Re: 2019 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019)
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:28 pm
Unofficial communication with one of the NCPs who gave me information about my ranking.
Anais wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:18 pmThanks for this, could you quote your source please?
aplampro wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:17 pmSome more info: the cut off score for SF SOC seems to be 93. There are 20 proposals between 93 and 92,6 and another 80 (thus a total of 100) on the reserve list. This number is so high mainly because of Brexit.
Anais wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:51 amI don't think that's likely, as there dozens of people on the reserve list, but you are very close to the cutoff (I think someone with 93 in SOC got it this year), so stay put there .
I still don't have the email but I can see the report in the system. Reviewer comments are as esoteric as always.
"The overlapping of person-months might affect the delivery of specific tasks in some months" - sorry, what? I can only guess that this is in reference to some months where I have planned both research and training activities, for instance, ongoing fieldwork in the case country and also a once a week participation in a seminar. Hmm.. I have 15 years of research experience and yes, I know how to multitask, Sir .
What was highlighted as strengths in the previous 2 years, for instance, "the planned output for academic publications is appropriate" is a weakness this year: "the proposal is not clear about the specific journals.." (I specifically named the journals AND provided provisional article titles, even though it eats up a lot of space).
I got a relatively high score but what lowered it at the end of the day is a handful of these minor comments which I don't find particularly fair or useful.
My sincere congrats to everyone who beat the system and got in!