Building up a good Marie Sklodowska-Curie project and writing a successful proposal

by Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

Monday 4 Nov 2019, 09:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

bldg 593, R-004 (CERN)

Awarding 6.16 billion euro over the period 2014-2020, the Marie Curie Actions support research training and career development focused on innovation skills.
There are MSCA grants for all stages of a researcher's career, from PhD candidates to highly experienced researchers, which encourage transnational, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.
As the number of proposals submitted exceed by far the available budget, the EU retains only the best projects (less than 12% in the past).

To be successful in winning funding, it is necessary to understand early in the process what makes a good proposal, and to prepare the ground actively and well in advance, and that is what you will learn and apply in this course.

While there are several types of MSCA funding, CERN will mainly submit proposals for Initial Training Networks, and the course will focus on such proposals.

Main course topics

• General Understanding of the Programme
• Evaluation Criteria and Process
• Building a Project
• Writing a Project Proposal
• Practical Exercise

Format:

Presentations, group discussions including a practical exercise

 

Target Audience:

• CERN Staff and fellows who prepare a proposal for funding from the EU in the H2020 framework or who want to know more about how to write a good ITN proposal.

 

Objectives:

• Understand early in the process what makes a good proposal
• Know how to prepare the ground actively and well in advance
• Improve the writing of your Initial Training Networks MSCA proposal

Registration required, via CERN Learning Hub

CERN Proposal Initiation Course Module 0 What is a proposal.pdf

CERN Proposal Initiation Course Module 1 Understanding and initiating your proposal.pdf

CERN Proposal Initiation Course Module 2 Writing Tips.pdf

CERN Proposal Initiation Course Module 3 Documenting yourself.pdf

Course Agenda.pdf

MSCA Module 1.pdf

MSCA Module 2.pdf

MSCA Module 3.pdf

MSCA Module 4.pdf

MSCA Module 5.pdf

MSCA Module 6.pdf