2021 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (HE-MSCA-PF-2021)

[Perky]

Hi

If I score more than 70 percent. Can I apply from the same host with condition that I am living more than one year in the same country. Please suggest

[Fu Manchu]

Rejected! Score 58.
I don't even bother looking at the comments.
I can't digest the fact that it went from 84 to 92.6 to 58

This is outrageous.

[argy20]

Just to update everyone and thank you for all the information being shared here. Really helped go through this.

I got an evaluation only email this morning at 6:45 am. When accessing the portal there was also a document stating I was on the reserve list. There was also a letter there that confirmed I have received the funding as part of the ERA scheme.

My score was 92.8 in EF-ENG and am the cutoff for the ERA scheme in my panel as communicated to me through local NCP.

[Taha2021]

Congratulations to all successful applications and sorry for everyone else (including me)

Also, I would like to ask whether someone could name all the fellowships/grants that are more or less similar to the MSCA? In my case, I finish my PhD in 2017, so I cannot apply to several of them...I have some geographic restrictions since I have been working in Germany for a few years (but at the same time, I am not European). I will start with the ones that I know (some are specific for LIF):

Branco Weiss Fellowship
EMBO Fellowship
HFSP
FEBS
Human Technopole Fellowship
ICGEB Fellowship


(I tried to post the links but the server did not allow it )

[Taha2021]

Rejected! Score 58.
I don't even bother looking at the comments.
I can't digest the fact that it went from 84 to 92.6 to 58

This is outrageous.

I agree... This makes me doubt about applying again :/

[Taha2021]

Hi!
May I ask which funding from the Spanish government did you get with the Seal of Excellence? And how you did it?
I got 93.4 in EF-LIF and sent to the reserve list, so I'm starting to search for other funding sources.

Thanks!

In my case, the supervisor contacted me asking if I would like to apply for this other call. It was an exceptional, strategic call, where the Spanish government offered to finance projects that obtained the seal of excellence (I believe it was a certain number of projects).
It took about 6 months after they released the MSCA results to open this call.
I don't know if this happens every year and if all areas are covered, but it's worth keeping in touch with the NCP to find out about these other alternatives.
Good luck!

This morning I wrote to the NCP to thank her for all the help. I've got 92.2 but rejected. She said that if something will happen in the beneficiary country (Italy) that I choose, she will definitely let me know. So I suggest to contact the NCP and ask if they know if specific national call could happen.

[AspiringMSCA]

Hello All,
I got it this year. This was my second time.
Congratulations to all the people who got it...and for people who did not, don't lose heart, there is always next year.

Also, does anyone know till when can we join after the grant agreement is done?

[pkourtes]

Does anyone know if the restriction (score <70) for applying next year, applies to the proposal or the researcher?
If someone has a link to guide me it would be even better.

[dw2022]

Hey guys - I just made an anonymous google spreadsheet where you could contribute to our dataset of phase change, panel, start letter of acronym, etc. You can open the following url with incognito mode of your browser.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =782972678

Everyone can edit the spreadsheet or save your own copy.

repost for ppl to fill in the results

so far, all main-listed went to ranking on Mar 1st.

[Taha2021]

Does anyone know if the restriction (score <70) for applying next year, applies to the proposal or the researcher?
If someone has a link to guide me it would be even better.

I am not sure, I think you can apply again, but changing the proposal (and host):
"Please note that as of the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 call, proposals involving the same beneficiary and individual researcher submitted to the previous call of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships under Horizon Europe and having received a score of less than 70% must not be resubmitted the following year."
Page 6 in this file:
https://rea.ec.europa.eu/system/ files/2021-06/Guide%20for%20applicants%20-%20MSCA%20PF%202021.pdf