Marie Curie Fellowships for PhD students

Joanna Bosiacka-KniatRegional Contact Point

Ul. Rubież 46, 61-612 PoznańTel. 8279745, Fax 8279741

e-mail: jk@ppnt.poznan.plhttp://www.ppnt.poznan.pl/rpk

Contents

• Marie Curie activities• Main rules and definitions• Early Stage Research Training• Research Training Network• Excellence Grants• Conferences & Training courses• Step by step• Useful links• Extras....

Marie Curie activities (1)• Host driven actions: MC Research Training Networks (RTN) MC Host Fellowships for Early Stage Research

Training (EST) MC Host Fellowships for Transfer of Knowledge

(ToK) MC Conferences and Training Courses (SCF)

• Individual driven actions: Intra –European Fellowships Outgoing International Fellowships Incoming International Fellowships

Marie Curie activities

• Excellence promotion and recognition Marie Curie Excellence Grants Marie Curie Excellence Awards Marie Curie Chairs

• Return and Reintegration Mechanisms European Reintegration Grants International Reintegration Grants

General information

• The institution/institutions submit the proposal

• The contract is signed between Host Instituton and The European Commission

• The Host Institution is obliged to publish their offer on the website (who can apply, when, the selection procedure)

Where to go?

• To every institution which has signed the contract with The EC – for MC action

Host institutions can be in EU, Acceeding states, Associated states, Third countries.

• Host Institution makes the enrolement

Mobility of the researchers:

- the researcher should not be a national of the hosting country

- may not have resided or carried out their main activity (work,studies etc.) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference deadline for eligibility

Who can apply?Every researcher – no age limit, but experience and expertise decide

• Early-stage researcher:

- researcher in the first 4 years of their activity ( since the graduation till the moment of gaining access to doctoral studies)

• Experienced researcher:

- researchers having at least 4 years of research experience

- researchers already in possession of doctoral degree, independently of the time taken to acquire it

Community contribution

For each eligible researcher, host can opt bewteen:- recruiting him/her under an employment

contract/fellowship with full social security coverage

- on a fixed-amount fellowship with minimum social securitydepending on the legal and/or administrative situation of the host organisation and/or researcher.

• Monthly living allowances

- correction coefficients• Travel allowances

- one payment for every period of 12 months

- constant amount- based on the direct distance between the place of origin and the host institution of the researcher

• Mobility allowances– Fixed amount (relocation, family charges, language

courses, etc.)

– 500 € for researcher without family charges

– 800 € for researcher with family

Reference rates

CategoriesEmployment contract/fellowship with full social security coverage (€/year)

A fixed-amount fellowship with minimum social security coverage

(€/year)

Early stage researchers

30 550 15 275

Experienced researchers (4-10 years experience)

47 000 23 500

Experienced researchers (> 10 years experience)

70 500 35 250

Travel allowancesDistance (km) Fixed-amount

contribution (€)

< 500 250

500-1000 500

1000-1500 750

1500-2500 1000

2500-5000 1500

5000-10000 2000

> 10000 2500

Early Stage Research Training

The main aim: • to encourage mechanisms to improve coordination

and mutual recognition between the participating organisation, and quality of the training

• to support the development of the offer of structured training and its internalisation, for researchers at the beginning of their careers.

EST only for early stage researchers from member States, Associated States and Third Countries

• The HOST INSTITUTION recruit and host the eligible researchers.

Each researcher has to:

- establish - together with personal supervisor - a Personal Career Development Plan (comprising training needs, scientific objectives and later on report, etc.)

- Duration: between 3 month and 3 years for the training opportunities for the researchers

• Project might be lead by:- a single host (one participant), if necessary supported by research group/groups at local/regional level in the same country;

- multi-partner hosts (more than one participant), there must by at least 3 host organisations established in 3 different Member States or Associated States.

Actually there are 145 founded projects underMarie Curie Early Stage Research Training

Website:

http://mc-opportunities.cordis.lu/home_vac.cfm

Research Training Network The main aim: - to provide a flexible framework for the structured training, esp. of early stage researchers, and to undertake collaborative research and transfer of knowledge, esp. in the case of experienced researchers- to provide platform for training, for transfer of knowledge and career development of the researchers

RTN for early stage researchers and experienced researchers

• The HOST INSTITUTION recruit and host the eligible researchers

• Each researcher has to:- establish - together with personal supervisor - a Personal Career Development Plan (comprising training needs, scientific objectives and later on report, etc.)- researchers are involved : in exchanges between teams, network meetings, collaborative research or the dissemination results- Duration: between 3 month and 3 years for the training opportunities for the researchers

Actually there are 141 founded projects underMarie Curie Research Training Network

Website:

http://mc-opportunities.cordis.lu/home_vac.cfm

Marie Curie Excellence Grants

The best research team- built up around a researcher who has early in his career the potential to reach a high level of excellence - to enable him to attain more rapidly a position with responsibilty for leading a team that executes a leading edge and/or interdisciplinary research programme.

The aim is to help create excellent, transnational, dynamic and stimulating focal points in Europe.

• Duration of the project: maximum 4 years

• Avialable for PhD students to experienced researchers

There are 9 founded projects

MC Conferences & Training Courses

Eligible researcher:

- early stage researchers

- experienced researchers ( up to 10 years of experience)– only when the possibilities offered in contract are not used for early stage researchers

Series of events

• At least 4 events should be included during 4 years• It should be series of events (training courses,

conferences, summer school) concerning the same topic

• Subsistence expenses:– Real expenses up to a maximum 150 euro per day

(correction coefficients)– Travel allowances – real expenses up to a maximum of

the reference rates– Participation fees of eligible researchers

Large Conference

• One large conference over 150 participants

• Subsistence expenses:– Real expenses up to a maximum 150 euro per

day (correction coefficients)– Travel allowances – real expenses up to a

maximum of the reference rates– Participation fees of eligible researchers

Actually in database there are :- 37 founded projects under

Series of Events (SCF)

- 2 founded projects under Large Conference (LCF)

Website:http://mc-opportunities.cordis.lu/home_evt.cfm

Step by step

1. Find the right offer2. Contact the person responsible for it from Host

Institution3. Put yourself forward to the recruitment

requirements( personal details, sometimes CV and your idea)

4. Sign the contract with the host institution5. Leave your home country6. Contact national Mobility Information Centre

Where to find the information?

• Vacancy search tool:http://mc-opportunities.cordis.lu/

• Polish National Contact Pointhttp://www.6pr.pl

• Regional Contact Point in Poznan http://www.ppnt.poznan.pl/rpk

• European website about Marie Curie actions in FP6 http://europa.eu.int/mariecurie-actions

• European Mobility Portal http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/index_en.cfm

Extras for the future

MC Individual driven-actions:

- experienced researchers – with at least 4 years of active research experience or a PhD

- applicant chooses the host institution

- applicant submit the proposal to EC

- duration : 12 to 24 months

Useful links

• http://mc-opportunities.cordis.lu/

• http://www.cordis.lu/improving/code/vacancies.htm

• http://www.cordis.lu/mariecurie-actions/

• http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/calls.cfm

THANK YOU

FOR

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