FP7

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FP7

• The Human Factor,
• Mobility and
• Marie Curie
• In FP7

• Prague, 24-25 October 2006
• Marcela GROHOLOVA
• Marcela.Groholova_at_ec.europa.eu
• The Human Factor, Mobility and Marie Curie
  Actions
• EC, DG Research, Brussels

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A European labour market for researchers

• Typical young peoples view of a research
  career.
• Not a proper career 
• Difficult, long and hard studies 
• Poor rewards, low social status
• High personal risks, e.g. post-doc hopping,
  research budgets not stable, mobility problematic

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A European labour market for researchers

• And more issues of concern to policy makers
• Brain drain vs. Brain gain
• Not only a European issue, but global
• Brain drain is only serious when there are no
  attractive return possibilities and career
  prospects
• Without researchers no research

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A European labour market for researchers

• Sustainable career in research requires
• A good research environment
• An offer of attractive career prospects
• Systematic and considerable financial investments
  in researchers training, mobility and career
  development

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A European labour market for researchers

• The actions-based answer at European level
• Development of an open and competitive European
  labour market for researchers
• Improve overall environment for researchers in
  Europe by enhancing mobility and removing
  obstacles
• Develop genuine European career perspectives for
  researchers, enhancing the EUs attractiveness
  for research talent
• Substantial increase of funding for training,
  mobility and career development of researchers
  (PEOPLE - Marie Curie Actions)
• European Researchers Charter and Code of Conduct
  for the Recruitment of Researchers

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A European labour market for researchers

• Breaking down obstacles to mobility
• Joint effort of Commission and Member States to
  remove obstacles to mobile researchers and making
  the environment more appealing for researchers in
  Europe (since 2001)
• Structured information services and customised
  local assistance to mobile researchers throughout
  Europe European and Czech Mobility Portals and
  ERA-MORE (since 2003 and 2004 respectively)

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A European labour market for researchers

• Reinforce investments in  People 
• Revised Commission proposal (28 June 2006) to
  reinforce the  People  budget from 1,8 billion
  for 4 years (FP6) to 4,7 billion for 7 years
  (FP7)
• Constitutes a 50 increase on average yearly base
  compared with FP6

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FP7 2007 2013 Specific Programmes
Cooperation Collaborative research
Ideas Frontier Research
People Marie Curie Actions
Capacities Research Capacity

JRC (non-nuclear)
JRC (nuclear)
Euratom
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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Actions
• Initial training of researchers
• Life-long training and Career development
• Industry-academia pathways and partnerships
• International dimension
• Specific actions

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Initial training of researchers (1)
• RTN EST
• Objective
• To improve Early Stage Researchers career
  perspective at European level through
  trans-national research networks
• Participants
• Host organizations (public privat)
• Early Stage Researchers, Senior visiting
  scientists
• MSAC ( max of 30 for Third countries)
• Mobility 3 months 3 years

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Initial training of researchers (2)
• Financing
• Allowances for Early-stage researchers
  Visiting scientists positions Contribution to
  training and networking costs Short training
  events open to researchers from outside the
  network
• Date of publication
• December 2006
• Indicative budget
• 270 million

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Life-long training and career development (1)
• Individual fellowships EIF Reintegration grants
  ERG
• Objective
• To support career development of experienced
  researchers
• Co-funding of regional/national/international
  programmes with the same objective
• Participants
• Experienced Researchers (gt 4 years of experience
  or PhD)
• Host organization (for Co-funding - ministries,
  agencies)
• MSAC
• Mobility 12-24 months

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Life-long training and career development (2)
• Financing
• Allowances for researchers Contribution to host
  organization based on number of R/M Management,
  Overheads
• Date of publication
• December 2006 (January 2007 for Co-funding)
• Indicative budget
• 75 EIF 10 ERG 90 co-funding million

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Industry-Academia pathways and partnerships (1)
• TOK IAP scheme
• Objective
• To increase longer-term co-operation between both
  sectors and involvement of the industry in all
  Marie Curie actions
• Two-way staff secondment/recruitment of
  experienced researchers from outside the
  partnership
• Organization of the workshops, seminars,
  conferences, networking activities
• Participants
• min 1 Academia min 1 Industry (in particular
  SMEs)
• Early-stage or experienced researchers
• MSAC
• Mobility 2-24 months

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Industry-Academia pathways and partnerships (2)
• Financing
• Allowances for researchers Contribution to host
  organization based on number of R/M costs
  related to the organization of workshops,
  conferences, small equipment costs (only for
  SMEs), Management, Overheads
• Date of publication
• January 2007
• Indicative budget
• 40 million

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• International dimension (1)
• Objective
• Career development / life-long training for EU
  researchers
• Outgoing fellowships - with mandatory return
• Return and reintegration for European researchers
  outside Europe
• International co-operation through researchers
  from third countries
• Incoming fellowships for top class researcher
  from Third countries
• Participants
• Experienced researchers from MS/AC (for outgoing
  return)
• Experienced researchers from third countries (for
  incoming)
• Mobility 12-24 months

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• International dimension (2)
• Financing
• Allowances for researchers Contribution to host
  organization based on number of R/M Management,
  Overheads
• For international reintegration scheme
  contribution to research costs (salary for other
  staff, travel, consumables, patent costs,
  publications costs)
• Date of publication
• January 2007
• Indicative budget
• 20 (outgoing) 20 (incoming) 10
  (reintegr) million

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Specific Actions for policy development (1)
• Marie Curie Awards Researchers Night
• Objective
• To implement the Mobility Strategy
• To bring researchers closer to public
• To increase public awareness
• Participants
• Organizations from MS/AC (Nights)
• Individuals from MS/AC (Awards)

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Marie Curie Actions in FP7

• Specific Actions for policy development (2)
• Financing
• Night - Grant will cover a period up to 7 months
  (covering the campaign)
• Awards 50 000 for each prize
• Date of publication
• February December 2007 - Nights
• March 2007 - Awards
• Indicative budget
• 6.3 (nights) 0.5 (awards) million

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Indicative evolution of Marie Curie Actions
across FPs

• FP7 - People SP Marie Curie Actions
• Life-long training Career development
• Individual Fellowships
• Co-funding (NEW)
• International dimension
• Outgoing fellowships
• Incoming fellowships
• Return and Reintegration
• Initial training of researchers
• Industry-academia pathways partnerships
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• Capacities SP
• Research Potential

• FP6 - Marie Curie Actions
• Individual Driven
• Intra-European Fellowships (EIF)
• Outgoing International Fellowships (OIF)
• Incoming International Fellowships (IIF)
• Return Reintegration
• European Reintegration Grants (ERG)
• International Reintegration Grants (IRG)
• Host Driven
• Fellowships for Early Stage Training (EST)
• Fellowships for Transfer of Knowledge
• TOK-IAP
• TOK-DEV
• Research Training Networks (RTN)
• Conferences and Training Courses (SCF)

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Information

• Seventh Framework Programme http//europa.eu.int/
  comm/research/future/index_en.cfm
• Newsletter Europe4Researchers http//www.europa.
  eu.int/eracareers/index_en.cfm?l116
• European Researchers Mobility Portal
• http//europa.eu.int/eracareers
• EU research http//europa.eu.int/comm/research
• Information requests research_at_cec.eu.int

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Thank you for your attention!

• Marcela GROHOLOVA
• DG RTD
• The Human Factor,
• Mobility and Marie Curie Actions
• Marcela.Groholova_at_ec.europa.eu