Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships 2015

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships 2015

Per M. Kommandantvold

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Why are you here today?

 You are a researcher

 Planning a career move, to build networks, improve your independence

 You do need a salary next year too?

 You are a supervisor, a group leader

 You plan to recruit first rate researchers, or strengthen a collaboration

 You are an adviser

 You basically need to know a bit about everything?

Outgoing?

Incoming?

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Either way, or reason for your interest, you need to know the context to succeed!

“The foremost priority for Europe and for the start of Horizon 2020 is exiting the current

economic crisis.”

(H2020 strategic work programme 2014/15)

 At the same time we need more researchers to stay in R&I due to higher investments

 We need to structure the way Europe train researchers, and hire, and evaluate, and treat them…

 We need to prepare for careers outside of academia

 We need mobility for knowledge transfer, to build independence

 We need equal opportunities

 We need to disseminate results and communicate values

 And so on: All this must be in the back of your head when applying for IF

Remember the policy setting!

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World-leading academic groups

 «Europeiske

mobilitetsordninger som Erasmus+ og Marie

Skłodowska-Curie Actions skal brukes.» «Norske

fagmiljøer utnytter ikke i tilstrekkelig grad

mulighetene som disse

programmene gir til å hente inn internasjonale fagfolk og talentfulle studenter. Heller ikke mulighetene for norske studenter og forskere til å reise ut blir utnyttet godt nok.»

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More and better participation in H2020

Career opportunities, mobility and equality are

important conditions for increasing research quality and succeeding in the EU cooperation. Higher education

institutions have a special responsibility to think long term and enable students and young researchers to acquire necessary skills. It is particularly important that young researchers are given an opportunity to build their careers and become qualified at an early stage to compete for EU funds. Independence, international

experience and knowledge of how to build and maintain international networks are needed. Young researchers must also be trained in international research

management, to enable more to take

responsibility for their institution’s participation in EU projects. Erasmus+, the EU programme for

education, training, youth and sport, is an important instrument for mobility and

international experience when would-be

researchers are still students. Mobility and career measures in Horizon 2020 must be used to

facilitate an international career as a researcher.

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Horizon 2020 is…what?

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Horizon 2020 will secure Europe the position as one of the world leading research and innovation regions by

securing support over three pillars…

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3 pillars in Horizon 2020

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Excellent Science

European Research Council (ERC)

Future & Emerging Technologies (FET)

Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions

Research Infrastructures

Competitive Industries

Innovation in SMEs

Access to Risk Finance

Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies

Better Societies

(Societal Challenges)

Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Food security, sustainable agriculture, forestry, marine,

maritime, inland water and bio-economy

Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated

transport Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies

Secure societies

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10:00 Welcome address by Hanne Monclair, The Ministry of Education and Research

10:10- 10:30 The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and Horizon 2020 – The overall picture, by National Contact Points (NCP)

Berit Sundby Avset and Per M. Kommandantvold

10:30- 10:50 The Fellows Initiative Natural Sciences (FINS) at NTNU, by Assoc. Prof. Thorsten Hamann (NTNU)

10:50- 11:10 Experiences made from applying to IF-2014, by Dr. Lin Prøitz (UiO)

11:10- 11:20 EURAXESS Services, by Elin Kollerud (The Research Council of Norway)

11:20- 11:30 Double your chances! About FRIPRO Mobilitetsstipend, by Per Ivar Høvring (The Research Council of Norway) 11:30- 12:00 Individual Fellowships: General requirements, proposal

procedure, financial aspects, evaluation process, by the NCPs

12:00- 12:30 Lunch and networking

12:30- 13:30 Individual Fellowships cont.: Aspects for Part B of the proposal, award criteria, structure, communication and dissemination

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Fremragende forskning

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships (IF)

Berit Sundby Avset/Per Magnus Kommandantvold Oslo, 06.05.2015

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

 Objective of the MSCA:

Ensure the optimum

development and dynamic use of Europe’s intellectual capital in order to generate new skills, knowledge and innovation

 Budget 2014-2020:

6.162 million €

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Key features

 Open to all domains of research and innovation from basic research up to market take-up and

innovation services

 Entirely bottom-up

 Participation of non-academic sector strongly encouraged, especially industry and SMEs

 Mobility as the key requirement - funding on condition participants move from one country to another

 Promotion of attractive working and employment conditions

 Particular attention to gender balance

 Public engagement of supported researchers

 One call per each MSC action per year

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are simplified

 Only four actions

 Clear definitions of participants

 Two sectors: academic/non-academic

 Two groups: beneficiaries and partner organisations

 Broader understanding of industry involvement:

participation of businesses (including SMEs) and other socio-economic actors

 Streamlined definitions of supported researchers

 Early stage researcher (ESR)/Experienced researcher (ER)

