships call (NB! no applications will be
submitted directly to this call)
• A single multidisciplinary ranking list will be formed; ca. 35
top-ranking proposals will be funded
• Conditions of the MSCA EF will apply (same funding, same
Grant Agreement)
• Budget: 6 M€ (7 M€ 2020)
34+ 8 % overall proposals, + 27% proposals from widening countries 35
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Kristin Kraav
kristin.kraav@etag.ee
730 0337
skype: kristinkraav
www.etag.ee
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