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Horizon 2020: What’s in it for the College of Arts?. Michael McGuigan, EU Advisor EU and International Team Research Support Office 19 February 2014. to whet your appetite for H2020 to encourage you to contact us for further information (contact details on final slide)
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Horizon 2020: • What’s in it for the • College of Arts? Michael McGuigan, EU Advisor EU and International Team Research Support Office 19 February 2014
to whet your appetite for H2020 to encourage you to contact us for further information (contact details on final slide) presentation emailed to you; referenced documents all hyperlinked Today’s objectives
Introducing H2020 ‘... you can’t please all of the people all of the time’ (Abe Lincoln) Brief overview of H2020 H2020 newsletter Schemes most relevant to College of Arts
Topics not covered today • Pillar 1: Infrastructures & FET • All Pillar 2 Industrial Leadership • Pillar 3: 6 Societal challenges • SME instrument • Research-related actions • Innovation actions • Coordination and support actions • ERA-NET Cofund • Procurement Actions
H2020 - Societal Challenges H2020 Research & Innovation Actions – these are Collaborative Research Projects Description: Action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. For this purpose they may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.
H2020 calls compared with FP7 • Fewer calls and topics • Challenge-based approach – innovative solutions • Multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral • Expected impact • Social Science & Humanities integrated across all Societal Challenges: NET4SOCIETY analysis
Societal Challenges - general Eligibility: minimum 3 partners from 3 different member states or associated countries Funding: 100% of direct costs + 25% contribution to indirect costs Submission: electronic via participant portal Improved turnaround ?
SC6: Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies • Overall budget: €1.695b • The Work Programme for 2014 and 2015 supports actions that will give Europe a cutting edge and/or sufficient resilience in facing the current and future difficulties affecting its development.
SC6 2014-15 Work Programme:5 separate calls: • Overcoming the Crisis • The Young Generation • Reflective Societies: Cultural Heritage and European Identities • Europe as a Global Actor • New Forms of Innovation
2014-15 SC6 call details 2014 submission deadlines • mainly: 26.06.2014 • few in 4 &5: 29/04/14 (2015 deadlines also provided in the WP)
2014-15 SC6 call evaluation Ex aequo priority order: Excellence; Impact; SME budget; Gender balance; Synergies
ERC: Time Commitment & Eligible Costs • Advanced – minimum 30% of time on grant • Starters & Consolidators – min. 50% on grant • Eligible Costs • Personnel • Equipment & Consumables • Travel & Subsistence • Publication Costs
Single stage submission: 2 step review Initial peer review • 2 Page CV and Funding ID • 2 Page Early Achievements Track Record • 5 page Extended Synopsis Second step, full peer review • Above docs + 15 page research proposal • Starters/ Consolidators + 30 minute interview by peer review panel in Brussels, includes presentation requirement
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) • fund mobility, training and career development in academia, industry and other non-academic sectors through individual mobility grants and collaborative research and training, and staff exchange projects. Research in any subject area. • Innovative Training Networks (ITNs) • Individual Fellowships (IFs)
MCSA: Innovative Training Networks • Aim: to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers • Scope: competitively selected joint research training and/or doctoral programmes, implemented by partnerships of universities, research institutions, businesses, and others • Partnerships: collaborative European Training Networks (ETN), European Industrial Doctorates (EID) or European Joint Doctorates (EJD)
MCSA ITNs: Eligibility • at least three beneficiaries (or at least two for EID) located in three different EU Member States or Associated Countries. • EID: at least one beneficiary must be entitled to award doctoral degrees and at least one from industry. • EJD: at least three beneficiaries must be entitled to award doctoral degrees.
MCSA: Individual Fellowships • Aim: enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international / intersectoral mobility • Scope: European Fellowships – coming to or moving within Europe Global Fellowships - based on a secondment to a third country and a mandatory 12 month return period to a European host
MSCA 2014 Call Details Expected Impact detailed in each call
Useful links • H2020 Participant Portal • UKRO website • Registering as H2020 Advisor • Find an H2020 Call • ERC website • ERC 2014 Work Programme • ERC Presentations • Marie Sklodowska Curie 2014 Work Programme
Contact us: Michael McGuigan Ex 4877 Email: michael.mcguigan.2@glasgow.ac.uk rso-eufunding@glasgow.ac.uk