 Staff members in RISE

 Mobility rules maintained

 Portability of IF grants (secondments)

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships (IF)

 Objective

 to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers

 to provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge, work on research projects in a European context or outside Europe, resume a career or return to Europe

 Scope

 Individual, trans-national fellowships awarded to the best or most promising researchers (all nationalities, subject to mobility rule)

 European Fellowships (12-24 months) or Global Fellowships (12-24 months + mandatory return phase of 12 months)

 Career Restart Panel and Reintegration Panel

 Secondments, notably in the non-academic sector, embedded in the career development

 Expected Impact

 to release the full potential of researchers and to catalyse significant development in their careers in both the academic and non-academic sectors

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Education and Culture

IF – European and Global

European Fellowships

Global

Fellowships

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Individual Fellowships (IF) 2015

Budget 215 million euro, out of which 27 million are allocated for Global Fellowships

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Experienced researcher (>4 years of experience) Individual Fellowships (IF - European)

 Duration 12-24 months

 To all EU member states and assoc.

countries

 Call opened 12. March 2015, deadline 10. September

 You apply, in collaboration with the host institution, directly to Brussels:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/p ortal/desktop/en/opportunities/index.html

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Experienced researcher (>4 years of experience) Individual Fellowships (IF - Global)

 Duration 12-24 months + 12 month mandatory return phase with

European host

 To all countries globally, except MS/AC

 Call opened 12. March 2015, deadline 10. September 2015

 You apply, in collaboration with the host institution, directly to Brussels:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/por tal/desktop/en/opportunities/index.html

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Timeline (5+3 months after deadline)

 Publication of call:

12 March 2015

 Deadline for submission of proposals:

10 September 2015 at 17:00:00, Brussels local time

 Evaluation of proposals:

October - November 2015

 Information on the outcome of the evaluation:

February 2016

 Indicative date for the signing of Grant Agreem.:

May 2016

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Eligibility and mobility

 To be eligible for an IF, you must by 10.

September be in possesion of a doctoral degree, OR by then have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience (from the date

when you obtained a degree which would formally entitle you to start on a doctorate).

 The mobility rule: At 10.September, the

researcher shall not have resided or carried out their main activity in the country of the host

organisation for more than 12 months in the three last years.

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Panel structure in MSCA IF

 8 main evaluation panels:

 Chemistry

 Social sciences and humanities

 Economic sciences

 Information science and engeneering

 Environment and geosciences

 Life sciences

 Mathematics

 Physics

 Two separate multidisciplinary panels:

 Career restart panel

 Reintegration panel

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Typical activities of an Individual Fellowship

 Mobility

 Training activities

 Secondments

 Communication and Dissemination

 Public engagement

 Gender issues

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Typical IF training activities

 Research and training activities

 Training-through-research

 Hands-on activities: techniques and instruments

 Transferrable skills: entrepreneurship …

 Secondments are encouraged.

 Inter-sectoral or interdisciplinary knowledge transfer

 Max. 3 or 6 months (</> 18 months)

 Secondment in EU/AC, even same country, single or divided

 Financial and organisational management of the action

 Communication and dissemination

 Public Engangement

 Training dedicated to gender issues

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http://elinsscience.blogspot.pt/

Elin Moe (UiT), Intra-European Fellow in Portugal

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Remuneration: 100% acc.to unit costs

Marie Skłodowska- Curie Action

Researcher unit cost**

person/month

Institutional unit cost**

person/month

Living allowance*

Mobility allowance

Family allowance

Research, training and

networking costs

Management and indirect

costs

Innovative Training Networks

3 110 600 500 1 800 1 200

Individual

Fellowships 4 650 600 500 800 650

* A country correction coefficient applies to the living allowance. This coefficient is the one applicable to the country of the researcher’s host organisation as listed in Table 4.

