Impressive international presence in RISE

A total of 275 eligible proposals were submitted to the H2020 MSCA-RISE-2018 Call in all scientific domains and 73 successful consortia have been selected (success rate of ~27%).

The overall budget of €80 million will be used to support secondments of staff from 741 participating organisations involved in the research and innovation activities. Participants include 109 small and medium enterprises and 207 organisations from third countries.

RISE stands for "Research and Innovation Staff Exchange" and it is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie family of actions. RISE uses the unique feature of secondments of staff members (early or experienced researchers, technical/administrative/managerial staff linked to the R&I activities) to achieve a project in their field of research that crosses disciplines, sectors, and that even crosses international boundaries working with third country partners all over the globe. For the latter secondments, the sector is not relevant; however, inter-European secondments are exclusively between academic and non-academic sectors to boost innovation and knowledge exchange between the staff.

For the 2018 call, more than half of the secondments proposed were inter-sectoral and the international dimension was highly represented reaching almost two-thirds of all secondments. Top scoring proposals ranged in areas including development of sustainable raw material for the fashion industry, innovations in functional glass materials, and improvements in health care systems. Learn more about the different projects selected here.

In addition to great proposals, REA received positive feedback on the overall call and evaluation process via a survey conducted with our 130 external R&I experts (including 14 Vice Chairs).

Grant agreements are expected to be signed on time and some projects should start as early as autumn 2018, while the new call H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 will be published later this year. The goal of next year's call will be to encourage even more participation of SMEs, to reinforce even more the collaboration between academic institutions and market-oriented organisations.