2019 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019)

[alev]

Hi all,
I am a first-time applicant for the GF. I just found this forum yesterday and have been trying to catch up. May I ask where you see the "Evaluation" remark for your application? Evaluation as opposed to what? And is this really an indicator?

Hi and good luck! Which panel are you? Although it is not really wise to check that (almost none of us here is wise!) you basically visit your proposal's follow-up page and disable styles. There you can see whether your phase is ranking or evaluation. But we do not really know what that means, except that ranking is above threshold. Just that. Everything else is pure speculation.

Thanks! I am SOC. Mine says Ranking. But I was told that even if I get a high score, there is no guarantee that I will be funded. So it can go either way for any of us I guess. Good luck!

[Krishchem]

May be another update around the corner

Portal shows

"Due to maintenance, Funding&Tenders Portal may be unavailable on Monday, 03.02.2020, between 08:30 and 09:30 CET
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."

[r_espersen]

Is brexit going to affect rankings? At this point, since horizon 2020 is intended to fund European research and train European researchers, awarding a grant to a British institution will come at the expense of a European institution, even though the British govt has pledged to fund successful proposals to British institutions. So in this case would the EU simply save the money it would have otherwise awarded to British institutions, or would these savings be used to fund European institution proposals on the wait list?

[Kenniz]

May be another update around the corner

Portal shows

"Due to maintenance, Funding&Tenders Portal may be unavailable on Monday, 03.02.2020, between 08:30 and 09:30 CET
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."

there probably wont be any more updates (atleast not visible for us). the next step is putting out the results and this might happen every day from now on. probably this is just a maintenance and we should expect results not much earlier than 11 feb though.

[Kenniz]

Is brexit going to affect rankings? At this point, since horizon 2020 is intended to fund European research and train European researchers, awarding a grant to a British institution will come at the expense of a European institution, even though the British govt has pledged to fund successful proposals to British institutions. So in this case would the EU simply save the money it would have otherwise awarded to British institutions, or would these savings be used to fund European institution proposals on the wait list?

wont affect anything for this year.

[r_espersen]

So the EU just saves money in this case.

[Robrad30]

Definitely one way to look at it, although on the other hand the UK has paid it's share of the H2020 budget they are probably entitled to be awarded fellowships until they are effectively "paid up" and out? They are already taking a massive hit. I read somewhere recently that the amount of funding the UK has ben awarded has dropped by some staggering amount, in the ballpark of 350 million.

Is brexit going to affect rankings? At this point, since horizon 2020 is intended to fund European research and train European researchers, awarding a grant to a British institution will come at the expense of a European institution, even though the British govt has pledged to fund successful proposals to British institutions. So in this case would the EU simply save the money it would have otherwise awarded to British institutions, or would these savings be used to fund European institution proposals on the wait list?

[Kenniz]

So the EU just saves money in this case.

i am pretty sure this is not 100% clear for anybody out there yet as everything went so unpredictably. but the uk paid for it and thus the money for already submitted proposals will most likely come from the h2020 budget as if nothing had happened.

[SOC-2018]

Responded to the MSCA-IF ethics team's request for additional information yesterday! Currently RANKING and anxiously waiting for the final results! Fingers crossed!

you probably got it!
but did you send any document regarding ethical issues along with the proposal?

Just the regular ethics self-assessment form plus a short explanation on the ethical aspects of my research project in Part B of the proposal!

[AnnaMC]

May be another update around the corner

Portal shows

"Due to maintenance, Funding&Tenders Portal may be unavailable on Monday, 03.02.2020, between 08:30 and 09:30 CET
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."

there probably wont be any more updates (atleast not visible for us). the next step is putting out the results and this might happen every day from now on. probably this is just a maintenance and we should expect results not much earlier than 11 feb though.

If there is maintenance on Monday morning, I find it quite unlikely that they release any results on Monday. It will be Tuesday onwards, then. Just some more speculation for the sake of it, haha