Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks Thorbjørn Gilberg & Per Magnus Kommandantvold NTNU

Horisont 2020 Horizon 2020 Excellent Science Better Societies Competitive Industries 2

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Pillar 1: Excellent Science 3

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 4

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Key features  Open to all domains of research and innovation from basic research up to market take-up and innovation services  Entirely bottom-up  Participation of non-academic sector strongly encouraged, especially industry and SMEs  Mobility as the key requirement - funding on condition participants move from one country to another  Focus on training and career development  Particular attention to gender balance  : 10 calls foreseen 5

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Simplification  Clear definitions of participants  Two sectors: academic/non-academic  Two groups: beneficiaries and partner organisations  Broader understanding of industry involvement: participation of businesses (including SMEs) and other socio-economic actors  Streamlined definitions of supported researchers  Early stage researcher (ESR)/Experienced researcher (ER)  Staff members in RISE  Mobility rules maintained (new Reintegration Panel incorporated in the rules)  Portability of IF grants (secondments) 6

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks (ITN) Main EU programme for structured doctoral training Objective  to raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training  to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researcher Scope  European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates (EID) or European Joint Doctorates (EJD)  Triple 'i' dimension of mobility and particular focus on innovation skills (International, Inter-sectoral, Intradisciplinary)  Support to ESR for 3-36 months  Minimum eligibility condition: network of 3 participants (exception: EID with 2 participants only) Expected Impact  to enhance researchers' employability and provide them with new career perspectives 7

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Typical ITN activities  Research and training activities  Research training  Courses and workshops  Network activities  Visiting researchers  Transferrable skills (!)  Participation by researcher in organisation of activities  Secondments are encouraged. Max. 30%  Networking  Communication, dissemination  Public engagement 8

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Key aspects  Project duration 48 months, recruitment period 3-36 months for ESR (EID and EJD 36 months only)  540 researcher months maximum per project (180 in EID with only two beneficiaries)  Dedicated budget for EID (25,5) and EJD (30). 405 in total.  8 panels (EJD/EID will be ranked in multidisciplinary panels)  Max. 40 % of budget to one country  Mobility rule: The recruited researcher cannot have had his/her main activity in host country for more than 12 months during the last 36 months at deadline/recruitment date 9

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Key aspects continued  Supervisory board (all beneficiaries +) NB! Gender balance + ESR repr.  Consortium agreement (EID required)  Charter and Code  Personal Career Development Plans  Training follows EU Principles for Innovative Doctoral Training  Max 30 pages  Remember to read both WP and GfA 10

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Initial training networks where NTNU participate or coordinate:    wind_in_sea itn     NETADIS ITN      ABYSS ITN

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Example of a European Training Network 1/ Host and secondment training Project management Communication skills Research training schools Career development Conferences 12

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Example of a European Training Network 2/

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning 14 Example of a European Industrial doctorate Joint selection Joint training Joint supervision

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning 15 Example of a European Joint doctorate Joint Selection, supervision, Assesment Governance structure

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Evaluation/award criteria  In line with all other programmes in H2020  Set out in Art. 14 of the Horizon 2020 Rules for Participation  3 award criteria:  Excellence (50% weighting)  Impact (30% weighting)  Implementation (20% weighting)  All elements of the criteria similar for all MSCA, identical wording for impact towards the programme objectives  More clarifications in the Part B of the Guide for Applicants for each action 16

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Evaluation/award criteria (ITN) 17

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Remuneration: 100% acc.to unit costs Marie Skłodowska- Curie Action Researcher unit cost** person/month Institutional unit cost** person/month Living allowance* Mobility allowance Family allowance Research, training and networking costs Management and indirect costs Innovative Training Networks (NO: 4105) Individual Fellowships * A country correction coefficient applies to the living allowance. This coefficient is the one applicable to the country of the researcher’s host organisation as listed in Table 4. ** These unit costs will be subject to a funding rate of 100% (Article 22.4 Rules for Participation) /month 7200/month 18

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)  Objective  to promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges  to foster a shared culture of research and innovation  Scope  International and inter-sector collaboration and transfer of knowledge  Joint research and innovation project  Secondments of staff members for 1-12 months  Minimum eligibility condition: participants in 3 different countries (at least 2 MS/AC)  Within Europe: only inter-sector secondments  No secondments between institutions located outside Europe or within the same MS/AC  Expected Impact  to strengthen the interaction between organisations in the academic and non-academic sectors, and between Europe and third countries 19

Non- academia Academia MS/AC TC RISE – Exchanges

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Remuneration RISE: 100% staff member u.c. Marie Skłodowska- Curie Action Staff member unit cost** Top-up allowance person/month Institutional unit cost** person/month Research, training and networking costs Management and indirect costs Research and Innovation Staff Exchange euro top up per researcher/staff member month 21

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Calls

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning And calls coming in

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning How to apply?  2014 call published on the new call page Participants Portal 24

Horisont 2020 PES2020: support to write applications for H2020  Budget in 2014: NOK 39 mill  Support is limited to 50% of incured costs  From NOK –  Minimum requirement is an eligible application  Additional support for the best applications over threshold and for contract negotiations  NTNU has a lump sum for PES2020 

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning REA: Web-streamed training on ITN and RISE  Web–streaming from Wednesday 15. January 2014 is still available on:  2&sessionno=e6cc48e3a8db9b618592a86a &sessionno=e6cc48e3a8db9b618592a86a

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Relevant web pages  Calls: ortunities/index.html ortunities/index.html  MSCA: section/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-actions section/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-actions  Funding for researchers: researchers researchers  EURAXESS:

Horisont 2020 Fremragende forskning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Contacts:  Thorbjørn GILBERG, Division of Science ph  Per Magnus KOMMANDANTVOLD, International staff, ph. 28