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People are putting too much emphasis on a single evaluator randomly hating you. Recall that your proposal is evaluated by three experts, without communication between them. Then a fourth person, the rapporteur, collects the reports and identifies agreements and disagreements, chairs a meeting betwee...

does anybody know having a famous supervisor or a highly ranked host university can affect the result? In my opinion, yes for sure. But i think it depends on the famous supervisor, because they generally apply more than one applicant. Highly ranked host institute also, but in the end again, they ha...

The information on what tasks you plan to do need to be there somewhere, because the evaluators need to judge if you have any clue on what you're doing. The format, however, is flexible. You don't need to list explicitly what tasks T1.1, T1.2, T1.3, etc, are. Typically your methodology section will ...

On that note, I think I saw a post in this board somewhere that an assistant professor wanted-to-apply/has-applied for a MSCA fellowship. I didn't even know that a tenure track faculty could apply for a MSCA fellowship. Isn't MSCA individual/global fellowship a kind of postdoc fellowship ? If so, I...

This is an older post, but for future reference: The grant can be transferred, but only as a last resort. Portability is outlined in article 56a of the Grant Agreement. Basically, only the current beneficiary (i.e., the university, not you) can request a change in beneficiary and only if there's a s...