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Title: Marie Curie Programme


1
Marie Curie Programme (People) Dr. Conor
OCarroll National Delegate
www.iua.ie
26 June 2008
2
Today you will hear about..
  • Plasma discharges,
  • Bridge stability,
  • Early childhood services,
  • Employee relations in MNCs
  • Communism and
  • Dumbo

3
Overall objectives of the People programme
  • Fostering and facilitating geographical and
    intersectoral mobility of researchers
  • Support for the career development of researchers
    at all stages of their career
  • Opportunities for development of sustainable
    international collaboration, within and beyond
    Europe

4
Marie Curie Actions - overview
Initial training of researchers Marie Curie
Initial Training Networks (ITN)
Life-long training and career development Marie
Curie Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) European
Reintegration Grants (ERG) Co-funding of
regional/national/international programmes
(COFUND)
Industry-academia pathways and partnerships MC
Industry-Academia Pathways and Partnerships
Scheme (IAPP)
International dimension MC International Outgoing
and Incoming Fellowships (IOF / IIF) MC
International Reintegration Grants (IRG) MC
International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
(IRSES)
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What organisations can take part?
  • Organisations that are actively involved in
    research and/or research training
  • Universities/Institutes of Technology
  • private and public research institutes
  • companies big and small, including start-ups and
    spin-offs
  • NGOs
  • EU Member States Associated countries

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Who can take part?
  • No age limits what counts is level of
    experience (full-time equivalent)
  • Early-Stage Researchers (ESR - PhD)
  • 0 4 years of research experience since degree
    qualifying them to embark on a doctorate, and no
    PhD
  • Experienced Researcher (ER - Postdoc)
  • either in possession of a doctoral degree, or
  • at least 4 years of research experience

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Types of Marie Curie schemes
  • Host actions
  • Industry-Academia Scheme intersectoral staff
    exchanges, limited recruitment of researchers
  • Initial Training Networks research training of
    post-graduates and first post-docs
  • International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
    staff exchanges between organisations in MS/AC
    and Third Countries

8
Industry-Academia Pathways and Partnerships
  • At least two organisations from different sectors
    in different MS/AC to develop longer term
    strategic partnership
  • Transfer of knowledge through intersectoral staff
    exchanges and limited recruitment of ERs from
    outside the partnership
  • What is funded?
  • salary costs during secondment phase, and for new
    recruits
  • transfer of knowledge and networking events and
    activities
  • for SMEs small equipment costs (up to 10 of
    the SMEs budget).

9
NOTES Non-Stationary Response of Spatially
Extended Structures
  • Partners TCD (IE, coordinator), PLAXIS BV (NL)
  • PI Prof. Biswajit Basu (Director, Postgraduate
    Teaching Learning) School of Engineering,
    Trinity College Dublin
  • Structural Dynamics Vibrations Group (SDVG) in
    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland has excellent
    research background on non-stationary vibrations
    analysis.
  • PLAXIS BV, an SME in The Netherlands, is a world
    leader in the field of finite element modelling
    in geotechnical engineering with emphasis on
    soil-structure interaction.
  • This project provides a framework to bring the
    two partners together with complementary
    expertise, to transfer the knowledge for mutual
    benefit and development.

10
FIRE Fluid, Ions and Radiation Ensemblein
Integrated Plasma Modelling
  • Partners UCD (IE, coordinator), Keldysh
    Institute for Applied Mathematics of Russian
    Academy of Sciences (RU), EPPRA SAS (FR)
  • PI John White, School of Physics, University
    College Dublin
  • The knowledge and techniques to be transferred
    between the research institutions and industrial
    partner will enhance the capability of modelling
    of discharge and laser produced plasma to study
    the plasma dynamics, spectral emission and the
    creation of nanoparticles for the semiconductor
    industry and in nanotechnology.

11
MABFUEL Marine Algae as Biomass for Biofuels
  • Partners Daithi O Murchu Marine Research
    Station Ltd. (IE, coordinator), Green Biofuels
    Limited (IE), Queens University Belfast (UK),
    Dundalk Institute of Technology (IE), Gaziantep
    University (TR), Ege University (TR), Dolphin Sea
    Vegetable Company (UK)
  • PI Julie Maguire PhD, Daithi O Murchu Marine
    Research Station, Gearhies, Bantry, Co. Cork

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MABFUEL Marine Algae as Biomass for Biofuels
  • The group intends to facilitate a
    multi-disciplinary research programme through the
    recruitment of experienced researchers aimed at
    the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in
    the production of biofuels from native seaweed
    and cultured micro-algae.
  • Identify the native seaweed and cultured
    micro-algal processes with most potential for
    fuel production, with an economic and
    environmental appraisal which will identify the
    size of the farm required and the feasibility of
    a commercial size operation.

