TPL - Application Form (Part B) (HE MSCA PF) - 7

The document outlines the application requirements for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025, focusing on the quality and relevance of research objectives and the soundness of proposed methodologies. Applicants must detail how their project exceeds current standards, integrate interdisciplinary approaches, and address gender and diversity considerations. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of implementing open science practices within the research framework.

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Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF-01: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

EU Grants: Application form (HE MSCA PF): V4.1 – 09.04.2025

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Part B-1

1. Excellence #@REL-EVA-RE@#

1.1 Quality and pertinence of the project’s research and innovation objectives (and the
extent to which they are ambitious, and go beyond the state of the art) #@QUA-LIT-QL@#

At a minimum, address the following aspects:

 Describe the quality and pertinence of the R&I objectives; are the objectives
measurable and verifiable? Are they realistically achievable?
 Describe how your project goes beyond the state-of-the-art, and the extent to which
the proposed work is ambitious.

1.2 Soundness of the proposed methodology (including interdisciplinary approaches,

consideration of the gender dimension and other diversity aspects if relevant for the
research project, and the quality of open science practices)

At a minimum, address the following aspects:

 Overall methodology: Describe and explain the overall methodology, including the
concepts, models and assumptions that underpin your work. Explain how this will

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enable you to deliver your project’s objectives. Refer to any important challenges you
may have identified in the chosen methodology and how you intend to overcome
them.

 Integration of methods and disciplines to pursue the objectives: Explain how expertise
and methods from different disciplines will be brought together and integrated in
pursuit of your objectives. If you consider that an inter-disciplinary2 approach is
unnecessary in the context of the proposed work, please provide a justification.
 Gender dimension and other diversity aspects: Describe how the gender dimension
and other diversity aspects are taken into account in the project’s research and
innovation content. If you do not consider such a gender dimension to be relevant in
your project, please provide a justification.
Remember that this question relates to the content of the planned research and
innovation activities, and not to gender balance in the teams in charge of
carrying out the project.
Sex, gender and diversity analysis refers to biological characteristics and
social/cultural factors respectively. For guidance on methods of sex / gender
analysis and the issues to be taken into account, please refer to this link.

 Open science practices: Describe how appropriate open science practices are
implemented as an integral part of the proposed methodology. Show how the choice
of practices and their implementation is adapted to the nature of your work in a way

2 Interdisciplinarity means the integration of information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts or
theories from two or more scientific disciplines.

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