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Thanks! Just curious about how depressed / happy should I be after the results, relative to the total number of applicants in my category. :D This information comes out after the results. You can check it under “Topics and conditions” in the participant portal. While we are waiting, does anyone have...

While we are waiting, does anyone have information on the number of EF applicants per panel?

Let the countdown begin!

kokoroko wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 06, 2019 4:56 am

832XXX, nothing new. Tomorrow seems likely!

Was the cat's name Marie Curie?

Rosenstiel wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:19 pm

I had a dream/nightmare that I woke up and I could see the large silhouette of a cat on my wall. Terrifying.

Second that! Even with a perfect application, one or two reviewers who are hostile to your approach / framework / supervisor can ruin everything. And the same application can then score very high in another call. It seems the stress levels are getting to everyone. I think things probably aren’t help...

Thanks! Clearly I had wrong numbers. :) So the overall chances should be roughly the same as last year. I think in 2017, were submitted 9089, In 2016, 8946 and in 2015, 8508 applications. And 2018, 9830 applications. Answering my own question... :D It seems that the budget has risen from 248,7 to 27...

Answering my own question... :D It seems that the budget has risen from 248,7 to 273 million euros and the number of applicants from 7065 to 9830. So a bit less than 10% increase in budget vs. almost 40% increase in applications? The 2018 budget figure is from here: http://ec.europa.eu/research/part...

Ok, thanks for clarifying. I wonder if the amount of money has risen in proportion to this or will we see smaller percentages of success this year? There were 9830 applications this year, not at least 14000 as this would indicate. So we have 831XXX and 845XXX. Even with my math skills this sounds li...

So we have 831XXX and 845XXX. Even with my math skills this sounds like a record number of applications, doesn't it? At least this pdf says that in 2017 there were 7065 IF applicants, less than 900 GF applicants and a few hundred in other categories each: http://cache.media.education.gouv.fr/file/Ac...

According to the earlier posts, most people move from evaluation to ranking before decisions, but apparently there are precedents of a) many people in ranking not getting grants, and b) some people who have been in evaluation all the way to the end getting a grant. So it seems that we simply don't k...