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12019.08.12-14 | SummerSchool #1 | Aston University | Use restricted to SummerSchool participantsThis project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 764089
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Summer school – 2019 – Aston UniversityCourse “Boost your career with EU projects/funds”
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The EU funds are available to all categories of researchers:well-established researcher, looking for Post-Doc funding or considering starting a PhD,
The EU funds are also available regardless Country,Disciplines or Sector.
The EU provides grants to help Carry out research project, Get additional skills, Acquire cross disciplinary, international and intersectoral experience and Boost researchers careers
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What are the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions?A European Union programme dedicated for
Structuring researcher training, mobility and career developmentTrain a new generation of researchers enabling them to convert knowledge and ideas into products and servicesEnhance creative and innovative potential of researchersFoster excellence at national level.
What needs do they answer within H2020?Attractivity to researchIntersectoral mobility and societal needs addressingSocietal and innovation impactsCross cutting issues addressing such as Open science and Responsible Research and InnovationStrong emphasis to the implementation and adoption of the Charter & code for researchers and Principes for Innovative Doctorate Training.
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ESR: Early stage researchers (no PhD until 4 years of experience)
ER: Experienced researchers (PhD and above 4 years of experience)
MS: Member states – members of EU
AC: Associated countries – Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine
Third countries: Australia, US, Canada, China, etc.
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40% of MSCA supported researchers are womenHigher than the average percentage of female researcher in Europe
140 nationalities have received MSCA fundingStimulation of mobility to emerging countries
100% of MSCA researchers experience international mobilityBut only 50% experience exposure to non-academic sector
High competition confirms the interest for those instrumentsBetween 10% to 50% (according to instruments & years)About €20 billion high-quality proposals did not go ahead in the absence of MSCAsupport…
60% of MSCA fellows believe it would have taken more time to attain theirsubsequent career stage without MSCA support
12% believed they would not have attained this stage at all !
MSCA fellows are twice as likely as the average researcher to have publications that belong to Top1%, Top 5% and Top 10% of cited publications
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Objectives:To train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit;To raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training, extending the traditional academic research training setting,To provide enhanced career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sectors through international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mind-set
Projects:International networks of organisations (public / private)All domains in a bottom-up & multidisciplinary approachMeaningful exposure to international and intersectoral dimensions of researchFellowships of 3 to 36 months
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3 types of networks
8 panelsChemistry, Social Sciences and Humanities, Economic sciences, Information Science and Engineering, Environment and Geosciences, Life sciences, Mathematics, Physics
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ObjectivesThe COFUND scheme aims to stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers’ training, mobility and career developmentCo-funding new or existing regional, national or international programmes to open-up to and provide for international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career. Development and broadening of the research competencies of researchers
ProjectsOne beneficiary that will fund and manage Doctoral Programme or Fellowship Programme: recruiting, supervising, hosting, training researchers Partnering organisations will support the beneficiary in the various actions especially secondments.Duration of the programme: from 3 to 5 yearsVacancies internationally advertised, specific mobility rules apply
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ObjectivesEnhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researched through advanced training as well as international & intersectoral mobility
Focus notably on:
The return and (re)integration of European researchers from outside Europe and those who have previously worked in Europe
The promotion of career restart
ProjectsIndividual researcher with PhD degree with a research institution out of the country where the researcher carried out his/her main activities
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An autonomous funding body led by scientists.
Funding excellent researchers of any nationality, to carry out frontier research, via annual competitions.
In all fields of science and humanities, with bottom-up approach.
Substantial grants (2.0 Mio Euro-3.5 Mio E).
Recognised label of excellence.
International, top level peer-review process - 25 panels distributed in 3 scientific domains (10 Physical Sciences, 9 Life sciences and 6 Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Get informed of funding instruments evolution (MSCA, ERC)Objectives, policiesStructure of proposals Competition (former projects funded)
And ApplyBetter to apply and do not get the project rather than not apply !
Stefan W. Hell (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingenand German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg), German Physician
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual fellow at the University of Turku in 1996-1997 Coordinator for three Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellowships. He received his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 «for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy».
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Checklist: call information and key documents to be read :
Work programme (excl. JTI, EIT, JRC):Call text/ topic in the WP of the relevant instrument partDescribes the specific expectations for the projectRead also Introduction to all WPs and General Annexes (types of actions, eligibility/evaluation criteria, rules, TRL, etc.)
FP (H2020, HEUROPE) Grants Manual, and proposal template / evaluation forms Rules and format to submit a proposal for a given callDescribes the eligibility and evaluation procedureOnline Manual covering whole lifecycle (partially available)
But also Annotated Model Grant Agreement (AMGA). Separate MGA for MSCA, ERCetc.
