2017 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017)

[Arale]

"Participant Portal Grant Management Services may be experiencing issues with Grant Management tasks, Legal Entity and Bank Account validations on Friday, 19.01.2018, from 07:45 until 08:10 CET.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."


I guess they are preparing for the results soon. Last year also, before the result announcement, there were multiple maintenance on the participant portal.

Yes possibly on Monday. However, due to multiple reasons I am not optimistic. My institute is in UK (BREXIT might affect), my proposal is expensive (almost 200+K Euros), and I have Evaluation phase.

Now, in the following bottom we can see the number of the project + sealed, right?

[FuriousAcademic]

my proposal is expensive (almost 200+K Euros)

What do you mean is expensive? All proposals are similar, Marie Curie IF only covers the salary and other minor expenses. There is no money to buy equipment or hire other people.

[aberfeldy]

"Participant Portal Grant Management Services may be experiencing issues with Grant Management tasks, Legal Entity and Bank Account validations on Friday, 19.01.2018, from 07:45 until 08:10 CET.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause."


I guess they are preparing for the results soon. Last year also, before the result announcement, there were multiple maintenance on the participant portal.

Yes possibly on Monday. However, due to multiple reasons I am not optimistic. My institute is in UK (BREXIT might affect), my proposal is expensive (almost 200+K Euros), and I have Evaluation phase.

Now, in the following bottom we can see the number of the project + sealed, right?

Where do you see "sealed"?

[ANGF]

Now, in the following bottom we can see the number of the project + sealed, right?

Do you mean as the proposal name in the follow-up portal dropdown menu for "documents"? I think it has always had "sealed" in the title, at least the version I downloaded in December does.

Last year there was some discussion around when that document got "Stage2" in the title but I'm not sure if that is meaningful. Some people last year had it changed early on (before December) and others had it changed closer to the announcement. It might be related to the ethics screening and have changed for some people early on due to no ethics concerns in their projects, for others later because they were not going to get the funding, and for others later still because the project had to be screened. I don't remember if, after results came out, people figured out any pattern.

[IF_IAMYOURS]

my proposal is expensive (almost 200+K Euros)

What do you mean is expensive? All proposals are similar, Marie Curie IF only covers the salary and other minor expenses. There is no money to buy equipment or hire other people.

After application process the total budget cost for project was around 200,000Euros

[IF_IAMYOURS]

Now, in the following bottom we can see the number of the project + sealed, right?

You mean this ....

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[Scattman]

Now, in the following bottom we can see the number of the project + sealed, right?

Do you mean as the proposal name in the follow-up portal dropdown menu for "documents"? I think it has always had "sealed" in the title, at least the version I downloaded in December does.

Last year there was some discussion around when that document got "Stage2" in the title but I'm not sure if that is meaningful. Some people last year had it changed early on (before December) and others had it changed closer to the announcement. It might be related to the ethics screening and have changed for some people early on due to no ethics concerns in their projects, for others later because they were not going to get the funding, and for others later still because the project had to be screened. I don't remember if, after results came out, people figured out any pattern.

Indeed, "Sealed" has been always there.

Btw, dis you find "stage 2" this year? I did not.

[FuriousAcademic]

my proposal is expensive (almost 200+K Euros)

What do you mean is expensive? All proposals are similar, Marie Curie IF only covers the salary and other minor expenses. There is no money to buy equipment or hire other people.

After application process the total budget cost for project was around 200,000Euros

Yes, like for all the other candidates applying to UK. Candidates applying to (e.g.) Nordic countries have a higher budget. And, by the way, 200,000€ is peanuts - Marie Curie ITN projects have budgets that are one order of magnitude higher.

[ANGF]

Indeed, "Sealed" has been always there.

Btw, dis you find "stage 2" this year? I did not.

No, I have not had it added yet. Does anyone have it? I think I had it fairly early last year and was above threshold but did not have a high enough score for ethics to matter (in case that is what it signifies).

[Ani]

You have to click again on Proposal when it appears into the Process Documents.Did you do that? Anyways, it is not any problem even if it does not show "Sealed" because proposal is supposed to be sealed after submission for further official proceeding.