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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