New Three Calls for Individual Marie Curie Scholarships Launched

The calls for individual Marie Curie scholarships were published on 17th of March 2010. The actions aim to boost the availability of transnational training and mobility schemes in Europe. Deadline of the calls is 17th of August 2010.

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Marie Curie Actions are open to researchers of all ages and levels of experience, and in many cases regardless of nationality. This activity will support experienced researchers in complementing existing skills or acquiring new skills and competencies or in enhancing inter/multidisciplinarity and/or intersectoral mobility, in resuming a research career after a break and in (re)integrating into a longer term research position in Europe after a trans-national mobility experience.

Under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and its specific programme People, the Marie Curie actions aim to allow researchers to develop skills at all stages of their careers by promoting their mobility. In line with this goal, the actions support establishing new research training programs, mobility of researchers within Europe, reverse brain drain, cooperation of industry-academia researcher employment of industry and academia, research facilities in developed countries like America, Japan, etc., staff exchanges between research centers.

EU supports mobility of researchers with ‘Human Capital and Mobility’ under FP3 between 1990 and 1994, ‘Training and Mobility of Researchers’ under FP4 between 1994 and 1998, ‘Improving Human Research Potential’ under FP5 between 1998 and 2002, ‘Human Resources and Mobility’ under FP6 between 2002 and 2006, and as tha latest action with ‘PEOPLE’ under FP7 which will continieu until 2013.

Also since 2003 Marie Curie Excellence Awards have been distributing to the best researchers. Also in 2008 first time a Turkish researcher who is Assoc. Dr. Batu ERMAN, from Sabancı Universty, took the Marie Curie Excellence Award with Molecumer Biological Targeting of T Lymphocyte Signal Transduction and Development research.

All these opportunities attract the Marie Curie actions for researchers from anywhere in the world. So it will be better to examine the newpublished calls for individual Marie Curie scholarships.

This activity is addressed to experienced researchers, i.e. researchers who are either in possession of a doctoral degree (independently of the time taken to acquire it) or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.

The following actions are foreseen in particular:

Intra-European Fellowships for career development (IEF)

Published Date : 17 March 2010
Deadlien : 17 August 2010 at 17.00.00, Brussels local time
Budget : EUR 95 million of the 2010 budget. The final budget awarded to this call, following the evaluation of projects, may vary up to 10% of the total value of this call.

At various stages of their career, experienced researchers may welcome an opportunity to acquire new research skills or experience working in other sectors. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development specifically aim at helping experienced researchers to try something new for a while.

Who can apply?

Researchers can be of any nationality but as a general rule must move from one Member State or Associated country to another in order to carry out the project.. You must have either a doctoral degree or at least 4 years’ full-time equivalent research experience, after obtaining a degree permitting you to embark on a doctorate.

What does the funding cover?

IEF funding is provided for advanced training and career development. This may include the acquisition of new and/or complementary skills, and transnational mobility. The project is based on a personal career development programme agreed between the researcher and the supervisor at the host organisation. Financial support is provided for a period of 12-24 months (full-time equivalent), for individual projects presented by experienced researchers from Member States or Associated Countries in liaison with a host organisation from a Member State or Associated Country.

The fellowships may include:

Training-through-research under supervision, through an individual personalised project
Hands-on training to develop your scientific skills (new techniques or instruments, etc.) and your complementary skills (proposal preparation to request funding, patent applications, project management, tasks coordination, technical staff supervision, etc.)
Inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary knowledge transfer
Building Collaborations
Active scientific and financial management of your research project
Developing organisational skills through organisation of training or dissemination events.

Which topics can be funded?

IEF proposals are welcomed from all areas of scientific and technological research. But there is one exception: research areas covered by the EURATOM Treaty cannot be funded.

International Outgoing Fellowships for career development (IOF)

Publication Date : 17 March 2010
Deadline : 17 August 2010 at 17.00.00, Brussels local time
Budget : EUR 28 million of the 2010 budget. The final budget awarded to this call, following the evaluation of projects, may vary up to 10% of the total value of this call

European researchers can learn a lot from conducting high-level research in other parts of the world. Marie Curie Actions offers International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development.

Who can apply?

IOFs are for researchers who are nationals of EU Member States and Associated Countries. To apply, you must have either a doctoral degree or at least 4 years’ full-time equivalent research experience, after obtaining a degree permitting you to embark on a doctorate. But more experienced is welcomed, it will not affect your chances of obtaining an IOF.

What does the funding cover?

IOFs fund advanced training. In particular, they include a salary for the researcher and a contribution to research-related costs. Financial support can be given for up to 3 years in all. This includes an initial outgoing phase of 1-2 years in a Third Country followed by a mandatory reintegration phase of 1 year. In other words, you will be committing yourself to return to an EU Member State or an Associated Country.

Your host organisation should be a university, research centre or enterprise established and located in a Third Country (for the out going phase) and another one in an EU or Associated Country (for the return phase).

The main activities will be based on a research project which you should prepare in coordination with the organisation that will host you when you return to Europe. You should also agree a personal career development plan with your supervisor in the return host organisation. An IOF should significantly develop and widen your competences. In particular, it should strengthen your multi- or interdisciplinary expertise, inter-sectoral experience and complementary skills.

The fellowships may include:

Training-through-research under supervision, through an individual personalised project
Hands-on training to develop your scientific skills (new techniques or instruments, etc.) and your complementary skills (proposal preparation to request funding, patent applications, project management, tasks coordination, technical staff supervision, etc.)
Inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary knowledge transfer
Building Collaborations
Active scientific and financial management of your research project
Developing organisational skills through organisation of training or dissemination events.

Which topics can be funded?

IOF proposals are welcomed from all areas of scientific and techno logical research that are of interest to the EU. But there is one exception: research areas covered by the EURATOM Treaty cannot be funded.

International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)

Published Date : 17 March 2010
Deadline : 17 August 2010 at 17.00.00, Brussels local time
Budget : EUR 28 million of the 2010 budget. The final budget awarded to this call, following the evaluation of projects, may vary up to 10% of the total value of this call.

Top-class researchers from Third Countries are welcome to work on projects in Europe. This helps to develop research cooperation between Europe and other parts of the world – to everybody’s benefit.
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships are specially designed to encourage these moves.

Who can apply?

Researchers of any nationality active or recently active in Third Countries are eligible for an IIF. That means countries that are neither EU Member States nor Associated Countries. To apply, you must have either a doctoral degree or at least 4 years’ full-time equivalent research experience, after obtaining a degree permitting you to embark on a doctorate. But that is the minimum. The more experience you have, the better will be your chances of being accepted for this action.
Your application for an IIF should be made in liaison with the organisation or institution that would be willing to host you in Europe. Host organisations can be universities, research centres or companies.

What does the funding cover?

IIF funding is provided for a research project which will transfer knowledge into your host organisation and building or enhancing collaborations between Europe and the rest of the world. The research project will also allow you to advance your career. Financial support is provided for 12-24 months (full-time equivalent).

Funding allows you to:

join a European research team that doesn’t have your experience
establish a collaboration through a research project with your lab or your country
gain new knowledge in a European lab.

Your IIF may also cover a return phase of up to one year. This will be spent back in your country of origin, applying the experience that you have gained. To qualify for a return phase, you must be from one of the International Cooperation Partner Countries. If you want a return phase, you must include details of it in your initial application. And you must specify the potential return host organization in your country of origin

Which topics can be funded?

All areas of scientific and technological research that are of interest to the EU may be eligible for IIF funding. But there is one exception: research areas covered by the EURATOM Treaty cannot be funded.