The “Marie Curie Actions Road Show” is organised as a series of info-days in the premises of the participating research organisations with a set of presentations by the representatives of each invited institution and the European Commission (EC) representatives. The main aims of the Road Show are: to promote the Marie Curie Actions of the 7th Framework Programme, in particular Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) and Career Integration Grants (CIG); to present and introduce the research centers in each of the countries visited and to acquaint the participants about their facilities and research activities, as well as research opportunities for experienced researchers at the post-doctoral level.

Concept of the Marie Curie Road Show In 2010 ENEA (IT) and TUBITAK (TU) started organising a «Marie Curie Actions Road Show» in order to create an opportunity for the advancement of beneficial future international research collaborations among the researchers of participant Institutions’ Countries. The mobility created as a result of the events contributes to the overall European researchers’ mobility objectives.

Marie Curie Actions Road Show 2011 Participants: CEA - French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission DTU - Technical University of Denmark ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development HELMHOLTZ Association of German Research Centers TUBITAK – The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Marie Curie Actions Road Show 2012 Participants: CEA - French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (France) CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology (Czech Republic) ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Italy) HELMHOLTZ Association of German Research Centers (Germany) IFIN-HH - Romanian National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (Romania) KPK - Polish National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU (Poland) TUBITAK – The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Turkey)

The info-days of the MCA Road Show Date 2011Venue 16 February 2011Berlin, Germany (HELMHOLTZ) 23 February 2011Rome, Italy (ENEA) 11 March 2011Ankara, Turkey (TUBITAK) 22 March 2011Lyngby, Denmark (DTU) 6 April 2011Saclay, France (CEA) Date 2012Venue 16 February 2012Berlin, Germany (HELMHOLTZ) 12 March 2012Paris, France (CEA) 27 March 2012Brno, Czech Republic (CEITEC) 11 April 2012Rome, Italy (ENEA) 27 April 2012Ankara, Turkey (TUBITAK) 3 May 2012Bucharest, Romania (IFIN-HH) 14 May 2012Warsaw, Poland (KPK)

The Agenda of the Road Show

Statistical information MCA Road Show 2011 GERMANY ITALY TURKEY DENMARK FRANCE OVERALL How many Registered? How many Participated ? How many ESRs*? How Many ERs**? How many clients other than researchers (multipliers etc.)? How many Female? How Many Male?

Participant Profile for Each Country GERMANYFRANCE CZECH REPUBLIC ITALYTURKEYROMANIAPOLANDOVERALL How many registered? How many Participated? How many Questionnaires replied? How many ESRs*? How Many ERs**? How many Female? How Many Male? Statistical information MCA Road Show 2012 In total 1000 participants in the Info-days of the Road Show

Some statistics from the Questionnaire distributed in 2012 Figure 1: Participants’ Nationalities Figure 2. Research Area according to Marie Curie panels

Some statistics from the Questionnaire distributed in 2012 Figure 3. Experience LevelFigure 4. How did you hear about the workshops?

Some statistics from the Questionnaire distributed in 2012 Figure 6. How would you rate the quality of the presentations? Figure 5. Did the workshop meet your expectations?

Some achievements of the Marie Curie Actions 2012 Road Show  The info-days increased the awareness on Marie Curie Actions;  A total of 512 researchers at experienced and early-stage level were given practical and administrative information on the Marie Curie Actions’ Schemes with a specific focus on IEF and CIG Schemes;  Cooperation between the stakeholders of the Road Show have been enhanced to a great extent; the network is very strong!  The Road Show contributed greatly towards increasing the visibility of the participating research organizations;  One-on-one consultancies provided the participating researchers with specific information on each single country’s research environment and leading research institutions;  Road Show unintentionally contributed to the host driven actions of MCAs such as IAPP and ITN. New consortia have been set up through contacts created during the Road Show and some kind of match making have been successfully done by the institutes. Moreover, some existing networks for different international research programmes found chance to get submissions.

Some suggestions from the participants  Research areas of the institutions could be various. Since most of them focused on engineering, energy, life sciences participants carrying out research on social sciences couldn’t find an available position to discuss. New institutes with different research areas for the upcoming Road Shows demanded.  Presentations of the institutions were evaluated as quite long and complex, they are recommended to be simplified and shortened. Video presentations were demanded since they were more attractive. Some of the participants mentioned that booths were enough for the first contact with the institutes, no need to deliver a presentation.  More emphasis on multidisciplinary research aspects was demanded since globalizing world required more interdisciplinary research environment.  Researchers found the practical information session very useful with the local NCP. However there were some who wished to have proposal writing session with a mentor.

The Marie Curie Road Show 2013 The planning of the Marie Curie Road Show 2013 is being finalised in these days. The info-days will take place from January to April For more information, please contact Roberta Boniotti, ENEA

Contact points of the Institutions InstitutionContact details address CEA - FranceLaurence CEITEC – Czech RepublicRoman ENEA - ItalyRoberta HELMHOLTZ - GermanySusan IFIN-HH - RomaniaAlexandra KPK - PolandAnna TUBITAK - TurkeyTugba