MSCA proposals combine excellent research with mobility, training, supervision, knowledge transfer and career development. A strong application makes those elements reinforce each other instead of treating them as separate administrative sections.
Arvacore supports Postdoctoral Fellowship applicants, supervisors, research organisations and Doctoral Network coordinators with proposal strategy and independent review.
Postdoctoral Fellowship support
Eligibility and host fit
Check the mobility and research-experience logic early, then assess whether the host and supervisor create a credible scientific and career-development step.
Excellence
Clarify the research question, state of the art, objectives, methodology, supervision, training and two-way knowledge transfer.
Impact
Build a defensible path from project activities to researcher capability, career development, dissemination, exploitation and broader scientific or societal value.
Implementation
Review the work plan, milestones, risks, secondments, non-academic placement where relevant and consistency between research and training activities.
Final review
Check whether the proposal reads as one fellowship design rather than several separately written criteria.
Doctoral Network support
Programme architecture
Turn the network into a coherent doctoral research and training programme rather than a collection of individual PhD projects.
Consortium logic
Map partner capabilities, candidate-project interfaces, academic and non-academic roles, secondments and network-level value.
Training and supervision
Design a programme-specific training system, supervision model, supervisory board logic and candidate career-development structure.
Impact and sustainability
Explain what the network leaves behind across candidates, organisations, sectors and the scientific community.
Proposal integration
Coordinate work packages, partner inputs, recruitment logic, governance and final consistency.
Start with a focused review
A full writing engagement is not always necessary. Arvacore can begin with one section or one design problem, for example:
- PF eligibility and host fit;
- Excellence review;
- Impact review;
- supervision/training plan;
- Doctoral Network consortium architecture;
- candidate-project structure;
- red-team review before submission.
Read the MSCA guidance first
- MSCA 2026 applicant hub
- Postdoctoral Fellowship strategy guide
- Doctoral Networks strategy guide
- Mobility rule explained
- MSCA Excellence guide
- MSCA Impact guide
- RADIANCE PF handbook practical review
Discuss an MSCA proposal
Share the action, call year, applicant or consortium stage, and the section currently causing difficulty. Arvacore will identify the smallest useful next step before any paid work starts.