Widening Fellowships

Call Updates

Feb 8, 2021 3:59:16 PM

Letters on the results of the evaluation are being sent to applicants.

Under the tab "Topic Conditions and Documents" the following documents are available in section 8 "Additional documents":

· “WF - Call Results” - An overview of the evaluation results;

· “WF - Percentiles” - A table informing on the percentage of proposals with a given score or higher, per ranking list, also showing the funding ranges.

Apr 9, 2020 9:37:40 AM

Applicants can now submit a proposal for the 2020 Widening Fellowships Call through one of the four MSCA European Fellowship type of actions (MSCA-IF-EF-CAR; MSCA-IF-EF-RI; MSCA-IF-EF-SE; MSCA-IF-EF-ST).

Apr 8, 2020 12:06:27 PM

It is not possible to directly submit a proposal under this call. Instead please submit your proposal under the 2020 call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF), for which the submission is now open.

European Fellowships proposals with a host organisation located in an eligible widening country will be ranked in the  Widening Fellowships call, in case they fail to receive funding under the MSCA-IF call. 

Eligible applicants are asked in section 5 of the proposal submission form (Call Specific Questions) whether or not they wish to be considered for the funding opportunity under the Widening Fellowships.

Additional details can be found in page 18 of the revised Guide for Applicants version 1.4, which is now available with the Standard proposal template under Topic conditions and documents, with minor modifications listed in page 1 under "History of changes".

Widening Fellowships

ID: WF-03-2020
Type of action:MSCA-IF-EF-ST Standard European Fellowships , MSCA-IF-EF-SE Society and Enterprise panel , MSCA-IF-EF-RI Reintegration panel , MSCA-IF-EF-CAR Career Restart panel

Deadline Model : single-stage

Planned opening date: 08 April 2020

Deadline: 09 September 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time 

Horizon 2020

Work programme: Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation
Work programme year: H2020-2018-2020
Call name: Widening Fellowships
Call ID: H2020-WF-2018-2020

Specific Challenge:

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) contribute to boosting jobs, growth and investment by equipping researchers with the new knowledge, skills and international and inter-sectorial exposure to fill the top positions of tomorrow and solve current and future societal challenges. They are based on the principle of mobility, and researchers can receive funding on the condition that they move from one country to another to acquire new knowledge. The results from the first years of MSCA in Horizon 2020 also revealed the existence of a mobility gap across Europe and discrepancies between European countries in their ability to attract funding. To specifically address this gap in participation Widening Fellowships will provide an additional opportunity to researchers of any nationality to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work on research and innovation in Widening countries.

Scope:Support is foreseen for individual, trans-national fellowships awarded to researchers of any nationality, in Widening countries. Applications to the 2020 call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF), where the host organisation is located in an eligible widening country, will be resubmitted to this call upon the agreement of the applicant and in case their proposal fails to reach an adequate place in the ranking to be funded in the regular MSCA-IF call[1]. Applicants who do not wish to be considered for this funding opportunity should specify this in the application form.

The proposals submitted under the Widening Fellowships must fulfil all the admissibility and eligibility conditions of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Individual Fellowships and pass all the thresholds for that call.

The award criteria, scoring and threshold for Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions apply to eligible proposals. Proposals will be ranked according to the 2020 MSCA-IF call scores and evaluation procedure and will retain scores and comments included in the Evaluation Summary Report (ESR) of the MSCA-IF call. The MSCA-IF model grant agreement and the unit costs applicable to MSCA-IF will also apply to the Widening Fellowships.

Expected Impact:The expected impact indicated for the MSCA-IF-2020 Individual Fellowships call under the MSCA Work Programme will apply to this call.

In addition, the Widening Fellowships are expected to lead to the following:

Enhanced cooperation and stronger networks including widening countries.

Boosting of R&I capacity among participating organisations.

Increase in international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility of researchers in Widening countries.

[1]The following "Types of Action" under MSCA-IF are eligible for resubmission: CAR – Career Restart panel, RI – Reintegration panel, SE - Society and Enterprise panel, Standard EF.