2018 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018)

[Bren]

God love the poor chap who has to root through all the rubbish and asinine speculation we have all spouted here...

I do not remember well but last year (or two years ago in the other forum), someone suddenly appeared saying something that sounded clearly from "Brussels" and when trying accessing the portal with the magic link, someone found strange things (clearly done to make fun of those using the link). After that leak two years ago (which I imagine was a big issue in Brussels) I guess that sometimes they check on applicants forum what happens outside. Well, I do not have any evidence this year, but I find it highly probable.

[danGFSOC]

I hope so, but I think it is highly implausible that they will release results on Friday afternoon. For the reason already explained, i.e. NCPs, EU and university offices closed: If any problem arises during the communication phase, nobody could fix it until Monday. I think they will not risk such a scenario. At this point, hoping for Monday.

[Cla]

And they have decided not to relase the results until we reach 200 pages

Well, in Brussels they read this forum (Hello, there!) and they read the previous forum (the owlocation...) and they can easily notice weird accesses to the portal. So that problem would have been fixed in any case.
For the evaluation phase, I am not so sure. This time everything is working clearly in a different way. Portal, timing, the widening fellowship, etc... all these factors make any comparison with previous years very difficult.

it was 2 years ago that the link to the (hidden) results was found - then, people who didn't like what they were seeing (ie not funded), reported the link to the EC and that is how the EC was notified about this glitch in the system. If it were not for those people, still today you should have been able to follow the status of your application. I think what can be said with relative certainty this year is that those who are still in EVALUATION in the outdated link are below the threshold.

They are very good this year. At this point there is absolutely nothing that we can use to predict the result

[IF ST LIF]

I hope so, but I think it is highly implausible that they will release results on Friday afternoon. For the reason already explained, i.e. NCPs, EU and university offices closed: If any problem arises during the communication phase, nobody could fix it until Monday. I think they will not risk such a scenario. At this point, hoping for Monday.

They released on a Friday two years ago...

[ramga]

Also on 2016...

I hope so, but I think it is highly implausible that they will release results on Friday afternoon. For the reason already explained, i.e. NCPs, EU and university offices closed: If any problem arises during the communication phase, nobody could fix it until Monday. I think they will not risk such a scenario. At this point, hoping for Monday.

They released on a Friday two years ago...

[danGFSOC]

Sure, but from the early morning. It is 4 pm now

I hope so, but I think it is highly implausible that they will release results on Friday afternoon. For the reason already explained, i.e. NCPs, EU and university offices closed: If any problem arises during the communication phase, nobody could fix it until Monday. I think they will not risk such a scenario. At this point, hoping for Monday.

They released on a Friday two years ago...

[pkem]

At 0630 pm Brussels time

[Cla]

At 6:30pm Brussels time what??

At 0630 pm Brussels time

[danGFSOC]

Two years ago I received my email at 1 pm, because the process is triggered in the night/morning to be completed during the day. I mean, I hope in a big surprise, but it seems to me very very unlikely.

[pkem]

Two years back, results were released at that time.