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Legal Entity and Bank Account validations tasks will experience issues in the Grant Management Services on Thursday, 23.01.2020, between 07:30 and 08:10 AM CET
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The experience of the supervisor is important. I have applied 2 times with different supervisors, each time the reviewers highlighted the experience of the supervisor in supervising students or post-docs and their publications. I know that it is also the case for friends that applied (and got it). ...

I would like to ask about the importance of the supervisor in the evaluation process. Could someone (who has applied more than one time) give his/her opinion? Good question. My supervisor didn't have time to read first submission in 2018. This time he really helped me to improve excellence part, ot...

Do not forget that they are supposed to publish the results of the COFUND call around the same period ;) I think they always get errors and servers going down when they are preparing to release the results i am still surprised that around 10000 grants are such a problem for them. its ridiculously l...

Robrad30 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:32 pm

It seems people are getting antsy, we’ve doubled the page number since Sunday!

It's nothing compared to last year.

I'm quite sure that the majority opinion here (that number of publications is not important, at least not officially) is absolutely and completely wrong. In fact, I would go so far as to call that a very silly point of view to have in academia. In the guide for writing, it was clearly stated that y...

They wrote "The publication record of the researcher is limited for their level of expertise" :| Don't pay attention to the comment you received. The number of publications has no impact. However, there are always reviewers that are stupid and have not read the manual for evaluators. Getting this f...

Wiggo wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:16 pm

4th attempt for me! I don't think Cv was crucial any time! Proposal excellence was always the key-factor for my previous rejections! I hope this helps!

Exactly!

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I expect change from submission to evaluation this week. According to the previous procedure it should be around 24/01.