MSCA PF 2025 MasterClass

MSCA PF 2025 MasterClass
A one-day online training programme: ’How to Write a Successful MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Proposal’.
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Agenda

09:30: Welcome and Introduction

09:45 The MSCA PF Programme

  • Background and basics
  • The proposal structure
  • The evaluation process
  • What typically goes wrong

10:30 Preparing to write your PF

  • Key preparatory steps
  • Concept development
  • A good quality CV
  • Understanding Open Science
  • Addressing the Green Charter

12:00 Questions and lunch break

13:00 Key Aspects of Excellence

  • Clarity of Objectives
  • Novelty and ambition
  • Methodology
  • Supervision
  • Training Knowledge transfer
  • Applicant appropriateness

13:45 Questions

14:00 Key Aspects of Impact

  • Your career perspectives
  • Explaining impact
  • Maximising impact

14:45 Key Aspects of Implementation

  • Deliverables and Milestones
  • Work Plan
  • Addressing risk
  • Institutional Appropriateness
  • Questions and discussion

15:30 Session close

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