• “The host institution has demonstrated excellent experience of mentoring and supervision of researchers; essential in house support will be available.”
Negative things evaluators had to say:
• “The tutoring provided by the host institution is too shortly addressed.” • “The Host group members do not convincingly demonstrate high expertise and experience in the training and mentoring of researchers.”
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• “The measures taken by the host for providing quantitative mentoring/tutoring are not sufficiently detailed as they are mainly focused on meetings with the applicant’s supervisor.” • “The quality of the mentoring/tutoring is not suitably demonstrated as the frequency of the meetings with the supervisor does not match the amount of knowledge that will be acquired by the researcher during the project.”
Positive things evaluators had to say:
• “The host has already experience in training post graduate researchers, and some evidence on the host institution general measures and plans for researcher training is provided.”
Negative things evaluators had to say:
• “The proposal does not clearly demonstrate the expertise of the host in training researchers.”
Lesson 6.3: Relationship with the scientist in charge Ideally, MSCA fellows should not work as satellites, disconnected from everyday business of their host institution. Instead, they should be a valuable part of their new team. Close interaction between researchers and their hosts strongly increases the chances of success.
Positive things evaluators had to say:
Lesson 6.2: Quality of the host: experience in researcher training
• “The role of the supervisor and their collaborators is explicitly described for achieving the training goals identified.”
Again, experience in supervising experienced researchers is a token of the host’s commitment to the project.
• “The fellow will receive training through interactions with the host group and scientist in charge.”
Negative things evaluators had to say: • “The day-to-day training of the fellow by the scientist in charge is not sufficiently well emphasised.”