• Understand the eligibility conditions, key requirements and evaluation criteria of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships, including European and Global Fellowships.
• Plan and structure the proposal development process effectively, including cooperation between the researcher, supervisor and host institution.
• Excellence: Present convincing research objectives, SSH methodologies, supervision, training and two-way knowledge transfer.
• Impact: Demonstrate career development benefits and develop effective dissemination, exploitation and communication strategies.
• Implementation: Prepare a coherent and feasible work plan, including deliverables, milestones, risks and hosting arrangements.
• Identify common proposal weaknesses and strengthen scientific writing from an evaluator’s perspective.
• Analyse examples of successfully funded MSCA proposals to understand effective approaches and good practices.

Our online training includes training presentations and certificates of participation. Each training day starts at 9.00 and ends at 13.00 (Brussels Time). Applicants can each day have 20-minute individual online consultations with our expert who will answer all their questions (8 hours of training + 2×20 minutes of individual online consultations with an EU funds expert). A maximum number of participants of 12 per training.

Our training programmes are delivered by senior experts with extensive experience in MSCA proposal development and evaluation, including Social Sciences and Humanities. Several of our trainers have served as expert evaluators for the European Commission, providing firsthand insights into the evaluation process and criteria.