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I would imagine that more people would have been called from the reserve list this year by virtue of COVID-19 - there are so many ways in which this can change personal and professional situations that would make the funding irrelevant to people's plans, as well as ways in which travel (and fieldwor...

Some institutions include these costs in the monthly researcher salary, so maybe it's possible for them to be paid at the end too?

Congrats on your fellowship!
The funds are sent from the EU to the EU beneficiary. Not sure what happens re the partner institution after that...

11573 applications will be evaluated by 4000 external experts, that's approximately 3 applications per expert. It is not that much, I was expecting at least 10-15 applications per expert ... Some more useful numbers... https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/record-number-applications-msca-if-2020-call-2020...

I am resubmitting my proposal from last year and have a question: I got reserve list last year, and I see that we are not supposed to include our evaluation results in the application- evaluators will be instructed to ignore it if it is in there. Does this include the CV? I.e., can I include that I...

a couple specific questios about resubmissions, maybe someone with experience can help me: 1. even if only the supervisor is changed, but host and research topic stays the same, it is not a resubmission, right? 2. for resubmissions, could the evaluators be the same as last year, or will there be ne...

That's correct - the MSCA salary is calculated by the European Commission, based on a fixed base salary and country coefficient grid. This protects individual researchers from the precarity of academics under contemporary market societies. My suggestion would be to tell the HR department to raise ev...

It's really troubling that so many people have unfortunately lost their employment outside academia for reasons that are outside of their control. Are you saying that unemployment is affecting post-PhD level people? I haven't heard of many cutbacks at universities yet - have you? I'm not aware of wh...

What a call.. there were ups :D and downs :(, anticipation :shock: and excitement :), obscurity :geek: and revelation :o, and those who are going to resubmit :idea: and those who got it :arrow: (and of course, those on the reserve list :?:). Through all of this emotional turmoil, we've had each othe...

Thanks for the thread, PetetheCat! Good luck everyone! UPDATE 2020 Statistics: A total of 11,573 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each type of action is shown below: - Standard European Fellowships (MSCA-IF-EF-ST): 8,927 proposals - Reintegration Panel (...