Can be found on: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal//desktop/en/funding/reference_docs.html
But recommended to download the call related documents from the selected topic page : http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal//desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/index.html
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“Bottom-up” vs “Top-down” approach of the call/topic:
Top-down:Project must answer to a call text (call text is never optional)Defined topic/area/technologyDefined objectives (roadmap)Little room for deviation vs defined topic = build the project according to the topic (do not recycle old projects/technology bricks without “re-processing”)Typical instruments: Pillar 2 LEIT for example
Bottom-up:Possibility to propose wide range of solutions to answer a generic problematicMore freedom : Project content & objectives to be proposedAdvantage: the call is subject to select more projects based on original ideasInconvenient: a high number of proposals submitted and project perimeter to be sharply “defined on your own”Typical instruments: e.g. Pillar 1 FET Open & MSCA, SME targeted, (+some Pillar 3 calls, ex. SC4: Breakthrough innovation for European aviation), and also some ICT calls…
Intellectual capacity:Track-record, capacity to go significantly beyond the state of the art, evidence of creative independent thinking
Creativity
Commitment : Willing to devote a significant part of PI's working time (minimum of 50% for Starting, minimum of 40% for Consolidator Grant, minimum of 30% for Advanced Grant)
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Relevance of the project idea/conceptIn particular regarding the topic listed in the Work ProgrammeComplementary to the projects already funded in the pastImportance of project positioning before writing the proposal
Quality/ excellence (not only scientific!)/ ambition of the project proposalImportance of first impression : abstract and first pages, concept in a “nutshell” Importance of presentation (writing, clarity, demonstration: don’t just give affirmations without proofs)Specificity, relevance and clarity
Quality/ excellence and experience of the consortiumClear knowledge/experience of state of the art Reputation/ pertinence/ complementarity of the actors in a given field, past participations in projects“Operational capacity” (from the work plan and CVs of key persons)
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Proposal building 360°: key criteria of success
Impact of the project in different levelsStrengthen the EU S&T leadership (scientific community)
New technologies to solve societal challenges (political and social)
Contribution to EU roadmaps (ETPs) and new products to market to strengthen the EU economy (industry)
Networking/ lobbying/ clarificationEarly interaction with EU at the strategic level of Work Programme writing, networking,..
Any clarification regarding call/ topic description, if possible validation of the approach: Project officer in charge of the call, National Contact Points (NCP): http://www.horizon2020.gouv.fr/cid74103/le-reseau-des-pcn.html
Information and “push” after submission/ ranking : NCP, contacts of partners..
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RISK management: build a project concept considering the major risks, what will be the back up strategies, how these strategies will impact the exploitation and business plans?
All consortium members need to demonstrate their added value, size of consortia to be kept realistic (necessary & sufficient)
Active and significant contribution from SMEs with a dedicated budget and efforts (no scattering of activities)
A clear gap must be demonstrated vs State of the Art (recent FP7, H2020 projects), as well as in the project ambition (industrial, societal)
Quantified demonstration of impacts based on reference scenarios
Explanation of the IP landscape: IP background necessary to conduct the project activities, demonstrate that the partners have the freedom to operate (technology and competitive analysis)
Consistency between objectives & ambition and allocated means/efforts/investments in the project
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FP is open to all countries in the world (in principle)Participation does not mean receiving EU funding (or funding directly from EU)
Associated countries (AC) that will receive an automatic funding (in addition to 28 Member States (MS))
Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova, Faroe Islands, Ukraine, Switzerland, Tunisia, Georgia, Armenia
Automatic funding also for >130 other third countries with low GDPNB. Exclusion from automatic funding of BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
Third countries sometimes required (not systematically with EU funding) on targeted actions:Based on geographic layouts/areas, e.g. Japan/Brazil for ICTBased on common challenges, e.g. topic on tuberculosis, etc.
Some countries not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for funding for their participants in Horizon 2020 projects (for ex., China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Taiwan).
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Notion of “Value chain (VC)” prominent :
MethodologyProject TRL < 4 (VC not so relevant), focus on synergies between competence and multi-disciplinarity
TRL > 4, value chain must be described
Partnership building: value chain
External value chain: necessary activities to create a product or service, from the conception and the supply of raw materials to the final end user/client (definition from a company point of view)
Basic Research Applied research,
technology providers
Technologies
integration into
products
Stakeholders: product
adopter/user
Businesses & society
Criticality: position in the VC
Product 1
Product 2
Product 3
Competitiveness
within each segment
of the VC
= Project consortium necessary to achieve objectives
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Proposal (technical annex) template (R&I, I actions):
Section 1: ExcellenceObjectives, relation to the work-programme (challenge&topic), concept & methodology, positioning of the project (TRL), ambition (SoA, innovation potential)
Section 2: ImpactExpected impacts (technological, economical, environmental, societal)Dissemination, exploitation, communication
Section 3: ImplementationWork-plan/activities, deliverables, milestonesConsortium and project/innovation management, risks, resources
Section 4: Members of the consortium incl. third parties Section 5: Ethics and Security
Page limits: 15, 30 or 70 pages for cover page + Sections 1-3 incl. tables (first stage ~10 pages)
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Proposal Writing: Proposal Structure
Sections to be addressed / Questions to be answered
Objectives
Relation to the work-programme
Concept and methodology
What are the targeted objectives (different from impacts)?What’s the project about in relation to the Work Programme?What is the justification for such project? Why should it be funded? Why wasn’t this done before (originality)? What is the global problematic it will contribute to solve? What is the global approach and methodology? What is the positioning of the project vs TRL?What is innovative about this project vs the SoA? What scientific/technological barriers are going to be lifted?
