What is a Marie Curie IAPP?
The Industry-Academia Partnerships & Pathways (IAPP) is a Marie Curie Action that seeks to enhance cooperation between public research organizations and private commercial enterprises, in particular SMEs, based on longer term cooperation programmes, for increasing knowledge-sharing and mutual understanding in both industrial and academic sectors. Participants in an IAPP are one or more research
organization (e.g. universities) and one or more commercial enterprises that propose a joint research project within which transfer of knowledge takes place. This transfer of knowledge is reached primarily through staff secondments (staff exchanges).
How does a IAPP work?
The participants propose a joint research project as the common basis for their collaboration. This joint research project should be designed to exploit complementary competences of the participants and create synergies. The transfer of knowledge among participants will be reached through secondments of employees. Staff to be seconded: researchers, technical and research managerial staff.
What is funded in an IAPP?
Salaries & allowances of both seconded and recruited researchers are covered as follows:
Living allowance (“salary”) for early stage researchers (< 4 years experience): €38 000/year
Living allowance (“salary”) for experienced researchers (< 10 years experience): €58 500/year
Living allowance (“salary”) for experienced researchers (> 10 years experience): €87 500/year
Additional allowance:
Mobility allowance (monthly): €1000 for researchers with family, €700 for researchers without family
Host organisations can expect contributions to the transfer of knowledge programme, management and overheads from the European Commission in order to cover costs of the activities carried out during the project.
What is the duration of a IAPP?
Typically, a IAPP lasts 4 years.
What is the "life cycle" of a IAPP?
How long does it take from the moment you write your proposal until the moment your project can finally start (in case you get funded by the European Commission)?
Count roughly 12-14 months before starting your project:
Stage 1: After the Call for an IAPP has been published, the consortium has about 4 to 5 months to prepare and submit a proposal until the deadline.
Stage 2 : A panel of experts will evaluate the proposals (2-3 months)
Stage 3: Applicants whose proposals have been successfully evaluated in Stage 2 will be invited by the EC to negotiate (2-3 months)
Stage 4 : If the negotiation with the EC has been successful, it will take another 2-3 months to prepare the contract
Stage 5: Start of the project.
What are the evaluation criteria for a IAPP?
S&T Quality: 25%
Transfer of Knowledge: 30%
Implementation: 20%
Impact: 25%