Dr Jennifer Brennan, European Advisor, MSCA Irish National Contact Point, Irish Universities Association (21 Jan 2015)

MSCAfor the

Humanities

Dr. Jennifer Brennan

National Contact Point & National DelegateMarie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office

Sponsored by the Irish Research Council

• Promote the Actions to Irish researchers and research organisations

• Support researchers in preparing funding applications

• Contribute to policy initiatives relevant to the Actions

Two staff members:

• Dr. Jennifer Brennan

• Dr. Suzanne Miller-Delaney (SFI Centres)

Marie Curie Actions, an Irish Success Story

Data based on Contracts signed as of July 2014

• Ireland’s “Take” from FP7 to-date€620 million

• Portion of this secured via Marie Curie (2nd Largest FP7 Income-Stream)€111 million

• Funding to support research training for postgraduate students€36 million

• Irish Marie Curie Contracts Signed350

• Among the top 5 performing MS in 2013 Calls5

Which subject areas have been most successful for Ireland in FP7 MCA?

10% 2%

21%

12%28%

0%

11%

16%

CHE (21)

ECO (4)

ENG (44)

ENV (25)

LIF (58)

MAT (0)

PHY (22)

SOC (34)

Data for Ireland as of July 2013

Chemistry

Economic Sciences

ICT & Engineering

Earth & Environment

Life Sciences

Maths

Physics

Social Sciences & Humanities

Sample FP7 MCA Funded Projects:

• Performing Spaces: Architecture, Spatiality, and Politics in European Ceremonial Cultures, circa 1550-1700

• A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Irish Orthography and Reading

• Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture

• Translating God(s): Comparative Theology in Europe

• Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network

• Enlightenment and Global History

FP7 ITN

DIXIT – “Digital Scholarly Editions

Initial Training Network”

€4 million

http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/home.html?&L=1

Univ. Cologne

(DE)

Univ. of Boras (SE)

Huygens Institute

(NL)

Kings College London

(UK)

Univ. Of Antwerp

(NL)

Maynooth Univ. (IE)

Univ. of Rome (IT)

Univ. of Oxford

(UK)

FP7 ITN

ENGLOBE –“Enlightenment and

Global History”

€2.6 million

http://www.englobe-itn.net/

Univ. Potsdam

(DE)

Coimbra Univ. (UK)

Univ. De Versailles

(FR)

UniwersytetZielonogorski

(PL)

Tech. Univ. Berlin (DE

NUIG (IE)

Middle East Tech.

University (TR)

CSIC Madrid

(ES)

QUB (UK/NI)

• Innovative Training NetworksITN

• Research & Innovation Staff ExchangeRISE

• Individual FellowshipsIF• Co-financing fellowship or doctoral

programmes with transnational mobilityCOFUND

MSCA in Horizon 2020

ITN 2014:

• Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe

• Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual Europe

RISE 2014:

• Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Renewal

Individual Fellowships 2014:

• Results expected Feb 2015. SOC panel #2 in submissions.

What’s been funded so far?

• Deutsches Museum Munich

• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

• Sveriges Radio (SE)

• Yorkshire Water

• NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH

• Cocobooks

Which Non-Academic Organisations?

How the MSC Office can help

• Email Distribution List ([email protected])

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office Ireland on Linkedin

• Dedicated website www.iua.ie/mariecurie

• YouTube channel MarieCurieActionIre

Information

• Training Webinars for specific Calls (recordings on website and YouTube)

• Advice on whether your concept ‘fits’ the Call

• Partner search via MSCA NCP network

Support

http://www.youtube.com/user/MarieCurieActionsIre

Thankyou!

[email protected]/mariecurie

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office Ireland