13
Initial Training Networks
  • Normally at least three institutions from 3
    different MS/AC (Monosite and Twinning
    arrangements are possible)
  • Industry participation essential!!
  • Provide structured research training and training
    in complementary skills to researchers at the
    start of their career
  • What is funded?
  • fellowships to early stage researchers (up to 3
    years) and early post-docs (up to 2 years),
    mobility required
  • visiting scientists (shorter visits to provide
    specific training)
  • training and networking events and activities

14
GASMEMS Gas Flows in Micro Electro Mechanical
Systems
  • Partners Institut National des Sciences
    Appliquées de Toulouse - INSA (FR, coordinator),
    Università di Bologna (IT), Forschungszentrum
    Karlsruhe (DE), University of Limerick (IE),
    University of Thessaly (GR), The Science and
    Technology Facilities Council (UK), Institute of
    Mechanics BAS (BG), Université de Provence
    Aix-Marseille I (FR), Università degli studi di
    Udine (IT), Eindhoven University of Technology
    (NL), Advanced Operations and Engineering
    Services Group BV (NL), University of Strathclyde
    (UK), TU Dresden (DE)
  • PI David Newport, Department of Mechanical
    Aeronautical Engineering, University of Limerick

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GASMEMS Gas Flows in Micro Electro Mechanical
Systems
  • The proposed network has been built from several
    existing collaborations within bilateral
    programmes, from scientific collaborations and
    national networks.
  • Structure research in Europe in the field of
    micro gas flows to improve global fundamental
    knowledge and enable technological applications
    to an industrial and commercial level
  • Train ESR and ER at a pan-European level, with
    the aim to providing both a global overview on
    problems linked to gas flow and heat transfer in
    microsystems, and advanced skills in specific
    domains of this research field.

16
SemiSpinNet Initial Training Network in
Nanoscale Semiconductor Spintronics
  • Partners University of Nottingham (UK,
    coordinator), Julius-Maximilians Universitaet
    Wuerzburg (DE), Interuniversitair
    Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw IMEC (BE),
    Hitachi Europe Ltd. (UK), Instytut Fizyki
    Polskiej Akademii Nauk (PL), CNRS (FR), Fyzikalni
    ustav AVCR, v.v.i. (CZ), Eindhoven Univeristy of
    Technology (NL), UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI (PL),
    Scuola Normale Superiore (IT), INTEL Performance
    Learning Solutions Limited (IE), THALES (FR)
  • PI Bernie Capraro, EU Nanotechnology Research
    Project Manager, Intel Ireland Ltd

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SemiSpinNet Initial Training Network in
Nanoscale Semiconductor Spintronics
  • The ITN will supply the required
    multidisciplinary and intersectorial training in
    materials development, device physics and
    technology and theory, which is crucial for
    ensuring a highly developed research
    infrastructure and a critical mass of qualified
    researchers in this key research area.
  • Industrial partners will be central to the
    training programme, ensuring that fellows have an
    understanding of the needs of end-users of the
    research. Transferable skills training will be
    supplied to meet wider employment market needs.

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International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
  • At least three institutions, two from different
    MS/AC, one from a Third Country having a ST
    agreement with the EU or falling under the
    European Neighbourhood Policy
  • Industry cannot participate
  • Strengthen research collaborations between Europe
    and Third Countries through staff exchanges for
    sustainable research partnerships, based on joint
    programmes
  • What is funded?
  • Short exchanges between European and Third
    Country partners
  • Normally only European partners will receive
    funding, but partners from ICPC countries may
    receive support also
  • 1,800 per person-month fixed rate, no extra
    travel money

19
INTREPID Enployment Relations in Multinational
Companies Cross National Comparative Analysis
  • Partners University of Limerick (IE,
    coordinator), IESE, University of Navarre (ES),
    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES), Complutense
    University, Madrid (ES), Kings College, London
    (UK), University of Warwick (UK), De Montfort
    University (UK), University of Newcastle (AU),
    University of Wollongong (AU), La Trobe
    University, Melbourne (AU), University of
    Montreal (CA), Laval University, Quebec (CA), HEC
    Montreal (CA), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
    (MX), Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
    (MX), El Colegio de México (MX), Universidad
    Autónoma Metropolitana (MX)
  • PI Prof. Patrick Gunnigle (Professor of Business
    Studies), Kemmy Business School, University of
    Limerick

20
INTREPID Enployment Relations in Multinational
Companies Cross National Comparative Analysis
  • This proposed exchange programme seeks to develop
    a community of international scholars involved in
    closely linked studies on management practice in
    multinational companies (MNCs) across different
    national contexts.
  • International researcher exchanges represent a
    critical means of driving this research programme

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Types of Marie Curie schemes
  • Individual actions
  • Individual Fellowships for postdocs and more
    senior researchers
  • Reintegration Grants for Marie Curie fellows
    after fellowship (ERG) or for Europeans who want
    to return from a Third Country (IRG)

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Intra-European Fellowships
  • For the career development and competence
    diversification of experienced researchers (with
    or without PhD, from post-doc to senior
    researcher)
  • Researchers must be nationals of MS/AC
  • Any research topic, no thematic priorities
  • Any host institution in a MS/AC (could be a
    company)
  • Duration 1 2 years, mobility required

23
CARToon Computer Assisted Renewal of
Classical Cartoon Animations
  • PI Dr. Steven Collins, Department of Computer
    Science, O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College
    Dublin
  • Fellow Dr. Daniel Sykora, Czech Technical
    University in Prague
  • The aim of CARToon project is to attract young
    audience to classical works.
  • Complementary training activities to develop
    applicant's independent research career.
  • Hands-on training on advanced technology,
    improve writing and publishing skills, research
    group leadership and preparation of master degree
    course in English language.

