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

[fr489]

It seems that no emails yet and we sort of assumed they would start emailing on Monday unless you have a connection in some NCP that is willing to leak the results earlier!

Hey did anyone hear yet by email? or do we assume the system is still not working

[kassiek]

Hey did anyone hear yet by email? or do we assume the system is still not working

I still haven’t. I think SOC will update us when he/she hears. But all the news coming in makes it sound way more competitive than last year.

[elii]

It seems that no emails yet and we sort of assumed they would start emailing on Monday unless you have a connection in some NCP that is willing to leak the results earlier!

Hey did anyone hear yet by email? or do we assume the system is still not working

Do you mean they will start emailing on Sunday night or on Monday night?

[megasphaera]

It has to be, there are 10000 proposal to evaluate. As said previously, all sections have to be perfect. If you assume that you will get it only with a good CV and good project, you will fail.

Hey did anyone hear yet by email? or do we assume the system is still not working

I still haven’t. I think SOC will update us when he/she hears. But all the news coming in makes it sound way more competitive than last year.

[megasphaera]

BTW, let't hit 400 pages and then:

[kassiek]

It seems that no emails yet and we sort of assumed they would start emailing on Monday unless you have a connection in some NCP that is willing to leak the results earlier!

Hey did anyone hear yet by email? or do we assume the system is still not working

Do you mean they will start emailing on Sunday night or on Monday night?

I believe the general thought is if they figure out the technical issues, we will start getting emails. And MCSA has promised by Tuesday. So it could be any time between then and now.

[gerdogan]

I only know for my panel. This is how I know that I did not get the grant.

My proposal was GF -ENG. Cut off is 90 and reserve list 88 point for this year.

Hey guys. I didn't resist and here is my 1st post. How do you know the threshold values for this year? Good luck to everyone for any case.

[keroro.90]

Evalutaion means not founded?...Am i right?...

[Flocci]

Did anyone got results from Society and Enterprise panel? What is the cut off score?

[Dort]

If add gender aspects is mandatory, than I'm screwed. Not relevant at all for my research... Also, my advisor is a MC evaluator and he told me clearly that it is simply a lottery. We are evaluated by people who probably no nothing about our research topics and it is a matter of them just liking the style rather than the content.

If I don't get this fellowship I haver another one that I'm also waiting to hear back and if nothing works I'm trying something else, I really wanna have a life and not just jump from one place to the other withou knowing my future 2 years ahead. Academia is just impossible these days and unviersities are trying their best to screw us anyway they can with contracts of only 2-5 years.

I had a high score (but not funded) last year and I disagree with the evaluators on most points. For instance, they said, too little time for fieldwork for one of my case countries. I have two decades of experience doing fieldwork on similar projects and I know exactly how much time I need per case. They also said "interdisciplinary AND gender aspects of the proposal have not been sufficiently addressed". The instructions clearly said that gender aspects should only be addressed if relevant (they weren't for me) but the evaluation feedback suggested that they may be assessing those two aspects together (I believed interdisciplinary aspects of my proposal had been sufficiently addressed). A few other similarly dubious points. This time around I did as instructed - added more time for fieldwork, added gender aspects, etc. Was the revised version an improvement? Not so sure, the original proposal was tighter and, imho, better. So, "bettering" the proposal is relative .

A total lottery or, instead, the better your proposal the more tickets for the lottery?