Focus on
« non scientific »
parts of the proposal
MSCA Individual Fellowships
Eugénia Shadlova, Chargée d’affaires Europe , SAIC, Université Paris-Sud
Europe.saic@u-psud.fr
2.3 Quality of the supervision
and the hosting arrangements
• Specify in all relevant elements on the supervisor profile : both
his scientific competences and his experience in mentoring
• His implication in European and national research projects
should also be mentioned.
• Do not forget the Integration/practical tutoring aspects. The
purpose is to show that the Scientist in Charge will be actively
involved in the tutoring of the candidate post-doc, and that
you will not simply be one more post-doc for his team.
3.2 Effectiveness of the proposed measures
for communication and results dissemination
• Communication and public engagement strategy of the
action
 Communication towards large public and vulgarization of your project’s
results
 Think over, result by result, what can, in your project, be interesting for
which type of public and under which form . Give concrete examples!
• Dissemination of the research results
 Scientific publications, communication to industrial fora and higher
education
 Mention your Open Access publication strategy
• Exploitation of results and intellectual property
 Commercial exploitation of the project’s results, technology transfer to
industry, intellectual property protection
 Explain a positive impact of such exploitation on your career
 Specify the plans for the exploitation of results and IPR in the Gantt chart.
4.2 Appropriateness of the management
structure and procedures
• Progress monitoring mechanisms
• Financial & administrative management
• Risk management : risks that might endanger reaching
project objectives and the contingency plans
4.3 Appropriateness of the institutional
environment
Describe your host legal entity and show why this
institutional environment will give the fellowship the
maximum chance of a successful outcome
4.4 Competences, experience and
complementarity of the participating
organizations and institutional commitment
• Describe the benefit of your project for both host and partner
institutions and vice versa.
• Training activities and knowledge transfer activities that will
be put in place in order to maximize this positive impact of the
fellowship.
• Describe competences, expertise and the infrastructure of the
host laboratory. Demonstrate the added value of this
expertise and infrastructure for your project.
• Does your project correspond to to the laboratory’s
strategy? Show the positive impact that your
competences, your previously acquired expertise and
your project will bring to the laboratory.
• Mention the importance of access that you will get to the
professional network of both host and partner
institutions
• Your project will also help to reinforce the cooperation
between the host and the partner institution.