2018 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018)

[lolome]

We don't know. Everything is pure speculation.

check under "phase" in the text. It would be either EVALUATION or RANKING

Thanks!! And then? Where it is suppose that I should look? I cannot see the word "evaluation" there.... fingers crossed!!

it is written RANKING
(any message behind this word?... what should mean being in "evaluation" o in "ranking"?)

[xman25]

I'm also the minority in evaluation.
It is my first time for the fellowship, and I applied with the best institute in that country, and the top professor in the field for it.

Maybe I'm below the threshold, I don't know.

[danGFSOC]

Well, in Brussels they read this forum (Hello, there!) and they read the previous forum (the owlocation...) and they can easily notice weird accesses to the portal. So that problem would have been fixed in any case.
For the evaluation phase, I am not so sure. This time everything is working clearly in a different way. Portal, timing, the widening fellowship, etc... all these factors make any comparison with previous years very difficult.

it was 2 years ago that the link to the (hidden) results was found - then, people who didn't like what they were seeing (ie not funded), reported the link to the EC and that is how the EC was notified about this glitch in the system. If it were not for those people, still today you should have been able to follow the status of your application. I think what can be said with relative certainty this year is that those who are still in EVALUATION in the outdated link are below the threshold.

They are very good this year. At this point there is absolutely nothing that we can use to predict the result

[megasphaera]

Hey Brussels, give me the fellowship please

[Bren]

Why would they read this forum?

Well, in Brussels they read this forum (Hello, there!) and they read the previous forum (the owlocation...) and they can easily notice weird accesses to the portal. So that problem would have been fixed in any case.
For the evaluation phase, I am not so sure. This time everything is working clearly in a different way. Portal, timing, the widening fellowship, etc... all these factors make any comparison with previous years very difficult.

it was 2 years ago that the link to the (hidden) results was found - then, people who didn't like what they were seeing (ie not funded), reported the link to the EC and that is how the EC was notified about this glitch in the system. If it were not for those people, still today you should have been able to follow the status of your application. I think what can be said with relative certainty this year is that those who are still in EVALUATION in the outdated link are below the threshold.

They are very good this year. At this point there is absolutely nothing that we can use to predict the result

[keep_chr]

maybe they just test the system and see if we could get any leaks from it

[cukovic]

Damn, they should be faster. Is it too hard to draw the line? They can immediately inform all under that line. We can't plan another applications or accept offers from another places... It is not fair if they give grant to one person more than once. One candidate got MSCA IF after second attempt and applied again this year after being on a reserve list.

[IF ST LIF]

Why would they read this forum?

Well, in Brussels they read this forum (Hello, there!) and they read the previous forum (the owlocation...) and they can easily notice weird accesses to the portal. So that problem would have been fixed in any case.
For the evaluation phase, I am not so sure. This time everything is working clearly in a different way. Portal, timing, the widening fellowship, etc... all these factors make any comparison with previous years very difficult.

it was 2 years ago that the link to the (hidden) results was found - then, people who didn't like what they were seeing (ie not funded), reported the link to the EC and that is how the EC was notified about this glitch in the system. If it were not for those people, still today you should have been able to follow the status of your application. I think what can be said with relative certainty this year is that those who are still in EVALUATION in the outdated link are below the threshold.

Don't know why, but it's clear that they did and probably still doing. Two years ago they were aware of the link when it was published in owlcation. Indeed, after the publication, they started to hide some of the fields of the links. I remember that in the original link was even possible to see if a proposal was in the MAINLIST (funded), the name of the assigned EC officers responsible for the GAP and other information. Once the link was discovered, they changed everything. My guess is that the new portal addressed this problem and what we can see now in the outofdate is completely irrelevant. It's very likely that the critical information is now totally hidden.

[danGFSOC]

I do not remember well but last year (or two years ago in the other forum), someone suddenly appeared saying something that sounded clearly from "Brussels" and when trying accessing the portal with the magic link, someone found strange things (clearly done to make fun of those using the link). After that leak two years ago (which I imagine was a big issue in Brussels) I guess that sometimes they check on applicants forum what happens outside. Well, I do not have any evidence this year, but I find it highly probable.

[cukovic]

maybe they just test the system and see if we could get any leaks from it

Maintenance message vanished... Maybe they are going to release that red button...