The goal of the Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility.

Two types of MSCA IF

• European Fellowship = it is held in EU Member States (MS) or EU Associated countries; duration between 12 and 24 months
• Global Fellowship = in a TC (Third country) with a following mandatory return period (any EU/AC organisation); duration 12/24 + 12 months

Other options:

MSCA Widening Fellowship (WF) - Specific support to researchers to undertake their fellowship in a Widening country - Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia
Associated Countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Northern Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine

Applicants submit a regular MSCA-IF proposal and if they end up below the line they may still get funded thanks to specifically dedicated Spreading Excellence „budget“ for those whose host organization is located in a Widening country.

MSCA – funded from Structural Funds
Operational Programme Research, Development and Education – OP RDE („OP VVV“ in Czech) - The call basically allow to fund all project propsal scoring above 70 points, i.e. all above the threshold. The existence of „OP VVV MSCA“ is a strong reason for you to apply for the MSCA-IF. The likelihood of success is very high!

Objectives

YOUR OPTIONS - summary:

1. You submit you MSCA-IF proposal
2. Your MSCA-IF project ends up closely below the line, but you receive an invitation to negotiate your MSCA-WF project
   (Note: in case you end up on a „MSCA-IF reserve list“ you may want not to sign the MSCA-WF, but rather wait for a possible invitation to negotiate MSCA-IF)
3. Your enter the MSCA-WF negotiation and finally sign the MSCA-WF Grant Agreement
4. In case you do not reach MSCA-WF, but score above 70%, you can apply for OP VVV MSCA and get the funding

More information: H2020: MSCA-IF INFO DAY April 15, 2020, RMU, Brno, 9-10:30 h, registration here.

Limitations

Applicant must not have spent in the host country more than 12 months in the last 3 years prior to the call deadline. 

The budget is calculated automatically in the submission system based on the fixed unit costs for each month of MSCA-IF (salary for researcher, mobility, for family).