** These unit costs will be subject to a funding rate of 100% (Article 22.4 Rules for Participation).

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Remuneration examples

EF 24 months in Germany

Living allowance 4 650 x 24 x 0,998 = € 110 260 Mobility allowance 600 x 24 = € 14 400

Familiy allowance n/a

Research traning and networking 800 x 24 = € 19 200

Management 650 x 24 = € 15 600

Researcher : ≈ NOK 529 800 per year 110 260 + 14 400 = € 124 660/2

Beneficiary: ≈ NOK 147 900 per year 19 200 + 15 600 = € 34 800/2

GF 24 months in USA and 12 months in Norway

Living allowance, USA 4 650 x 24 x 0,994 = € 110 930 Mobility allowance, USA 600 x 24 = € 14 400 Living allowance, Norway 4 650 x 12 x 1,1319 = € 63 161 Mobility allowance, Norway 600 x 24 = € 14 400

Familiy allowance n/a

Research traning and networking 800 x 36 = € 28 800

Management 650 x 36 = € 23 400

Researcher USA : ≈ NOK 532 650 per year 110 930 + 14 400 = € 125 330/2

Researcher NO: ≈ NOK 629 270 800 per year

63 161 + 14 400 = € 77 561

Beneficiary: ≈ NOK 147 900 per year 28 800 + 23 400= € 52 200/3

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How to apply?

 The 2015 call is published on the call page of Participant Portal

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FP7-PEOPLE-IEF 2007-2012: Success rates

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FP7-PEOPLE-IEF 2007-2012: Host Countries

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FP7-PEOPLE-IEF 2007-2012: Researcher's Nationality

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FP7-PEOPLE-IOF 2007-2012: Success rates

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Fremragende forskning ²⁴

IF 2014:

Submitted (eligible) & A-list proposals

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Fremragende forskning ²⁵

IF-EF 2014: A-list per country

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Fremragende forskning ²⁶

IF 2014 Mobility of researchers

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PES2020: support to write applications for H2020

 Budget in 2015: 60 mill NOK

 The support is 50% of hours, travel and supporting services

 15 000 – 300 000 kr

 Minimum requirement is an accepted and eligible application

 Additional support for the best applications over threshold and for contract negotiations

 Universities, university colleges and institutes apply for a lumpsum. All others can submit

individual applications

 www.forskningsradet.no/pes2020

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PES2020: example on level of support

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Relevant web pages

 Calls:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/deskto p/en/opportunities/index.html

 MSCA:

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h202 0-section/marie-sk%C5%82odowska-curie-actions

 Funding for researchers:

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/area/

funding-researchers

 EURAXESS:

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/general/index

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Research Executive Agency (REA):

Web-streamed training on IF and COFUND

 Web–streaming from 10. June 2014 is still available on:

https://scic.ec.europa.eu/streaming/index.php?es

=2&sessionno=55acf8539596d25624059980986aa a78

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions:

Contacts:

 Berit Sundby Avset, Division of Science

[email protected] , ph. 22037015

 Per Magnus KOMMANDANTVOLD, International staff,

[email protected], ph. 22037459

@MarieCurie_NCP

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The evaluation procedure and writing the proposal

Berit Sundby Avset NCP MSCA/ERC

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The evaluation process

Panel meeting in Brussels

Consensus discussion and agreement on «Consensus Report»

Remote evaluation

3 individual experts

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Who evaluates your application?

Allocations made by the project officers

Searchable list with

• Application title

• Application number

• Abstract

• Keywords

1. "Exactly in my field"

2. "Broader field of expertise"

3. "Can evaluate if necessary"

No

• Title, abstract and keywords are the teasers that make an evaluator decide if she can evaluate your application

• Scientific fields with many applications has many

Experts with expertise, “odd” scientific fields have few experts

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The Evaluators

 Specialists or generalists in your field

 Evaluates 4-5 proposals/day

(10-20 proposals in total)

 Considers all the sub- elements of the three criteria, comments on positive elements and

shortcomings Make their task easy!

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 Tabell med evalueringskriteriene

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 Each criterion are scored between 0 and 5 with 0,1 intervals

 Weighted and added to a total score: 0-100

Excellence Impact Implementation SUM

50% 30% 20% Weighting (%)

4 4 4 80,0

4,2 4,3 4,5 85,8

4,5 4,5 4,5 90,0

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Evaluation forms

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The proposal

Create an application at the Participant portal

 Part A: administrative information

 electronic pdf-forms at the PP

 Part B: project description

 Uploaded pdf-document with page restrictions

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Structure of the proposal: part A

Electronic pdf-forms on the Participant Portal

 Section 1: General information about the proposal (including the abstract);

 Section 2: Data on participants and contacts;

 Section 3: Budget;

 Section 4: Ethics issues table;

 Section 5: Call specific questions

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Proposal structure: The part B

In drafting PART B of the proposal, applicants must follow the structure outlined below:

 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

START PAGE COUNT__________________________________

 1. EXCELLENCE

 2. IMPACT

 3. IMPLEMENTATION STOP PAGE COUNT

 4. CV OF THE EXPERIENCED RESEARCHER (5 pages max)

 5. CAPACITIES OF THE PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS

 6. ETHICAL ASPECTS

 7. LETTER OF COMMITMENT OF PARTNER ORGANISATION (only GF)

Max 10 pages in total

No reference to the outcome of previous evaluations of this or any similar proposal should be included in the text. Experts will

be strictly instructed to disregard any such references.