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Proposal Writing: Proposal Structure
Sections to be addressed / Questions to be answered
Expected impacts
Dissemination and exploitation of results
What is the project going to bring in terms of knowledge, technologies, innovation, products, improvement of societal indicators, contribution to larger European & National plans…? What barriers are you facing?How do you intend to use generated results to create returns? What are the next steps? How do you intend to communicate and disseminate the project results? To whom and with what means? How would you manage research data and publications?
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Proposal Writing: Proposal Structure
Sections to be addressed / Questions to be answered
Work plan – Work packages and deliverables
Management structure, milestones and procedures
Consortium as a whole
How do you propose to execute your project? How convincing is the proposed approach (capacities and methodology to be conducted ?)Who is going to work in this project (excellence and operational capacity)?How are you going to work together (who makes decision, who executes, who is in charge of what?) How the innovation and risks are managed?How much is it going to cost? How balanced and reasonable are the expenses? How justified are the project costs?
Resources to be committed
Section 3: IMPLEMENTATION and Section 4: CONSORTIUM
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Evaluation and Selection Process* (RIA/IA)
Time to grant reduced: 8 months (usually 5 for evaluation and 3 for grant preparation unless otherwise specified)
One proposal
Expert 1 Expert 2 Expert 3
In general 3 to 5 experts to evaluate a proposal (can be 2 for first stage/low € proposals)Remote and/or in Brussels.
Consensus group with EC moderator Harmonize different evaluation and scores given by different experts.Agree on a common scoring.Panel review (ranked & rejected proposals)
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Example Award Criteria Evaluation
Evaluation summary report analysis: example 1 project below thresholds
1. Excellence (Threshold 3/5)In general terms, the proposed technical approach is well structured, it identifies important weak points of the current technology and clearly explains the progress beyond the state of the art intended for the project.However, the objectives for this proposal seem rather focused on just the manufacturing processes and a particular technology element The problems tackled do not appear to include those related to the running of a factory (supply chain, planning, quality assurance, product distribution, service maintenance, etc.). There is limited information on the planned mini-factory production.
3/5
2. Impact (Threshold 3/5)The consortium partners have the scope and resource to bring about an effective contribution at a European and potentially an International level.The apparent dominance of one particular Consortium Member's patent for XXXXXX, may adversely impact the scope for a wider industrial dissemination of the findings. The proposed process technology, once it has reached the convenient readiness level, could certainly contribute to reduce the time to market and the cost, decrease lead times in product and process development etc.Nevertheless, these results would not be related to the development of new factory concepts, such as on-site factories or factories-in-a-container, which provide instant manufacturing and customization services locally, for example in retail environments or utilization sites.
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Evaluation summary report analysis: example 1 project below thresholds
Example Award Criteria Evaluation
8,5/15: Proposal below thresholds
3. Quality and efficiency of the implementation (Threshold 3/5)Partners individually and collectively represent a strong consortium serving the objectives of this particular proposal. The consortium as a whole lacks organisations representing the full value chain and in particular end users in order to meet the full objectives of this call. XXX has only a very small participation in the project.The End Users board is important to define the end users’ needs and expectations, however an indicative list of the participants to this board has not been provided.Significant risks are identified and contingency plans are summarised but no mitigation actions are presented.
2.5/5
Operational capacityYes
Proposal content corresponds, wholly or in part, to the topic description against which it is submitted, in the relevant work programme partYes
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Get prepared: read carefully all documents (call, previous projects) and get time ahead!
Find/accept partners, not followers (except special added value)Write a nice story for your readers, not for your pleasure Be ambitious but non unrealisticAnswer STRICTLY the call scope & impacts and use most of keywords given in
the topic / work programmeConsider all tricky questions in all sections and avoid any suspicion of plagiarism!
Do not forget!A submitted proposal can be revised until the call deadline by submitting a new version and overwriting the previous oneFollow the formatting rules and page limits.Download and proof-read the proposal before submitting.
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