Introduction

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) ensure excellent and innovative research training aswell as attractive career and knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and crosssectormobility of researchers. They are open to all domains of research and innovation, from basicresearch up to market take-up and innovation services. Research and innovation fields are chosenfreely by the applicants.

Objective of the call

The call concerns the action “Research and Innovation Staff Exchange” (RISE). The RISE schemepromotes international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staffexchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa). Thescheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativityand entrepreneurship and helps to turn creative ideas into innovative products, services orprocesses.

Structure

A RISE proposal is a joint research/innovation project designed to exploit the complementaryexpertise of the participants and to create synergies between them. This is aimed at knowledgesharing via international and/or intersectoral mobility, based on secondments of research andinnovation staff exchanges. Support for the exchanges between orgaznisation within Europe (EUMember States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries) covers only intersectoral secondments.A secondment must last between 1 and 12 months. Secondments shall always take place betweenlegal entities independent from each other. RISE exploits complementary competences of thepartners and enables networking activities, organisation of workshops and conferences to facilitatesharing of knowledge, new skills acquisition and career development for staff members.

Project example

A typical project involves on average 4-7 organisations from the academic and/or non-academicsector which contribute directly to the implementation of the joint research and innovation activitiesby seconding and/or hosting eligible staff members. Between 200 and 400 person months forsecondments (with a maximum of 540 person months) can be envisaged. Supervision and support isprovided to staff members during their period of secondment by the host organisation.The consortium is expected to implement the research/innovation activities by means of functionalsecondments and organising/taking part in training courses, workshops, summer schools, seminars,conferences etc. aimed at sharing knowledge, acquiring new skills and developing careers forconsortium staff members.

Eligible applicants

a) Legal entities

Any legal entity from the academic and non-academic sector (industry, business, government, civilsociety organisations, hospitals, etc.) that is established in EU Member States or Horizon 2020 associated countries. Only legal entities that are established in third countries can be partners.

b) Individuals Staff that can be seconded:

- Early-stage researchers: at the time of secondment, they must be in the first four years of theirresearch careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree;

- Experienced researchers: at the time of the secondment, they must be in possession of a doctoraldegree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience;

- Administrative, managerial and technical staff supporting the research and innovation activities ofthe project.

They must be actively engaged in or linked to research and/or innovation activities for at least onemonth (full-time equivalent) at the sending institution, before the secondment.

Partnership criteria

The consortium must be created by at least three legal entities, independent of each other andestablished in at least three different countries. At least two of them must be located in an EUMember State or Horizon 2020 associated country. If all partners are from the same sector (i.e.either only academic or only non-academic), there must be at least one partner from a third country.

Funding

The contribution is based on unit costs expressed in person-months. There is an upper limit of amaximum of 540 person-months per project.The financial support is composed of: a) staff member unit cost of 2.100 EUR per month; plus b)institutional unit cost of 2.500 EUR per person-month.

Projects duration

48 months

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