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CALLS

Topic Budget (€)

Year : 2016 Stages

Opening

date Deadline

Time

(Brussels Time)

MSCA-ITN-2016 - MSCA-ITN-EJD

European Joint Doctorates 28,000,000 single-stage

15 October

2015

12 January

2016 17:00

MSCA-ITN-2016 - MSCA-ITN-EID

European Industrial. Doctorates 25,000,000 single-stage

15 October

2015

12 January

2016 17:00

MSCA-ITN-2016 - MSCA-ITN-ETN

European Training Networks 317,000,000 single-stage

15 October

2015

12 January

2016 17:00

ITN:

- Based on triple “I” – International, Intersectoral (academic and non-academic),

Interdisciplinary collaboration in Doctoral-level training

- Max. 48 months from the starting date set out in the grant agreement

- Fellowships of 3-36 months

- Career Development Plan

- Unit costs calculated on the basis of the research-month

Multi-partner research training networks:

- ITN-ETN – European Training Networks (317M €) - multi-partner research training

networks; at least 3 beneficiaries established in at least 3 different EU Member

States or Associated Countries; International Organizations, 3rd

Country

organizations; Consortium between 6 to 10 beneficiaires; participation of non-

academic sector is essential.

- ITN-EJD – European Joint Doctorates (28M €)- doctoral-level training in Europe

through the creation of joint doctoral programmes, leading to the delivery of joint,

double or multiple doctoral degrees that are entitled to deliver doctoral degrees; at

least 3 beneficiaries established in at least 3 different EU Member States or

Associated Countries; Above this minimum, the participation of any other

organisations from the same or other countries (worldwide) is possible;

participation of non-academic sector essential.

- ITN-EID – European Industrial Networks (25M €) - have the objective of training

highly-skilled researchers and stimulating entrepreneurship, creativity and

innovation in Europe by involving the non-academic sector in doctoral training; Each

EID is composed of at least 2 beneficiaries established in 2 different Member States

or Associated Countries; At least 1 beneficiary must be entitled to award doctoral

degrees and at least 1 beneficiary must come from the non-academic sector,

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primarily enterprise; Each participating researcher must be enrolled in a doctoral

programme and spend at least 50% of their time in the non-academic sector; The

joint supervision of fellows by supervisors from each sector is mandatory. A wider

set of partner organisations may also complement the training.

• EU Member States

• The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT’s) linked to the Member States

• Associated Countries (AC) - Albania, Bosnia and Herzigovina, former Yugoslav

Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia,

Faroe Islands, Ukraine and Turkey. Switzerland has signed an agreement for some

specific programmes.

• Automatically eligible non-EU applicants: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa,

Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia,

Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African

Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic People’s Republic), Congo

(Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,

Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon,

Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti,

Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo*,

Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia,

Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco,

Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau,

Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao

Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South

Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines,

Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-

Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu,

Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, , Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

• International European interest organisations will also be eligible to receive funding

from Horizon 2020.

• Legal entities established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding

when such funding is explicitly foreseen in the relevant call text.

• In addition, legal entities established in countries not listed above and international

organisations will be eligible for funding:

− When funding for such participants is provided for under a bilateral scientific and

technological agreement or any other arrangement between the Union and an

international organisation or a third country;

− When the Commission deems participation of the entity essential for carrying out

the action funded through Horizon 2020.

European Union contribution and applicable rates

The host organisation shall appoint each eligible researcher under an employment contract

Contract: with full social security coverage (including sickness, parental, unemployment

and invalidity benefits, pension rights, benefits in respect of accidents at work and

occupational diseases) except where national regulation prohibits this possibility.

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Yearly reference rates for living allowances under employment contracts (These amounts

include all compulsory deductions under national applicable legislation)

Researchers Categories (recruited under an

employment contract)

EUR/year

Early-stage researchers (4 anos)

37.320€ (3.110€ month) – at least 1 Early

Stage researcher

Experienced researchers 55.800€ (4.650€ month)

When an employment contract cannot be provided, the host organisation shall recruit the

researcher under a status equivalent to a fixed-amount fellowship.

The rates applicable in these cases, which shall be duly justified, will be 50% of the rates for

researchers under an employment contract. The host organisation shall ensure that

researchers enjoy minimum social security coverage.

In addition to the living allowance, a mobility allowance and a family allowance will be paid

for some categories of researchers as specified in Table below. In this context family is

defined as persons linked to the researcher by (i) marriage, or (ii) a relationship with

equivalent status to a marriage recognised by the legislation of the country where this

relationship was formalised; or (iii) dependent children who are actually being maintained

by the researcher.

Structure of the European Union contribution

Marie Curie

Action

Researcher Unit Cost** Institutional unit cost

person/month

Living

Allowance*

Mobility

Allowance

Family

Allowance

Researcher,

training and

Networking

costs

Management

and indirect

costs

Innovative

Training

Networks

3.110€

600€ 500€ 1.800€ 1.200€

Individual

Fellowships

4.650€

600e 500€ 800€ 650€

*A country correction coefficient applies to the living allowance (PT: 89,1%).

** These unit costs will be subject to a funding rate of 100%.

Marie Curie funding Rate: 100% (IVA ELEGIBLE)

1 mandatory – Supervisory Board

+6 months – mandatory personal career plan

Contact: Audrey Arfi – Audrey.arfi@ec.europa.eu - +32.2.2956850 (joint doctorates)

Attention: proposals 30 pages limit.

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Award Criteria