The Seal of Excellence quality label is awarded to Individual Fellowship applicants who scored highly but ultimately did not get funding. The Commission awarded Seal of Excellence certificates to applicants for MSCA Individual Fellowships in 2020 With a record 11,300-plus proposals received for the 2020 Individual Fellowships call, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are highly competitive. Of this number, 1,630 were funded. High quality...

The European Commission has awarded MSCA Seal of Excellence certificates to over two thousand researchers who applied for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2019. The "Seal of Excellence - Marie Curie Actions" is being awarded to high quality MSCA-IF proposals which scored 85/100 or above and passed the quality threshold, but could not be funded under the available call budget. The Seal of Excellence recognizes the value of a...

EURAXESS enables registered members (individuals and organisations) to attach their "Seal of Excellence" certificates to their profiles and accordingly be labelled with the EU Commission "Seal of Excellence" emblem, for an increased visibility. The "Seal of Excellence" (SoE) refers only to the high-quality label awarded to projects submitted to Horizon 2020, which were deemed to deserve funding but did not receive it due to budget limits. It...