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1. Excellence

1.1 Quality, innovative aspects and credibility of the research

 Introduction, state-of-the-art and overview of the action

 Research methodology and approach

 Originality and innovative aspects of the research programme

How will the research give the best careeer prospects for the ER?

How will it contribute to new collaboration opportunities to the host?

Start page count

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Headline

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1. Excellence (cont)

1.2 Clarity and quality of transfer of

knowledge/training for the development of the researcher in light of the research objectives

 Explain how the applicant will gain new knowledge during the fellowship

 Outline the knowledge and skills that the researcher will transfer to the host organisation

Is the ER and the host a good match?

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1. Excellence (cont)

1.3 Quality of the supervision and the hosting arrangements

 Qualifications and experience of the supervisor(s)

 Hosting arrangements (both hosts for GF)

Why should the ER go here, and not somewhere else?

Career development plan

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1. Excellence (cont)

1.4 Capacity of the researcher to reach and re- enforce a position of professional maturity in

research

Is this a future star researcher?

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2. Impact

2.1 Enhancing research- and innovation-related skills and working conditions to realise the

potential of individuals and to provide new career perspectives

Will this project improve the career prospects of the ER?

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2. Impact (cont)

2.2 Effectiveness of the proposed measures for communication and results dissemination

 Communication and public engagement strategy of the action

 Dissemination of the research results

 Exploitation of results and intellectual property rights

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3. Implementation

3.1 Overall coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including appropriateness of the

allocation of tasks and resources

 Description of work packages

 Gantt chart

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3. Implementation (cont)

3.2 Appropriateness of the management structure and procedures, including quality management and risk management

 Project organisation and management structure,

including the financial management strategy, as well as the progress monitoring mechanisms put in place;

 Risks that might endanger reaching project objectives and the contingency plans to be put in place should risk occur.

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3.3 Appropriateness of the institutional environment (infrastructure)

 Give a description of the main tasks and commitments of the beneficiary and partners (if applicable).

 Describe the infrastructure, logistics, facilities offered in as far they are necessary for the good implementation of the action.

3. Implementation (cont)

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3. Implementation (cont)

 3.4 Competences, experience and complementarity of the participating organisations and institutional commitment

 Active contribution to the research activities

 Do not repeat the description in Section 5

End page count

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4. CV of the Experienced Researcher

 Max 5 pages

 The standard academic and research record

 Explain any gaps and/or

unconventional paths

List of achievements (may include/if applicable):

1. Publications in major , peer-reviewed

conference proceedings and/or monographs of their respective research fields, indicating also the number of citations (excluding self-citations) they have attracted.

2. Granted patent(s).

3. Research monographs, chapters in collective volumes and any translations thereof.

4. Invited presentations to peer-reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international advanced schools.

5. Research expeditions that the Experienced Researcher has led.

6. Organisation of International conferences in the field of the applicant (membership in the steering and/or programme committee).

7. Examples of participation in industrial innovation.

8. Prizes and Awards.

9. Funding received so far

10. Supervising, mentoring activities.

11. Commissions of trust

12. Evidence of leadership potential

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5. Capacity of the Participating Organisations

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6. Ethics

 If you flagged ethical issues in the «Ethics Issues Table in Part A:

Ethics Self-assessment:

1) Describe how the proposal meets the EU and national legal and ethics requirements of the

country/countries where the task raising ethical issues is to be carried out.

2) Explain in detail how you intend to address the ethical issues flagged.

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7. Letters of Commitment

 ONLY for Global fellowships

 i.e from the partner organisation in the Third Country

 Other letters of commitment or letters of support

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Advice I

 Read the Guide for Applicants and the Work Programme carefully!

 Describe everything, do not assume that the evaluators knows the (Norwegian) system

 Do you think something is irrelevant for your

proposal/topic – adress it anyway! The successful applicants do!

 Figures/illustrations/ pictures are sometimes better than words and makes reading less boring…

 Webpages!

 Evaluators are NOT obliged to look at them

 But they MAY have a peak…

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Advice II

 Ask somebody to do a mock-up evaluation, use the evaluation forms

 Write part B, leave it for 1-2 weeks, read it

carefully again. Are you sure you have explained everything in a clear language that the evaluators will understand in the way they are meant to

understand it?

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