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Horizon Europe
Excellent Science (Pillar 1)
USN Horizon Europe Kick-off 3. Dec. 2020
Per Magnus Kommandantvold, National
Contact Point for MSCA and ERC
@MarieCurie_NCP and @erc_ncp
RESEARCH FOR INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Horizon Europe
Total budget: EUR 94.1 billion
Excellent Science (EUR Global Challenges and European Industrial Innovative Europe
25.8 billion) Competitiveness (EUR 52.7 billion) (EUR 13.5 billion)
Clusters European Innovation Council
European Research Council (ERC)
1. Health (EIC)
2. Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies
Marie Skłodowska-Curie 3. Civil Security for Society
4. Digital, Industry & Space Innovation ecosystems
Actions (MSCA)
5. Climate, Energy and Mobility
6. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture &
Environment European Institute of Innovation
Research Infrastructures
EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Technology (EIT)
Widening participation and strengthening the European research area (EUR 2.1 billion)
Widening participation and spreading excellence.
Reforming and enhancing the European R&I system.
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Work in progress!
Work programmes are not yet finalised!
There will be changes to details (such as deadlines),
but the overall structure will apply.
Plan for the future, but be aware that the final
concept is found in the Guide for applicants that are
published ahead of the call deadline!
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Kolumnetittel
ERC grants: The basics
• Support to investigator-driven frontier research, a Principal
Investigator (PI) and his or her team
• All scientific areas covered
• Scientific excellence sole evaluation criterion, of
– Researcher (PI)
– Research proposal (idea)
• Encourages cross-disciplinary proposals, new and emerging
fields, unconventional and innovative approaches
• High risk / high gain
• 27 panels, international peer review
The European Research Council (ERC)
Advanced Grants
Starting Grants Consolidator Grants
• starters (2-7 years after • track-record of significant
• consolidators (7-12 years research achievements in
PhD) after PhD)
• up to € 1,5 Mio for 5 years the last 10 years
• up to € 2,0 Mio for 5 years
• Min. 50% dedicated working • up to € 2,5 Mio for 5 years
• Min. 40% dedicated working
time on ERC project time on ERC project • Min. 30% dedicated
working time on ERC
project
Proof-of-Concept
Synergy Grants • for ERC grant holders
• 2 – 4 Principal Investigators • bridging gap between research - earliest stage
• up to € 10.0 (+4) Mio for 6 years of marketable innovation
• up to €150,000
New: • Revised panel structure • Interviews in all grants except PoC
What is MSCA?
• The EU programme for funding research training and
mobility since 1994
• Part of the Excellence pillar in Horizon Europe
• 145,000 researchers funded so far
• Bottom-up and open to all disciplines
Why MSCA funding?
• Work and research opportunities!
• Get the best PhD-students and postdocs!
• Collaborate with your networks and expand them!
• Enhance your personal or institutional CV!
• +++
03.12.2020 7MSCA 2021-2027:
1. MSCA Doctoral Networks - networks training doctoral candidates
2. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - postdoctoral researchers
3. MSCA Staff Exchanges - any type of research(-related) staff
4. MSCA COFUND - co-funding training programmes
5. MSCA and Citizens - public outreach events
03.12.2020 81. MSCA Doctoral Networks (MSCA DN)
•1 single action to implement doctoral programmes, including joint and
industrial degrees
•Consortia
• partnerships of universities, research institutions and research
infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic
actors
• at least three independent legal entities, each established in a
different MS or AC; minimum of 1 beneficiary from a MS
• Max. 40% of budget to one country
•Target group
• Doctoral candidates, i.e. researcher without a doctoral degree at the
date of the recruitment; mandatory enrolment in a doctoral
programme
03.12.2020 91. MSCA Doctoral Networks
•Size
• Max. 360 person-months,
max. 540 person-months for joint or industrial doctorates (incentive)
•Duration
• Programme: max. 48 months
• Fellow: between 3 and 36 months
• Secondments: up to 1/3
• Industrial doctorates: at least 50% in the non-academic sector; can be in the same
country as the academic host organisation
•Call deadlines
• 2021: 16 Nov 2021
• 2022: 15 Nov 2022
• Resubmission restrictions applying as of 2022 for applications receiving a score below
80% 03.12.2020 102. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF)
• Two types of Fellowships
• European Postdoctoral Fellowships and Global Postdoctoral Fellowships
• The different panels under H2020 (CAR, RI, SE) will be discontinued and streamlined
• Incentive of additional period of up to six months for placements in the non-
academic sector
• Part of the evaluated proposal
• Proposed to be implemented at the end of the fellowship (more mature project
results, fellow closer to next career plans)
• Limitation on research experience –up to 8 years of research experience after PhD
• exceptions for years outside research and years of research spent outside Europe as
incentives for career restarters and Europeans who wish to reintegrate to Europe
03.12.2020 112. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Restrict resubmissions below 70% in previous HE call (2022)
• Doctoral degree required at the call deadline (successfully defended)
• Duration (no change):
European PF: 12-24 months (could go up to 30 months in option of + 6 months in the non-academic sector)
Global PF: 24 -36 months (12-24 outgoing & 12 months return phase in Europe)
•Call deadlines:
2021: 15 Sept
2022: 14 Sept
03.12.2020 121. MSCA Staff Exchanges (MSCA SE)
•International, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation
through exchanging staff
•Most international action under the MSCA
•Consortia
• Partnerships of universities, research institutions and infrastructures, businesses
including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors
• at least 3 independent legal entities in three different countries, two of which
established in a different MS or AC
•Target group
• Researchers at any career stage, as well as administrative, managerial and technical
staff supporting R&I activities
03.12.2020 131. MSCA Staff Exchanges
•Size
• 360 person-months
•Duration
• Project:48 months
• Secondments: between 1 and 12 months
•Call deadlines:
• 2021: 09 Mar 2022
• 2022: 08 Mar 2023
•New:
• Interdisciplinary secondments possible within Europe (max 1/3 of project’s person-
months)
03.12.2020 144. MSCA COFUND
•Mono-beneficiary action: single entity established in MS or AC
•Target groups
• Doctoral candidates, i.e. researchers without a doctoral degree
• Postdoctoral researchers, i.e. researchers with a doctoral degree
•Duration
• Programme: max. 60 months (unchanged)
• Fellow: min 3 months
• Secondments: up to 1/3
Size: Limited to EUR 10 million per beneficiary per call (unchanged). 3 researchers min.
•Greater focus on new beneficiaries and new training programmes
• Aspects of novelty to be included in award criteria
•Call deadlines:
• 2021: 10 Feb 2022
• 2022: 09 Feb 2023 03.12.2020 15NCP-Team ERC and MSCA
Berit Sundby Avset Marie Curie Actions website:
http://ec.europa.eu/mariecurieactions
bsa@forskningsradet.no
ERC website: https://erc.europa.eu/
Per Magnus Kommandantvold Participant Portal (applications, documents)
pmk@forskningsradet.no http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal
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