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International Outgoing Fellowships
  • To reinforce the international dimension of the
    career of experienced researchers who are
    nationals of a MS/AC
  • Two phases (fellowship covers both phases)
  • outgoing phase (1 2 years) for training and
    career development in any third country
    institution
  • mandatory return phase (1 year) in MS/AC for
    reintegration and knowledge transfer (need not be
    country of origin!)

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Nano-ChApp Track-etched Single Nanopores
Advanced Characterisation and New Applications
  • Host Institution University of California
    Irvine, USA
  • Fellow Dr. Ken Healy, UCC
  • This fellowship aims to develop the career of the
    researcher to a very strong position in order to
    start his own research group and secure funding
    to do so.
  • A second aim of the fellowship is to transfer
    back to the European Union the leading scientific
    expertise on characterisation, modelling and
    application of track-etched nanopores only
    available at the Siwy Research Group at the
    University of California Irvine.

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International Incoming Fellowships
  • To reinforce scientific excellence of MS/AC by
    attracting top-class experienced researchers from
    Third Countries
  • Enhance possibility for future collaborations
  • One or two phases
  • incoming phase (1 2 years) in any MS/AC
    (fellowship)
  • optional return phase (1 year) if researcher is
    from an ICPC country (15,000/year towards
    research costs)

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CHILD_HEALTH Family Risks and Childrens
Health Impact of Early Interventions
  • PI Dr. Colm Harmon (Director), UCD Geary
    Institute
  • Fellow Dr. Sylvana Côté, Department of Social
    and Preventive Medecine, University of Montreal,
    Canada (Associate Professor)
  • Project objectives are to what extent
  • early childhood services (ECS) offered to
    high-risk families can reduce the risk for health
    and educational problems, and
  • the magnitude of the impact depends on the timing
    of the intervention (e.g. prenatal vs.
    post-natal).

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Reintegration Grants
  • European
  • Following a Marie Curie fellowship of at least 18
    months duration (could be a host fellowship)
  • For ERs from MS/AC or assimilated nationals
  • Support to the longer-term (re-)integration in
    any MS/AC institution different from the initial
    host, including in country of origin
  • contribution to the research and/or salary costs
    during 2 3 years (15,000/year)
  • host institution must provide adequate work
    contract for at least the duration of the project

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NANHEMO Nanobiosensors for Health Monitoring
  • Host Chemical Sciences, DCU
  • Fellow Dr. Paolo Bertoncello. University of
    Warwick (MC Individual Fellow and previously RTN
    fellow)
  • New nanomaterials will be developed to achieve
    optical-encoding capabilities for selective
    tagging of a wide range of medically important
    targets, including bacteria, cancer cells and
    individual molecules, such as proteins and DNA,
    in a single assay.

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Reintegration Grants
  • International
  • For ERs from MS/AC who have been active in a
    Third Country for at least 3 years
  • Support to the longer-term (re-)integration in
    any MS/AC institution
  • contribution to the research and/or salary costs
    during 2 4 years (25,000/year)
  • host institution must commit itself to effective
    integration for at least the duration of the
    project

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COLOUR The Dynamics of Colour Revolutions in
the Post-Communist World
  • Host Institution DCU (Centre for International
    Studies)
  • Fellow Dr. Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Department of
    Political Science, Kazakhstan Institute of
    Management, Economics, and Strategic Research,
    Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • probe the significance of the colour revolution
    regime-change process - popular shorthand to
    describe as a single phenomenon a number of
    non-violent protests that succeeded in
    overthrowing post-communist authoritarian regimes

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Types of Marie Curie schemes
  • Co-funding scheme
  • For organisations or consortia providing
    fellowship schemes involving mobility
  • Research funding agencies
  • University consortia

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Co-funding scheme
  • IRCSET
  • Health Research Board
  • RCSI

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More information on the People programme
  • Official website of the FP7 People (Marie
    Curie) programme on CORDIS
  • http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/
  • Follow the link to
  • Find calls for this activity
  • to download the Work Programme 2009 and the
    Guides for Applicants 2009

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RESULTS 2007/2008
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Marie Curie key contacts in Ireland
  • IUA Marie Curie Office
  • National Contact Point/National Delegate
  • Dr. Dagmar Meyer - dagmar.meyer_at_iua.ie
  • Dr. Conor OCarroll - conor.ocarroll_at_iua.ie
  • mariecurie_at_iua.ie
  • 353-(0)1-6764948
  • Enterprise Ireland National Contact Point
  • Bill Kee - Focus on Industry
  • bill.kee_at_enterprise-ireland.com
  • 353-(0)1-8082277
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