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I am preparing my Marie Curie application form. If I understand correctly, I have to mention in the application form the total expected grants or total expenditure for 24 months.

Does the amount/expenditure mentioned in the application form matter in decision process?

For example, if I mention a reasonable but smaller salary (say 2000 euros monthly) instead of 3000 euros monthly, will this be regarded positively or negatively?

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  • The salary for these types of grants is not under your control, regardless of whether it is a smaller grant that just covers your personal salary or a bigger one that allows you to hire multiple people. That is by design, that is not what you should compete on.
    – quarague
    Commented 16 hours ago

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The budget for a MSC fellowship is fixed with the only variables being the length of the proposal, the country of the host, whether you are married and/or have kids. Of these, you only really have realistic control over the first. The total sum of the grant does, as far as I know, not affect how the proposal is ranked.

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  • Also (as I understand it) the last two factors (spouse + kids) doesn’t affect the proposal or its assessment, for several reasons — both for general ethical and legal reasons, and concretely since the information and funding for it isn’t included in the initial proposal and budget, but is handled as an extra supplement after projects are funded.
    – PLL
    Commented 17 hours ago
  • Realistic control ... Well ... ;)
    – DonQuiKong
    Commented 17 hours ago
  • for what it's worth (PLL's comment makes it clear this is very much not necessary here), 2 of my friends entered in a civil union mostly out of administrative reasons. It's not exactly advised but it's definitely within your control :) Commented 14 hours ago

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